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| - Itching for some more Vegas sweet sins, a family friend & I ecstatically walked, shuttled, & scrambled from the Marriott to the 2nd floor of the Forum Shops. Chances are that once in the Shops, it's 99 in 100 for Mr. Brenner to be easily found; otherwise, he'd be sort of opposite of 3-story tall H&M. Quite surprisingly, we had no wait to get seated & be treated with splendor from our inviting & ebulliently informative waiter, George.
That said, out of the dessert menu plus the savory option & wine list, we agreed to share 3 different entities: a shake, a savory (for our "balanced" meal :P) & of course one chewable, sweet temptation. Like many of my foodie friends she didn't mind taking turns with, firstly, the Hazelnut Shake ($7.95). For that price, yea that milkshake better be damn delicious, and I was more than damned with that perfectly sweet & thoroughly nutty taste, with the venti-sized consistency that was in the middle of In-N-Out thick & borderline watery.
Food sort of aside, I do want to get into nitty gritty details with service. Not only George naturally delivered those aforementioned traits, but his warm confidence w/ our decisions brewed our trust in him. His recommended Black Sesame [Crusted] Salmon ($18.50) was rightfully delicious with its moist cut-like-butter texture, added with generous amounts of that flask-used soy sauce & eensy weensy bit of the superbly tasty wasabi aioli that it will NOT AT ALL elicit that nasal side effect. More impressively w/ overall service was that after George candidly asked us if our entrée should split w/ a separate plate, we didn't expect that BOTH of our 1/2 portioned, perfectly cooked 'lil salmons were already beautifully & thoughtfully presented, unlike bringing one whole entrée to cut it ourselves. My filet was frankly diminutive, compared to the amount of veggies, but I was fine w/ it, so that we could save much more tummy room for, of course, what we came for the most.
Additionally we trusted George with his 2nd opinion of our desired chocolate treat. Oh, emm, gee we also made the correct choice with that O.M.G. Chocolate Chunk Cookie ($9.95)--so awesomely presented in a platter that looks like graphing paper. This saucer-sized cookie alone had the textures that I've totally dreamed of in a perfect chocolate chip cookie: crumbly & chewy on the outside, moist & absolutely chocolaty on the in, WITHOUT going insanely absurd with sugar, and with effortless hints of walnut chunks & noticeable brown sugar flavor. THEN the O factor came through when I added that luscious & choco-gasmic sauce in a flask; the M was for encompassing the ripened berries (including my favorite, Yelp buds ;D); and when I dashed that assumingly house-made whipped cream, the G factor strongly excelled & stimulated my choco-chip cookie crave.
Understandably the money marks might be quite high for such foods, but Max Brenner deserved a 4-star savory WITH the aioli, 4-star shake, & an absolute 5 for service & for that dream-come-true heavenly--or should I say hellish--Cookie that frugal me retorted to my friend, "Uhh eff it, I worked this much to [use check card instead of credit card] for this dinner." So Mr. Bald Chocolateur, thanks for gluttonously ending our Vegas weekend "right," & thanks for having me clear off one of my many Yelp Vegas bookmarks.
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