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| - So, yeah, the food was good enough. I've had tapas before, that is to say that I've gone to a restaurant and shared a bunch of appetizers with friends - it should be a fun experience.
I'll ignore the somewhat high cost, because for Vegas, it wasn't that overwhelming. The food really was decent, but it was the service that really tanked. I mean REALLY tanked.
The waiter was a nice guy. he was friendly, helpful and kept the drinks refilled. Had we only ordered drinks, this review would have been better...
He asked if we wanted the food served as it came done (vs. all together) and we said fine. This is good, because otherwise it would have taken 2 hours to get fed.
The food came in clumsey bursts, separated by exceedingly long periods of nothingness, during which time we stared into the kitchen (we were seated in the back) and watched the chaos ensue. Three times a waiter/busboy came to our table and laid down a dish that wasn't ours. Once, the waiter jumped in and said "no, that's table 23!", the other two times we took an honest tack and sent the order away.
Over a period of about 1 1/2 hours we got our dishes, except the pizza. This as really the only thing that my brother-in-law (a finicky sort) had ordered. Since he ordered his tomato, mozerrella and olive pizza sans olives, we have a suspicion that his pizza went out twice to the wrong table, as we saw to oliveless pizzas pass by without stopping. Or maybe the rest of the crowd hates olives too.
They finally wrangled the pizza, which they comp'd after we said we didn't want it at all.
If there were staff issues, etc., going on, we didn't know about it, as no manager fessed up. They seemed to have plenty of staff, although none of them seemed to know what table they were in charge of. They also seemed to be running two restaurants out of the kitchen, so you may want to steer clear of Stripburger, too.
Basically, the food was decent, but the service was so chaotic that it was palpable.
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