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| - The Palms recently changed hands; given our horrible experience at the 24 Seven Cafe, the changes aren't for the better. This coffee shop, located adjacent to the Palms' convenient self parking garage, used to be inexpensive and reasonably decent. Now the food is inedible and the prices eye-popping. There are American and Asian menus. The American menu features $10 burgers, $12 BLT sandwiches, and late at night a $7 ham steak and eggs (toast is extra). Soft drinks are $4 and a cup of hot water with a tea bag will set you back $5 -- unless you order from the Asian menu where hot tea is $1 per person. We wound up ordering from the less-expensive Asian menu. One of us had $9 kung pao chicken which was OK, but rice is now $1, and the free crispy noodles with duck sauce and mustard that used to arrive automatically is no more. I ordered the $9 beef chow fun with gravy. It almost arrived with the kung pao, but the waitress said, oops, we forgot the gravy so I sat there for 15 minutes or so watching my SO eat her kung pao while they redid the chow fun. The beef chow fun with gravy turned out to be no fun, the "gravy" was some tasteless brown substance that was so greasy the chow fun noodles slid off the fork every time I tried to eat them. The beef was likewise bland and inedible. A bottle of soy sauce was served with brown crud caked onto the side of the bottle. "It's only dried soy sauce," she explained.
There is just no comparison to, say, the excellent and reasonably priced Chinese and American fare a few miles down the Strip at the South Point. You can also drive a mile or so north to Las Vegas' Chinatown. What is the Palms' management thinking? $4 iced tea? Extra for white rice with a Chinese entree, or toast with your eggs??
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