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The space is beautiful and upscale; suggestive of competing with those other joints further north on LV Blvd. The views are great. And we had a lot of people "attending" to our table. Those are the hits...all three of them.
We were here on a Thursday night for a birthday dinner. There were three other dining parties seated throughout the restaurant. Despite it being that empty, not a single table was seated near a window to take advantage of the sunset view...but perhaps that's just how things are done.
To service the four dinner parties were several waitstaff: it appeared we had two servers and two bussers assigned to our table. Unfortunately, we did not see them very often past the appetizer course. Maybe they got to go home. Maybe they went on break. Maybe it was the fact that we were there for three hours.
Three hours can be broken down (roughly), as follows: 30 minutes to place our order, 30 minutes for our appetizers to come out, almost another hour before we received our entrees and 30 minutes to get desert (which we also asked for the check concurrently so that we could leave). Keep in mind we had two kids with us, who, by the time their BUTTERED NOODLES came out 2 hours after we were seated, were absolutely famished and inhaled their dinner. I guess we should have asked for the noodles to come out with the appetizers (our bad), but who would've though it would take ONE HOUR for entrees to follow the apps?
So, needless to say we weren't all that happy about the service and timing of the food delivery. That in and of itself does not warrant 2 stars. To say the food was a disappointment is far too kind. The salad appetizers were decent...just salads. The calamari was cooked nicely and had a really good lemon sauce. Out of the five different entrees, only one was good: the osso bucco had a good sauce and was fairly tender...though the accompanying risotto was severely overcooked. The lobster and shrimp risotto (ordered by two people) were also overcooked and had absolutely no texture to them, on top of smelling overly fishy and tasting like sea water...in other words: inedible.
I really wanted to like this place. Even though the food was sub-par, the restaurant was was nicely decorated. But I already said that didn't I? Oh well, I tried.
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