The Tour Low-Down
Are you climbing in Red Rock Canyon and wish you had a local's recommendation of places to eat?
Ever wonder how the a restaurant got such a high rating in Google or Yelp when the food was pretty mediocre ? Or do you get frustrated when someone gives a restaurant a low rating because the decor didn't match the food or they didn't get enough pours of water?
Well, here are Rick and Stef's two-cents on the plethora of Indian, Korean, Pho, Sushi. and African cuisines within a 15-minute (or so) drive of Red Rock Canyon - and we are focused on the food (not the ambience or the service.)
Here's how we are organizing this tour.
DISCLAIMERS:
Ever wonder how the a restaurant got such a high rating in Google or Yelp when the food was pretty mediocre ? Or do you get frustrated when someone gives a restaurant a low rating because the decor didn't match the food or they didn't get enough pours of water?
Well, here are Rick and Stef's two-cents on the plethora of Indian, Korean, Pho, Sushi. and African cuisines within a 15-minute (or so) drive of Red Rock Canyon - and we are focused on the food (not the ambience or the service.)
Here's how we are organizing this tour.
- We are only basing our rating on several "key" dishes in the genre. We recognize that there is an entire menu and some restaurants may have better dishes in which they specialize compared to those "key" dishes. but we can't try everything - we'd either go broke, eat way too much, and/or never make it to other restaurants. The key dishes are:
- Vietnamese - pho and pork vermacelli
- Sushi - the rice, salmon, yellow tail, snapper, squid
- Indian - the rice, the mint and tamarind chutney, vegetable korma, chicken butter chicken, and palak paneer
- Korean BBQ - the sides, pork rib, ribeye slices, vegetables
- Ethiopean - Injera (the flat bread used to eat the food), gomen besega, yebeg wot, minchet abish
- We will also consider the "price/performance" ratio - aka "bang for the buck!"
- We don't really care about the setting (unless the place smells like sewage and roaches are dropping into our food, then we might complain). We may make a comment here and there abut the setting, but really this is about the food.
- Although we will assign "star ratings" to places (out of 5 stars and 5 stars being among the best we have ever had anywhere and zero being avoid this place at all costs), we are really organizing places relative to each other. So, the restaurant at the top of the table is currently the best cuisine we have tasted from the options of restaurants in the designated area (note there may be better restaurants in the category in the Vegas metro area, we are just focusing on a limited area - that just happens to have a TON of restaurants.) That "top" restaurant may be 1-star and only move down the table as we eat at better places. Now, If the place is truly serves food you can barely down, you will know because it will be rated 1 star and we will rant about it.
- Our star ratings:
Below 3 stars we are labeling as "Duds" and they are not recommended.
3 = Straight down the middle - decent enough but not really memorable (but we may try it again to give it another chance)
4 = Well, well aren't we happy campers?! - we'd recommend it and would definitely go there again ourselves
5 = Heck yeah! - among the best we have ever had anywhere
- Our star ratings:
DISCLAIMERS:
- Some restaurants have bad nights, good nights, or change management so, yeah, variability...
- All taste buds are different and everyone naturally compares where they are eating to their favorite place...so, yeah, bias...
- We are just regular people - well climbers, is that regular? - and we claim zero food pedigree. But, we have eaten out a lot all over the U.S. and world (Rick lived in Korea and Japan for 8 years). We don't claim to be experts.
- It is a two person opinion - not just one - so, hey, double the bias! ;-)