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| - I was so looking forward to Ogden's new restaurant after years of enjoying his old place at Caesar's. The burger there was one of the best I've ever had, and for once I was ahead of a trend- I've been ordering burgers at steak houses forever, because that used to be the only place you could get a high quality hamburger.
I loved everything at the CP location- the food, wine list, service and ambience. Every trip for the last several years, I've sat at the bar and had that sublime prix fixe burger and a bottle of wine- sometimes on more than one night.
John Curtis, one of the trio of authors of the annual "Eating Las Vegas" (a wonderful guide if you go to Vegas with any regularity) has just written a review of H&H and called it 'the best food suburban Las Vegas has ever seen". I usually find their reviews to be spot on.
In any case, H&H is a much more casual space and everything about it is was just awful. Our server was manically cheerful, and the food sucked. As in, I can't remember the last time I had such a bad meal.
The complimentary blue corn muffins (which I had to ask for and wouldn't have known about except from the review) tasted like sawdust. We started with the Maytag Bleu cheese soufflés and they had no flavor. Followed with a Bibb lettuce salad that was so over-salted it was inedible.
By this point, not only was I starving- but I figured at least the burger would redeem this meal. The server messed up our order and only brought out one burger, so in the meantime dropped off a passable pork belly app, took back the one burger and came back with 2 freshly cooked burgers. Wow, again so freakishly over-salted that we both could only take a couple of bites.
I asked the server for iced tea (we'd finished our bottle of wine and needed something to get the salt-lick taste out of our mouths) and she said that the tea "didn't come out so well today". She was right, it was really weak. Excuse me, but it is 105 degrees out and 9 pm and no one could make a fresh batch of tea at some point during the evening?
Obviously, we skipped dessert so I don't know if the butterscotch pudding and Snickerdoodle cookies survived the transition.
I asked when we first arrived if Bryan (Bradley's son) was cooking that night and the hostess told me he was on vacation. I realize this spot has only been open 8 weeks or so, but seasoning food is pretty basic stuff- as is making tea.
The 2 separate incidents of the clatter of trays of breaking dishes in an hour and a half, hostess over-sharing, server not asking why we weren't eating our food, etc. are all things one could expect in a new spot. But food this wretched is just unforgiveable by 2 chefs like the Ogdens.
At least we were able to drive out there, because if I had spent the money on a cab I would have been pissed. Instead, just disappointed and $150 poorer.
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