Nevada Restaurants

A country morning means Country Breakfast with omelettes ($7.50 to $8.75), french toast (two for $6.25), and bona fide biscuits and gravy ($6). Lunch features a variety soups, salads, country sandwiches such as the country-fried steak ($7.50) and a patty melt ($8), and country baskets, like a basket of chicken strips ($8.50) or battered fish ($7.75 for 1 piece). When the supper bell is struck with a supper hammer, the café's dinner menu emerges with a fleet of savory dishes. An 8-ounce rib eye steak ($11) can be accentuated by the company of four jumbo shrimp (for an additional $5.50), and a tender piece of chicken can be chicken-fried to become chicken-fried chicken ($10). Hydrate with a glass of sweet tea ($2.25), and top off the meal with piece of pie, cobbler, or apple dumpling.

Eclectic tapas abound at the Southern Highlands eatery. On the tapas cold front, there's a chilled gazpacho ($4), marinated olives ($5), or tuna tartare ($9). Toastier small plates include veggie empanadas with mushrooms, carrots, spinach, and garlic cream cheese ($5); ravioli bathing in a savory cream sauce ($5.50); and fried goat-cheese nuggets ($6.50). Meat-focused dishes such as chicken cakes (topped with multi-colored onions, peppers, cilantro, black beans, and corn salsa, $6) and seafood plates, including grilled octopus and steamed mussels ($9.50 each), mind the gap between main dish and dessert. Barcelona also serves a variety of entrees ($15–$20) such as grilled salmon and Spanish paella. Desserts ($4–$9.50) such as chocolate tres leches à la mode sweeten sips of festive mojitos and sangria.

Twin brothers originally from St. Louis, Michael and Mark Goldenberg opened their comfort-food-focused eatery to fulfill a shared dream to “make something different,” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Their brainchild—Chick & Benny’s—thrives on the universal appeal of poultry and pastry, mingling Texas-style fried chicken with the light-and-fluffy beignets popular in France and New Orleans. The menu, like the best Lilliputian wedding cakes, is short and sweet, showcasing golden-fried chicken tenders that may show up solo or basking on a nest of homestyle g-fries dusted with garlic seasoning. When not busy serving customers beneath the hand-blown glass-pendant lamps that adorn their modern restaurant, Chick & Benny's owners spend their time giving back to the Las Vegas community by sponsoring Little League teams and awarding an annual scholarship to a high-achieving high-school senior.