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| - Just came back from a short weekend jaunt to Vegas for a convention that my wife attended at the Orleans Hotel.
Had a decent meal at Big Al's but was far more impressed with our waitress than we were with the food.
Took awhile to be seated, even though there were plenty of seats available, which is probably due to the lack of wait staff.
Drinks service came quite quickly and the iced tea tasted fresh brewed, but it would have been nice to have sweet tea at a southern themed joint.
We ordered the Seafood Cobb Salad which was very good and quite surprising. I expected a normal bunch of lettuce with the usual Cobb salad dressings, egg, bacon, bleu cheese etc, then with some seafood on top. But this was a big lump of very fresh seafood, crab, shrimp mix I believe and light on the salad portion. Very good and a pleasant surprise.
My wife ordered the soft shelled crab, which was a major disappointment. Not only did it taste bad, it was really poorly fried and it felt like it had been fried much earlier in the day and then just reheated, so it was fried yuck.
Well like I said our waitress was great, and gave my wife a replacement for free, so she chose steamed clams. The clams were good, but tiny clams, steamed in butter, with onion and I am sure vodka or another liquor. They could have dropped the vodka, because it took away from the flavor of the clam. Seasonings to me should enhance taste and not overpower the taste of the main ingredient. Not to say it wasn't good, just too much alcohol taste, at least for me (and I like alcohol as an ingredient) To make them much better, added a drop of the Melinda's Habanero Pepper Sauce, and then mmmm, a hit was born.
Again, service was A+ and one item quite good and the other two...so, so. A reasonable price and pleasant enough environment, would lead me to try Big Al's again, if I were back at the Orlean's.
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