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| - An interesting restaurant, to be sure. I'm thinking it was connected to the lobby bar, and apparently has an oyster bar on it as well, but we stuck to the traditional steak house portion, I guess.
We had a reservation, and were actually late for it, but they accomdated us, and even seated us on the beautiful patio seating outside, in amazing weather. The tables were all made of wood, and the chairs were comfortable enough, though the cushions moved a little here and there. Our server was polite, and prompt, and was forthcoming with advice on foods to sample here and there, but being seasoned restaurant eaters, we had our own ideas, naturally.
Ended up with the crab cakes and beef carpaccio for appetizers. The crab cakes were amazing x.x. I could've eaten twelve of them! There were two kinds on the plate, ones that were fried with a breading on the outside, with a mayonnaisey sauce to dip, and another with more of a tartar-like taste, and both were great. The carpaccio was good, too, but somewhat ordinary. Maybe I'm just jaded.
I think it might've taken a little longer than normal for those to arrive, but we were having a lot of fun chatting so it's possible we just didn't notice. I think we had the red house wine, which was fine, but I'd just had a very good cabernet, and so in comparison, this one wasn't quite as good, but still nice.
Of all the restaurants at M (I think I've tried them all now, except the Buffet), this one is probably the most pricey. They have nice fine cuts of steak, and the ones raised on the Marnell Ranch were about 1.5 times as much as the regular steaks. No one ordered those, though, so we can't tell you how much better they were.
We ordered the Filet Mignon, a juicy Rib Eye, the Day Boat Scallops, and the special of the day, lamb chops. The filet was good, but nothing exceptionally original. The sauce was great, and I couldn't quite place the flavor, but it was somewhat creamy and had a bit of a mustard taste to it.
The ribeye was thick and juicy, and didn't have any exceptional flavors to it, but was certainly a very good steak. It was bone-in, as all good ribeyes are, and cooked to perfection, medium-rare. Good flavor, and again the artistry in this dish was the accompanying sauce, this one more brown, and seemed to be a bit of some vinegar and almost gravy-like consistency, with a soft woody taste.
The scallops were kind of ordinary-tasting. They weren't bad, and the consistency was nice on them, they just weren't something I'd jump up and down over. I much preferred the scallops at Sensi (see my other review).
The lamb was over cooked, but that's the fault of the person ordering it, who wanted it medium-well. Everyone knows you should have lamb medium-rare! But it wasn't too hard, though it seemed as though there weren't any jump-out flavors. Good, but I wouldn't get it again. We did not have dessert this time.
Great view, calm atmosphere, good service, and fun company all combined to make this a great meal for us! A good place for us in Henderson to take out-of-towners to a nice non-strip venue, I'd say. And you can't beat an 8 minute drive from the house!
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