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| - We all love Elvis, even the Vegas Elvis. When he arrived here and by gorging himself to abyss, we still wound up pulling for him based on his glorious past we fondly remembered him by.
In a nice way, so is the Vegas Bouchon as we are all fond of The uber popular chef Thomas Keller's famous French Bistro place in Northern California.
The Vegas Bouchon is living off the fame of its older brethren in Yountville and New York where it gathers huge array of Michelin stars. It didn't get one here for Vegas and I seriously don't know if it ever will deserved one after my dining experience here.
First, it's hard to find this place. As many reviewers pointed out, it's located on the 10th or 11th floor with a balcony garden on the outside of the restaurant for a breath taking view. It's not shown on the hotel directory map and some of the employees thought we were talking about Bouchon bakery instead of the restaurant.
Seriously, if they don't want you to find it, they are doing a great job of hiding this place. Ask the front desk personnel at Venetian for assistance in finding the restaurant as they seemed to get that question all the time.
The restaurant tried to bill itself as being a fine dining restaurant. It looked the part, but does it play the part? Well, that's when we sit down and found out it's not all it cracked up to be.
The menu was rather unimpressive with the selections. Maybe I was a little jaded since I had a much more fabulous meal in Delmonico's. So I went ahead and ordered a soup, a main course and a puree to match what I had earlier in the day.
Their soup that was recommended to me was their Spinach cream soup. That was actually that best part of the entire course of meal. (you could pretty much guess how the dinner went that night). The soup was very creamy and done right at the seasoning. The texture was very smooth even the color was very bright green to suggest the elegance of the ingredient that mirror of where the veggie came front. I was rather impressed with the start of the meal.
Then in a weird twist, I got a bread on the table. I noticed the cover on the table was a piece of seamless paper and the bread was placed without a plate on top of that paper. It gave me the impression of eating at a cheap 2nd tier restaurant like Buca Di Beppo.
When my Steak Frites came, it started to go downhill from there. Maybe I was placing too much value on a steak that I thought they could have done better, but I was really unimpressed by it. Although it was not bad, the fries itself was not the out of its world that my dining companion tried to convince me all night. I think he was more enamored by it and considering that Anthony Bourdain loved it on an episode of "No Reservation" where he was engrossed on how much he loved the fries at this same exact restaurant.
No dice for me on this one.
The puree was even more of a disappointment for me. I thought it was overcooked and very blend. It's like cold mashed potato that is missing gravy. I was very subdued by this point.
The service itself was a miss and maybe the reason why I could never see this place get awarded a Michelin Star. Our waitress disappeared most of the night and when I did spotted her, she was chatting with her coworker at the drink station. They were not really detail or attention oriented as they looked like they are just going thru motions.
The decor itself of the place was not bad as it was classy and have a really nice touch in the elegance department. However I just couldn't get over the tourist trap portion of this place as it is pack like a sardine where our tables are so close to our neighbors. It can get really chatty and loud in this place as we are so close to everyone. The ambiance is really not there when you sit down and tried to have a conversation with your tablemates.
Overall, I wasn't too impressed at this place at all. After dining a few more of other fine dining places, I have to honestly say the service here for the price you are paying are really lacking in this establishment. The food itself you really want to pull for it to do well, but it just taste like a ho-hum with not a difference to seperate itself from the pack. For this kind of price you are paying, it's really upsetting when you think about it.
For Delmonico, I wound up paying $70 for one of the best steak I ever had, an appetizer and a soup that was well worth the fine dining meal. In here, I paid a little bit more around $78 and had one of the biggest let down I have ever had in any dining experience.
Just like we love Elvis and love pulling for Vegas Elvis. It's just that you are pulling for him because you are in Vegas and want to relive its famous glory for what he's known for.
Sadly, it's better off not taking the Vegas version and go for the real deal (as in it's better going to the original Bouchon at Yountville).
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Quality: **
Decor: ***
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Amenity: ***
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