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| - Came to Stack for dinner with a bunch of friends. Stack is an upscale New American/Steakhouse restaurant located inside the MGM. The two things I've noticed right off the back is that Stack is very stylish and also very dark. Everyone at our table was complaining about how dark the place Stack is.
We didn't have reservations but was still able to walk in on a Saturday Night at 8PM. As mentioned before Stack is New American Cuisine with several steak options too. Soe we are talking about Kobe Beef Burgers, Lobster Tacos, Steak Fries with Truffles, and Tater tots with Brie and bacon and the prices here reflect the high end items too. Prices start at around $15 for most of their menu options and if you're looking for a steak here they start at $40. Also, everything here is served ala carte, so you're going to have to pay extra for sides.
Looking over the menu decided to get Grilled Meatball Pizza and other people got the Pork Chops, the Sirloin Steak, and the Kobe Beef Burger along with Mac & Cheese, Wings, Tater Tots, and Steak Fries as sides. When we got the food, it came out in a reasonable amount of time and everything came out at once.
My Pizza wasn't anything I expected. It was a super thin crust pizza (we're talking about the thickness of a cracker) cut into about 8 2 inch squares with just one meatball (about the size of a sweedish meatball) in the center of each "slice". The portion size was decent, the sauce had a nice bit of spice too, the kobe beef meatball was good and decently flavored, but I still can't get over the cracker they used as a crust. Just not my thing and was thinking more of "pizza" crust than a Ritz Cracker crust.
I tried all of the appetizers and by far the best was Steak Fries. It wasn't the fries itself, but the sauce that came with it was excellent. It was almost like a chipotle/mayo taste to it and was excellent. The wings were good, but very small. They were more like wing lollipops than your traditional wings. The seasoning they used was good. The mac and cheese was good, nothing mind blowing but good. And finally the tater tots, to be honest they reminded me too much of what I had from the school cafeteria and while you did get hints of the brie and bacon, I just thought they were just ok.
Comments from the table pretty much ranged in the just OK area whether it was the Burger, Sirloin, or even the other guy that ordered the Pizza. The guy who ordered the Pork, didn't like it and thought it was overcooked and tough to eat.
The service here is professional indifferent. The waiter did spill water on me when trying to refill a glass and just kind of blew off as no big deal and of course on a scale of 1 - 10 I would rank it as a 4. Yeah annoyed, but not pissed, probably would have been a two if the waiter wasn't so indifferent. Also I noticed we didn't get bread and several other tables did, so not sure if you had to pay for it, or again the waiter being indifferent about it.
My share of the food came out to be about $40. I'm sure I put in more than others, but WTF. As to recommendation, to be honest the food was good, but I was hardly blown away especially at the prices you pay at. I guess I feel the same way about Stack as the waiter felt about us, indifferent. You could do better, but you could also do worst in Vegas, take it or leave it and from a meh feeling, Stack gets a 3 star rating.
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