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| - The hostess told me it would be a 15 to 25 minute wait for 5 people on a Monday night. Restaurant was about 30% full. We waited every second of 25 minutes.
I don't mind paying $50 per person when the food is worth it, and I don't mind paying $7 per person when the food is edible. That being said, we were lured here by a coupon for a $20 credit as well as a false advertisement stating that their food was $15 or less - bullshit. The only menu items that are less than $15 are soup at $9 and side items at $9 - even the iced tea is $4, and when you have to ask for sugar three times, it isn't all that sweet.
The server was dreadful. Refills were a lost artform here. It took about half an hour for 3 entrees (we have 3 children so we share) while nobody could be found for refills. Then the food came.
The chefs here must have been mathemeticians in their previous career, because they perfectly multiplied the portion of each entree by 2, and divided the seasonings by 4 meticulously before preparing our dinner.
Chicken Fried Rice - the most flavorful of the three entrees, and that is not a compliment. The rice looked barely fried, the chicken cooked incredibly soft, as if a study was done to see the point immediately after chicken is no longer considered raw and this chicken found it's way onto the plate - I'm not a fan of chicken cooked this way.
Orange Chicken - terrible. The chicken was so soft and though it looked like the breading would be crunchy, it too was incredibly soft - soft like oatmeal (imagine that). The sauce was okay, as were the gigantic, not in any way inconspicuous, chunks of cheap vegetables like red pepper and celery through which you might search to find 1 snow pea.
Pad Thai Noodles - oily and flavorless - as if boiled in a reddish food dye and canola. The best item we ate was the side of white rice with soy sauce, that was great.
The ambiance is nice, modern, cliche and clean. That's why this place got 1 star instead of the turkey.
Bill was $80 for those 3 entrees and 4 iced teas. It was audacious and I felt embarassed, like I was expecting Gordon Ramsay any minute to come out and apologize and invite us back for the grand reopening. I will never step foot into the Luxor again - that's how terrible this restaurant is.
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