Brunch at Park on Freemont

Welcome back Lovelies!

I hope everyone had a fun Halloween I had a lot of fun with my love and friends. Chaz and I dressed as Fred and Wilma Flinstone.  You can see pictures of us on my personal Instagram - @Shaunte.sahagun. I made my costume with the help of my lovely friend Christina; couldn’t be more pleased with how it turned out! Now that November is here holiday season has begun. Stores are already bringing out the Christmas decorations… I am not ready for all of that. Christmas is my favorite holiday, but November is a busy month for me to think about December. My lovely boyfriend’s birthday is on the 10th and I am taking him to dinner first at Sake Rok next to the T-mobile area, then to a show called Beatles Love by Cirque Du Soleil. I will be talking about our experience at Sake Roknext Monday on the blog! I will also be sharing a yummy cake recipe Wednesday - it will be my boyfriend’s birthday cake! Red Velvet YUM! It’s his favorite kind of cake and my goal is to make the best one he's ever had!

This past week I got to catch up with one of my old friends Kelsey Mathews, we decided to have brunch of course and outside since the weather is just so perfect right now.  I wanted to try The Park downtown brunch. It is one of my favorite bars downtown and I never have been inside it during the day… I was very excited to see how they did brunch and let me tell you it’s such a lovely spot. We sat outside in the back where I felt like I was having tea in Alice in Wonderland. It looked so lovely and different all at the same time. The outside area has lovely white tables and wood with flowers and plants surrounding you. At night it’s beautiful as well however the sun shows all the beauty it has to offer. The painting on the walls throughout the bar/ restaurant are very unique and somewhat strange…in a good way; it will be something you have never seen before I can promise you that! 

 The brunch menu is a smaller menu, but they offer their full menu as well so you can have many options. I love their sweet potato tater tots! Those are on the regular menu, but a must if you crave sweet potatoes like I do! We did the “patio pounder" which is a bottle of Mums champagne and a craft of orange juice, all for $20 it’s the perfect amount for two people. A normal mimosa is $7 a piece so depending how many you plan on having this might be the best deal downtown Saturday or Sunday morning.

We then shared a seasonal fruit cup and ½ inch thick maple bacon, oh bacon it was amazing! We then each got our own main dish; Kelsey had the breakfast burrito and I had the Chilaquiles. Kelsey’s burrito came with a side of chips and salsa and the burrito was huge and as she said delicious and not spicy! I had the Chilaquiles which is like breakfast nachos, you get sliced steak and two eggs how you want them on the side along with tortilla chips topped with melted cheese sour cream and avocado. I had my eggs over easy and steak medium. I placed everything on top of the chips and dug in! With the egg running and bringing all the flavors together it was a sinful yet pleasing breakfast. The steak was the perfect amount for me and marinated just right. I really enjoyed everything and had such a lovely time. The Park is also a sister bar of Common Wealth a bar across the street. It’s my second favorite bar right after The Park - pretty obvious why they are both so unique, but offer great drinks and food and I always have a fun time! The one thing I almost forgot to mention is The Park has a secret back area behind the back area… it is their smoking area and also where they have a teeter totter! I haven’t been on one of those since I was probably six and teetering tipsy is a much better experience! I encourage you on your next downtown visit to stop by and see what this place is all about you won’t forget it.  Thanks for reading lovelies and ill see you Wednesday for some baking goodness!

 Xoxo Shaunté

                                                 Hopscotch for adults it's fancy (Jordan!) 

             Kelsey and I :]              

                                 Thanks for reading about our brunch! Have a lovely day!          

Krayvings

Hello Lovelies!

Today I am talking about a lovely restaurant that has a variety of feel good food! Krayvings is where you can find options like salads and fresh pressed juices to sandwiches and much more! Their concept is to have fresh, healthy and flavorful food l ocated on the way to Mt. Charleston off the 215 in Summerlin, Nevada. You can find Krayvings open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  I decided to have lunch and dessert when I visited and loved the variety of places to sit. They have a lovely patio that is connected to the front entrance with beautiful flowers and plants all around, and wood tables inside and out - it was a very lovely place to eat.  I met with the owner, Marty, to see what Krayvings was all about. He was really nice along with the whole staff, they were all trying to help me find the perfect dishes to try. They offer seasonal dishes as well as a full menu, and the BBQ pulled chicken sandwich caught my attention. I am not a huge fan of pork so having a traditional pork sandwich made with chicken was a must have for me! I also tried their Sesame chicken chopped salad; it was a great portion size for a salad with tons of topping to fill you up, with a creamy sweet sesame ginger dressing. 

