Vegas StrEats event photos.
This September’s Vegas StrEats event photos.
Featured Trucks: Tasty Bunz, Sloppi Jo’s, Ben’s BBQ, BBQ Boy, Yellow Lunch Box, Snow ONO, Muncheeze, The Chuck Wagon, Slidin’ Thru SWAG Booth, and HauteChix Fashion Truck.
Photos by LasVegas360.com
Vegas Streats is back! This time it will be on Friday night September 9, 2011. Experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival. The Festival starts at 6pm – 2am 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, Tasty Buns, Snow Ono, Muncheeze, Sloppi Jo’s, Ben’s BBQ, Yellow Lunch Box, Chuckwagon, and with some new comers like Sin City Wings. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there.
Vegas Streats Festival September 9, 2011
Saturday night at the Opportunity Village charity event, OV Nation, I was able to catch up with the Tasty Bunz food truck to sample some of their eatz. Tasty Bunz is a gourmet food truck specializing in soft-dough buns that are filled with different kinds of meat. It is kind of a cross between Chinese dim sum and a Hot Pocket. They also had sliders, fries, tots and dessert items on the menu.
One of the things I liked right away when getting my order was the nice “to go” box that my meal came in. It looks like a chinese take out box but wider. Since eating at a few different food trucks in the past, I have learned that finding a place to eat your food is one of the major challenges. You usually end up sitting on a curb or squeezing in on a small cocktail round (if you are lucky). Your food comes in a bag and you have to balance your meal on your lap, sometimes in the wind or rain. The Tasty Bunz box provided a safe place to keep my food warm and it serves as a plate to eat from, which made eating it much easier.
In the Tasty Bunz box I had one of the bunz called the “Fist Pump”. This was a soft sun- dried tomato dough with a chicken pesto filling. It had great flavor with big chucks of chicken. I also tried the “Wild West Slider” (beef patty, cheese, bacon, tempura onion & sweet-n-spicy BBQ sauce). This was one of the best sliders I have had. For a small slider, this sandwich had a lot to offer. First, the bacon was sliced thin, but piled up high, it gave the slider a nice smoky bacon flavor which was great with the cheddar cheese and sweet BBQ sauce. But what made it stand out were the big chunks of tempura encrusted onions. This made the meal for me. It gave it a good crunch along with the bacon. The flavors worked very well together. For a food truck whose specialty is not a slider item this was very good (watch out slider trucks). The meal was topped off with an ice cold Arizona tea. I look forward to seeing this truck out and about in Las Vegas. Give them a try next time you see the trucks out and about.
Tasty Bunz Truck
Tasty Bunz Box - it is nice to have a box to use as a plate
Tasty Bunz Treats - Wild West Slider and a Sun dried tomato dough with a chicken pesto filling
Links:
http://tastybunz.com/
GPS Position: N36o 39.00 W116o 33.83 (WGS 84)
Armagosa Sand Dunes, Nevada
Just a short hour and a half drive North of Las Vegas is the Armagosa Sand Dunes. Amargosa or Big Dune is a playground that covers about five square miles of dunes and dips, and its centerpiece is a peak that tops out at 500 feet. These hills, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, are a well-kept secret and mostly used by locals, but expect to find plenty of other off-roaders on the weekends. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the entire dune system is open to all types of motorized vehicles, except for a small five acre enclosure delineated by “Carsonite” posts. In addition, there are several trails leading into the mountains southwest of the Dunes which are fun to explore.
How to get there:
At the starting point of Hwy 95 and Ann Road in Las Vegas, travel on Hwy 95 North 76 miles until the Death Vally/Armagosa Valley junction. Continue through the junction and travel 8.2 miles to Valley View Rd./Armagosa Farms Rd. Turn Left and go 1.1 miles then turn right onto a dirt road and proceed 1.3 miles until you reach the dunes.
Update: July 20, 2011 -In Downtown Las Vegas, a new crop of buildings have sprang up over the past few years. The following buildings are within a quarter mile from each other with most of them in the Symphony Park development in downtown Las Vegas.
New Las Vegas City Hall under construction on Main Street
New Las Vegas City Hall is currently under construction adjacent to Symphony Park on Main Street. This $185-million project will be a energy saving LEED-certified building. This new building will bring down the annual energy cost by more than $500,000 compared to the current City Hall. The new 310,00-square-foot, seven-story building is taking shape and looks to be completed in spring of 2012.
