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Wahoo’s Fish Tacos Opening Second Location in Summerlin’s Boca Park

January 15, 2012
Wahoo's Fish Tacos on Sunset & Rainbow in Las Vegas, Nevada

Wahoo's Fish Tacos on Sunset & Rainbow in Las Vegas, Nevada

I just discovered that Wahoo’s Fish Tacos, imported from Orange County, Califorina has their first restaurant in Las Vegas.  Wahoo’s is famous for its delicious So Cal, beach taco stand food.  This location, open since October 2011, is at a kind of out-of-the-way location on Sunset near Rainbow Blvd.  From the outside, it looks like a bar that might serve up some food from a small kitchen, typically found in Las Vegas.  Once you get inside its main focus is the food, and they happen to have a bar inside as well.  The main restaurant is spacious and has plenty of seating, styled in southern California beach/surfing & snowboard/skateboarding motif.  Deep in the center of the restaurant is a full bar separated with glass partitions, but the restaurant is very family oriented. Wahoo’s is open 24/7.

Wahoo-Tacos

Wahoo's 2 taco combo platter for $6.50 rice and beans included.

I first tried out Wahoo’s a few years back after spending the day at Pacific Beach in San Diego.  I brought the whole family in fresh from the beach, sandy feet and in flip-flops and I felt right at home.  At the Wahoo’s in Las Vegas, I ordered  the two taco combo plate, 1 grilled fish taco, and the other, carne asada, served with rice and beans.  I stuck with the Cajun bean and brown rice (pictured above) for $6.50 this tasty deal is a quite the value.

Coming Soon to Summerlin's Boca Park.

Now for the best news, according to the owner, Wahoo’s is opening up its second location in Summerlin’s Boca Park right behind the existing Jason’s Deli and is expected to open near the end of  this February (2012).  This location will include an outside patio.  Also, there are plans for a Hendertucky (Green Valley) store opening too.

Location: 7020 W. Sunset Rd Las Vegas, Nevada (702) 399.1665

Web site: http://wahoos.com
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Vegas StrEats January 14, 2012

January 9, 2012
Vegas StrEats Jan. 14, 2012

Vegas StrEats Jan. 14, 2012 - 6pm-1am. Across the Street From the El Cortez

This Saturday night, January 14, 2011. Food Trucks! Artist! and Live Music!! Experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival. The Festival starts at 6pm – 1am in Downtown Las Vegas across the street from the El Cortez. Admission is free and there will be Live Music, Dj’s, and Artists, and Vegas’ own upscale Food Trucks. Including: Slidin’ Thru, Sin City Wings, Papi Churro, WTF Pizza Truck, Tasty Bunz, Ben’s BBQ, Red Neck Kitchen and Grouchy John’s. Some old favorites and some new trucks this month. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there and dress warm. Yum, funnel cake.

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New Mob Theme Food Truck Makes a “Hit” on Las Vegas

December 27, 2011

Keeping with the recent new Mob themed venues, Mob Bar, Mob Museum, Mob Experience, etc… There is a new food truck “hitting” the streets called “Chi-Town Hustler”. They are serving up authentic Chicago dogs, hot beefs and everything in between.

Newest Mob Theme business in Las Vegas, Chi-Town Hustler Food Truck

Website: http://www.chitownhustlerlv.com
Photo by: Chi-Town Hustler

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Great New Place for Breakfast and Lunch

December 23, 2011

A new breakfast and lunch place across from Desert Breeze Park opened last month called Norm’s Eggs Cafe. Serving both breakfast and lunch, open daily from 6am- 3pm. Located at 3655 S Durango Dr. #29 near Spring Mountain Road  and Durango Drive. Norm’s serves a well rounded breakfast menu like Eggs Benedict, Omelets, Steak and Eggs, Pancakes and my favorite Huevos Rancheros. His lunch menu is just as varied with a large Chinese Chicken Salad, Steak Ooh La La (kind of a Philly style sandwich), specials like Pot Roast and Vegetables and Homemade Soup of the Day. If you are looking for a new place to try, take a look at Norm’s Eggs Cafe; delicious food, great service and good prices.

Norm in from of his counter

Norm in front of his counter

This is my favorite lunch item: Steak Ooh-La-La

Steak & Eggs - a great value at Norm's

Steak & Eggs - a great value at Norm's

Website: http://normseggscafe.com/

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Slidin’ Thru Opens New Fast-Food Restaurant in Northwest Las Vegas

December 9, 2011

Local food truck, Slidin’ Thru, is considered one of the first specialty gourmet trucks spearing heading the food truck movement in Las Vegas has opened a brand new store in the northwest part of Las Vegas.  The well polished Slidin’ Thru brand which features mini-hamburgers or “sliders” which they call Mini-Burgs has made the jump from food truck to stand alone fast-food restaurant. The new store includes a Vegas must, a drive-thru, with the Twitter hashtag of “#windowlove”. Located at 6410 N. Durango Dr. just off the 215 in the northwest part of Las Vegas, giving this part of town some slider love.

The restaurant has a sleek interior with 3 large HDTV screens for menu, the mostly white interior with a shinny red floor is accented with neon and a T-shirt display. They have a self-serve fountain drink dispenser, along with their truck standards like “Mexi-Cokes” in old fashion looking Coke coolers. The soda machine dispenses a nice finely granulated ice which is a plus. They even have a live Twitter feed that displays directly on the video monitor (patrons where having fun with that. Send Tweet to @SlidinThruNW for all to see).

Here are some photos of the Grand  Opening for Slidin’ ThruNW on December 9, 2011.

UPDATE: Slidin’ ThruNW Closed it doors in September 2013 but the Food Truck continues to run.

Website: http://slidinthru.com/
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Vegas StrEats December 10, 2011

December 7, 2011
Vegas Streats December 2011

Vegas Streats December 10, 2011 in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada

This Saturday night, December 10, 2011. Food Trucks! Artist! and Live Music!! Experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival. The Festival starts at 6pm – 1am in Downtown Las Vegas across the street from the El Cortez. Admission is free and there will be Live Music, Dj’s, and Artists, and Vegas’ own upscale Food Trucks. Including: Slidin’ Thru, Fukuburger, Pop’s Truck, Yellow Lunch Box, Carefree, BBQ Boy, Snow Ono, Sin City Wings, Papi Churro and Grouchy John’s. Some old favorites and some new trucks this month. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there and dress warm.

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