rev:text
| - Our experience seems to be the only rare bad one...however, there were good and bad things and I will highlight on both.
Firstly the service was terrible. Our server seemed like she had just come from serving at Chili's because she couldn't or would try to pronounce the name of our wine when she brought it out. Secondly, she ruined 3 bottles of wine, attempting to open them, while spilling some on my boyfriend. Finally she had to sommelier come and open our actual bottle of wine. Which are very reasonably priced and they have a great selection of bottles and by the glass. The sommelier was very accomodating which made up for the amatuer server.
Food wise, we ordered the crab cakes and the bleu cheese caesar salad which were both great. The bleu cheese idea I thought was ingenious, it really brought out different flavors in the salad dressing. The crab cakes, were really moist and the aioli that it came with was equally delicious.
Our main courses were a filet mignon and the smoked salmon, scallop linguini. Starting off with the good: the linguini was perfection! The sauce was not overly heavy with cream but mingled greatly with the whole sea scallops which were seared and succulently sweet. The smoked salmon, I thought was a great compliment to the dish, it was not fishy at all and it tasted really fresh. Kudos!
However, the filet was a a different story. It seemed like it had great promise and the server actually recommended it. The menu said "blackberry pinot noir reduction"...the filet was marinated in an espresso thing of some sort. When the steak came out, the "reduction" was more like a jello, which was the first thing that I tasted when I took a bite, it seemingly gelatinized on me...the steak was cooked just fine, it was the sauces that really ruined the dish.
The final thing menu item that was so good...I might drive all the way to sunset and vines again for...it was this proscuitto wrapped pototoes gratin...AMAZING! So amazing that I ate 2 of them.
Overall...not so good..but the things that were good...ended up being amazing.
The ambience was great and romantic with a view of the Lake Las Vegas.
|