Cleveland Clinic's Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened May 21, 2010
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, opened on July 13, 2009 in Las Vegas and is operated by the Cleveland Clinic. The building was designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry and is fast becoming a landmark for Las Vegas and Symphony Park.
Smith Center for the Performing Arts, It is scheduled to open in 2012
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts located in Downtown Las Vegas Nevada’s symphony Park is a 4.75 acres theater facility consisting of three theaters in two buildings. The future home of the new Discovery Children’s Museum is shown in the photo near the left edge. Groundbreaking for the Smith Center’s $470 million project was on May 26, 2009. The design is an Art Deco, reflecting that of the nearby Hoover Dam. It is scheduled to open in 2012. The Smith Center will feature international music, and dance companies, and will be the main center of the Las Vegas Philharmonic and Nevada Ballet Theatre.
World Market Center Las Vegas has 3 buildings with total ofover 5,000,000 sq. feet
The World Market Center is located across from the Lou Revo Center and are three massive buildings housing a whooping 5,000,000-square-foot showcase for the home and hospitality contract furnishings industry in Las Vegas. Originally slated for eight buildings, three have been built and the rest on hold until better economics times. Building A (10-stories) stood alone starting back in July of 2005, Building B (16-stories) opened in January 2007 and Building C (16-stories) opened in July 2008. Within the center is also a gourmet restaurant by the name of Mundo.
New Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters opens July 2011
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters is located a few blocks west of the World Market Center on Martian Luther King and Alta Drive and is the new centralized headquarters for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (Metro). The new facility has more than five times the space of the headquarters Metro currently occupies inside City Hall and will help Metro to centralize and consolidate its administrative staff, which currently now operates out of several offices throughout the Las Vegas Valley. When the facility opens this month (July 2011), approximately 1,400 employees will move into the new building.
Photos by LasVegas360.com
links:
http://www.symphonypark.com/
http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/index.htm
http://www.lvmpd.com/
http://www.lasvegasmarket.com/
http://www.mundolasvegas.com/
A great burger place has set up shop in my neighborhood, featuring gourmet burgers and frozen custard. With is neon green trim, the fast-causal burger joint’s main feature is their burgers. On the menu is a variety of burgers options: certified Angus beef burgers, turkey burgers, and for the vegetarian there is the Portobello mushroom and something called the “Abstract” meatless burgers. The beef burgers come in a few sizes: Mini(2.5 oz.), Modest (1/4 lb.), Majestic (1/3 lb.) and the Monarch (1/2 lb.). Pick your bun, choose from: lettuce wrap, wheat, Kaiser, or my favorite King’s Hawaiian bread. They offer a selection of cheeses and there are over 20 toppings to choose from, like jalapenos, chopped egg and grilled pineapple along with the basic ones, tomato, onion and pickles. Additional premium toppings can be added, sauteed mushrooms, bacon and fresh guacamole to mention a few. Then come the sauces, lots and lots to choose from: chipotle mayo, blue cheese, basil pesto mayo, balsamic vinaigrette and don’t forget Create’s own “The Sauce”, and the list goes on.
1/2 lb. Modernist on a Hawaiian bun, with a side of fresh-cut fries and a drink.
This place is great for the whole family, everyone can make their own “Creation”, from a simple basic burger to a gourmet masterpiece. You are not forced into a cookie-cutter size burger and there are endless combinations to work with. A few of Create’s own masterpieces are featured on their menu, like the “Modernist” (my favorite) and the “Dali”, all named about and around art concepts. A grilled chicken breast and hot dogs have recently made it on the menu too.
On the sweeter side on things, Create’s own in-house custard is made fresh daily and enjoys the quality found at another Las Vegas sweet spot, Luv-it. With all the standard side toppings, you can build yet another masterpiece, this time frozen. Create not only makes a great burger, but according to the web site, but has an active recycling program too. They do the basic recycling of cardboard, plastic and glass and furthermore composting of all food waste(green waste). Even the straws, plastic cups are actually 100% compostable and are made from corn. Even the flatware and straws are made from sugar cane or corn and can be recycled too.
Create is currently a one of a kind store and offer a great burger too, but according to its creator and owner Lance Graulich, he is looking to expand out his creations across the Las Vegas valley. Stop by this “must eat” burger joint and make your own masterpiece with a side of fries. Create is located at 7290 W Lake Mead Blvd. in Las Vegas at the intersection of Lake Mead and Tenya near Summerlin. Visit their web site at http://eat-at-create.com to check out the full menu.
You can't miss this place with its eye-poping neon trim.
photos by: LasVegas360.com
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