Now Open: 7 new restaurants in North Las Vegas

Salad and Go, a chain that positions itself as a more healthful option to conventional junk food chains, brought its salads, covers, soups and breakfast meals to North Las Vegas in January 2023. (Salad and Go)Pinkbox Doughnuts, the in your area owned pastry shop with stores across the Las Vegas Valley (and elsewhere), debuted a North Las Vegas shop in March 2023. (Pinkbox Doughnuts)Getting Baked, a food truck that went physicals, focuses on creatively topped baked potatoes and toddlers at its North Las Vegas area. (Facebook)Ojos Locos Sports Cantina y Casino opened in February 2023 in North Las Vegas with a 300-seat Mexican restaurant. (Ojos Locos Sports Cantina y Casino).
This is the fourth installation of Now Open, a continuous series featuring dining establishments that have opened in the past a number of months in communities across Las Vegas, but not on the Strip. The series recognizes the contributions of community spots to our culinary culture.

After showcasing launchings in Chinatown, Henderson and the Summerlin location, we turn to what's brand-new in North Las Vegas. (Note: These summaries are not reviews and are not inclusive of every brand-new restaurant.).

Born and Raised.

1125 E. Craig Road, 702-202-3698, bornandraisedlv.com.

The North Las Vegas area joins other Born and Raised dining establishments in Henderson and near Summerlin. These elevated sports bars are open 24/7. Look for breakfast meals like loco moco, salads and covers, bar bites like fried Brussels sprouts and bulgogi steak tacos, more than a dozen sliders ranging from vegetarian to cheesesteak, build-your-own burgers, and house favorites like tequila lime chicken pasta or a sriracha chicken Dragon Bowl Z (recommended by Goku).

Getting Baked.

4325 W. Craig Road (inside Sundance Kid Cafe), 702-395-8048, gettingbakedllc.com.

Getting Baked began as a food truck. Innovative baked russet or sweet potatoes (or toddlers) star here, topped with elote, broccoli cheese, barbecue chicken, carne asada and more.

Ojos Locos Sports Cantina y Casino.

3227 Civic Center Drive, 702-443-9580, ojoslocos.com/locations.

This property focused on the Latino neighborhood debuted in early February, replacing the old Lucky Club. Ojos Locos includes a 300-seat restaurant whose whitewashing, recovered wood and corrugated tin roofings recall Mexican beach bars. Wall-to-wall high-definition TVs showing sports supply a backdrop for tequilas and specialized drinks, starters like ceviche and elote, soups and salads, burgers and sandwiches, street tacos, and specializeds like roast chicken and tilapia a la Mexicana.

Pho Delicious.

4375 Las Vegas Blvd. North, Suite 13-14, 702-202-4584.

The namesake soup is provisioned with the basic proteins (beef ball, raw steak, tendon, tripe) in various combinations, plus veggies, chicken and seafood. The menu also includes appetisers (egg rolls, summer season rolls, dumplings), rice and fried rice dishes, rice vermicelli bowls, stir frys, and banh mi with the proper bread, airy and gently crisp. Boba smoothies come in tastes like chocolate, mango and taro durian.

Pinkbox Doughnuts.

1210 W. Craig Road, pinkboxdoughnuts.com.

Pinky and Poo, the pink and brown plops that are the mascots of Pinkbox Doughnuts, made their North Las Vegas launching in March with the opening of a Pinkbox store in the city. The pastry shop now uses more than 70 doughnut designs and tastes throughout eight areas in Vegas, Primm, and St. George, Utah.

Salad and Go.

1135 E. Craig Road, 480-400-0634, saladandgo.com.

Salad and Go, a fast-food chain with stores throughout the Southwest, opened its very first Nevada area in January in North Las Vegas. The chain positions itself as a more sustainable and healthful option to tradition fast-food brands, with meals like Caprese and Cobb salads, a Caesar salad wrap, limited-time soups, and breakfast burritos and bowls.

Wow Wow Hawaiian Lemonade.

5546 Camino Al Norte, Suite 8, 725-251-2408, wowwowhawaiianlemonade.com.

An outpost of this chain opened about a month earlier in the exact same center as Smith's supermarket. "Life Happens (Lemonade Helps)," a signboard reads. Because spirit, Wow uses fresh-pressed lemonade, made with organic walking stick sugar or sugar-substitute monk fruit, in more than a lots flavors, plus shakes, coffee and tea, açç ai bowls, and bites like flatbreads.

Contact Johnathan L. Wright at jwright@reviewjournal.com. Follow @ItsJLW on Twitter.