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| - If you're looking for the ULTIME Vegas dining experience, Michael's is the place to be.
First of all, the restaurant is named after Michael Gaughan, the owner of the Coast Casinos (South Point, Sun Coast, etc.) It is meant to model old school Las Vegas culture and dining, and the place is decorated with precisely this in mind. All of the tables have giant chairs, the booths are enormous, it is very dimly lit, and everything is red velvet.
When we arrived, we were seated by our "captain" (the title of the head server as we had many throughout the night) and immediately served complementary bottled water, crackers, and a crudite of assorted pickled vegetables including cauliflower, beets, pickles, olives, onions, cucumbers, and quail eggs with a soft herbed cheese.
Once that was served, we were brought our menus. In old school style, all of the females in our party were served menus without prices, and males were served menus with the prices. Though this is slightly chauvinistic in my opinion, I understand this old school approach to the dining experience.
To start, got the famous Caesar Salad prepared table-side which was very rich and creamy. They rub the wooden bowl they toss the salad in with garlic to ensure the flavor penetrates. After, to cleans our palates we were served lemon sorbet with Dom Perignon, which was by far my favorite part of the meal. The fizzy bubbliness with the tart, cold texture of the sorbet was the perfect rev-up for our main course.
For our sides, we ordered sauteed fresh mushrooms à la crème, creamed spinach, and broccoli with a side of hollandaise. Though extremely heavy, all sauces matched the vegetables to perfection.
As entrees, two us ordered filet mignons which was served with a tomato stuffed with cheese and breadcrumbs, and a mushroom. The steak was rich and seared wonderfully, with a perfectly pink center. The other two ordered the sea bass with melted leeks and dill. The fish was just flakey enough with a succulent, buttery texture. Both dishes, in my eyes were award winning. Between the four of us, each of us brought home more than half of our meal, it was that rich.
For dessert, though none of us were anything remotely close to hungry, we naturally made space for the desert pocket. When they brought out the pastry cart we were entirely overwhelmed by the options, but decided on the famous banana's foster and strawberry creme cake (from Fried's deli) to share. Both were magnificent and entirely too sinful, but I must that that banana's foster stole the show. The banana's were cooked in a melty buttery/brown sugar concoction and caramelized in the perfect blend of spices, (cinnamon, nutmeg, etc.) then flambéed with a mix of various flavored rums, all served over vanilla ice cream. Additionally, as if we did not have enough, we were brought a giant basket of fruit (apples, oranges, pears, grapes, cherries, etc.) and an assortment of mik, white, and dark chocolate covered fresh and candied fruit.
We ended up sitting at the restaurant for more than three hours in our food-drunken splendor after eating by no exaggeration, the most decadent meal of our lives.
Though this place is extremely pricey, if you are looking for a night to splurge, this place is absolutely the place to do it big. At Michael's it is all about the experience, and though you will have to cough up the dough for it, it is quite worth it.
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