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| - For a Thai restaurant, there seems to be a lot of Chinese items of the menu. Not a bad thing, since there are still Thai items. Lemongrass has the option to order from the main menu, order from a dim sum menu, or both.
The wait on Christmas day for my party of 4 was 10-15 minutes, which was not bad at all since it was packed. The decor around the restaurant is elegant and well placed with an Asian vibe. The booth where we were seated had a very large table (enough for probably 6-8). The condiments available were soy sauce (which was a little strong for my taste) and hot chili sauce. I liked the generic restaurant music that played in the background; it was captivating yet subtle.
My party ordered dim sum before ordering entrees. Each item on the dim sum menu ranged from 4.50 to 6.50, which is a little reasonable. The total is added to the final bill. The chicken feet (four per order) were very tender and flavorful. The sticky rice (2 servings per order) had good flavor and was nice and hot; inside was a slice of sausage, mushroom, and pork (I think it was pork). The scallop dumplings (I think five were served per order) were juicy and tasted just right like scallops are supposed to. We also had the Siu Mai (3 per order) which had a very tender meat filling, but lacked flavor. The steamed buns (3 per order) had a good flavor and the bun itself was cooked just right, but I have had better. Something that caught us off guard would have been that the carts that served the dim sum did not have normal rice. It was off guard for us because rice is the staple starch food in all of Asian cuisine, and to not have it while eating dim sum felt like something was missing (I know it's not an actual dim sum food, but having to wait for the rice to come with the entrees was a little disappointing).
From the main menu, we ordered chicken chow fun ($16) and the tofu and pork (Forgot the name and actual price, but it was $15-20). The portions were big enough to give each person at the table one serving. We were also offered rice, which we then ordered one bowl of brown rice and one bowl of white rice. The chow fun did not have a lot of flavor at all. Even adding soy sauce and chili sauce to it did not bring out a lot of the flavor. The tofu and pork did not have much flavor either. As a matter of fact, there was more tofu than pork served to us.
One thing I do not like about this restaurant would be their silverware. I had the option to use chopsticks, but our serving utensils were silver that were awkwardly heavy at the bottom. Whenever I would want to rest the silverware on my plate, the heavy handle would force the end of the silverware to hit the table. This caused a few accidents moving plates around.
Our service was OK. We were served drinks quickly and even got one round of refills. Unfortunately, whenever the waitress would stop by, she would quickly leave before I could ask for a refill. Even after we were done eating, I wondered where the waitress was to give us our check. Despite these shortcomings, our dishes were quickly cleared by the bussers, so we were not totally ignored. I was a little bummed out that we were not offered dessert.
For a restaurant in Aria, one would only have high expectations of their restaurants. The best part of my dining experience here was the dim sum, but I think with how much money we paid, the best part should have been our entrees from the main menu. I feel like I can go to Chinatown and order the same food and it would taste better than how it was made here and it would only cost a fraction of the price. Service, like I said, was OK, and I get that I went here on a holiday, but going to a place like Aria, one only expects something better than what everyone else has to offer. Lemongrass was not absolutely amazing, but left me with a little disappointment. I'm not coming back here.
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