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| - Nevermind the dramatic "switch"es in scenery. Forget about the awesome pool view. The speedy and attentive service can also take a back seat to the star of the show - Switch Steakhouse's scrump-dilly-umptious FOOD!
Admittedly, I chose Switch Steakhouse at Las Vegas' Encore Resort because of the restaurant's visual "wow factor". Julius & I were in Vegas after all, and I wanted to be entertained! So even with all its gawdy displays of excess (ain't nothin' wrong wit dat, we LOVED it!) the food wow'd us even more, if that's possible! We started off with the octopus appetitizer -exquisite, super tender, and just heavenly (we even recommended it to diners at the next table, who thanked us profusely for doing so.) For our entrees, Julius ordered a juicy NY steak, cooked to a perfect medium rare per his request. I ordered the Alaskan Halibut - flaky, meaty, and unspoiled in its simplicity. If either of our dishes would have been overcooked in the least, our meals would've been ruined. So props to the chefs - we watched enough Hell's Kitchen on TV to know how easy it is to overcook steak and fish lol. For our side dish, we selected the sweet cippolini onions with spicy jalapeno - such a great compliment to both our meals.
I'm now going to dedicate a paragraph to the most ingenious dessert...the ice cream cones! We had a choice of 4 flavors, so we picked the tart lemon-uzu sorbet (Julius' favorite), the flaky coconut, the rich chocolate, and my ultimate fave, the buttery popcorn (!) And they were served to us on this cute ice cream stand, with a Happy Anniversary message (we were celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary a couple of weeks early.) Julius also ordered a yummy coffee liquor dessert too, because he's on this funny coffee trip right now lol.
Switch definitely got us switching up our expectations. We thought it was going to be all ambience, and the food would be just OK. Au contraire, it was the other way around. With the theatrical lighting, music, and walls + ceilings rotating in and out, the food still managed to be front and center. As it should be!
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