The Dish: $100 gets you into Taste of the Nation

Tickets are on sale for Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, 7 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at Rain at the Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road. More than 35 chefs and restaurants are expected to participate. For tickets, at $100 general admission, $125 VIP (with reception at 6 p.m.): CE.Strength.org/Events/Taste-Nation-Las-Vegas or 949-481-7792. …

Red and white wine pairings from the Kosta Browne collection will be featured in a dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Delmonico Steakhouse at The Venetian, 3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South. The five-course dinner, with an entree of roasted veal loin, is $195 inclusive. Call 702-414-3737. …

A happy hour from 3 to 6 p.m. daily and 30-minute express lunch have been introduced at db brasserie at The Venetian. Happy hour dishes such as tarte flambee and grilled merguez sausage start at $6. The express lunch includes chilled tomato soup, a Caesar salad and merguez sausage on a French roll. There also is a daily prix-fixe lunch, with two courses for $25 or three for $32. …

Phil’s Italian Steak House at Treasure Island, 3300 Las Vegas Blvd. South, now offers a $45 three-course dinner menu. With entree choices of an 8-ounce center-cut filet, spinach-and-ricotta-stuffed chicken breast, pepper-seared salmon and shrimp strozzapreti, it’s available from 5 to 10 p.m. daily. …

Buddy V’s Ristorante in the Grand Canal Shoppes, 3327 Las Vegas Blvd. South, has introduced a three-course prix-fixe pre-theater menu from 5 to 7 p.m. daily. Entree choices are orecchiette and Italian sausage, chicken Parmesan, My Dad’s Bucatini Carbonara or seared salmon; it’s $38 per person. …

Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, which is at 3987 Paradise Road and 750 S. Rampart Blvd., is featuring a new small-plates menu of shareable dishes such as minibratwursts, beef tenderloin sliders, lobster and blue-crab melts and pecan-crusted chicken and pear sliders.

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