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| - Not Terrible. When you expect to pay $400-500 for dinner for four, you just want something more than that. This was meant to be our 'big splurge' meal for our weekend in Vegas. Here's the lowdown: Ambience: Lovely, modern Italian upscale restaurant, busy. Tables are so close together that I had to apologize to gent behind me as I accidentally bumped his chair several times. Service: Good, slow paced, but that's good for a restaurant experience of this $$ scale- you kind of want time to stop for a while to enjoy the meal. Servers attentive and friendly. Food: RECOMMEND: Giada's favorite antipasti: delicious bites of crostini, olives, mushrooms, and other goodies. This was $60, but enough for all four of us to enjoy as an appetizer. If only we had stopped there. The green salad, lightly dressed with a vinagrette and parmesan, looked delicious. The LOBSTER RAVIOLI was chock-full of nice lobster pieces and very delicious. Now for the downside: Soup du jour was a roasted cauliflower. Meh, It was okay, a small portion. My partner had the minestrone and I had a taste. This was in no way minestone. It was a thin, processed gruel that had no identifiable vegetables in it and tasted of the singe at the bottom of the pot. The frico of parmesan (a little crisp of grilled shredded parm) couldn't save the flavor and, soaked in the gruel, the texture suffered too. I wanted to have another bite just to make sure it was as bad as I'm describing, but I stopped at the first bite without regret. Partner and I shared the chicken cacciatore style, about $60, meant for two. Note that style-part. This was not standard cacciatore. This was a whole chicken (a petite one) and the parts were breaded and deep fried. The fried chicken, stacked prettily on both sides of the platter, was so dry and tastelessly overcooked there wasn't enough of the small crock of a vegetable ragout type sauce to save it. We did finish it, which tells you how tiny this bird was- with this amount of food on the table, imagine each of us eating four pieces of standard fried chicken. Relative had a risotto dish which she described as making better herself and other had the grilled lamb chops which he described as tasteless, without seasoning. Overall, the food presentation was just as pretty as Giada herself, but lacked the expected excitement and flavor she brings to her show. All four of us were disappointed with the meal. Hope the kinks work themselves out, but we won't be back to see it.
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