Pat and I have tried a couple different tapas restaurants in Las Vegas. Up until last night we hadn't been super impressed and felt like they were all just ok. Last night we tried a new tapas place called Nosh & Swig. Think modern tapas. They are located in a shopping mall away from the strip so they were super easy to get to. They recently opened so they didn't have the "swig" part up and running yet but if the "nosh" part is any indication of the future of this restaurant it will be amazing. The menu is broken up by protein and we picked one dish from many of the available proteins.
We started our meal with the sticky bun tacos. These were tacos whose "shell" was an Asian sticky bun filled with fried pork belly, pickled cabbage, and a ginger soy sauce. They were excellent. The bun wasn't too sweet, something Pat was slightly worried about...he's not the biggest sweet person, the pickled cabbage was the perfect sour component to cut through the rich pork belly, which was perfectly crispy. They were so good that we split the third taco since neither of us really wanted to give it up to the other person.
The second dish we tried was the charred beef crostini. It was a coffee dusted beef on top of a piece of Gruyere cheese on top of a toasty baguette finished with a horseradish mousse. The coffee flavor was wonderful. It paired perfectly with the horseradish. The cheese was all melty goodness(I love cheese). The only one small issue we had with this dish was that the beef was a little tough when you went to bite into it.
After the beef we opted to try the pretzel brats. It was a chicken sausage on a pretzel roll covered in a cheese gravy with some sauerkraut on top. The cheese sauce was amazing. I could have licked it off the plate. Pat was afraid this course would be too heavy but they really give you a perfect portion. And the pretzel bread was great too. I've really been into pretzel bread lately.
Our final non-sweet plate was the elote. It was grilled corn with garlic butter, cayenne, and a cilantro pesto. I am not the biggest cilantro fan but this was so good. It wasn't overpowering cilantro. The butter and cayenne really helped to tone the cilantro taste down.
After the elote I was craving dessert. Pat said he was full and wasn't sure he would eat any of the dessert(little did he know how much he would enjoy it). We asked our server what she would recommend and she suggested the cream cheese lote. It was a Thai flat bread that they filled with cream cheese filling. The flat bread is then rolled up and possibly grilled??? It was perfect. Just the right amount of sweet(as our server suggested. And finally it had a creme anglaise sauce on top. Pat and I each ate half and it was delicious.
And to top it all off the people running the restaurant really care about their diners. When we got our check we noticed that they didn't charge us for the beef dish. When we asked about it the waitress told us she took off the price because we had to wait so long for it. We felt bad because we really didn't wait that long for the dish. We actually enjoyed the relaxed pace of the dishes coming out. Even if we had been charged for the plate the meal still was relatively inexpensive. We were surprised at the low cost(especially after last week's extravagant date night).
We definitely recommend Nosh & Swig. If you are in Vegas please, please, please GO to this restaurant(I really mean it). We liked it a lot and want to see it do well. It's in an easy area to get to, away from the strip. You will not be disappointed. I can't wait to go back. I am excited to see what types of drinks(swigs) they will have on their menu....hopefully a fruity one I can enjoy!
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