I had a strawberry lemonade with my food and it was a nice pair with fresh strawberries inside, it made each sip so refreshing. For dessert I enjoyed a gluten-free brownie made with all different types of beans such as black, garbanzo and many more. The brownie was topped off with some powdered sugar and fresh cut strawberries. It was so rich and chocolaty you would never guess it was made from beans! I would say it was one of the best brownies I ever had! I must get the recipe one day! I enjoyed everything, I had so much that I ordered a juice to go to have before my work out later that day. Daily detox was my choice with oranges, apples, ginger and most importantly beets! I love beets and having them juiced was a nice change and really brings out all the flavors.  I think I found my new spot to go out and eat or grab something for on the go. Located by Red Rock also is awesome for when I go hiking! I know I can stop to get snacks for my trip or to refuel after.  I can’t wait to return and try more amazing dishes and to see what the winter season brings for their seasonal items! To see their full menu and exact location visit their website atwww.krayvings.com  

Thanks for reading lovelies and make sure to stop by Krayvings if you craving something yummy fresh and that will make you feel good! 

Xoxo Shaunté

Pulled chicken sandwich with a mixed green side salad.

Sesame Chicken chopped salad: shredded bok choy & greens, grilled chicken, crispy noodles, almonds, carrots, sweet oranges, cucumber, green onion, sesame seeds, low-fat sweet sesame ginger dressing. 

They offer a variety of bottled drinks as well as fountain drinks and complementary strawberry water and regular still water.  

More of their specialty drinks including the Strawberry lemonade I had! 

Katsuya Social Hour

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Hello Lovelies!

I hope you enjoyed my Foodie Fest feature, now I get to finally tell you about my time at Katsuya for their happy hour! Some of my friends and I had tickets to see Jessie James Decker at The Foundry inside SLS Hotel and casino in Las Vegas.  We decided to have dinner and drinks before the show at Katsuya. I have eaten at Katsuya before for a friend’s birthday last year and with my lovely boyfriend, I really like it here and I think it is one of the best happy hours in Las Vegas! If you love sushi or Japanese style food Katsuya is the place to go!

Their happy hour is from 5-7 daily! That’s right seven days a week of yummy sushi and sake without breaking the bank! The quality of the food is five star and you would never guess what the prices range from; regular priced rolls are $17-$30, but not on happy hour with 50% off you won’t be spending more than $11 on a specialty roll, and it is a full eight-piece roll so you’re not missing any goodness! We did their happy hour cold Ozeki sake and select beer to start along with some spicy edamame, Sautéed Shisito Peppers and Creamy Rock Shrimp all of them were so amazingly good! We shared other dishes like Crispy Brussel Sprouts and some signature rolls. I will let you know everything we got listed with the pictures, don’t worry lovely! The manager Jesus was so nice and took great care of us he brought out a sake flight of a few different sakes for us to try. It was such a fun and filling experience, my friends and I can’t wait to come back!

After finishing up happy hour we headed into the Foundry to our table to watch Jessie James Decker. The concert was so much fun and the venue is very intimate but, spacious it’s the perfect venue for a concert. The concert ended around 11 at night and we headed into Sayers Club inside SLS for the after party! I had some champagne brought out for a toast to my two lovely friends who recently got engaged! It was a perfect finish to such a great night!  It was such a successful girl’s night and a well needed one! Thank you Jesus for helping make our dinner so wonderful and big thank you to my lovely boyfriend for setting us up with everything! You’re the best!! ILY!! Make sure to come back Wednesday lovelies I am sharing a warm light soup that is great all year, but best in the fall and winter to warm you up and keep you full! I also will be sharing with you some of lovely pictures from my two friend’s engagement shoots I shot over the past couple of weeks! It’s a post you won’t want to miss!

                                 Have a Lovely day! See you Wednesday!

