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5 spots in Las Vegas for delicious blue cheese dishes

Prime Rib Loft

The Prime Rib Loft’s Gorgonzola chicken is a sauteed airline chicken breast perched over Gorgonzola mac and cheese with tasso ham and a corn muffin, $24.

The Orleans, 702-365-7111, orleanscasino.com

Gorgonzola chicken. (Boyd Gaming)
Gorgonzola chicken. (Boyd Gaming)

Ferraro’s Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar

Ferraro’s Gnocco Fritto, fried dough that’s a specialty of the Emilia-Romagna region, is served with orange Gorgonzola cheese, culatello ham, arugula and Lambrusco onion jam, $12.

4480 Paradise Road, 702-364-5300, ferraroslasvegas.com

Ferraro's Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar
Ferraro's Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar

La Strega

New to La Strega’s Aperitivo Happy H

our menu is the Quattro Pizza, a white pie topped with Gorgonzola and other artisanal cheeses, garnished with honey and sage, $10 from 4 to 6 p.m. weekdays.

3555 S. Town Center Drive, 702-722-2099, lastregalv.com

Quattro Pizza. (La Strega)
Quattro Pizza. (La Strega)

Chart House

The Chart House’s roasted beet salad has a base of arugula tossed with prosciutto crisps, blue cheese, candied pecans, pickled red onions, oranges and lemon truffle vinaigrette, $11.

Golden Nugget, 702-386-8364, goldennugget.com

Chart House’s roasted beet salad. (Landry's)
Chart House’s roasted beet salad. (Landry's)

Locale Italian Kitchen

Locale’s Berkshire Italian sausage is paired with Savoy cabbage sauteed with guanciale and mustard vinaigrette and tossed with Gorgonzola dolce cheese, $8.

7995 Blue Diamond Road, 702-330-0404, localelv.com

Berkshire Italian sausage at Locale Italian Kitchen. (Hazel Mondido)
Berkshire Italian sausage at Locale Italian Kitchen. (Hazel Mondido)

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