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| - Dinner at McCall's Heartland Grill was a great start to a fun evening at the Stratosphere. When I was here in May to see Pin Up, I walked around the casino to see if anything had changed because I hadn't been to the Stratosphere in many years. As I was walking around, McCall's caught my eye. I didn't see a menu outside but I checked it out when I got home. Since I had a ticket to see Frankie Moreno last night, I made a reservation at McCall's to give the place a try.
I started out getting the PBB&J crostini, something I'd read in Yelp reviews. How could I resist? It's 4 slices of toasted baguette with peanut butter, bacon, bleu cheese and drizzled with jalapeño jelly on a bed of some shredded lettuce, sliced cucumber, red onion, and some red bell pepper. It is excellent and what a different start to a meal. The only thing I'd do differently is to up the jalapeño in the jelly and give it some kick. The appetizer was delightful! While eating the crostini, a server brought the bread basket. Wow! What a selection! I had one cheese stick because I had enough bread with the crostini and I didn't want to fill up on bread.
For the main course, I got the coffee rubbed NY Strip steak with bleu cheese butter. I got a side of their cheese croquettes. The steak was done perfectly, charred on the outside, blue on the inside. The cheese croquettes were good but I would have used more cheese or a stronger cheese. It just didn't have a strong cheese flavor. Both dishes had very thin slices of leeks that were blanched in hot oil just enough to give them a crisp. What a tasty and different topping to food rather than a sprig of parsley!
Yes, of course I had room for dessert, and I ordered the triple chocolate flourless cake. It was very good. Rich chocolate with whipped cream that was thick and seemed to have some mascarpone whipped in.
Service was excellent. Everyone at McCall's had a smile, greeted customers very pleasantly, and were courteous and helpful and it started with the hostess. My server was VInce and he was top notch. He checked back with me every course at least once, and he refilled my iced tea without me needing to ask. The only service fail was my obsession with keeping the table clean. It wasn't until the end of the meal that a server removed my three empty artificial sugar packets. That's my gold standard of excellent service all other things being equal.
I'll come back to McCall's. It really is a nice room, nothing too fancy, but good food at good prices for being on the Las Vegas Strip--even the North Strip.
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