. "2"^^ . "4"^^ . "1"^^ . "Ugh! I have been putting off writing this review but tonight sat down to finish off all my reviews of my check ins. This one is the tough one because every one loves this place so much but here goes........\nI did not care for this restaurant at all. I visited on Dec 2, 2014 at 6pm reservation so I had flown from Houston to Vegas arriving at noon and I had been up since 5am Houston time so by the time I got here I was exhausted so I am hoping that had to do with my bad experience. I was seated with very little wait. the place is so beautiful but hard to tell because it is so DARK! I had to pull out my iPhone to light up my menu and my food and I never have to do that!\nI was brought some bread to start and guy delivering bread told me to be careful because bread in little cast iron skillet was extremely hot so to let it cool I ate a few of the hard sticks of bread which I hate. So I feel top of bread in skillet and it is barely warm, so I pull it out and break it in half and it is ice, ice cold! So much for my hot bread. It is good though but better hot I am sure. \nI started with the Orzo Meatballs with pomodoro sauce. The meatballs were dry and tasted like Sams warehouse meatballs in a bag. Sauce was good.\nI wanted to try veal chop Milanese style and the waiter said it was cooked to a medium temp was that ok with me? yes I said medium is fine. Also ordered lemon potatoes.\nThe chop arrived and it was huge. Also just a huge chunk of meat coated in bread crumbs with no sauce. So I cut in and take a bite and it is chewy and tastes like saw dust but I am hungry so I try another bite same deal but even chewier so I whip out my cell phone to look at it and it is raw!! Now I hate hate hate sending things back so I don't even want to mess with it but I did call waiter over and show him the raw slab of meat on my plate. He apologizes and wants to send it back to re cook it but I am done by this time so I just tell him it is ok I will just try dessert.\nHe also says that Giada was going to be visiting next day and she would be horrified by the rawness. I doubt he told her! lol\nPotatoes were bland and had no lemon flavor whatsoever. So maybe dessert will be better.........Nope! I got the deconstructed lemon meringue pie and it was dry and blah!\nWaiter was way too busy to give good service or maybe because I was single woman by myself but he was good enough to take chop off the ticket. \nHopefully this was isolated incident and next time I am in Vegas I will give Giada's another try."^^ . "2"^^ . . . "2015-01-24T00:00:00"^^ .