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| - I've not mentioned in my earlier reviews, but my husband is a chef -- a really good chef -- at a top restaurant in town which I'll keep to myself -- but that said, people always ask me "Does your husband cook at home?" (he's rarely home...) and "I'll never have you over for dinner.." (err...) and "It must be impossible to go out to dinner..." (this is my point for the long personal diatribe...) Yes, it is very difficult to go out to dinner when I finally get the opportunity to see my husband. He does this for a living (I do, too) -- we love restaurants, they're our life -- we love food, we love checking out new places -- and yet, when they're bad -- OMG, we're in hell. I guess because our opportunities together are so rare, so precious, so few -- it's very tough to go to someplace new -- mostly because if service isn't flawless, and he can't relax, it's a horrible miserable evening -- because we spend the evening critiquing it, how to fix the service, the menu, the food, the...
That said...B&B was our "BIG" family dinner -- the two of us, my mother -- his only night off during the holidays. PRESSURE...because I'd not checked it out first. We've eaten at all of MB's restaurants in NYC -- we're big fans -- they've been some of our most fun dining experiences together -- and he's relaxed. We even got pregnant after one particularly fun night -- but I digress again...
We had a terrific meal. A flawless experience. A wonderful time.
We didn't take pictures of our food -- and it's a shame, because the plates were stunning -- equally stunning was the amount of food we were able to try on our first visit -- we covered almost every appetizer, most of the pastas... the big winner favorite dish of the night -- hands down, the octopus. Wow -- what a surprise.
We also had the Lamb's tongue, the duck egg, the parm reg sformato, the pork trotter and the salumi. Of this bunch, I could have taken a bath in the Sformato. It was divine.
Pastas: we had the corzetti with rabbit, mint love letters, pappardelle with wild boar ragu and the lingune with crab and jalapeno and the chef sent us from his tasting menu the uni ravioli.
Amazingly, my husband ordered more...the rabbit and sweetbreads -- I was officially done, although I had to try the cardoons (never had them before and it was making me crazy).
All I wanted at this point -- because we had reservations to go to Love after this (and I really just wanted to lie on the floor...) was a very large espresso and a limoncello...but noooo, dessert came -- salted caramel gelato, grappa poached pears, cheese, chocolate...
Food coma is an understatement -- but every bite was truly delicious -- even though I couldn't eat for two days afterwards...I can't wait to go back -- and am planning to take my Mother again this weekend (we saw two cozy seats at the bar that looked perfect for an easy supper...)
I just wish I could deal with the drama of the strip (and had a larger bank account), I'd probably be much more of a regular.
We watched them work every table -- we love their team service. Yes, the bathrooms were lovely.
The dining room decor was surprising to us -- how the designers can turn such an impossible space into a charming, romantic, intimate restaurant that feels "real" and not staged -- and like it's been there forever is amazing to me -- the magic of Vegas -- the heart of Rob Goldstein -- and eyes (and stomachs) of Mario and the Bastianich family and the wallet of Sheldon Adelson get my fondest congratulations and thanks!
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