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| - Beautiful restaurant adjacent to the Palazzo. The staff was excellent- very accommodating without being overbearing. We were served very good bread after being seated. The wine list prices are double take inducing. As it turned out, the mark up on the excellent bottle of Amarone that we ordered was under 100%, so Batali and the boys made a decision to showcase kick ass wines without being as rapacious as you might think. Wines by the glass would be a very reasonable alternative approach. We started with the prosciutto, which was excellent- it literally melted in your mouth. If you order this, ask for the teeny little rolls that they serve. You wrap a slice of prosciutto around a little roll and eat the combination. We also had the duck egg with pastrami, which was OK. We each ordered the special dry aged steak, which was aged a lot longer than their usual protocol. The dry aging lends the meat a deep, funky undertone that is an additional flavor usually missing from meat. That said, I'm not sure how much it really adds. We had some excellent mushrooms as a side dish. Truffle shavings couldn't rescue potatoes au gratin from mediocrity.
The only real negative to this place is the prices. This is a really expensive steak house- significantly more expensive than what I am used to in Manhattan, so there will be a lot of sticker shock. I'm not sure how the prices here compare to other Las Vegas steak houses, so this may be the price of admission in this town for great steak and wine. If you don't have a YOLO attitude, skip this place, because it's a excellent restaurant, but not a great value. If you can get past the prices, it's a very nice meal.
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