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| - If Delmonico's was the highlight of my trip, this was the lowlight.
I have some repressed memories stored up when I stepped in here, but I never quite remembered why. I did remembered staying at Arizona's Charlie a few times when I was much younger.
Long ago when there was a convention called COMDEX, a computer geek convention that is much bigger than CES or Comic Con would be here in Vegas. The rooms would jumped up to ridicious high prices and yet we couldn't get any rooms on the strip or near the convention center. Arizona Charlie would be the one that bailed us out with cheap and yet reasonable prices.
I did remembered coming to Sourdough Cafe a few times, but I still can't remembered why I am having eerie feeling about this place.
When my buddy and I was wounding down our trip and getting ready to go home, I suggested this place only because I remembered there was a breakfast special that is less than $3. It's a good price and awesome way to end the trip.
Here's why my memories started to flood when the menu was presented...
In order to get the discount for the $2.99 special of Steaks and Eggs and that $2.79 special for the ham and eggs......... you will need to present a PLAYER'S CLUB CARD. That was a fine print you have to read in the menu to find that out.
In essence, they wanted you to fill out some form like CVS Pharmacy or Ralph's and enroll in some honky dink program that their casino is having. Frankly, I could not understand on why they don't just offered it if it's PRINTED on the menu. Yes, there is an asterisk and a fine print in the menu, but it's just tacky and a little inconvenient just so you can go to some info booth and enroll into that Player's club, so in turn to get a discount at the breakfast joint.
Then I started to remember again... it was that my pals from many years ago would be searching the lobby, casino, and the hotel's hallways just so they can find a place to enroll in that program. When we couldn't find it, we had to stand again in the long line (Yes, this is a popular joint for the locals who love these specials, apparently I found out they enroll in another program to get the shorter line that is next to the line for the regular folks).
So the long ordeal to find the place to enroll in that Player's club was not worth it in the first place, then to stand back in the long line for it was a big slap in the face. It hit me right in the gut when I remembered about that from a decade ago.
We're not talking about the menu printing up regular price and you would have to present a coupon to get the meal lower. No, we are talking about a blatant hook just to entice you to come here and then wham!...you can't get that special without a string attached. I know they make that fine print, but it's border lined on false advertising (not quite, but to me it was almost). By having different advertising around the web pages and having other web sites to promote that special grates me at times only because it's not that special.
Let's be frank, it's only about $4 more if you didn't join the Player's Club. Not a big whoop, but left a sour taste in my mouth when we left. I did wound up ordering the ham and eggs that was not bad, but not worth the full price. Even it was a discounted, I'm still hesitant to decide if I would come back for here regularly on my Vegas trips.
The service was OK and the waiter did his best to sympathize with us. I think he get that a lot from people who wondered why the price had a string attached. The meal was ordinary to say the least and I just can't see why this place was be popular for a 24 hour joint that never closes. The locals probably kept the place alive.
Just be aware that there will be a wait in the morning before 11am, a long wait in fact. Then realized in that the Steak and Eggs or the Ham and Eggs are not worth the hassle for the special.
Order something else to avoid the frustration.
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Quality: *
Decor: ***
Service:**
Amenity: *
Ambiance: **
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