{"id":14510,"date":"2013-11-23T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endoedibles.ifm.yji.mybluehost.me\/?p=14510"},"modified":"2013-12-09T14:34:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T21:34:04","slug":"buddy-vs-ristorante-las-vegas-nv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/?p=14510","title":{"rendered":"Buddy V\u2019s Ristorante, Las Vegas NV"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Buddy V\u2019s Ristorante<\/p>\n

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Focaccia<\/p>\n

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Margherita Pizza<\/p>\n

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AUNT NINA\u2019S MOZZARELLA EN CAROZZA \u2013 Jersey City style fried mozzarella, crostini, tomato ragu, genovese pesto<\/p>\n

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MACARONI & CHEESE CARBONARA – smoked mozzarella, fontina, egg, pancetta, sweet peas<\/p>\n

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NONNA\u2019S LASAGNA AL FORNO – Italian sausage, beef and pork, ricotta, mozzarella, provolone, parmesan<\/p>\n

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VALASTRO SUNDAY GRAVY (Buddy\u2019s family recipe) – meatballs, sausage, lamb, pork, bowl of rigatoni<\/p>\n

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PARMESAN POLENTA \u2013 Peperonata<\/p>\n

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CHICKEN PARM – oven-baked, provolone, mozzarella, spaghetti marinara<\/p>\n

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ITALIAN BIRTHDAY CAKE – rum soaked sponge cake, cannoli filling chocolate pastry cream, toasted almonds<\/p>\n

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LISA\u2019S WARM NUTELLA CAKE – chocolate sauce, hazelnut praline crunch, salted caramel ice cream<\/p>\n

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CANNOLI – cinnamon pastry, sweet ricotta cream cocoa drops, pistachios<\/p>\n

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BUDDY\u2019S XL LOBSTER TAIL – custard cream, flaky pastry shell, seasonal fresh fruit<\/p>\n

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Espresso on Ice<\/p>\n

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No stranger to making dining recommendations for friends both novice and gourmand it was admittedly with some reservation that I suggested Buddy V\u2019s to three Phoenix based friends during their visit to Sin City yet having never seen a single episode of Cake Boss and thus entering the restaurant with neither preconception nor bias aside from a personal love for red-sauce Italian and traditional pastry I can honestly say I came away impressed \u2013 the food, service, and restaurant itself all an \u201cexperience\u201d fully fitting the swanky Las Vegas Strip locale. Completely revamped and redesigned from \u201cFirst Food\u201d with clever flourishes befitting the Chef\u2019s roots throughout it was with the space fully reserved and full of energy that we arrived and after a brief wait in the bar a banquet built for six would serves as our seats for the next three hours \u2013 time that seemed to fly by under the care of a professional captain working alongside an enthusiastic back-server named Patrick, both who provided stellar recommendations pertaining to both the menu and local dining in general from start to end. Speaking next to the food and beginning first with appetizers including a crisp, flatbread pizza with a touch of char and excellent acidity beneath the smooth mozzarella it was actually that the carbonara stole the show amongst the small plates as the tender noodles provided a toothsome backdrop to smoky smoothness while peas and pancetta added a one-two punch of sweet and savory reigning the dish back from being \u2018too rich\u2019 or one-dimensional in the least. Continually tempted by the excellent focaccia it was not long after the appetizers had been cleared that main courses arrived and selecting largely based on Italian-American classics the trio that arrived along with a rich bowl of perfectly sticky polenta was anything but subtle, the enormous portions and big flavors all the result of family recipes and excellent ingredients \u2013 the Lasagna one of the best I\u2019ve ever had while the chicken parm and Sunday gravy were relatively standard fare save for the gamey and supple slow cooked lamb, every bit of which was enjoyed with focaccia dipped in the sauce as the rigatoni was a bit past al dente for my tastes. Moving last to desserts, a quartet ordered even as my fellow diners were throwing in the towel, suffice it to say that amongst my few steadfast dining rules is that I never leave a good dessert on the table\u2026and when we walked out those plates were empty, the lightly boozy rum cake alone worth the price of entry and more than enough to get me excited for the opening of Carlo\u2019s Bakery in 2014.<\/p>\n

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Buddy V\u2019s Ristorante Focaccia Margherita Pizza AUNT NINA\u2019S MOZZARELLA EN CAROZZA \u2013 Jersey City style fried mozzarella, crostini, tomato ragu, genovese pesto MACARONI & CHEESE CARBONARA – smoked mozzarella, fontina, egg, pancetta, sweet peas NONNA\u2019S LASAGNA AL FORNO – Italian … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1473,1472,28,13,27,153,16,21,19,34,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bread-basket","category-buddy-vs","category-buddy-vs-ristorante","category-coffee","category-dessert","category-food","category-ice-cream","category-italian","category-las-vegas","category-nevada","category-pizza","category-pork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14666,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510\/revisions\/14666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endoedibles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}