Las Vegas has a plethora of restaurants associated with the casinos on the Strip. Many of them are branded by famous chefs: Gordon Ramsay, Wolfgang Puck, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Emeril Lagasse, to name a few. Others are chains that you can find in Seattle or Chicago. Many of these restaurants are designed to separate you from more of your money. And the noise level in some of these restaurants borders on the painful. (See my earlier post, Turn It Down.)
After we picked up the rental car, we went in search of lunch before heading to Valley of Fire State Park. We wound up at a Salvadoran restaurant near an outlet mall, Las Pupusas. We got two pupusas and carne deshebrada. It wasn’t quite what we used to get at Gloria’s in Dallas, but tasty and much less expensive than restaurants on the Strip.
Salvadoran food in Las Vegas.
We were walking along the Strip tonight in search of dinner. On the Cosmopolitan billboard was an ad for an outpost of Pok Pok, our favorite Thai restaurant in Portland. It was in a food court with a limited menu. It had the famous chicken wings, papaya salad, and pad thai.
Pok Pok in Vegas
Tomorrow night we have reservation at Lotus of Siam, supposedly one of the best Thai restaurants in the country, Julian observed that we’re probably the only people who go to Vegas to eat Thai food.
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