This is my honest thoughts of the place
Pros: food is amazing!! Steak was cooked perfectly! Mac and cheese was good. All our sides were awesome.
- I know this sounds weird but I loved the way the water waiter poured the water - very classy. Our waiter was a nice guy and really worked hard for us
- they DID charge my iphone - which was HUGE. Being in Vegas on an empty phone sucks
Negatives
1. This place would do so much better in another hotel. Rivera is ghetto!! For 30-40/steak, I'm paying for food and ambiance - ambiance is not upscale
2. No drink menu...waiter said this is an open bar but I when I come to a nice steak place, I want to see if the bar tender can make me something new. Margarita was just mix and ice and topped off with rum. Not good at all. This place doesn't have the classy big cubes of ice
3. I made a reservation using yelp/open table two hrs before. When I got there (on time) my table was not ready...it took 12 minutes to get ready and this place was empty!! Then my table was right in front ....like right when you enter the restaurant - my table was there. I asked to be in the back where we can have an intimate group dinner but she said those tables were taken (no one sat there when we got there and no one was there when we left)
4. If a small group orders food, it's not too hard to remember who ordered what.
Overall - would pay more if this place was in a different hotel - great food - just a few things that need tweeking