Lounges dedicated to the legal consumption of cannabis should begin to appear around the Valley later this year, but none will likely have the inside advantage Planet 13 already enjoys.
Once the sprawling “cannabis superstore and entertainment complex” opens its two-story, 8,500-square-foot consumption lounge, it will have a remedy at the ready for the post-consumption munchies destined to ensue. Trece Eatery + Spirits, located just inside Planet 13’s front doors, is that remedy, and it’s an ambitious one.
The airy, greenhouse-like dining room is big, which it has to be to accommodate a menu that encompasses seafood, salads, burgers, breakfast items, Southern-inspired items, Mexican food, desserts, cocktails and pizza.
Even someone who hasn’t partaken of cannabis in a month might feel slightly intoxicated by the wealth of offerings on executive chef Manny Sanchez’s menu. The “shareables” appetizer menu alone includes a flaming chili con queso ($12), served in a cast-iron skillet; fried calamari ($15), with roasted poblanos and Old Bay aioli; pan-seared tiger shrimp wrapped in bacon ($14); buttermilk chicken tenders with your choice of sweet, savory or creamy dips ($13); and a hummus and veggies plate with garlic flatbread and toasted pumpkin seeds ($12). You could easily make a meal without leaving that section, and many folks probably do.
The entrees are similarly diverse. If you’re baked just enough to be ravenous but not quite enough to stuff yourself silly, you can tuck into healthy-choice items like Trece’s protein bowls, loaded with roasted corn, black beans, pico de gallo, steamed rice and your choice of proteins from shrimp to blackened chicken ($17-$21), or the Planet Grain salad, with its medley of baby kale, farro, quinoa, cucumber, shaved radishes, cherry tomatoes and a balsamic vinaigrette ($14).
Or you could jump right into the rib-stickers, of which Trece has many. Consider the shrimp and lobster pappardelle ($24) served in a creamy cognac sauce. Or the flaming fajitas, which come with your choice of chicken, beef, shrimp or veggies, and with house-made corn or flour tortillas ($18-$23). And don’t sleep on the Southern classics, which include chicken and waffles ($21), shrimp and grits ($24) and a Cajun spice-rubbed half rotisserie chicken ($23), plated with creamy garlic mashed potatoes.
Add to these a selection of mimosas in flavors including blood orange, lychee and desert pear ($10-$12, available bottomless on weekend from $20-$25) and a dessert menu that runs the gamut from cannoli to fried ice cream to dulce de leche flan, and you’ve got a more than a few decisions to make.
Trece’s kitchen, in deference to your likely state of happy, floaty, snacky euphoria, strives to make all those choices worth your while.
TRECE EATERY + SPIRITS 2548 W. Desert Inn Road, 702-665-6701, trecelasvegas.com. Thursday–Monday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
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