VEGAS DINING NEWS: Bad Guy Review, Strip to be Wall-to-Wahlbergers, Krispy Kremes No Longer Kosher

Posted on: March 11, 2025, 01:50h. 

Last updated on: March 11, 2025, 02:13h.

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Expertise: Commercial Gaming, Entertainment, Expert Insight, Las Vegas, Restaurants, Las Vegas Myths.

• Guy Fieri’s Las Vegas restaurants get burned in recent dining review
• Oy! Krispy Kreme doughnuts are no longer kosher
• The Wahlbergs are taking over the Strip

While Las Vegas may be Flavortown thanks to its plethora of outstanding restaurants, according to one popular website, Guy Fieri isn’t its mayor. Katie Dowd, the managing editor of SFGATE.com, ate all three of Fieri’s restaurants on the Strip and didn’t come away a fangirl of the flame-haired celebrity chef’s food.

The $40 (with tax and tip) tonkatsu club sandwich at Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Sports Kitchen at Horseshoe was a “very salty, one-note bite” that was “essentially a fried chicken sandwich with ketchup” accompanied by waffle, crinkle, and steak fries “not terribly different from what you can pick up in the frozen food aisle,” Dowd wrote.

The $21.57 tenders with barbecue sauce and honey mustard at Chicken Guy at Caesars Palace were “thin” and “strangely sweet, as if sugar were mixed in with the salt layer and had a faint aftertaste of cinnamon.” And the $49 Cajun chicken alfredo at Guy Fieri’s Vegas Kitchen & Bar at the Linq was “perfectly acceptable” although “the chicken was far too salty and had a squeaky mouthfeel from being overcooked.”

“The worst, by far, was the Sports Kitchen,” Dowd wrote. “Right in the middle was the Linq’s Vegas Kitchen, which lost points because of value for money and its resemblance to any old Applebee’s. At the top was Chicken Guy, simply because of the cheaper price tag. Hardly a ringing endorsement.”

Still Krispy, Just Not Kosher

According to KOA Kosher Supervision, three local Krispy Kreme Doughnuts locations in Vegas have lost their official kosher certification: 7015 W. Spring Mountain Road and 9701 S. Eastern Ave. in Las Vegas, and 1331 W. Craig Road in North Las Vegas. The decisions were apparently made at the request of the corporation that owns these stores in a letter signed by Rabbi Isamar Isaacson.

“This development is significant for Las Vegas residents and visitors who rely on kosher-certified establishments,” writes yeahthatskosher.com. “Krispy Kreme had previously been a convenient option for those seeking kosher-certified doughnuts, but with this change, customers must now verify the status of other locations or seek alternative kosher options.”

Dining Ins & Outs

The Las Vegas Strip is about to get its third Wahlburgers. Located poolside at the Ayu Dayclub at Resorts World, it opens on Friday as a collaboration with Zouk Group Las Vegas. Founded in 2011 by Wahlberg brothers Mark, Donnie, and Paul in Higham, Mass., the fast-foodery also operates at Grand Bazaar Shops at Horseshoe and The Shoppes at Mandalay Place.

According to Casino.org’s own Vital Vegas, plans for a 400K square-foot retail expansion of the Bellagio — for which MGM Resorts ponied up $54 million for a sliver of land in 2023 — have been called off.  The three-story shopping plaza, planned for the south side of the Bellagio fountains and nicknamed “Project Mojave,” would have featured five high-end restaurants.

Coyotes Café & Cantina, a locals’ favorite in Henderson, has closed after 30 years with no advance notice or reason provided.

The popular food truck Taquieria la Casa del Pastor (the Shepherd’s House Taco Shop) is opening its first brick-and-mortar at 6121 W. Lake Mead Blvd., by North Jones Boulevard in Northwest Las Vegas.

Health to Pay

The kitchen at Buffet Asia at 2380 S. Rainbow Blvd. was closed on March 3 by the Southern Nevada Health District for 27 demerits. These included 5 each for lack of required handwashing and for serving improperly cooled food; and three each for food unprotected from potential cross-contamination; chemicals improperly identified, stored, and cooled; and ineffective pest control measures