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| - Spago was one mediocre, upscale restaurant. Aiming to try a celebrity chef owned restaurant in Vegas (isn't Vegas all about names and brand?), four of us stumbled upon Spago, a Wolfgang Puck restaurant, after being rejected by Mesa on a Saturday night.
The setting is fairly minimalist and modern. I particularly liked one corner where a giant white chandelier hangs against a simple dark brown wall.
The service was really really slow and the waitress was aware of that. I saw other tables waiting for food for quite a while too, so it wasn't just us.
Food: well, the walnut cherry bread was good which we gnawed on for quite a while waiting for our food to arrive. We each had 2 oysters. One I had was really fishy, but the other was okay.
I had the Hong Kong style bass for entree. I wasn't expecting an authentic piece of fish flying out of a hot wok or anything, but I did hope for something tender and juicy like the name suggests, and there was nothing "Hong Kong" about it. Fish was overdone, and there wasn't much of the umami aroma associated with Hong Kong style steamed fish. The rice on the side was perhaps better than your average americanized steamed rice, but pretty bad for this price.
maybe I just didn't order the right thing, since this isn't a Chinese restaurant afterall. However, the others didn't love their dishes either. I don't remember much other than they were a duck dish, a pasta dish and a lamb dish.
Nothing really stood out, and maybe that was why we were able to get a table without reservation on a Saturday night.
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