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| - I was really excited to try out Cadillac Ranch for a few reasons, first and perhaps most shallowly, because their logo is a big 'CR' - my initials... it must be love, right? Second because I have been seeking out a fun place to spend my 30th birthday party which is quickly approaching and wanted to give this place a practice run. Cadillac Ranch looks cool and there is a neat looking fire pit outside that I imagined my friends and I clinking drinks around and ringing in my new decade. I went for lunch with my beau and my first experience was that the hostess was fairly unfriendly. To me, a hostess is a huge part of an experience at a restaurant because that is your first impression of a place and I am a customer service snob. We wanted to sit outside and she asked if high tables (bar tables) were okay. Sure! We get outside and it turns out the high tables she referred to were actually in direct sunlight. This is Vegas, and at 1 p.m. in Las Vegas in direct sunlight it is no fun! The question shouldn't have been if we minded high tables, but if we would have minded sitting in the sun, in which case our answer would have been yes. There were a few tables outside that were unoccupied but that hadn't been cleaned. We asked our server, who was nice but an airhead, if we could move once one of them was cleared off. Finally a table was cleared and was waiting to be wiped down, but the unfriendly hostess managed to come out with another group of people at the same moment and between the hostess and our waiter there was about to be a cat fight. She didn't know that table hadn't even been cleaned with a rag and was going to sit people there which grossed me out. Eventually another dirty table not in the sun was cleaned for the second party and everyone was happy, although I was beginning to wonder if there was a busser at this restaurant, or what? Our food came out quickly, my boyfriend a burger and me a margherita pizza. The pizza was good and I was pleasantly surprised at the turnaround time on the order considering the obvious inexperience of the serving staff. Throughout the meal my boyfriend, who is a very thirsty person for some reason, had absolutely no water left in his glass. He asked not once, not twice, but 3 times for more water - he even drank all of mine! The manager was wandering around and asked how everything was and I mentioned that we had asked for water three times and as of yet, nothing. I really liked my server's personality and I felt bad getting him into trouble, but geez, get us our dang water! The only saving grace of this restaurant is the location, our experience with a friendly but all-in-all terrible server, and the food was okay. No 30th birthday party for this girl!
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