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| - The choices in Vegas made it quite daunting but we decided to eat my birthday dinner at Botero before seeing Cirque du Soleil Love. Our waitress was great, helpful and present but not overbearing.
First out of the kitchen was a trio of breads: cranberry, olive, and plain. Mmm the cranberry was delish with a little of their herb/olive oil butter. The olive was also tasty even though I'm not an olive fan.
My date had the rack of lamb which we both thought wasn't all the fantastic. The meat had a mushy texture quite unlike anything I had every tasted. His sides were verts (standard) and white beans (he liked these). I decided on a pepper cooked filet that came with 3 dipping sauces: a jalapeno sauce, peppercorn sauce, and tomato-y sauce. The first two were great and I alternated between them, the third not so much for my taste. I also ordered a side of loaded potato gratin. best decision! I love me some scalloped potatoes (as anyone who's been to a superbowl party at our house knows) and these were just like the waitress said, each bite had a flavor of everything you put on a loaded potato, sour cream, chives, butter, and even some extras like cheese and onions. mmm mmm good.
Then came dessert, we had told them that it was my birthday but I wasn't even thinking about them giving me a birthday dessert when I saw ice cream cupcakes on the menu and was intrigued. They did bring out a plate with Happy Birthday written in chocolate and a very small piece of one of their desserts but I was glad I ordered my own because they were a skimpy with the free dessert! My date got the brownie with iced mint milk (simply mint ice cream). He was very satisfied, I did not even try it because I had enough on my plate with the cupcakes. The menu said "childhood favorites" for the flavors so I was expecting vanilla, chocolate, strawberry but in fact I received 5, or was it 6 different cupcakes each cake a different flavor with small wedges of flavored ice cream, a dollop of some sort of whipped topping. They were quite filling and I would recommend sharing them and wish the waitress had suggested it. The flavors seemed to be banana, strawberry, lemon, orange, spearmint/chocolate. I was excited for the one that looked like mint/chocolate flavor but was quite disappointed when it tasted like doublemint gum. It just wasn't what I wanted and was overpowering. I appreciate the pastry chef was trying to be different but it didn't work for me like a classic mint would have.
Minus a star for the poor rack of lamb texture and the flavor of the spearmint cupcake. I would not go back here with so many other places to try and choose from in Vegas but overall a nice meal and I left quite stuffed and happy
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