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| - I found myself hungry tonight at Mandalay Bay after seeing a band play at House of Blues (Cursive, they were great, thanks for asking). I had a $50 gift certificate in my car for Aureole (from restaurant.com, it cost me $2), so my girlfriend and I went there for dinner.
The reviews on Yelp weren't _too_ great, so I wasn't super excited, but I came way from dinner very pleased. The restaurant setting is great, even though the wine angels weren't working. Service was really good... our waters were never empty, the bread guy came around twice to give us more pretzel bread, etc.
I had the swordfish and my girlfriend had the sea bass. We enjoyed her dish a little more, but both were unique offerings and were pretty good. We're not big eaters, so the two main courses were plenty to get us stuffed, but they had a big dessert menu we really, really wanted to order from.
Bonus points to the sommelier for taking care of us. We inquired why there wasn't a wine flight like on the restaurant.com menu, and he told me they don't do that anymore since nobody ordered it. But he offered to put one together for us. When I told him that was OK, he ended up letting us sample a white wine he recommended, and he didn't charge us for it.
Needless to say I left a generous tip. Our entire bill after the GC and tax, but before gratuity, was $17.02. Not bad for a restaurant of this caliber.
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