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| - My fiancé and I dined here for first time a few nights ago. We have walked by here many times, but never realized what it was. From the outside it looks like a pawn store. It actually is the store where you can buy things but under Las Vegas strip law, you're not allowed to pawn anything. It has a collection of jewelry, purses, accessories, and interesting Notorious B.I.G. figures, (photographed below.) There is a security guard at the entrance who opens the door for you and a very pretty and welcoming girl working at the store. You enter the restaurant through the store. When you approach the restaurant there are many lovely hostesses waiting to seat you. My fiancé and I showed up sans reservation and also starving. Luckily, they were able to take us right away. There is the middle dining area that is very busy and lively, and then there is the back room that is little bit darker and carries a different ambience. There is the front section where the bar is. We were walked to the back room. We had a lovely booth. Our server, Crystal approached us and asked if we wanted water. What we heard was "sparkling or still?". We order the still water. Come to find out later we would be charged eight dollars for this bottle. Make sure when you go there if you're not planning on spending money on water, you say specifically tapwater or make sure that they will not be charging you for it. Due to how crazy expensive everything is, we only got three dishes. We went with the tomato burrata toast, the tuna tartare tacos, and the wedge salad. She said for two people they recommend 4 to 6 dishes. I thought that was a lot when she said it, but once we got our dishes I understood why. Everything has incredibly small portions for how expensive it is. I had a glass of Sauvignon Blanc and my fiancé had the craft cocktail "The Woodsman." It's their style on an old fashioned and it was delicious. Overall, the service was good, the ambience was definitely cool and unique, and the food was good. The prices seemed unreasonable to me. Otherwise it would've had five stars. There is also a Beauty & Essex in Hollywood down the street from where we live that I didn't know about. I definitely want to try that.
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