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| - As steak houses go, Jean George does a decent job. More than that? No. It lacks that specific experience, that special flavor, the kick the other steak houses in the teeth inventive memory.
Appetizers:
Shrimp Wrapped in Bacon was good. Nothing to really write about good.
The Raw Oysters were fantastic, but for the repetitive broken shell fragments. Has 6 and 5 had this problem. The schucker needs to take property time and this would not have been a problem.
Main Courses.
12 once NY Strip perfectly cooked. Nice Steak. Nothing to state that it was the most amazing, because it wasn't. It was good. Good at 54 dollars? No.
Veal Maleness - good although to me the Veal wasn't the best cut.
Sides were:
Mushrooms, excellent but for the hot peppers which overwhelmed the taste of the mushroom.
Creamed Spinach - Bland
Mashed Potatoes - Very good
Deserts were good.
Service excellent
Again and again, the Aria fails in the culinary area. Beautiful property, but the restaurants. The Aria needs to examine top side down where the property is obviously failing. I would first shake up the top three in charge of the culinary leadership. Then, hire the right leaders as the restaurants just fail at the Aria all too often.
Yes this is a strong 3 star, but really a 3 star is a failure.
The Aria has incredible competition, and next time I won't be myopic and only choose a restaurant at the place we are staying. Next time..better restaurants.
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