Beakman wrote: >Can anyone recommend some good restaurants in Las Vegas - I'm not looking >for the $1.99 all you can eat places, but rather someplace where I can >get a fine meal. I have no particular cuisine preferences, though I do >like ethnic restaurants (New Mexican, Texan, etc. count as "ethnic" >restaurants when your from New England.) :) Well, you recomended a good sushi place for me in Boston, so I figure I owe you one! I really enjoyed my meal at Spago in LV earlier this year. The food was great, the presentation nice, and the prices weren't all that outlandish. On the other hand, I was very disappointed in a meal I had at the Coyote Cafe. It didn't come close to what I'd been expecting based on a meal I had had at Red Sage in Washington, DC, last year (same owner). Garlic Cafe is interesting, but if you like your food really hot be sure to tell them because our waitress gave us a choice of 1-5 in terms of hotness and even 5 wasn't very hot (we later found out there were other choices we were not told about). The appetizer platter is particularly good, and portions are large. -- Bill [email removed] Article 811 of alt.vacation.las-vegas:
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Beakman wrote: > >Can anyone recommend some good restaurants in Las Vegas ..... (snip) There are good restaurants there-but mostly off the (well) beaten tourist track. A great little hole in the wall Vietnamese is "Saigon." I don't remember the street but I always look it up in the phone book and eat there when I'm in Vegas on business.
In article , [email removed] (Alan Bloom) wrote: > Beakman wrote: > > > > >Can anyone recommend some good restaurants in Las Vegas ..... Greetings, I just got back from Las Vegas where we ate at most of the casino buffets. (I'm still trying to get my stomach back to normal!). Far and away beyond compare the best was the Golden Nugget. Don't even try the others. They're not even worth the few dollars they cost. Speaking of food in Nevada - can someone explain why food is so cheap in restaurants there? Alan
Someone wrote: : There's a Swiss/Austrian (?) place downtown near the courthouse that a lot of : attys. (debatable recommendation, I know) frequent for lunch. Open for : dinner as well. Very good with reasonable wine list. Look in LV yellow pages : under Swiss or German restaurants. You'll recognize the name as a Swiss : place. I think you mean Alpine Village? Maybe not, I don't remember it being near the courthouse, but I do know a lot of people go there for special occasions. Worth a shot! Article 960 of alt.vacation.las-vegas:
There's a Swiss/Austrian (?) place downtown near the courthouse that a lot of attys. (debatable recommendation, I know) frequent for lunch. Open for dinner as well. Very good with reasonable wine list. Look in LV yellow pages under Swiss or German restaurants. You'll recognize the name as a Swiss place.
Someone wrote: McHUE wrote: : > : Get off the strip and into the city! A terrific Vietnamese place is : "Saigon" on west Sahara. I went to Saigon a couple of weeks ago and had some of the worst Vietnamese food I've ever eaten. The fresh spring rolls (garden rolls) had been made many hours in advance and refrigerated. They were dried out and tough. The outside had the texture of swiss cheese. I had to send them back. I can't remember the last time (before this) I had to send food back. The Pho was truly lackluster. Maybe I'm spoiled having lived in Washington, D.C. and now in Boston, but I was disappointed - especially because I brought some pretty timid friends with me to have their first Vietnamese food ever. On a brighter note, their sizziling rice soup was pretty good. dave
Depends on your definition of "good," I guess. We last went to Vegas in '92. Stayed a week and made eating well a priority. A few suggestions: -- For steak, The Steak House at Circus Circus (believe it or not) is absolutely awesome. Huge steaks, gigantic lamb chops (3 double-cuts to an order), king-size potatoes and some pretty mean black bean soup. Generous drinks, too. And all this at very decent prices. I think we spent under $50 on dinner for two, including one shrimp cocktail and probably three rounds of drinks. One drawback: Everything is cooked on a open grill that's in the center of the room. That's great for the food, but the ventilation is not all it could be, so the room gets a tad smokey when the place is packed. -- For something different, try Yoli's, a Brazilian "steakhouse." This place is a mile or three off the strip; definitely a cab ride. You pay one price (mid-teens) and get your appetizer, soup (as I recall) and then a procession of roasted meats. They just keep coming back with something new every time your plate is empty. *Very* good stuff. -- If you really want to blow a bundle (yeah, win it at the tables first), head up to Palace Court at Caesars. Absolutely astounding French food, better than letter-perfect all the way. Your after-dinner coffee is fresh-brewed on your table over a flame. And it's almost worth the trip (and the cost -- more than $200 for two with a drink, wine and the works) to get a glimpse of the high-roller casino that's up there: a no-limit room with an armed guard on the door, a knock-your-eyes-out buffet on a table in the middle and just a couple of guys sitting around playing blackjack with chips you'll never see downstairs.