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| - Quick Look: Brand new, large restaurant structure in Downtown Summerlin. Unfortunately, the nice new build out could not make up for the bland and tasteless food.
In Depth Review: I know it's a corporate "chain" restaurant, but I had driven by a busy Lazy Dog several times and thought it must be good, just look at all those people. Tried it on Wednesday, July 29th at 7pm. The restaurant was packed out and bananas. People seem to love that chain restaurant food here. The hostess sat us in a small two person booth in the back near the kitchen and a fireplace. Was not the best seat as a serving station was directly behind me, and I had servers chatting away and pounding on a point of sale system over my shoulder.
Our server was attentive and very friendly. We placed our drink and appetizer order. I told her we would wait to place our dinner entree order as we did not want to be rushed out. She seemed confused by this. Glad we made this decision as the kitchen was cranking food out at a super fast pace and timing was off. Our drinks arrived, and then our brick oven spinach and sun dried tomato cheese dip was brought out. About 5 minutes after we ordered it. It was in a baking dish and it was a boiling hot liquid. Did not look like any cheese dip I have ever seen or had before. Had the consistency of water. Was so hot we had to stir it for another 10 minutes before we could eat it. Sadly, it missed the mark and was bland. Could not taste the sun dried tomatoes, or the cheese flavor at all.
For our entree we ordered the new fennel sausage, goat cheese and mushroom pizza. We also each ordered a Caesar salad. The salads came out and were a generous size. Within 2 minutes of our salads arriving they brought out our pizza. The table was a small two person size, so we were now sitting there all crowded and trying not to make a wrong move and knock something off the table by mistake. Timing was off big time, would have been nice to enjoy our salads prior to bringing out the entree. Our server apologized and blamed it on the kitchen. The pizza did not come with a spatula (pizza server). They said they did not have them to offer. Never experienced this at a place that offers a entire section of pizzas. Buy some dang spatulas (pizza servers) and offer them to your guests. We had to rip the slices by hand. The cheese and toppings that had not been firmly cut through in the kitchen slid off a few slices, this was annoying. The pizza looked great, but again it fell short and tasted bland. The dough was fluffy and the crust was very chewy. Not the typical brink oven taste we expected. It wasn't a horrible pizza, it was just not memorable. They give you a Styrofoam container to take the slices home that you do not eat. Most places that offer pizzas (think BJ's) will give a small pizza box to put slices in. So we had to stack and bend them to get them to fit properly. We would pass on desert as we were not feeling it at this point and just wanted to go home.
In Summary: The drinks were good. The beer was cold. The service was attentive and friendly. Sadly the kitchen and the food failed to deliver. The entire experience was not that memorable. If I want to go to a chain restaurant with a similar festive atmosphere, I will take my business to the consistent and tasty Yard House up the street. Besides being able to sit on the patio with your dog, I guess I am failing to see what the big attraction is at Lazy Dog?
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