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| - Tucked inside The Cosmopolitan, but right off the lobby sits the one-of-a-kind experience of "Bond". In a town renowned for glitz and glamour, it is hard to be impressed. Nonetheless, the lounge and bar that is Bond makes for a perfect spot to sit down, relax and enjoy great people watching.
There's no cover charge in this lounge, and the patrons come and go easily. As such, there isn't the pretentiousness that you might find in other nightclubs. The crowd was a mix of guys and girls between 20's and 50's. At first they were just playing music in the background, but around 9pm a D.J. came in and cranked it up a bit. Thankfully, the music wasn't so loud that you couldn't carry a conversation.
As for the drinks, I had a Laid In The Shade for starters. Combine Stoli O, Housemaid Grenadine, Cranberry and orange juices and top it off with peach foam. A solid, if not outstanding offering.
Next, I sampled the Nutty Professor. That's more like it! It is a fairly sweet drink, but they cap it with actual ground nuts on top of the liqueurs. Normally I'm not a fan of sweet drinks, but the warm nutty aroma and flavor won me over. Let me cut to the chase, order this drink.
Bond would have been a shoe-in for a five star review except for it took almost twenty minutes to get a server to come over to my sofa and ask if I was being attended to. In her defense, she appeared to be the only working the entire floor outside of the bar, but I blame the management for not scheduling more people.
This place had a crowd even on a Monday night. It took about another twenty minutes between ordering the drink and actually receiving it at my table. The waitress, Angela, was friendly enough and checked in from time to time, but it was clear that she was trying to juggle a lot. Consider it a small setback on an otherwise very memorable evening at Bond.
Next time I'm in Vegas with the entourage, Bond will our chill spot of choice.
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