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Five dishes to create your own garlic festival

If you can't attend the Gilroy Garlic Festival this weekend in California, enjoy one of these garlic-infused dishes.

Not Your Mamma's Garlic Bread

Slice of Vegas, Shoppes at Mandalay Place

Roasted-garlic-infused Italian bread is topped with olive oil and basil pesto and accompanied by a head of roasted garlic, $7.95.

Escargot

The Broiler, Boulder Station

The land snails are soaked in garlic butter and served with rustic crostini, $8.

Saffron aioli

Tapas by Alex Stratta, Tivoli Village

The garlic mayonnaise is flavored with pimenton and served with sweet onion cocas (flatbreads) and sobrassada sausage, $9

Sauteed garlic mushrooms

Delmonico Steakhouse, The Venetian

Simply sauteed with garlic, the mushrooms are available as a side dish, $14.

Linguine and clams

Don Vito's, South Point

Littleneck clams are sauteed in olive oil, garlic and white wine and served with red or white sauce, $22.

If you have suggestions for On the Menu, please contact Heidi Knapp Rinella at Hrinella@reviewjournal.com. Find more of her stories at wwwreviewjournal.com and bestoflasvegas.com and follow @HKRinella on Twitter.

 

 

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