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| - My buddy and I ate at B&B yesterday Saturday night, getting there around 9:45 on our last night in Vegas hoping to have extraordinary Italian food. We each got one of the tasting menus and were overall disappointed. I had a glass of the Morellino di Scansano I Perazzi La Mozza 2007 Toscana and enjoyed this glass and a half pour with a mini decanter very much. Very smooth, no acid, no tannins, not great fruit, but just enough.
For starters both tasting menus start off with 3 courses of raviolis. Its just raviolis after raviolis. For example, for the Pasta tasting menu, you get a ricotta ravioli in butter sauce, lambs brain ravioli in butter sauce with sage, a green pasta with a light meat sauce, and then another ravioli filled with short ribs. I mean enough with the raviolis. The next course Gnocchi was a real disappointment. The gnocchi was really super firm, bordering on hard, obviously not hand made, and definitely not light. and again with a braised oxtail which tasted like beef brisket. The highlight of this meal was the 2 dessert courses. The Zabaglione with grapefruit was absolutely light, sublime, transcending, magical. It reminded my friend of some delicious Japanese dessert crapes he had in Seattle with strawberries, whipped cream and Zabaglione in a crape cone. The final dessert was an Italian Flan with crunchy cocoa nibs which was very good. Overall a C+. Portions very small. 5-8 ravioli per plate. All the ravioli were hand made.
The Lombardia Veal Tasting Menu was not much better. The first course was a thin deli like slice of cooked veal over a mayonnaise sauce with some capers. Next was a very creamy Tallegio cheese ravioli which tasted liked warm brie inside ravioli, melt in your mouth good. The next bone marrow ravioli was not memorable at all. My friend liked the next course best, a pounded thin slice of veal, breaded with like panko and deep fried very crispy and topped with arugula and a lemon wedge. I liked it, but nothing to write home about. I've had very good country fried steak which were better and more tender. Next was a very slender piece of medium gorgonzola cheese with some candied fruit, a very small and delicate cheese plate. The desserts for this tasting menu were awful. Toasted panttone with apricot jam was a joke. Cinnamon, honeyed butter toast would have been better. And the fried Italian donuts were dense like dense cake, not light like a good beignet, not worth the calories or effort to eat the whole thing.
They also raised the price from 100 to $120 on Thursday March 10, 2011 and raised the wine paring from 70 to 75. They comped my wine because of the confusion, but that was still not enough to erase a disappointing Italian meal. All my buddy and I could do was to recall better meals we had in our lives.
I can't speak for the rest of the menu. if this was their best foot forward, then I would spend my money elsewhere.
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