Enjoy the lovely fall weather in Las Vegas with La Mañana Brunch on Sundays at Casa Calavera. The Mexican restaurant makes a perfect spot to fuel up and have a few delicious cocktails before getting on with your day. The restaurant itself is lively, with the Mexican-themed décor carrying through the dining area, bar and patio, with rustic wood, Mexican tiles and colorful murals. It’s the second location, with another in Baja California.
Brunch, which starts at 10 a.m., is always better with a cocktail, and Casa Calavera offers plenty of options for you. If you’re sharing with friends (and of course you are), order a sangria pitcher or the huge Lickity Split Margarita, with Volcan blanco tequila, Cointreau, agave nectar and lime juice. Don’t want to share? Try a tequila sunrise (Casamigos blanco, orange juice and grenadine); or bottomless mimosas or bellinis.
Start off the parade of food with chicken taquitos, chicken quesadilla with poblanos rajas, an ahi tuna tostada with avocado, or avocado and roasted corn taquitos with sweet potato for the vegan in your group. If you are a guacamole fan, choose from chipotle bacon, mango and a classic version. Follow that up with tacos—Casa Calavera has an inspired selection. There are three per order, so make sure your group orders a few different kinds, so you can try more than one variety. Some of those include chorizo and egg, grilled Baja fish and shredded beef.
If you haven’t ordered every permeation of tacos, then go for a bigger entrée like the Juanito cakes stack, yellow corn cakes with chocolate sauce, maple syrup, berry compote and whipped butter. The Catrina avocado toast layers the lush veg on top of grilled nine-grain bread with pickled red onion, a hard-cooked egg, radish, tomatillo salsa and pico de gallo. Chilaquiles come in two forms: the carne asada chilaquiles with chips, eggs, Oaxacan cheese, guajillo sauce and crema; and the Casa Chilaquiles, a vegan version with guajillo sauce sweet potato, vegan eggs and cheese, avocado salsa and fire-roasted salsa. The brunch menu is packed with egg dishes like huevos rancheros, with eggs and ranchero sauce, plus a choice of achiote chicken, shredded beef or pork carnitas; and huevos Mexicana, with scrambled eggs, Oaxacan cheese, poblano-onion breakfast potato and beans.
Catrina avocado toast
Other classic Mexican breakfast dishes get a twist here, too, like the short rib Benedict, rich with braised short rib, cheese pupusas, poached eggs and a chipotle Hollandaise sauce. The breakfast burrito is stuffed with scrambled eggs, chorizo, beans, potatoes and rajas.
Although poblano-onion breakfast potatoes come on many of the plates, you can also order them on the side, along with Mexican rice and beans, yuca fries, smoked bacon and grilled veggies—if you need something to fill in the holes.
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