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I went to Arizona Charlie's for a friend's birthday dinner. I was a little bit surprised for the choice of venue. A buffet for dinner, I thought, but why Arizona Charlie's? Parking was ample right next and across the establishment, and I walked into the casino floor. The place looks like a local hang out considering it's distance from the touristy strip. Sure enough they have a buffet restaurant but I was led to Ron's Steakhouse, and boy, was I in for pleasant surprise!
The place was very cozy and void of the cigarette smokes. You would not think that the restaurant was inside Arizona Charlie's. It was 5 pm and there were few tables already filled in and we were immediately sat on our table. Our waiter, Nestor, greeted us with his genuine smile and asked for our drinks. He came back with our drinks and baskets full of 3 different warm breads and 3 different compound butters. Am impressed, and found no flaws or complaints so far :).
We ended up ordering their 24oz rib eye steaks, shrimp cocktails, fried calamari, shrimp scampi over pasta and salmon steaks. We finished up our dinners with orders of their Crème brûlées flambeed right in front of us. Aside from their shrimp scampis being served on angel hair instead of linguine and one of the diners sorta found the alcohol on her brulee a bit strong, we were all satisfied and me, couldn't believe I had such a wonderful dinner in a place I least expected. Food, service and ambience were topnotch. You damn sure can not judge a book by its cover. Ron's is a gem in a ghetto.
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