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| - I was in the mood for a good steak, and this seemed like a relatively reasonable option on a Friday night without having to head for the Strip. I was greeted promptly by the hostess, and quickly shown to my table. It was late, so I had my pick and chose a spacious window table (well, window on the casino).
A young woman came along quickly--assumed she was my waitress--to ask about a drink, but then the woman who turned out to be my waitress came along and almost seemed to cut her off. Slightly strange. Even stranger later when they both sat down at the table of these two gentlemen dining across the room. Maybe they knew them, but it was odd. In any case, I ordered a side salad with a tasty balsamic (a creamier one) dressing and occupied myself with a bread basket until the main course came. The pretzel rolls were tasty, though the other roll I had was just so-so, and the butter had a bit of a strange texture (maybe it needed time to come up to temp?).
But the steak was the thing, and I ordered a filet mignon with the addition of crab Oscar (crab, bearnaise and asparagus). The asparagus and other veggies were nicely done, the bearnaise was good (though I wish there had been more of it), and the crab was solid. The steak itself was ok, but was inconsistently cooked (parts of it were medium rare as I specified and parts seemed rather rare) and wasn't as tender as it could have been.
All in all, A-OK. Beyond the opening weirdness, service was fine and was certainly perfectly friendly (other than a little up-sell pressure), atmosphere was fine (though I was not a huge fan of the slight smoke waft from the casino) and the food was good enough. Certainly solid and not wildly expensive for what it is, but given the flawed execution of the steak, you wouldn't find me racing back here. Too many other places to go.
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