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| - E was a nice experience, but not without its drawbacks. There are only 8 seats, but the room is decorated with Jose's touches and it has a warm inviting feel for the dinner. The experience would be ideal if 8 of your friends or family could attend the seating (one at 5:30 and another at 8:30). We had a nice experience nonetheless with the patrons we were with, although I could see it being awkward with loud voices or people who come in already sauced. DO get one of the gin and tonic drinks! Expensive but worth it.
Word of warning for people who are coming to E for Spanish cooking that is done live in front of you. There is really nothing cooked before you. The chefs that are with you are essentially plating the food that comes from the kitchen. They do a nice job of explaining the dishes and ingredients which strive to be Spanish based although items like the cotton candy, foie gras, and corn nut empanada wasn't particularly Spanish to me. Nor the bone in rib eye at the end of the meal which was good, but a better rib eye at Delmonico's or any of the vast steak houses in Vegas probably would have been better. The chefs are friendly and do encourage questions which makes for good conversation if your group engages with them.
The food was presented with flourish and executed well. Techniques like using a portable smoker for the oyster course and the edible sangria at the beginning of the service was well done. Overall the courses were small; e.g. the cracker with the anchovy and other spreads. It was well made and quite tasty but was still essentially a small cracker and considered a course. And while I expect that high end dinners that have many courses don't serve portions more than a few bites, this was the first time we have been to a dinner such as this that we actually could have used more food. Even a bread service might have helped in the hunger dept. They do offer wine pairings for this dinner which were solid. The wines were great and paired well with the food. They were also wines that one can't typically find and the server (Brian) was very knowledgeable. Unfortunately, we were the only two who had the wine parings which made it hard to interact with the others about the parings with the food.
Bottom line, the experience was worth it, but probably not worth the amount of money paid. Don't come to E to experience true Spanish cuisine or expect to learn a tremendous amount about Spanish ingredients. It's more flash and meal execution/preparation than anything which again was really nice, but I think I would have rather had the wood fired Paella's that were being made as you walked into the special dining room. The wife and I got a really nice experience sitting at the main bar in the restaurant watching the paella's being made over the wood fire, interacting with the bar staff and seeing all of the nice tapas coming out of the kitchen after our E experience was over. Choose wisely.
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