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| - My wife and I frequent the Downtown Summerlin mall all the time with out dogs but this time we went out on a date night. We wanted to try something different and settled on Crave. The restaurant was a little busy but there was no wait for at table outside, which was nice because the weather was beautiful. We looked at the menu, which seemed to be a bit all over the place but we eventually settled on a few different items. My wife had a ginger martini, which was really good and I had a boring iced tea, which I actually thought was pretty good for just plain iced tea.
My wife ordered a Calimari appetizer and a seared tuna salad of some sort. I started off with a spicy tuna roll and then a Traditional Poke Bowl.
While our server was very friendly, she was also absent a lot and things took a very long time to come out. We were thirsty so we downed our drinks fast and had to ask for refills constantly. One time someone brought me an iced tea with no ice in it. The server caught it and got me a replacement. Again, she was VERY nice, but considering how many staff members were running around, I was a bit surprised how un-attentive everyone was. After a while, our calamari and tuna roll came out. The Calamari was breaded nicely and was tasty. The roll though, was so small I almost needed a microscope just to find it on the plate. While it did taste good and the tuna had some good heat to it, I was a bit shocked at how minuscule the portion was. It was as if someone cut a tootsie roll into six pieces.
After another 15 minutes, our other dishes came out...the salad and the poke bowl. It seemed as though my wife's order was pretty good all around but mine, not so much. Her salad looked OK and she seemed generally "meh" about it but my poke bowl, coming in at a 15 dollar price tag, was laughable. There was maybe 2 tablespoons of sushi plopped on top of some salad greens. The tuna was cut so small I almost had to eat this with a spoon. I've never seen a poke bowl served this poorly. I eat at poke bowl places all the time where, for 1/2 the price, you get 3X the portion.
We ate, and then waited around another 10 minutes after for our check, which we had to ask for. While dessert would have probably been an option, we didn't want to wait until the end of the season for it to arrive so we figured we'd have that elsewhere in the mall. All in all, an $85 dinner and when we left, we were still hungry. I'm embarrassed to admit this but for the price, we could have gone to Olive Garden and had a much nicer dinner for less money, and that is pretty sad. Our consensus is that we would never return to this restaurant.
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