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| - Another one of my go-to places when I'm in Vegas.
It's not the best Italian food in the world, nor did I expect that from a small, tourist-friendly walk-in establishment on Fremont Street. But it puts out respectable food at decent prices with better-than-average service.
My wife and I found this place based on a recommendation from a Tix-4-Tonight worker at the 4Q. For $2, we bought a voucher that gave us half off a second entree. Why not, right? We tried Luna Rossa, liked it, and have gone back a half-dozen times in the past year or so.
After a few hours on Fremont, I'm never really in the kind of shape to give a review worthy of submission to Food & Wine magazine. What I can report is that having grown up on Italian food in northern N.J., I can safely recommend the risotto, carbonara, bolognese, and rigatoni al funghi.
One weird thing I ran into:
I bought a large beer at the ABC store on Fremont. I then walked down to Luna Rossa to have dinner. They told me I had to finish it before I could come in. Fine, whatever. Then, I noticed that other people were bringing in their drinks (the football beers, the oversized fruity drinks, etc. sold on Fremont). I asked the waitress why my low-rent beer was being discriminated against. She told me that they allowed drinks purchased on Fremont into the restaurant (the touristy-type drinks) but not cans and bottles. Personally, I prefer policies that make sense.
Again - don't forget to buy the voucher and save some $$.
My wife and I are headed back to Fremont in a couple of weeks. I'll see you at Luna Rossa!
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