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| - Came here for lunch on my last day in Las Vegas...which was today actually...The upstairs is closed on Mondays for dinner, but the cheaper restaurant downstairs is still open.
My boyfriend is a huge fan of seafood so when he heard that the Mandalay Bay was home to the best seafood restaurant in Vegas, we had to try it. I started with 6 pieces of white shrimp cocktail from the raw bar and it was one of the freshest tasting shrimp cocktails I've had. Shrimp cocktails are very important to me, especially in Las Vegas, where the thing was invented (bet you didn't know that, huh?). My boyfriend ordered the lobster rolls which is basically a chunky fresh lobster salad in a simple, buttered, toasted, soft roll. It came with a pickle and some chips and it was very freaking tasty.
Me being a purist, I decided to order Rick's Famous Fish and Chips. Whenever I go to a knew restaurant with a distinguished celebrity chef, and he's got his name on a menu item along with the word "famous" you bet your ass I'm going to order that no matter how plain and simple it sounds. I was torn between that and the mac n cheese, but I felt it would be sacrilegious to come to the best seafood restaurant in town and not order seafood.
The food came, I loved the shrimp cocktail and my boyfriend's lobster rolls, but Rick's "famous" fish and chips were too salty for me to eat. It was more the fish was too salty and not the batter. But it was also too greasy. I knew Rick Moonen hadn't been the one to have made it because just a few moments I had sent it back, he came and sat down at a table next to our's and started chatting with another couple. It was then that I found out his son works for him inside the restaurant and was also the person nice enough to take off the fish and chips off our tab and bring me something else (I ordered the lobster rolls, which costs a bit more than the fish and chips, so I'm sure he had no problem changing our tab).
All in all, the service was nice, but for a place that is supposed to specialize in seafood, I felt that the lunch menu at RM seafood (downstairs) wasn't very inspiring- like there wasn't anything on it that caught my eye or enticed me to try something different (although one of the lunch specials that day was a $45 burger that had a lobster tail stacked on top of it). I would definitely recommend anything from the raw bar and the lobster rolls. They also do sushi here, which is something I want to try next time. Maybe if you are lucky, you'll be able to see and meet Rick himself.
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