CRAFTKITCHEN DOES DINNER: AN AFTER-HOURS EVENT

We love (LOVE) making breakfast, lunch and pastries for our community everyday, but we recently got the chance to flex our dinner muscles and, we have to admit, it felt pretty good.  We were honored to host Bridor France and La Quercia in our private dining room for an after-hours affair, and we wanted to share all of the delicious details with you.

We played with some of our favorite winter flavors to create a custom menu for the event that warmed guests right up.

We’re not sure what we love more–a winter flavor palette or a winter color palette.

We love how this event turned out. While it was warm, welcoming and intimate, our glass french doors and oversized window gave the dinner an open feel as well. It made for the perfect after-hours private affair, and we had so much fun crafting up a custom menu. If you’re looking for a creative place to host your next event, we’d love to have you at CRAFT. Our PDR can hold up to 14-16 guests for a cozier affair, our entire space can hold up to 80 for a full-on par-tay.  You can make a reservation for the private dining room or call (702) 728-5828 to talk details.

CRAFTKITCHEN IN THE NEWS

When we started CRAFTkitchen, we knew we wanted to focus on one thing: community. Whether it’s providing a perfect gathering place for community members, making someone’s day a little brighter by providing them a comforting meal or sourcing ingredients from local farms and markets, we work every single day to ensure we’re supporting our community every way we know how. It’s been such a pleasure, then, to see all of the love and support we’ve received from community members and local media. 

These first few months open have been both rewarding and, as is the case with any new business, challenging. Nothing keeps us going, though, like seeing smiling faces of regulars and new diners alike or watching our name pop up in a local article. So, today we wanted to break down some of the great media coverage we’ve gotten as a way to say thank you to all of those writers who took time to dine with us and, most importantly, share their experience with the Las Vegas Valley.

“Perfecting the Craft” by Michael Uzmann (published in Vegas2LA)

This is one of our all-time favorite pieces written about CRAFTkitchen. Uzmann just gets what CRAFT is all about. We love his description of CRAFT as “part passion project” and are humbled by the comparison to one of our downtown favorites, Glutton.

Las Vegas Review Journal

If you’re a Las Vegan, you know there really is one major source of news–the local RJ. We were so excited, then, to see a writeup about CRAFT in the December 9th paper. We love that the writer made a point to call out our mission: “To be here for locals, to be the kind of place where they always feel comfortable…”

“Giving Inspired Eating a Chance” by Aly Wagonseller (published in Zip Code Magazine)

We were named the “Haute Spot” in the Henderson edition of local-favorite Zip Code Magazine. This was such a surprise for us, as we weren’t expecting any coverage from the 89104 magazine at all. We love that, while the piece starts off with an honest and hesitant tone (especially in regards to our slogan: “Local. Inspired. Eats”), our dishes win the writer over by the end.

“Jaret Blinn’s CRAFTkitchen” by Susan Stapleton (published in Eater Las Vegas) 

Ah, is there any better place to be recognized in the food-world than Eater? We like to think not. And we love that Eater has shown us so much love on everywhere from its website to its social media channels. We’re so thankful to Stapleton and all of the folks at Eater LV for helping to spread the word about what CRAFT is all about. 

That’s today’s round-up. We want to thank every one of the publications and writers who got behind the CRAFTkitchen mission and chose to share their experience with the community. Word of mouth and the written word are the most powerful tools we have to help spread our mission and we could not be more grateful to everyone who has helped us do so.

‘TIS THE SEASON

We are so excited to be in the midst of our first holiday season here at CRAFTkitchen. Because our background lies in baking pastries from scratch, we love that the holidays are just another excuse to experiment with housemade danishes, desserts and all-around sweet treats. It’s that time of year where the cold makes every warm bite taste that much better and where the holiday pre-orders start rolling right in–making for a super busy (and happy) kitchen here at CRAFT.

One of the reasons we love our holiday orders (besides the fact that we get to feed people super cute reindeer cupcakes and Christmas-hued macarons) is that it allows our customers a tiny break from slaving away in the kitchen. When you’ve got a homemade main course to make, picking up desserts, breads and sweet-treat appetizers from us can be a great way to add a little color to your menu while keeping your sanity. (Because we bake everything from scratch (and we mean everything), you can also rest easy knowing you’re not feeding your family bread full of preservatives and or cupcakes full of chemicals.)

If you’re not using our holiday goodies for your own table, they also act as a great gift (especially for teachers and coworkers who might be hard to shop for). It’s a fun way to spread local love and, we may be biased, but we’re pretty sure there’s not a soul out there who wouldn’t want a box of our macarons or a bag of our white chocolate candy-cane bark. We’re also offering holiday baskets full of assorted CRAFT goodies to help eliminate the stress of picking out goodies (and wrapping). Make sure you pre-order these as far in advance as possible, as they’re going quickly.

Our pastry case is full of holiday treats this time of year, so feel free to stop in anytime if you’re just picking up some small items. If you want to guarantee larger items or quantities, however, calling ahead and pre-ordering is definitely the way to go:

• Call (702) 728-5828 to pre-order your items
• We’re open December 24 from 7-3 for holiday order pickup and dine-in
• We’ll be closed December 25 and will reopen December 26

Items you can pre-order include:

• Holiday Mini Cupcakes by the Dozen
• Holiday Tart Platter (eggnog, cheesecake, lemon meringue, chocolate, apple cranberry)
• Buche de Noel (serves 4 people)
• White Chocolate Candy Cane Bark Bag
• Chocolate Almond Brittle Bag
• Holiday Basket (loaded with CRAFT goodies)
• Cranberry White Chocolate Loaf
• Ciabatta Loaf
• Pretzel Rolls
• Assorted croissants, danishes, pastry-case desserts