text: How often do you get to be a pastry chef for awhile at a nice restaurant Well I was one tonight More on that laternnWe always overlook going to Nove because of its out of the way location so it was on our must try list and was it a good decisionnnWe were brought iced teas quickly and they were refilled often during the night Then came bread service It was three kindscheese bread sticks focaccia and Italian bread We also got a dish with three potential bread toppings and for use during the mealone container with olive oil one with red pepper flakes and one with grated cheesennOne of the runners brought us an amusebouchetwo small bruschetta with freshly chopped tomatoes A nice palate awakener for what was to comennFor a starter we order their salumi plate Our server Alex assured us it could be shared by two people The menu said that it was a selection of cured meats and red pizza Well that sounded fine What came was almost a meal in itself Four kinds of cured meat parmigiano cheese and some fresh ricotta That wooden server was placed in front of us and then they placed a wood plate with red pizza Wow So much nnCured meat platter httpwwwyelpcombizphotosnoveitalianolasvegasselectaIiYFgxeFfOKehGuLTmhwrfBsHDViroEAnnRed Pizza httpwwwyelpcombizphotosnoveitalianolasvegasselectaIiYFgxeFfOKehGuLTmhwaKwqjXROujmIhHgnnWe also had another three compartment dish with mustard olives and pickled vegetables This was really starting to add up in the stomach and we had not gotten to the main course Everything was excellent We had to let two small pieces of pizza go back with the dishesnnFor the main course my wife got the Veal Nove which the menu describes as thinly sliced Scaloppine Prosciutto Arugula and Lemon I tried a small piece and it was very very good I ordered a speciallobster ravioli with a seafood sauce similar to lobster bisque It was superb There was a small amount of veal leftover and Alex and his crew quickly boxed it for bringing homennNow comes my pastry chef experience One of their desserts is Make Your Own Cannoli You get small sized shells a small plastic pastry bag filled with the luscious cream that goes inside the cannoli and a dish with nine compartments for dipping the ends of the cannoli The compartments had raspberry sauce chocolate syrup chocolate chips coconut butterscotch toffee pistachio and chopped peanuts If you are counting and only got it is because two of the wells had raspberry syrup nnTubes and pastry bag httpwwwyelpcombizphotosnoveitalianolasvegasselectaIiYFgxeFfOKehGuLTmhwsqkgeMJezCQzWWdTgnnDipping dish httpwwwyelpcombizphotosnoveitalianolasvegasselectaIiYFgxeFfOKehGuLTmhwuKRzAlaKOKmXAXSLcAnnLike my Yelp friends who work at Jean Philippe at Aria I wielded that pastry bag like a surgeon uses his scalpel In no time whatsoever I had completed my first cannoli with one side dipped in raspberrynnSuccess httpwwwyelpcombizphotosnoveitalianolasvegasselectaIiYFgxeFfOKehGuLTmhwYFbqugciYtwdibBihwnnMy wife who has not been a fan of cannoli before tonight ate three of them which left me with just two and I did all the work myself That is gratitude I will tell you That dessert was fun and it is a clever menu itemnnService was excellent Alex and crew were always there to help removed dirty plates chat a bit and do everything as well as they could which was very goodnnThe view while not as good as Alizue is not bad I had a view of the original Palms Tower and being a local I was studying the streets to figure out where the things in the area I know were locatednnThis was a very pleasant dinner I know I will be back Oh and I will be calling Jean Philippe in the morning to check about pastry chef openings