Authentic Italian cuisine. Countless bottles of wine. Superb customer service.
In a few sentences, that’s how I would describe Terra Verde, one of the finest restaurants located at Green Valley Ranch in Henderson, about a 10-minute drive from the Las Vegas Strip.
My husband and I made reservations to eat at Terra Verde for our sixth anniversary, but there was no reason to. On a Thursday night there were only a few tables with patrons. A couple tables had larger groups of people sitting at them — friends gathered for a drink to celebrate the holiday season, or so I gathered — and there were a few more tables of two or three folks each.
The dining room at Terra Verde is large, and there is an outside veranda overlooking the pedestrian mall at Green Valley Ranch, which they open when it is warm out. To start out our meal, we were given a plate of complimentary appetizers (I’m not sure if this is common practice or something they did for our anniversary), which consisted of three varieties of olives, pickled bell peppers, shaved Parmesan cheese, artichoke hearts and zucchini chips. It was a flavorful selection that wasn’t too dense but did get my appetite stirred up for the main course.
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