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| - I was in town for CES this year and had heard that the Cosmopolitan hotel had just opened in December and was AMAZING, so we had to check it out. Inside, there is so much contemporary style and design. The ceilings are lined with ornate lighting; there are shapes and colors and all kinds of really cool items of visual intrigue. You need to check out this hotel.
My wfie and I walked all the way through the casino, starting from the front desk, and when we got to the other side of the hotel we came across...The Chandelier.
The Chandelier is a bar, but it's a multi-story bar, but it's a multi-story bar INSIDE of a ginormous crystal chandelier that hangs from ceiling to floor. Thousands of strands of crystal beads about an inch in diameter flow and curve around the perimeter of this bar. It is amazing.
We went up to the top and took a ton of pictures and then took a seat at an open couch inside the Chandelier on the top floor and ordered a couple drinks while waiting for the rest of our group to arrive. They eventually came a few minutes later while we continued to wait for our drinks and they went down to the middle floor and ordered drinks at a set of couches that could better accommodate our group size.
We waited...and waited some more...then the drinks finally came and we paid and went down to join our friends. The place was not THAT packed, such that the drinks should have taken THAT long to make. My wife did order a really cool drink that is like a grasshopper in a wide-bowl glass with Oreo cookies crushed along the rim and a layer of thick white foam on top. It was really good and an amazing presentation. I ordered a Foster's because it was the most interesting beer on the list that I saw (note this will be re-visited in a moment).
When we arrived down to our friends they were still waiting on their drinks, too. They waited and waited as well...but at least we had conversation and awesome crystalline items to occupy our attention.
One of my friends made a remark about my beer selection being surprisingly lame (I have become a pretty big beer fan over the last year and don't normally drink something so standard, but my options were Bud, Coors, Sam Adams, New Castle, and such, so I just opted for the Aussie brew). I asked him what he got and he told me a Stone Arrogant Bastard. Instantly I was taken about with this much more interesting option that was available to him and not me. I demanded their drink menu and quickly noticed that it was COMPLETELY different from the one we had received upstairs.
A WARNING TO ALL: THERE ARE MULTIPLE DRINK MENUS
I could have had a Stone, or a Unibroue Maudite for the same price as the Fosters...I was bummed. Oh well, I shall not dwell further.
Eventually everyone got their drink and we talked and watch the projected images on the wall of hanging beads above us. A second round was ordered and slowly delivered, then it was time to go. The check was requested and (what seemed like an hour later) it was provided and we paid and left. So here is the breakdown...
Summary: Awesomely designed bar. Style in everything. Amazing Chandelier! Mixed drinks are very creative, and very well executed. Great presentation and flavor. Decent bang for the buck ratio, too (could be a little better). One of my buddies noted that the servers are wearing very little clothing. I didn't care, because they were slower than molasses when delivering drinks. Possibly the bartenders' faults, but I'm just saying the service is not rapid. Lastly, there are multiple drink menus, so be aware that if your beer list sucks, there is a menu that has much more interesting beers somewhere in the bar (probably on a different level).
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