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| - If you want an eye-opening foodie experience in addition to a great meal, make sure Bazaar Meat is on your bucket list. Even though our meal wasn't perfect, the stand-outs so outshined the not-great items that I still have to give Bazaar five stars. First, a note about the service: unlike a previous review that mentioned an unevenly trained staff, we had well-informed staff across the board. When a food runner came out with a dish and we had a question (which was almost every time), all the different food runners (think we had 4 over the course of the meal, hard to keep track) were able to answer every single question. And our #1 server Joe was as competent and professional as you could ever hope for in a restaurant staffer.
We ordered a heckuva lot of food, so here it goes:
Cotton candy foie gras: super-cute idea, foie gras on a stick wrapped in cotton candy. But it wasn't just a novelty, it was actually quite good. 5/5
Fried oxtail steamed bun: absolutely delicious! super-tasty, but also super-expensive. The bun is $13 and surprisingly small. Taste: 5/5, Value: 2/5
Giant chicharron: a huge piece of fried pork skin perfectly prepared - light and puffy yet not oily - but I wasn't crazy about the dipping sauce, some Greek yogurt thing. Chicharron itself: 5/5, dipping sauce: 2/5
Foieffle: one of those super-innovative dishes that you admire for its creativity, but you can't really say you love. It's a Belgian-style waffle(tte) with honey & peanut butter, covered in a foie gras sauce. Good, but more artsy than tasty. 3/5
Robuchon potatoes: mashed potatoes with so much butter melted into them that you could almost sip them through a straw. In order words, yes, it was almost other-wordly good. 5/5, but I'd give it six if the ratings went that high.
Grilled lobster: the lobster was sweet and buttery, grilled to perfection. Be advised, however, that there's not that much meat in what was supposed to be a 2-lb lobster. Taste: 5/5, value: 2/5
Kobe beef: fantastic, beautifully prepared, seasoned just right. And at $100 for 4 ounces, it's probably the least expensive Kobe in Las Vegas. Taste: 5/5, value: 4/5
Roasted leeks: yuck, the worst item we ordered all night. The vegetables are made in a coal oven called a josper. No, not charcoal, but coal. The leeks were just too smoky and weird-tasting. I love leeks, but this gets 1/5.
Catalan spinach: spinach cooked with pine nuts, apples, scallions, and raisins - 5/5.
Yeah, that's a boatload of food. But wait, there's more!! I haven't even gotten to our multiple dessert courses! You have two options for dessert: pick & choose from a large assortment of small bites, or a normal-sized ice cream, or do both like we did!
Tocino: a very heavy version of Spanish flan, delicious but a bit too heavy. 4/5
Chantilly and vanilla/raspberry cream puff: we ordered just the vanilla/raspberry but they goofed & brought out the Chantilly also, so we got to try both. Neither/nor is anything to get excited over. A very tepid 3/5
Chocolate salted peanut tart: fantastic, a perfect blend of chocolate, caramel, peanuts, and salt. 4/5
Lemon meringue: a creamy lemon filling, the best lemon tart I've ever had. But it's literally one bite for $5. Taste 5/5, value 2/5
Praline puff pastry: very delicious, but a very small portion for $7. Taste: 5/5, value 2/5.
Salted caramels: if you like salted caramels, you'll love these. 4/5
Big dessert #1, the vanilla experience: a 6-ounce serving of house-made vanilla ice cream, served with 3 snifters, 1 each of coffee beans, a vanilla bean, and aged rum. You're supposed to savor the aroma of 1 of the snifters before and after eating the vanilla ice cream. Not the transcendent experience that I think they're aiming for, but the rum was good sipping rum, and the vanilla ice cream was top-notch. 4/5
Big dessert #2, salted caramel ice cream: this is a WOW, way better than the actual salted caramels. Our server Joe said it was his favorite dessert as well, not just here at Bazaar, but ever, in his whole foodie life. Yeah, it's that good. 5/5 doesn't do this dish justice.
And now for the moment of truth (cue Dragnet music) ... our tab (just food, because we only drank tap water), with tax and a 20% tip, came to $550 for 2 people *GULP*. Bazaar is great, and I understand that a whole lot of work goes into the preparation of these itty bitty tapas dishes and desserts, but a word to the wise: you do have to keep an eye on how quickly all these small plates add up. Granted, we splurged because it was our Christmas dinner, but even if we had ordered less expensive items, a meal at Bazaar would still be a pretty penny. That said, I'd gladly go back to Bazaar again and again.
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