We decided to eat at a Batali restaurant in Vegas after trying both Mozzas in LA and Otto in NY. Though we thought the food was good, it doesn't hold a candle to the Mozza duo.
We tried 2 items off the fritti menu - I got the gnoccho (fried pizza dough?) and J got the calzone. Both were tasty, but nothing mind-blowing.
I ordered the caprese salad as an entree - which was great... but again, Mozza's is more memorable. J got the pizza with anchovies and capers. He liked it a lot but Pizzeria Mozza's was better.
The service was fine, nothing special... the waitress seemed a little annoyed that we didn't want dessert (we were full)... I remember reading a NY Times article about how these better restaurants are all struggling and waitstaff are getting substantially lower tips, so maybe she was annoyed that our dinner bill was lower by having 2 courses + wine and not 3, but I didn't quite get the attitude.
We opted to sit indoors because eating "outside" in an indoor plaza with a really strong perfume-y scent just seemed off-putting. We could hear the music piped into the restaurant - I wondered if it was from Batali's iPod (like at Babbo) and if so, it matches my Pandora selections quite well.
Ambiance - A-OK. Food - good but not as memorable as other Batali places. But at least we could get a reservation here :)