Hearthstone is an American Restaurant and Bar that is located in the Red Rock Casino/Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada.
You can enter from the front pictured above or from inside Red Rock.
Inside is bar seating, lounge seating, traditional tables, and half booths. Below is only a small part of the restaurant.
The daytime menu is pretty brunch forward but does offer some items for lunch.
We started with a Lox and Bagel Tower. The lox was cured in house.
For my main I tried the Heirloom Tomato Salad.
It is small. Heirloom tomatoes, Soft Creamy Cheese, Blackberries, Basil, and Balsamic. After this you will still have room for desert.
My husband tried a more filling lunch. He had a Smash Burger with Fries.
We tried the Samoa Sundae.
It’s different – Coconut Soft Serve that’s not creamy but sort of Ice-y and light. It’s embellished with fudge, caramel crumbs, cookie crumbs, and coconut.
Calabash African Kitchen is a West African Style Restaurant and Bar located in Las Vegas Nevada. The Chef is James Beard Nominated for 2026 Best Chef Southwest. It’s modern inside. You can sit at a traditional table or the bar.
I tried a Kenyan Black Tea. It’s richer than regular black tea and is interesting.
We shared a Fataya Pies (vegetarian empanadas) appetizer.
The pies are fried nicely and seem free of oil. They also eat much lighter than you would think and are delicious! Inside are some potatoes and some other things. The red sauce on the side is tasty and a bit spicy.
We also shared the Fried Red Snapper Platter.
It came with citrusy mostly cucumber and tomato chunks and a side of spiced caramelized onions. I picked the plantains as my side. Today the fish is slightly over cooked and is slightly dry but the flavors are all delicious!
We also shared their famous Jollof Rice with Chicken.
This is mighty flavorful….The chicken and also the rice. I’ve had Jollof rice a few times but none of the others was as flavorful as this one. I thought both dishes tasted great but the chicken is more complex with flavors than the fish.
Ada’s Food and Wine is a globally inspired American Restaurant and Wine Bar that is located in downtown Las Vegas in the Arts District.
The main dining room has a view of the open kitchen and also has a wine bar to one side.
Off to the other side is another wine bar not pictured.
If you drink wine then you will probably order wine here. They’ve won some awards for one of the BEST wine list in the country.
It’s mostly small sharing plates here.
We started out by trying the Maitake Mushrooms with Miso Fondue.
Really meaty perfectly cooked mushrooms with flavors that go really well together.
Next was Beets with (non-traditional) Salsa Matcha.
Different but tasty.
The only off dish was the Tagliatelle with Lemon Cream.
The pasta was cooked perfect but they added so much salt that I couldn’t eat it.
I am relieved or happy to say that the Halibut with (non-traditional) Harissa and Carrots was very good.
And the halibut was cooked perfect too. (that is pretty rare – most people over cook halibut)
They were very nice at Ada’s and they did offer to give me another plate to replace the pasta and a manager also offered to remove the pasta from our bill but we declined because my husband still ate the pasta. He said it was salty to him but somehow was still able to eat it.
Ada’s Food and Wine is at least – Mostly very good! – Worth a Try!
I read in the Las Vegas Review Journal that the Cheese Store of Beverly Hills was doing a POP UP at Red Rock Resort 12-5pm February 28th. I latter found out by my husband who read on Red Rock’s website that the hours were 11-4 and not 12-5. I did plan to arrive about a 1/2 hour early because the pop up at Red Rock are big events. I saw a short menu of a few sandwiches, a salad, and a few desserts. We arrived around 10:30 and waited about an hour in line.
When we finally got closer there was a lot of complimentary cheese to try and also some lunch meats and crackers.
Then we looked at the condiments that were for sale.
Then guess what?
Another cheese tray to sample.
When we got to order we found out that everything was premade so no special orders or request could be made.
Also no seating but you could stand up at a high table. We choose to find the food court so we could sit down. When I opened the bag I saw that they skipped out on giving us napkins and they didn’t even give a FORK to give me a fork! My husband had to steal napkins and a fork from the food court.
I tried a Jidori Chicken Caesar Salad. It’s not bad at all but kinda average.
