I am writing about the restaurant at the Las Vegas National Golf Club. After a damn fine round of golf on a well designed and certainly challenging course at what is undoubtedly a Las Vegas landmark (do you know this is where Tiger Woods won his first PGA tournament?), my foursome sat down for a bite to eat.
One look at the menu made the best part of this place perfectly clear - the prices. Sandwiches priced from $6 to $8, a great bargain. But when your sandwich arrives is where the real surprise comes in, the food is very well prepared and mighty tasty to boot.
I had the tuna melt, which can be a dubious choice for a first time visit (many of you out there know what I am talking about), but it was actually one of the best tuna melts I have ever had, with flavors I had difficulty identifying but that at-the-same-time seemed as though they always belonged in a tuna melt and I cant believe no one else is making them this way.
One gets the impression that the club's kitchen is home to a masterful chef, with years devoted to perfecting his/her craft - and without all the Vegas glamour, fame and frivolity that drowns the restaurants on the strip.
I almost don't want to let this little restaurant secret out, for fear of destroying its perfect beauty.