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I heart heart all José Andrés restaurants, heart it so much that I take most of my friends visiting to Bazaar @ SLS or suggest for them to go to one of his many restaurants around the world. I'm such a fan that my fiancé actually proposed to me at a José Andrés restaurant, the wonderful é by José Andrés!
Ok, now that I've prefaced how much I enjoy José Andrés restaurants, I need to say how royally disappointing my experience at Bazaar Meats was this past weekend. My friends and I were in Vegas to celebrate my fiancé's birthday and naturally, the consensus was to go to Bazaar meats for its great group dining experience, the fun decor, the delicious cocktails, and the usual of what we know José Andrés for.
Upon checking in, we were seated at a table that was not for the right number of guests that we had. I had requested a booth but it was not noted. I let it slide because it was getting late and we were hungry. After being seated, our waitress greeted us, handed us a lot of menus and shortly left and never returned...for a while - a long enough while for my fiancé to be able to go wait in a long line for his '$30 dollar birthday credit' at the other end of the casino and come back and we're still waiting. Naturally, a different server came and apologized for the wait and explained the menus to us while 'we wait for our waitress to return'.
My fiancé and I are huge winos. For a meat restaurant, the list of by the glass cabernets is very limited, if I remember correctly, there was 1 amidst a huge wine booklet. He finally had to opt for the one cabernet offered at $30 a glass.
The food - such a let down for what we were expecting. Although the night started with gazpacho shots which were delicious, all the dishes that followed came out cold and/or overly salty. One of the first dishes we had was the Salmon Tartar. Our first bites into it was met with silence - not the oh-that-was-so-good-I'm-speechless silence, more the is-it-just-our-own-particular-taste-buds-feeling-saltiness or I-don't-see-why-this-dish-is-so-great-even-though-my-friend-adamantly-recommended-it. We mentioned to our waitress the issue we had and she told us that maybe it was the nori crackers that came with the dish. We were fine with the nori crackers' saltiness as those are chips and expected to be on the saltier side. She let us know that nothing could be done with our tartar dish so the only thing she could do is offer us some bread in hopes that it would dilute the saltiness - ok thank you for that, moving on. All dishes that followed were just as overly salty and the cocktails were not helping. One of our main dishes was the Lindsay Ranch, OR, Washugyu/Angus Rib eye. For the price we paid at $95/lb, it was underwhelming - it came out like it had been sitting on some other table for a while and the taste was quite bland. At this point, we did not bother to mention to our waitress any of our concerns about the dishes anymore. We just wanted to get our desserts, sing happy birthday and call it a night. Dessert came with a candle that kept blowing out before it reached the table so it was a bit of an awkward scene for my fiancé. We ate it and asked for the bill. The bill came and we noticed the bread was charged. We all raised our eyebrows and decided not to make a scene. If anything, we enjoyed the bread the most out of that evening! In our attempt to leave as soon as possible, we forgot to use the $30 credit. We mentioned it to our waitress who then did not know how to reprocess everything, so we just waited again. Our waitress ended up not coming back with the bill but a different gentleman did. He seemed to know what he was doing more and offered us something to drink while we waited for the bill to be processed but we just wanted to leave so we said no thank you.
I don't think my palette was off that night because the friends we went with had been to Bazaar Meats before and had ordered some of the same items we ordered because it was so good the last time they went. They noticed the significant difference in taste and service and were apologetic in recommending this place for the weekend. I also don't know if it was an off night for Bazaar Meats though or a 'waiter in training' night but it was a very disappointing experience and it's sad to say that at this moment, I would not recommend this place to anyone wanting some meats in Las Vegas.
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