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| - Frankly I find it very hard to recommend this place.
First, the good things! I got a Restaurant.com coupon, and was totally craving some good Italian food, but I'm also a big fan of Japanese food so this combination of Italian-Japanese sounded great. The location was okay, though a bit hard to find. The place was well-decorated, as you'd expect for a Japanese place, and the waitress was nice, though not particularly energetic nor friendly.
The menu was interesting. Since I wanted to try their uniqueness, and not where they're the same as any other Japanese place, I wanted to focus on the pasta. We ordered a chicken pasta with Japanese mushrooms, along with a salisbury steak made of beef and kurobuta pork. For an appetizer, we had the calamari tempura, and dessert was a gelato with Kinako and black honey. Here's each in turn:
Calamari Tempura: Nothing special, despite being on the specials menu. It was exactly what it says: Deep-friend pieces of squid (Japanese cut) with breading.
Chicken with Japanese mushrooms: Weird. Basically it was a spaghetti in a broth, with a few pieces of chicken and some mushrooms in it. I can't really describe the taste, aside from it being fairly bland and a bit salty. It didn't seem like the mushrooms added much to the flavor, and all together seemed like a thrown together mish-mash.
Beef and Kurobuta Pork Salisburg Steak: Entirely mediocre. It's just a Salisbury steak. This one came with a salad, two slices of orange, a sprig of broccoli, and small pasta birdsnest. The cold pasta thing was really good, actually. Saved the dish from being entirely forgettable.
Gelato with Kinako and Black Honey: This was pretty good. Seemed like a sweet cream gelato with a bittersweet honey and kinako crumbs, which added nothing almost to the flavor, but was a good choice for some texture to what would otherwise have been plain ice cream.
Overall, the service was a bit a slow, and not very friendly, but not rude. See photos of the dishes if you like.
Not bad, but seriously, with all the good places to eat in Vegas, I won't waste my time and money going back.
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