My husband tried the La Macellaia Sandwich (prosciutto cotto, finocchiona,coppa, spicy ventricina salami, red onions, provolone, iceberg, oregano vinaigrette).
He said that the bread was good. He thought it seemed like the sandwich might have been made the day before because the inside was just squished together and didn’t have that fresh made sandwich texture. He also thought that the provolone seemed like not the best.
So GLAD I didn’t come at 12 because the line was so longs I’m certain that over a thousand people were there and it was relatively a short line when I waited an hour. I’m sure that these people would have to wait several hours to get what we had that is if they got in at all.
That was my trip to The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills POP UP at Red Rock Resort.
Have you ever been to a steak house that offers elevated delicatessen? Hayworth recently opened in Henderson Nevada. It’s by chef Alex Resnik who was a Bravo Top Chef Contestant and also did some Food Network TV shows and actually beat chef Bobby Flay on the Beat Bobby Flay TV Show.
Hayworth is a steak house that offers prime steaks cooked on live fire and also offers many delicatessen items. Some of the delicatessen offers are challah with schmaltz, a delicatessen platter, smoked whitefish, salmon lake, beef tongue agnolotti, potato kugel, sablefish, and 24 hour WAGYU PASTRAMI.
It’s nice and rich looking inside.
They have traditional tables, 1/2 booths, bar seating, and it looks like an outdoor patio is in the works.
We started out by sharing a romaine salad that is described as Caesar-ish.
It’s different but good. It some sort of artsy chef-ee creation.
We also shared the lox and latke.
For my taste it could use more cream cheese (Temptee) but is good.
The Sablefish entree was really FORKING Amazing.
This mild whitefish was so darn perfect it just melted in the mouth. It was in a very unusual unique tahini, apple, honey, beurre blanc sauce with parsnips and embellished with trout roe and sea beans. This plate really was amazing.
The 24 hour Wagyu Pastrami was also very good.
The Pastrami was tender and flavored well. We liked the beets. Brussels Sprouts were slightly hard.
Then we had to try the chocolate babka.
It tastes how it looks. Chocolaty with pistachio embellished cream on the sauce in chocolate sauce.
Dining out with dogs is just a “FLUFF” story about taking my dogs out to eat. It all sort of started with my late dog Louie. Unfortunately poor old Louie came down with aggressive cancer. We were told that Louie probably only had three months to live but could possibly live up to six months. The one thing that Louie really enjoyed was going out to eat. So I took Louie out to eat as often as I could. Instead of the 3-6 months aloe made it another 17 months. Today I take current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.
The dogs recently got to go to the California Fish Grill.
WOW was it cold here and windy. We asked them to turn on one of the wall heaters for us. Nobody did so since it was to cold (62 and very windy) We took the food home as a to go. The dogs helped me eat my salmon from my Salmon Wasabi bowl.
They always enjoy the California Fish Grill.
www.CAFishGrill.com
Got lucky and the next week was warm so we went to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill. The dogs got to eat gyro meat, salmon, cucumbers with feta cheese, and chickpeas.
“The salmon is a little over cooked today.”
“I’ll eat it!’ “I’m hungry”
“The Chickpeas are good!”
“I can eat more!”
“We enjoy going to the Great Greek Mediterranean Grill!”
6540 Losee Rd N Las Vegas NV
702-749-8582
www.TheGreatGreek.com
The Dogs also got to go to The Market Grill Cafe. Here they actually have a DOG MENU and they got their very own Beef & Rice and Chicken and Rice Bowls.
My Husband had the Chicken, Vegetable, and Shrimp Skewer Platter.
I Had the Pomegranate Chicken Salad.
I was slowly feeding the dogs their bowls but they also got some of the skewers too. My plate isn’t healthy for dogs so I gave them a little feta cheese too.
They enjoyed themselves at the Market Grill Cafe.
Market Grill Cafe
7070 N Durango Dr Las Vegas NV
702-396-0070
www.MarketGrillCafe.com
The following week we went back to Mo’Bettah’s. It’s a casual Hawaiian Plate Lunch Restaurant with two outside tables. This time I got a mini plate lunch with pulehu chicken, katsu chicken, brown rice, and vegetables.
The mini plate isn’t so mini and everything is reasonably good.
