I went to Mon Ami Gabi mid-January for lunch as it came highly recommended. Two words; Never. Again.
I decided to sit at the bar since it was only myself and the restaurant seemed busy..no need to take up an entire table. There was only one seat left at the bar. To my left there was a nice couple from the Midwest, to my right, a 70 year old lady that reeked of mothballs with eye makeup that would make your mother blush and fishnet stockings. I figured, eh, this is Vegas.
I started off with oysters, Kumomoto I believe? The oysters tasted good but the mignonette that accompanied them tasted of pure vinegar. Now I know mignonette is a vinegar-based condiment, but I tasted nothing else. No onion taste, no black pepper. Nothing. I know a great champagne mignonette recipe I could share with them...
For my lunch entree I had escargot. I had been craving it for the past week and could not wait to try it here. I'm not sure how to describe the taste other than being "off." I am almost positive restaurants get escargot from a can, so how can you screw it up? I told myself I wasn't going to finish the snails and I didn't. Turns out that was probably a smart idea.
I did a little shopping afterwards and starting to feel a little off. I was dizzy and in a lot of pain, showing symptoms of food poisoning. Later that evening I flew home to Miami, and let me tell you, you don't know true h*ll until you have had food poisoning on a red eye flight.