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| - I was hoping to have a knock-your-socks-off experience here. I did not.
I love downtown Vegas, and I am a fan of any business that is going to help the area grow. So kudos for that.
However, when you have alcapurrias, bacalaitos, mofongo, and paella on the menu, I'm going to judge you harshly if you can't deliver.
Let me preface by saying that I knew going into this place that everything on the menu was going to be the 'fancy-pants' version of traditional Spanish and Caribbean foods, so there's some leeway for artistic interpretation. I said leeway, not 'screw tradition, I do what I want'.
I've had alcapurrias, bacalaitos, and mofongo on the beaches of Puerto Rico, so ordering this was a way to have a culinary nostalgia trip for me. Nope, no such luck. The alcapurrias were bland, the bacalaitos were soggy, and the mofongo was oily. For those of you not familiar with these foods, they are *not* supposed to be that way.
Now, the paella, I'm thinking will redeem the menu. It's a seafood paella, with mussels, shrimp, clams, bits of whitefish (I believe cod but don't quote me), and veggies and rice. Traditional paella takes at least a good half hour to bake, and it should only be made when it's ordered. Otherwise, if it sits too long it can get gummy and chewy. So I'm thinking ok, let the tapas settle and have some chit-chat with my friend while the paella is ready.
Sidebar: The chef was out in the dining room nearly the entire time I was there and he was having a loud conversation with a patron about sources, marketing, mixology, and all sorts of other stuff which I'm sure would be interesting if you were part of the conversation, but honestly, I don't want to listen to all that while I'm trying to have a pleasant dinner with a friend. Get back into your kitchen and make sure your chefs are on point with their food and your servers are on point with their service.
Surprisingly, the paella comes out in about ten minutes from the time of ordering. Uhm, what, ok. So it looks to have a fair amount of seafood in the rice and veggies and I'm thinking it looks promising. I taste it. It's salty. And not just salty because it's seafood and there's salt in seafood anyway. No, I mean, salty to the point that I'm drinking water to wash out the salt. The actual consistency of the paella was ok (no mushiness so good job there) but I couldn't get past the salt to appreciate the seasoning.
I want to be a fan. I really do. But I'm not.
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