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| - So this is a hard review for me to write. I don't really "do" fancy foods, since my palate isn't refined enough to really appreciate any subtleties in flavor. I also don't like to pay for food that I'm not really going to appreciate fully, especially if said food costs hundreds of dollars. Luckily, this was a treat by a friend's family, so I can handily ignore the hell out of that last part and focus on the food!
I had the "Degustation Menu" with wine pairings, but I'll preface that by saying that I have no taste for wine (I was really, really out of my element here). As a result, I won't really talk much about the wine, except I thought that they were really appropriate with whatever I had. Unfortunately all that wine meant that I started to fall asleep way early in the night, but I can't really blame that on the restaurant.
The food was exquisite, as one would expect. I think the standout was the foie gras, which I normally kinda hate, but was curious whether a Michelin star restaurant could change my perspective. It did, in that I learned that foie gras doesn't always have to taste like shoe scrapings, but it really was extraordinarily rich. It weirdly reminded me of duck fat, actually.
The decor is fantastic, with the Bellagio fountain shows going off outside the window and the Picassos adorning the walls of the restaurant, it all speaks of this sort of fantastically extravagant lifestyle that I could only have a taste of. I especially loved the plates and was really tempted to steal some for home. Somehow.
The service is phenomenal. Water was refilled regularly. There was a delay in one of the courses of our meal, which they comped us for with extra wine for that course, as well as a free sample of an exquisite dessert wine that I would not have had otherwise. Just really fantastic.
What a wonderful experience.
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