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| - We live in Las Vegas, and eat out a lot; a restaurant has to be really great for us to review it. But Argana knocked our socks off.
The restaurant has a beautiful interior: gold and red striped seats that look like pillow cushions, to make you think you're dining in a nomad's tent, and the light fixtures look like colorful glass lanterns (very pretty at night, when it's dark outside). And on Friday and Saturday nights they have a belly dancer, who encourages patrons to get up and dance with her.
My husband and I shared the following:
- a trio of mideastern salads (hummus, baba ghanoush and olive tapenade), with a generous basket of freshly made, pillowy soft pita, which the busboy kept refilling;
- an appetizer sized b'stilla (which they call "pastilla"), which is ground chicken in a filo pastry shell, served with an orange-and-greens salad;
- two beef skewers (they use FILET!), with a rice timbale, a couscous-stuffed tomato and a shredded white vegetable salad that was so good, it was our favorite thing there. (I swore it was shredded apple, but our waiter said it was white cabbage); and,
- boneless beef shortribs in a date and red wine reduction sauce, with tiny apricots and toasted almonds.
Let me stress, all the food we tried was SO GOOD. And all that, plus a glass of red wine for me, with tip, came to $70.00.
Everyone was so friendly. The waitstaff were incredibly attentive, the chef came by TWICE to talk to us, and the owner asked us how we liked our meal as we left.
We ordered a lot for two people, because we wanted to take food home with us. Ha! Our plates looked like locusts had swarmed through when we were finished. I guess we'll just have to go back soon ....
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