If you’re looking to get off the Strip for dinner, head out to Red Rock Resort, where you’ll find one of Las Vegas’ favorite locals restaurants. Hearthstone Kitchen & Cellar is tucked off the casino floor and sports a beautiful dining room flanked by booths and the kitchen and bar. It’s really welcoming, too, with seating along the kitchen counter and tables throughout, creating a sort of farmhouse vibe. A patio is cooled by misters, making an outdoor experience quite pleasant. There are plenty of TVs here, making this a great place to stop to watch a game, too.
The cocktails are also pleasant, pleasant, pleasant, ranging from classics like Sidecars with Remy Martin and Aperol spritzes to fun lychee martinis and mojitos (created with Casamigos reposado, strawberries, lime and mint). You can find a good range of beer, from classic domestics to Elysian Space Dust (on draft). And the wine selection is a really good size (hence the “cellar” in the name).
Many of the dishes on this American menu are suitable for sharing, including the flaming crab dip. This impressive appetizer comes conveyed to your table on a chunky cutting board, in a silver serving vessel that looks like a crab. Flaming cognac is poured over the dish for an exciting presentation—dip into it with garlic naan and you’ll find plenty of crab inside. Fresh oysters are shucked at a pleasant little bar off the kitchen—order as many as you like.
The watermelon salad, with feta, avocado, onion and mint in a citrus vinaigrette, makes such a refreshing bite to cut the richness of your appetizer, but the Harvest salad may be more to your liking, with mixed greens, squash, pear, goat cheese and toasted pecans.
For entrées, there are plenty of options, from a French dip that will elicit jealous looks from other tables (seriously) to cheeseburgers, Impossible burgers and New England lobster rolls.
If you order pizza, you can try to catch a glimpse of it in the pizza oven, where a number of sides are cooked, also. In addition to the usual, delicious suspects, short rib pizza with Calabrian chile, meatball and mushroom pizza with truffle, fromage blanc, gouda and chives offer good variety.
Braised short rib comes with butternut squash and truffle ricotta; and if you love that truffle flavor, go for the truffle penne pasta with peas, prosciutto and truffle cream. The fragrance of the pasta makes for an almost transporting experience; and this pasta is well balanced, so that intense flavor never overwhelms the rest of your dishes. If you want steaks or fish, there are several options, such as striped bass and prime rib. For the complete sharing experience, order the Whole Beast Feast, where a carved suckling pig is served with country bread, apple-quinoa salad and roasted apple butter.
The sides here are darned good—the creamed “street corn” is like elote in a bowl, with pepper, whipped corn crema, cotija cheese and Tajin spice. Nice! Mac and cheese is velvety, with roasted garlic cream and four cheeses.
And although dessert is sometimes skipped, please don’t skip the lemon icebox pie—it’s that good, and that pretty, with a toasted meringue top accented with a fresh flower.
Red Rock Resort, 702.797.7344
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