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We started in the bar with two drinks; the English Sidecar and the Drifter. we literally could not taste a difference betweent he two and would have been convinced they were the same drink were it not for different glasses (one was served up, one on the rocks). I'm still not certain that the bartender didn't take a shortcut (or he wasn't very good).
The service: it started off with the hostesses insisting we wouldn't be sat before our reservation time (30 minutes later) and telling us to wait at the bar; we ordered our drinks and before I had even finished signing the receipt, the hostess came to take us to our table. I feel like this is a common practice to get you to order drinks in Vegas, but when you don't order them from your servers, you can see their irritation. I don't mind waiting at the bar if I show up early, but don't quote a time that is utter nonsense (there were plenty of empty tables and seats at the bar) in order to get me to spend more.
Our server (who looked like Santana from Glee but never gave us her name and it wasn't on the receipt) was very charming in the beginning, but her attention dropped off dramatically after taking our order. Our meal wasn't well paced and our tables weren't kept very clean. By the end of the meal, we spent a lot of time waiting for someone to come and offer us the bill and/or desert and in that time we decided we would just call it a night.
The food;
Appetizer: We ordered the fried oysters, which at nearly half the price of an entree was very stingy on portion. It tasted good enough, but three oysters for that price?
Entrées: We ordered the Kobe filet, which was amazing! It was the superstar of our meal. We ordered it medium and it came out closer to rare, but it was such a good cut of meat that it was actually better off that way. Tender and juicy; perfectly seasoned.
We also ordered the Beef Wellington, which was presented as a signature dish, but left a lot to be desired. It wasn't bad, mind you, but it didn't hold a candle to the taste profile of any of our other dishes and felt more like it was "special" in it's profitability for the restaurant than in the care put into it. We ordered it medium rare and it came out medium. Perhaps it was a mixup on the ticket (or possibly by the server), but this dish can't really afford to lose any juice to temp. The single best part about it was the side dishes; the potatoes were fantastic and the other veg were very tasty too.
We ordered a side of the truffled mac and cheese and it was delicious! If I could pull a do over again, I would have rather have had more of that instead of the Wellington.
This is a high-end meal that doesn't deliver as well as some of the other options around. It's sold on the promise of the Ramsay name so maybe our expectations were too high, but you watch his numerous television shows and I feel like high expectations are to be expected. At the end of the day, we would give someplace else a try before spending money here again and in Las Vegas, you have plenty of options.
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