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| - Okay, so I shouldn't review a bar/restaurant on opening night but I'm here now and no one else is doin' it. Glitch #1: the LVRJ ad said: Food! Fun! Prizes for the first 100 people!" I really didn't think we'd be in that coveted swag group even though we got there at 6:40. But seeing that Distill was re-distilling in the space occupied by the late, lamented Agave Restaurant, a cavernous place, we didn't expect to be fighting for wall space. How'd this happen? They opened at 4:30! What happened to truth in advertising??
They did have a buffet station set up, with pizza, round potato bites, beef strips and all the fixings for fajitas, chicken & artichoke dip, bruschetta, and jumbo shrimp for shrimp cocktail. The fajitas were very good, the potato puffs were delicious, but the rest was just okay.
Finally we snagged a booth, and except for the demo girls handing out Royal Crown & Jack Daniels' Tennessee Honey samples & some cute t-shirts, we couldn't snag a server even to clear the table, let alone slake our parched palates. Servers are also bussers, which didn't help speed things up. And the bar was backed up with drink orders. They definitely could benefit from a second bar.
We did manage to fill up on the free offerings, so I'll reserve my food critique until next time. We checked out the menu, with its standard assortment of appetizers, salads, burgers, and sandwiches, and prices are pretty reasonable. But the Happy Hour (3-6 pm and 3-6 am - catering to early joggers?) menu is completely unimaginative and eminently skippable.
I'll update my review and impressions of the food after all the excitement dies down (and hopefully the noise - this place is jet-takeoff LOUD!!!!!), but my initial impressions are just ho-hum.
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