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| - Came in for a quick dinner, sat at a bar table
What I ate:
- Chicken chicharrones: These were super tasty, very flavorful with an amazing sauce, but these were way larger than I thought they would be. My date and I could hardly finish this. Also this is not really date friendly as it's meat on the bone. I just went for it and used my hands while eating this
- Pulled pork tacos: These tacos were amazing - flavorful, well balanced, perfectly cooked pork. There were three tacos. Good to share or just have as your main
- Chicken watercress caesar salad: After having so many rich meals on strip, I think my body was craving salad. This salad was okay. The chicken that came out with it was really dry and overly charred, so we ended up leaving the chicken on the side and not eating it at all
- Mushroom quesadillas: This dish was not great. I actually had to complain. The quesadillas were really charred, almost burnt. It made the blue cheese super strong in flavor. All you could taste was burnt flavors and blue cheese. There was nothing to cut those flavors, so it was not palatable.
- Happy pill cocktail was refreshing and easy to drink
Pros:
- Really beautiful restaurant. The inside was wonderfully done.
- Plenty of large and small tables
- Bar had a HUGE screen TV that was playing the basketball playoffs - mainly what drew us to eat there in the first place
- Service was friendly. When I complained about the mushroom quesadillas the server didn't make it a big deal, told me it was easy to take off our bill, and then the house manager came by to apologize
- A few private closed off rooms you could reserve. It was nice to see some rooms of different sizes that could accommodate different sized parties from small parties to really big
- I liked that they had a bathroom inside the restaurant. I hate when I'm at a hotel restaurant and have to exit the restaurant just to use the bathroom.
Cons:
- Since we didn't have a reservation, we couldn't grab a table. This seemed super confusing to me since there were so many open tables when I went to the bathroom. Maybe they were understaffed that night in terms of servers and left part of the dining room closed? Not sure since I saw plenty of server just milling around chatting amongst themselves. Or is this part of the restaurant's allure, to try to make it SEEM exclusive? No biggie since ultimately my date wanted to be able to see the TV and watch the game
- Food was really hit or miss. I liked the pork tacos, but I really wouldn't write home about anything else I ate that night
Would I come again? Probably not
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