rev:text
| - Your typical Irish Pub, Wooloughan's is located inside the Rampart Casino/JC Marriott Hotel on the far west side of town at Summerlin Pkwy & Rampart.
We arrived about 8pm on a Friday evening and the place seemed fairly busy. We waited at the door for a hostess to serve us, but after several minutes with no acknowledgement of our existence, we walked in and got the attention of a server, and she sat us in her station. She was very friendly and seemed to be in good spirits. It is always nice to have a server with a happy disposition!
We both started with a cup of their roasted corn chowder with bacon and it was thick, flavorful and very satisfying. For my entree, I went with their grilled vegetable salad and added grilled salmon to it for $3 which was a bargain, because it was a good-sized filet (about 6 oz). Our server said the salad was really good, but I am going to have to say it was just good. While the salmon was cooked perfectly, the vegetables were just OK. Some were rather bland and the lemon caper dressing was a little boring too. Salt and pepper helped, but couldn't make up for an uninspired salad. And while the menu lists asparagus as the first ingredient, there were only 3 very skinny spears, which was a bit disappointing.
My date chose the shephard's pie, which was a bit of a let down too. It tasted like canned chili with mashed potatoes on top. I've had shepard's pie before, and they usually have a beef stew flavor, not a beef chili flavor. Oh well. He ate all of it anyway.
Our dessert was actually quite good ... We shared the apple crisp and it was a generous serving of Granny Smith apples baked with cinnamon and sugar and topped with pastry crumbles and served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Very tasty and the apples were cooked just right.
Overall, it is an "A-OK" place and I would eat there again if I was in the area, but I don't think I would make a special trip for the food.
|