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Yelp Review 777 only appears once in a Yelper's life. I couldn't think of a luckier place to write about for the landmark Yelp review 777 than 777 Microbrewery and Restaurant in the downtown Las Vegas.
Where Yelp review #777 appears once in my lifetime, the Triple 7 Microbrewery appears often. The surface parking lot at Main Street Station is my parking place of choice when I visit the Fremont Street Experience. The deal is that you have to buy $5 worth of food or drinks to validate the $5 to use the parking lot. Usually I make a beeline to the Triple 7 for a lucky cold one or two before a night on Fremont Street. The problem is that the beer is so inexpensive causing me to buy two to cover the validation. For example, currently draft beer is $2 during football. That was the case yesterday when I drank a large draft strawberry beer that came out to $2.16 after tax.
Triple 7 is an upbeat spot to enjoy a couple of Lucky cold ones. The atmosphere is rock & roll music, professional sports, bar talk, and the 1800s railroad station motif that permeates Main Street Station. Yesterday I'd take in U2's "With or Without You" between glances of a soccer and baseball game. Triple 7 is a cavernous bar and restaurant with high ceilings bordered by two large bars and a microbrewery. The large space in between is filled with tables. From past experience, the bar on the right is the quiet bar that is frequently closed where the bar on the left is the party bar. Regardless of where you sit, a lucky strawberry or any microbrewery beer tastes good.
Yesterday, I took my Triple 7 experience to the next level by returning for dinner. Besides being a microbrewery, it is the unofficial cafe of Main Street Station unless you count the cafe in its sister property The California. After spending time in the Fremont Street Experience, I returned for dinner. Let me say that I was impressed. I ordered the meatloaf which included a vegetable of choice and mixed vegetables for $8.99. My choice of vegetable of the day was a baked potato. I added soup of the day for an additional $1.99. Complimenting the food, I passed over a beer for Pepsi. The chicken gumbo soup with saltine crackers was of the same high quality as their beer. But the meatloaf was the bomb. The quality and quantity satisfied my expectations. The tasty mushroom gravy with genuine mushrooms brought the meatloaf to a level that exceeded my expectations for a microbrewery restaurant. The baked potato that included butter and Land O Lakes sour cream was mutant. I don't recall eating a baked potato this large. Ultimately the soda glass was huge. All this came out to around $15.25.
Throughout dinner, the waitress was attentive and friendly. Additionally she did not make the error of serving the soup too close to the entree or rush me.
When I drink a cold one in Triple 7, it is "Cheers " to good luck. In conclusion Review 777 is an Internet toast "to good luck and good times."
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