My husband got a full size plate lunch of kalua pig, pulehu chicken, macaroni salad, and brown rice.
Then the dogs got to help us with our large generous platters.
They also enjoyed everything they tried!
Mo’Bettahs
1020 E Craig Rd North Las Vegas NV
725-285-0280
www.Mobettahs.com
That was Dining Out with DOGS for February 2026. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.
The Forking TruthIn Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017
A Brand New Marketon Supermarket recently opened at 5831 W Craig Rd in Vegas. They offer your usual grocery store items and also Latino specialties that are hard to find.
Below is a bit of what I saw there. I saw lots of lard there.
I saw some things that I never have seen before.
I also saw these hard to find special peppers here fresh and not dried.
I saw different snacks here.
I thought produce was very expensive here. A smaller sized cauliflower was $5.99 today. Five pound bags of flour were also very expensive and were $8.00 today. But they also had specials to counter some of the higher prices like large grinders of pink sea salt for $1.99.
The Majority of American/Chinese Restaurants in North Las Vegas and North/West Las Vegas in general serve very sweet, very flat tasting Chinese Food. It is not even close to the American/Chinese foods that are served on the East Coast. I’ve been to nearly every American/Chinese Restaurant in North Las Vegas and nearly every American/Chinese Restaurant in North/West Las Vegas. As of this time Asian Work is the only American Chinese Restaurant that I will go to.
It’s not a fancy place. Part of the dining room is used for storage. Most people do take out here. But you can do your dining in if you like.
They start you off with crispy noodles and duck sauce. They will bring some mustard if you ask.
On a prior visit my husband enjoyed the pork egg rolls. The current menu has vegetable egg rolls.
Pork Egg Rolls (not on current menu)
One of my favorite dishes here is listed as Asian Wok Specials and it is the Ginger Scallion Flounder also called Steamed Fish Filet. Gosh it’s delicious. It also is a very large portion of food. I can’t eat it all unless I make two or three meals out of it.
Ginger Scallion Flounder
My other top favorite is the Szechuan Chicken.
This is DELICIOUS and spicy. It’s packed with flavors and isn’t sweet like what other places here serve. It tastes just like what you’d get back on the east coast.
Other dishes that we’ve tried are also very good.
Hot & Spicy with Chicken & Shrimp – No longer on the menu but they can still make it for you.
Black Pepper Beef
I still have a bunch of other dishes that I want to try but the Ginger Scallion Flounder and the Szechuan Chicken are so FORKING GOOD that I might not be able to?
WSKY Bar & Grill is a 24/7 Restaurant, Bar, and Gaming type of place with several locations in Vegas. TWO LOCATIONS are in North Las Vegas and BOTH locations are on Cheyenne Avenue maybe just two miles apart from each other. The New 720 E Cheyenne Avenue location looks different than most 24/7 type places. The most striking feature here are the large glass windows on the front and back of building that leave in lots of natural daylight during the day. The other difference is that this new location has a slightly smaller but also different food menu. They offer the usual all day breakfast and a mostly American menu of foods.
Today I tried the mediterranean salad.
The hummus (right side of plate) is thick as cement and not the best but over-all it’s an OK salad. It came with tzatziki dressing. It’s suppose to come with pita chips but they didn’t make it to the plate. (I had this same problem with a different salad that I had at the other nearby WSKY location) anyways I’m the lucky one because my husband’s burger came out dryer than a Burger King Burger.
Between the dry beef patties were –
Burnt Black Onions.
Oh and I almost forgot. I tried one of the Tater Tots and they were so over salted I couldn’t eat them.
Abel’s Bagels is a small Bagel Shop located in Las Vegas about 20 minutes away from the Las Vegas Strip near The Durango Casino/Hotel.
We happened to be in the area so we each had a bagel sandwich.
I tried the Lox & Cream Cheese on an Everything Bagel with an onion slice and capers.
It’s a lot less garlicky than most everything bagels and a little softer but they were very generous with the cream cheese and my sandwich had a good amount of ACME brand lox in it that is very good
My husband tried the bagel sandwich special that they named, “The Katz” (Rye, Pumpernickel bagel, mustard, and Wild Fig BBQ Pastrami with added pepper jack cheese)
