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| - Eh. Went in mid july for our 1 year wedding anniversary dinner. Tried to book reservations 2 weeks before we got to Vegas, but they were all booked. (this was before Giada was open for lunch). My hubby and I were waking past the Cromwell (please see separate review) and we wandered upstairs to get a look at Giada's. We were able to make a reservation a week in advance for dinner at 9:30pm on a Monday. Upon making the reservation, the hostess asks if we will be celebrating anything special. I tell her its our anniversary. (thinking maybe Giada will come say hi?!). They were very vocal in telling us about the dress code. However, as we arrived in our Sunday best. people strolled in wearing sneakers, shorts, and maxi dresses from the pool...The night of our reservation, we arrive a few minutes early. There is a free Photo Booth there that was a fun and free souvenir. The open concept kitchen as you walk into the dining room is gorgeous. Fresh antipasti station, Fresh pasta being handmade, bread being baked... The room itself is beautiful. Very white, very chi chi. Very Manhattan pretentious. When you are first seated, the waiter brings you a menu with "Giada's selections". This menu is several courses meant to work together that Giada arranged to compliment eachother. This was $120 pp. We weren't interested in eating all that. The waiter brought over an iPad to take drink and antipast orders. I didn't want to drink and the (3) choices of antipast did not impress me. I was praying the whole menu wasn't on an iPad because this layout was so annoying to use. Finally the waiter comes back with a real menu. I am a major foodie (please see ALL my reviews), and it took me forever to find something I was interested in eating. This rarely (if ever) happens to me. Giada raved and raved about having "gluten free food", so we expected to see GF pasta. NOPE. Her GF foods were meat and veggies, which by the grace of God, are GF already. That was a disappointment. Again, it took forever to figure out what to order. GIada's Italian food is not your "traditional" Italian food. (ex spaghetti and meatballs, manicotti, braciole, red sauce, etc). For traditional, amazing, Italian food, please see my review for Buddy V's. Her food is more Mediterranean Italian- lots of lemon, fennel- very different recipes and combinations of food. I felt lost and unfamiliar with the menu. We wound up ordering chicken marsala meatballs, shrimp scampi with marscapone cheese, and we each had a salad. The meatballs were excellent. Shrimp scampi was very different. Not at all garlicky, which is often synonymous with scampi. Salads were good. They bring out a big selection of bread to the table, with pesto dip and several other dips, and that was good. The only thing I entertained getting as an entree was the rack of lamb, but it was $45, and something I make at home. I wanted something different. For dessert they bring over an entire cart of desserts- from homemade gelato, to cookies, to pastries... we had cappuccinos and tiramasu. I had traditional Tiramasu and my husband had Peanut butter & Jelly tiramasu. Those were amazing. It was extra cool that GIada was there that night cooking, and coming out to tables in the dining room to talk with patrons. They seemed to send her out to select tables, aka high rollers, as she didn't go around the room to all. That wasn't cool. It was very cool to see her in person, as I am a big fan of her shows, but being the anniversary and all, she could have stopped by. I wonder why they even asked that...We felt it was a little too much for us. We are laid back people that enjoy casual places. Not enough offerings on the menu for our palette. We go to Vegas every year, and I don't think we would go back. For 2 people for 2 appertizers, 2 salads and 2 desserts with cappuccino, it was over $100. Portions are SMALL.
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