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| - We were SO NOT impressed with this restaurant, NOT at all! It wasn't bad, but for an upscale restaurant at Aria, it was just NOT good enough!
Beautiful restaurant for sure, it was nearly empty on a Saturday night, not a good sign. Got seated at a comfy and intimate booth, very romantic indeed. Brought our own Perrier Nuit Blanche, corkage was $35 too. Took a moment to look through the menu, our server introduced the chef's tasting menu, but I don't eat meat so we can't order that. They have vegetarian and vegan tasting menus too.
Starters:
Garlic soup with prawn, the best dish of the entire meal, very nice garlic flavor, not too light or too strong, tender and fresh prawn, so good!
Dozen of Vancouver island Kushi oysters: fairly fresh, the housemade sauce was a little bland, had to ask for tabasco, tasted better with hot sauce though.
Romaine greens with parmesan cheese, my salad never came, so I asked to pack it to go, but didn't eat it when we got back, so it was a waste because they forgot about my salad.
Entrees:
American kobe skirt steak in rare plus: it was not rare enough for hubby, he liked the flavors alright, was not mind blowing at all.
Pacific red snapper with veggie stock: server said this was a popular dish, OK... The fish was completely flavorless, the veggies in it were a little too raw for my taste, it tasted like grass to me, or was it the veggie broth? But the fish was very fresh and tender, just extremely bland! This dish FAILED!
We weren't interested in our entrees, didn't want desserts either, just asked them to pack everything, including our unfinished Champagne, I have to say that I had high expectations for this restaurant because of the high ratings on yelp, and the major advertisement of fine dining at Aria hotel. It was a HUGE disappointment!
The service didn't meet my expectation either, our server wasn't attentive or friendly enough, there were a few staffs served us, they all looked dull to me for some reason, or probably we finished our meal too fast that they didn't have time to check on us.
I don't think we will ever be back for Sage, this restaurant didn't work for us, just one of those high yelp rating restaurants fell short I guess, it happens sometime.
THE worst dining experience in Vegas!
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