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We went here at my daughter's request for her 17th birthday. She is not a HUGE fan of the show, but she likes Gordon Ramsay; she thinks he's funny, so I made reservations not really knowing too much about it.
We initially ordered the prawn flambe appetizer, but our waiter (thankfully) had informed me that there were only 3 prawns, so we changed it to the scallops at my son's request. There were six scallops for $22. I'm not cheap but seriously, to me that's nuts. To us, the scallops were OK.
There were four of us, my daughter ordered the salmon, my husband ordered the rack of lamb, my son ordered the filet mignon and I ordered the braised short rib. The presentation for all of them was nice. The speed at which we received our orders was efficient. Temperature was great. The food servers in grey got confused with two of our orders. Two of them with two plates in hand, first both approached our table, gave us two orders and the other girl wandered around the restaurant with the other two plates and then ended up back where she started. Don't know what happened there, but no big deal - just thought it was weird.
My son loved his filet mignon - medium rare. I tried it and it was perfect. Perfect size too. I would definitely recommend it. My braised short rib was perfect in terms of portion and the flavors were perfect. The texture was just too mushy for me. My husband's rack of lamb was cooked perfectly, and I thought it went perfectly dipped in the sauce from my short rib ;) My daughter's salmon was perfectly crispy and cooked well, nothing exceptional there though. I would definitely say the preparation, quality and flavoring of the food was wonderful. The value was sufficient as well. Except for the damn appetizer lol. Now that I think about it, maybe if the scallops were presented in a different way, it might have been more appealing to me, just thinking out loud here.
The things I thought were a little odd (and I say this as a Hell's Kitchen "outsider") is that there is a kitchen that is supposedly a replica of the kitchen in the show. We got a really good seat right in front of the open kitchen...but, it almost felt like we were waiting for something to happen and nothing happened. It was just a regular functioning kitchen, nothing to see here. So it was kind of weird. Maybe it was just us, but the way it was set up, I almost felt like there was something that was worth watching and there wasn't.
I have to point out our server Miguel was very nice and very helpful with the appetizer recommendations. The girls in red however (the hostesses?), need to be consistently friendly. I watched their interactions with people since we waited quite a long time to be seated, and also I was interested to see if it was just us they were cold towards. They are the types of girls that are only nice to certain people, so good luck with that. I can't tell you WHAT kind lol - just that they were not nice to everyone...not cool!
I almost forgot one more very important oversight (in my opinion) and that is, there is NO SEATING in the lobby...none! Standing room only, not good. We waited about 45 minutes and reading some of these reviews, that wait time seems to be the average.
It was good for my daughter to experience for her birthday and I'm very glad we went - she even got to see Gordon Ramsay himself that day, I thought that was a nice surprise for her :) And of course we had to buy her a $30 tshirt (insert eye roll here lol).
I don't plan on coming back as here in Vegas we are so lucky and spoiled to have so many amazing dining options and this was just ok to me. But I think for a group visiting from out of town, or a celebration of some sort for people that are huge fans of the show, it's probably much cooler of an experience.
One last thing that I felt important to mention. I made this reservation via Open Table and in the special requests section I had asked if they could bring out the sticky toffee pudding at the end of the meal for my daughter's birthday and they did :) Without discussing it in person with anyone, so that was really nice. And even though I'm a strictly chocolate dessert lover (for the most part) that dessert lived up to the hype!
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