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| - Best meal I had in Vegas, easily. I was barely even peckish when we went and I still managed to eat every last bite that was set in front of me. We showed up at about 10:02pm after a three hour long cocktail reception (Who was two martinis and two glasses of red wine deep? Not me!...oh, um, except actually me.) and despite the fact that they technically closed at 10 they were happy to seat us, bringing over a basket of soft delicious pita and hummus, baba ghannouj, and feta spread for dipping almost immediately. I housed the bread - because if there's one thing I'm good at, it's pushing through and eating copious amounts of food while not even hungry - as we perused the menu.
My coworkers were seduced by the create-your-own-salad concept, but I'm one who doesn't like to be given too much wiggle room in a fine dining experience. You're the celebrity chef, you tell me what's going in my appetizer. As such, I went with the tandoori octopus, and it was as exotically delicious as I could have asked for. For my entree, I went with the paella tagine, hoping that the spawn of two of my favorite types of dishes would be just as tasty as both of its parents. It was, although it was not exactly what I was expecting. It was very light on the rice and very soupy, and so far as I could tell the only thing it had in common with a tagine was that it was served in one. It was more like a bouillabaisse got knocked up by a paella, in my estimation. Nonetheless, it was really, really good. One more martini and I might have licked the tagine.
We didn't have room for dessert, not surprisingly - hell, I didn't really have room for dinner - so I can't speak to that, but I'd be willing to extrapolate that it would be good. Only caveat is it's really, really expensive. I'm happy to pay a lot for a good meal, particularly when it's a total dining experience, but had I been paying and not the company, I'm not sure I'd have thought it was worth it.
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