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| - I love cheese and I love wine! Five cheeses for twenty dollars that we nibbled on throughout the whole meal, seemed like a good deal to me. It was served with crusty bread with a delicious spread of crushed tomatoes. Did I mention I also love tomatoes?
I just happened to look right now at the Jaleo Washington DC menu and you get all six cheeses for 18 dollars. Grrrrr! haha, oh well. I've lived in DC and now in Vegas, and I guess this is the compromise I get for dining in a casino on the strip now.
My favorite favorite favorite dish that we tasted was the fried organic egg topped with caviar! YUM! YUM! YUM!
We also had the spicy chorizo wrapped in a thin potato! Which I thought was great, just the right amount of spice!
Then there were the fried dates wrapped in bacon.....hmmmm. Served in a shoe!? YES! served in a shoe. I have a picture on my phone that I wish I could upload right now. I've never eaten out of a shoe before. But, if you can get past the bizarre notion, its actually quite funny (especially after three glasses of wine) and quite tasty!
As far as meat goes, I didn't try any of the serrano ham, which I'll have to come back for. But, I loved the grilled hanger steak with piquillo peppers. It was sliced very thin, but still medium rare, and tasted amazing alongside the bread and cheeses.
My least favorite was some other roasted red pepper dish, but obviously I can't even remember the ingredients so it did not impress.
I was far too full for dessert, but instead enjoyed a cup of resh french press coffee to keep me going for the rest of the night.
The Cosmopolitan is a really fun, new casino and is very beautiful inside; and this restaurant was definitely the place to be in there. Very vibrant and a scene to see and be seen in, alongside delicious tapas. Can't really go wrong with that! :)
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