                                                         Xoxo Shaunté

Crispy Brussels Sprouts 

*Spicy Albacore Sashimi with crispy onion (One of my Favs!!) 

Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalapeno 

Rainbow Roll

*Crispy rice with Spicy Tuna 

*Sahara Roll

**Sauteed Shishito Peppers (They are a must have!!!)

*Tuna Tataki Roll & Double Hamachi Roll (Both were very good! Tataki was my Favorite roll)

Creamy Rock Shrimp

Crispy Chicken Salad 

House Sake and Beer for SAKE BOMBS! 

Social hour is 7 days a week!! Hope to see you there soon!

Foodie Fest 2016

Hello Lovelies,

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This past weekend in Las Vegas was the annual Foodie Fest. It has food from local places around the Las Vegas area as well as other states such as California. I have never attended Foodie Fest in the past, not because I didn’t want to go I just always had work. Well this year my job requires me to go to foodie fest YAY! I absolutely loved it! I can’t believe I have been missing out on some really awesome places…  Foodie fest is a 3-day food event with carnival rides, live music, boutique shops and of course tons of food and drinks! I know I said I had to go to Foodie fest for work and I did, but not all three days. I have been very busy these past couple of weeks therefore not a new post in over a week… I apologize Lovelies. I have a lot of exciting things to share with you though from these past couple of weeks. Within the past month two of my friends have gotten engaged and I took both of their engagement photos. It was so fun and beautiful and I can’t wait to share them with you. Also this past Saturday I had tickets to see Jessie James Decker with some of my girlfriends. We did happy hour at Katsuya inside SLS, they have the best happy hour for any sushi lover! I will be sharing all the dishes we had and just how great happy hour is next Monday!

Now back to Foodie Fest! I arrived Sunday afternoon around 2 and walked around checking out all the different types of food and was trying to make a decision on my first stop. Remember how I said I went out Saturday night? Well I was feeling it Sunday so what caught my eye was a Buffalo chicken sandwich with hot sauce, caramelized onions and blue cheese crumbles it was hang over heaven! This lovely lifesaver was from a food truck “Devilicious” they had this exact sandwich, but on French fries along with a garlic parmesan and much more.  I paired my sandwich with strawberry lemonade from “Liam’s Lemonade stand” I loved how refreshing the lemonade was with fresh strawberries added it was the perfect amount of sweet.  

While I was eating I had two Lovely people sit with me Sally and Jacobo they shared with me their experience at Foodie Fest and Jacobo said he attends every year. We all decided to check out “Fluff Ice” to have some dessert they specialize in shaved snow ice cream. I tried the Thai tea because I love, love, love Thai tea! It tastes just like the drink and was pretty creamy.  Sally tried their frosted milk drink and shared a Thai tea ice cream with Jacobo. Fluff Ice offers stamp cards for every order over $4 and after nine purchases you get a med drink or ice cream for free! Who doesn’t like free stuff for getting what you love!

After dessert my friend Ally and Will showed up and we went and got drinks from the Station’s Casino stand draft beer right off the tap! Yum! After walking around playing games we went to this Louisiana food stand “Pearson’s” , where they were grilling shrimp right in front of you, the smell carried through the isle where we were walking and we had to stop and try some dishes!  I am a huge fan of spicy food as I have mentioned before so getting the Jambalaya was a must! I told the cook extra spicy who was grilling the shrimp he was so friendly and nice he made sure it had a kick to it! My friend Ally got the catfish po’boy and hush puppies. Everything was very good and very homemade tasting felt like I traveled to the South. 

My Lovely boyfriend finally joined me at Foodie Fest after all the football games finally ended... (Men and football!)  He was hungry of course and a large stick of shrimp someone was carrying around caught his attention! It was at least a 20-inch stick filled with grilled shrimp, it came from “Nic’s” the line had at least 20 people in it, but it was worth the wait! Those shrimps were so delicious! We met up with more friends and continued to walk around and continue eating and drinking.  I saw my two of my favorite trucks “Dragon Grill” and “Oming’s Kitchen” I had to stop by for a bite! My boyfriend had the combo dish from Dragon Grill with all their top sellers Dragon fries, taco, and a slider. It is the perfect trio to keep you coming back! I stopped by “Oming’s Kitchen” to see the Lovely Salome she is the sweetest! I got my favorite Chicken bowl with a little siracha on top…Yum!

