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| - The Range Steakhouse was absolutely outstanding. The atmosphere is nice -- there was a piano bar and the music filters through the dimply lit restaurant. The views of the Strip are awesome. We ordered cocktails and they were perfectly poured, mixed, and of generous proportion (this, from 2 former bartenders and picky drinkers). AND, so reasonably priced -- way better than anywhere else we went in Vegas. My husband's top shelf Manhattan, up, was only $9, and came in a HUGE glass - easily 2.5 Manhattans in one. The bread before dinner was a nice change up from the traditional boring bread basket - there were pretzel rolls, bacon cheese herb baguettes, and some sort of raisin spice roll, along with fresh butter. Our server, James, was professional, friendly, and totally unobtrusive. We never waited for a thing, he just appeared to take care of everything right before we thought we needed it.
My other half and I are big time carnivores, and we couldn't have been more satisfied with dinner. We got the bone in New York Strip and the Bone in Rib-eye and shared. The steaks were tender and juicy and my rib-eye was cooked perfectly medium rare. My husband's strip (also ordered med rare was overcooked to medium, but still delicious. That was probably the only disappointing thing, but we didn't want to complain, it still tasted tender and perfect, so the meal went on. We also shared a house salad with ranch, the Alsatian potatoes (with caramelized onions and bacon), and grilled asparagus, which came with fresh hollandaise. THEN, we ordered the pineapple-upside-down-bread pudding for dessert. I could wax poetic on dessert alone for an hour. It rocked and I've been trying to duplicate the recipe since we came home a month ago.
We ate like pigs -- it was our only meal of the day and we more than made up for "lost" calories. All of the portions are huge, definitely big enough to share one side item and a steak, but we splurged. Additionally, we got 50% off the entrees from tix4less (the special excluded the whole lobster dinner and the crab leg dinner, but we were in it for steak, so we didn't care), so it was more a caloric splurge than a monetary one.
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