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| - Honestly, I was excited to see one of my favourite restaurants come to Las Vegas. I love the Marina Del Ray location so I had high hopes. This is not a place you go when you want gourmet fancy this, fancy that or even highly creative anything. This is the place you come when you want hot steamy delicious goodness in a bowl that never lets you down.....until you have it in Vegas. I gave three stars because of its roots and hopefully the promise of it growing into the very large shoes it has to fill.
In order to do that, some changes will need to be made in the service area. I don't know our servers name (and I should, right?) as she wasn't around much to check on us, fill our drinks, see how things were, if I might have liked a spoon....I never got. (This is a bowl of broth...no spoons came for us) She further ruined our experience with the food by being a horrible server in an almost empty establishment. I served for years through college and after. I know she was bad. I even got up to wonder around to find myself some salt. I needed salt because the broth was just bad. I was so disappointed. The shrimp, and I don't even know how this could happen, had no flavor. None. Neither did the pasta I ordered in it. Also, the shrimp were over cooked and shriveled up and rubbery. The bread was not good but not such a terrible thing since I didn't want to soak up the broth anyway. The bread in Marina Del Ray is soooo good. But the broth was not up to par with the mother store. It was just spicy with oregano floating in it and no real flavor. I wanted it to be good so bad. It was not. I realize they have only been open five weeks, as the manager (?) kept repeating. I think she was the manager, she never said. But listen, are the first weeks not very important? Should you even open if you aren't ready? What about putting your best foot forward? No excuses. Just do it. She adjusted our bill by 25%. Oh, we also ordered calamari. It has potential but was loaded with oil, like the fryer wasn't hot enough. Most people don't know what to expect. If I was a newbie, I'd NEVER go back. But, I'm a faithful fan.....I will go back.....in a few months (to give them time to get it right) if they make it that long.
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