Posts under ‘Restaurants’

One of the things you will read about Puerto Rico before going there is that the pace is much slower than what many of us are used to, particularly here in New England.  We tend to be very time-bound, rushingrushingrushing from place to place, activity to activity, trying to squeeze as much in during the [...]

Treasure Island has fast become one of my favorite hotels on the Las Vegas Strip.  The quality for price ratio is pretty high, in my opinion. The rooms are very nice, the casino has pretty much everything you’d want a casino to have including more than one video poker bar, the location is outstanding, and [...]

BLT Burger at the Mirage isn’t your typical burger joint. First, it’s owned by Chef Laurent Tourondel, one of those celebrity chefs Las Vegas is so famous for.  He owns a series of New York City restaurants under the BLT moniker  (BLT Steak, BLT Fish, and BLT Prime) in addition to the BLT Burger restaurants.  [...]

My friend JoAnna Haugen of Kaleidoscopic Wandering has tagged me to participate in a travel blogger game to share my three best travel secrets.  This game was kicked off by Katie at TripBase.com as a way to unite the travel blogging community and create a list of our collective best travel tips.  The key is [...]

Nobody has asked me this yet, but I imagine some visitors to my blog might get confused sometimes about why I write so many restaurant reviews at SoloFriendly.com.  Isn’t this supposed to be a solo travel blog?  Shouldn’t I just be talking about the solo travel experience and let sites like Chowhound worry about restaurant [...]

Isla Mexican Kitchen is a very casual name for a not so casual restaurant at Treasure Island, Las Vegas.  Isla is one of Chef Richard Sandoval’s restaurants–Sandoval being a James Beard award winner and native of Mexico.  I was happy to be able to try this restaurant on the last night of my September trip [...]

Il Fornaio is an upscale Italian restaurant chain with locations in California, Washington, Virginia, Colorado, and New York, New York Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.  I had a solo dinner at the Las Vegas branch back in September.  I made an early reservation for around 5:30pm so I would have a choice of seating, [...]

I’m always looking for new, solo-friendly places to eat when I go to Las Vegas.  Because my last trip was longer than usual for me, I needed to stretch my budget with some low-priced meals.  During my research, I read that Ra Sushi at the Fashion Show Mall had great prices and decent food.  Ra [...]

I didn’t intend to eat at Tinoco’s Kitchen.  I only had one evening to spend Downtown (on Fremont Street) during my recent solo travel to Las Vegas.  Since I was trying to stretch my food budget, I had decided I would try the prime rib special at the Market Street Cafe at the California, which [...]

While I was in Las Vegas in early September, I was able to take advantage of Restaurant Week. During Restaurant Week, a number of Las Vegas restaurants offer prix fixe menus at a reduced price and donate proceeds to Three Square, a local charity which feeds the hungry. It’s a nice way to try [...]