Look Steve Aoki loves Frach's fried ice cream too! 

After that is was time for dessert again! Fried ice cream was calling our name so we headed over to “Frach’s” and enjoyed some out of this world ice cream! I wish this truck was a local, California is it’s home until the next Foodie event!  My overall experience was so much fun! I am so happy I got to attend finally and enjoy all the wonderful places to eat drink, I will be back next year fa sure! Thank you Foodie Fest for letting me partake in this event and I look forward to your next lovely visit! 

                xoxo Shaunté

Honey Salt Birthday Brunch

Welcome back Lovelies Happy Monday! 

One of the best days ever my birthday was last month on September 16 - shout out to all my Virgos! I did a lot of celebrating with friends and family. I went to see Rob Thomas at The D Event Center and went to Newport Beach. I went to dinner a few times and of course had a lovely brunch at Lovely Honey Salt.  I love brunches if you haven’t noticed... I get to sleep in and enjoy cocktails and pancakes.Who doesn’t like that? I have eaten at Honey Salt one other time before or I guess you can say I enjoyed their yummy desserts once before. Me and a girlfriend went in for cocktails and dessert about a year ago and it was delicious! I have been wanting to have dinner there after that, but found the next best thing to have…brunch! I was very excited to hear they had a brunch on Saturdays as well, as it’s rare for places to do brunch any other day but Sunday. I don’t understand why! Brunch is amazing, I could brunch Monday through Sunday if places let me!

Honey Salt is such a lovely restaurant and is owned by the lovely Elizabeth Blau and her hubby chef Kim Canteenwalla.  I love seeing couples seek success together in a business, it’s like a romantic storybook.  The couple also has a couple of other lovely restaurants around the Las Vegas area such as Andrion Steakhouse inside Red Rock Hotel and Casino and Buddy V’s Ristorante at Grand Canal Shoppes inside The Venetian. They all are very elegant and lovely with unique décor and menu items, and cocktails you will fall in love with over and over again. Honey Salt has a rustic style with wood and brick, and a elegant chandelier dangling in the center of the dining room. They have a patio area with lights hanging for evening dinners and now a separate private dining room for any occasion.  Brunch was with my lovely boyfriend and our two close friends Will and Ally. They were all treating me to brunch for my birthday. We had a lovely server Dominique that suggested bottomless drinks to start off with. The options were bottomless Mimosas for $18 and bottomless Bloody Mary’s for $25 it was a steal. I went the bloody route for the day since the night before I was out celebrating a little more than I should have… The one great thing about the bottomless Bloody’s was you can do Micheladas as well or just a draft beer. So you have options - who doesn’t like options?! I switch it up between courses to fit with the dishes I was eating. The food...let’s get to the good stuff already!

We shared everything family style so we could get to try all the lovely dishes that caught our eye. We started with their famous Monkey bread! It was so gooey and sweet with hint’s of cinnamon and bourbon it was gone in seconds.  We then had Nutella French toast, breakfast pizza, Biloxi buttermilk Chicken sandwich and a side of seasoned potatoes with caramelized onions and peppers.  It was all very lovely and filling! I of course also got to enjoy dessert two for that matter, Banana foster and with a chocolate cake that had “Happy Birthday Shaunte” written in chocolate… any girls dream! It was a very nice gesture and made me feel extra special and loved. I was so thrilled I chose Honey Salt to help celebrate my special day! Before leaving I went to the restroom and came across a hand sugar scrub, that makes you feel like your hands are silk, so smooth and silky to the touch. It was the best scrub I’ve ever used! You can purchase the scrub there as well to have in your very own home! I didn’t pick one up that day, but plan on getting it during my next visit!  Thank you to Dominique for taking such great care of us, your personality and efficiency really make the experience so lovely! Thank you also to Elizabeth Blau for creating such a lovely restaurant and having us that afternoon!  My birthday celebration couldn’t have been any better! Thank you for reading Lovelies and I hope to see you at Honey Salt one day for brunch or dinner!

 
Xoxo  Shaunté