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| - Huge disappointment. Service was slow, which was understandable since it was busy when we got there, but soon we realized half the tables were empty and our server was MIA. We ordered off of the summer prix fixe menu which sounded great. I went straight down the middle, starting with a classic French onion soup. The cheese and bread were the stars here. The soup itself was on the sweet side, under seasoned, and unmemorable. Next up was steak au poivre, and this was the biggest let down. The meat itself was sub par and untrimmed. In the accompanying picture, you can literally see the silver skin and gristle left on the steak. It was tough, over cooked, AND came out lukewarm. What a joke. The mille-feuille was ok, but was made by brutes with heavy hands. This delicate dish translates to thousand leaves was 4 layers of thick puff pasty too hard to cut without a knife layered with thick layers of filling. Flavor was ok, but execution was terrible.
The winners at Bardot? The French fries and complimentary bread and butter. Everything else was embarrassingly unfortunate, especially considering Michael Mina's name on the door. If it were a more pedestrian establishment, I would have given it 3 stars, but for the $$$$, it doesn't deserve to be in the same category as other fine dining restaurants in Las Vegas.
My advice, put your $200 on the roulette table. The odd are better than Brasserie Bardot.
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