KYARA – First Bites

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KyAra is not as good as Raku nor as fun as Ichiza, but ELV is fairly certain you’re about to read that it is from his Eating Las Vegas co-authors — who will no doubt be effusive in their hyperbolic praise for a place that’s not nearly as fine as it wants to be. Slapsie Maxie will no doubt love it because it’s Asian, and “Mad Man” Mancini will love it because it’s cool and cheap. But both will be missing the point, which is: This place exists to cash in on the uber-cool Japanese tapas craze started by its predecessors. ELV wishes it would, and would be right there with them if the food was solid, but it isn’t. At least not yet.

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Eat This Now – Adjarski Khachapurri at FORTE

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Think of it as a Georgian pizza….or a Slavic toad in the hole. Whatever you think of it, don’t think for a minute you won’t fall in love with its combination of Sulugini-style, sour cheese atop yeasty, puffy, doughy-yet-dense fresh bread (baked on premises to order), all stirred together inside the “bread boat” with a fresh, cracked egg.

It might be the perfect hangover food…or carbo load for you marathoners out there. Whatever your waistline, if you’re a fresser, you will find it irresistible.

You’ll also fall in love with the price – $7.

Just thought you’d like to know.

FORTE TAPAS BAR AND BISTRO

4180 South Rainbow Blvd.

Las Vegas, NV 89103

702.220.3876