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| - For the food and the restaurant decor/views, I would give FOUR stars. The service falls somewhere in between 2 and 3 stars.
I took my mom here for Christmas dinner, and we were both impressed by the view and the decor as you walk in the restaurant. MIX sits on the 65th floor of the THEHotel next to Mandalay Bay, and the restaurant has dazzling 360-degree views of the Las Vegas Strip. In the middle of the main dining area is an artistic installation of a curtain of glass bubbles overflowing from the ceiling. It is quite impressive to watch.
As for the food, we had fois gras and pumpkin gnocchi for appetizers. Both were tasty and just the right portion size. The fois gras is not as sweet as the ones I've tasted (where they caramelize it with fruit), and it is well seared. The gnocchi was creamy and had good flavor when paired with thin strips of bacon and cheese. My mom and I both ordered lobster dishes and they were both also very good.
My biggest gripes about this place were related to the service. First, for the amount of money that I am spending for dinner, I expect my glass of water to be filled without me having to ask first. Same with the sodas. Instead, I had to ask the waiter at the end of the meal (when I was coughing out loud) for water. Secondly, my mom had asked for one of the items in their fixed price menu (which cost $28) as an a la carte. The server asked the chef, and he got back to us to say that this was okay. However, when I was finally ready to pay for the bill, they had marked this one item up as 100% MORE than the original price. I'm not worried about the price, but in principle, what they did was sneaky, and I did not like it one bit. Lastly, when we were leaving to walk towards the Mandalay Bay entrance (which is where we came in), they had to shoo us back towards the THEHotel entrance because of a private function (although the lounge itself was totally empty).
So all in all, while the food tasted great, there are other fancy restaurants out there with better service that I could go to in the future.
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