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| - I wish I could do 3.5 stars, I don't feel comfortable with the 4 stars, "Yay I'm a fan" but it was better than "A-OK." It was an odd night. It was restaurant week, so I'll give them that they were probably a bit busier than usual. We were a bit of a larger table, so I will say that might have been tough. The first misstep was when we were in the bar grabbing drinks before and we were scolded by the server for walking up to the bar to get our drinks...after we gave our drink order to the server we never saw our drinks. We were seated and had to reorder drinks. So that was a weird start to the evening. The rest of service was great so it was odd that they had this large miscommunication to start things off.
Most people at the table got the restaurant week menu. The first course was a choice of a salad which was frisee, poached egg, foie gras torchon and bacon lardons or a mussel soup. Most people got the salad, I think they were impressed that they had foie gras on a restaurant week menu. But it is restaurant week, it was pretty hard to find the foie gras the pieces were so small. They said it was good though. I ordered the foie gras appetizer for my first course. It was a large piece so they definitely didn't skimp on that. However it wasn't fully cooked through, there were veins that hadn't melted yet in the piece of foie and had to be sawed through with a knife. Odd. It was still tasty and maybe it was just a rare misstep. My boyfriend got the french onion soup and he said it was delicious, it is served with a puff pastry top that is pretty and tasty.
Entrees we all ordered from the restaurant week menu. There were two options. One was a duck leg confit with lyonnaise potatoes and wilted greens. The other option was braised beef short ribs and seared ahi tuna with kimchee brussel sprouts. I had the play on "surf and turf." It was the best part of the meal for me. I was kind of curious what a braised beef and rare tuna dish would be like, but it was just amazing. The textures and flavors were all just stunning. It was a hit. The Duck confit looked good, everyone liked it.
Dessert options for the restaurant week menu didn't include any chocolate. I basically don't waste calories on dessert unless it's a chocolate dessert. I ordered from the regular dessert menu, it was a chocolate tea creme brulee. It was ridiculous :) Desserts seemed to go over very well.
I would rate our experience a solid b+ service was actually great after the odd start to things. Our server was very accommodating and it was nice to be able to kind of mix and match our meals. The food was good to very good. I have a lot of restaurants to go to in Las Vegas but I can see bringing some out of towners to impress them at Aureole.
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