NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:04:26 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:51932 I went to Delmonico's in June for my birthday. Eight in our party; everyone enjoyed the food and service. I've seen some others that have posted here and in other newsgroups saying that they didn't think it was worth the price. It was about $80 or so a person with drinks (if I remember correctly). Been to Red Square at Mandalay Bay also. First time was the year before for my birthday--loved it. Second time was at Christmas time last year. Less impressed. Good service, but they changed their menu and I didn't like the way they made stroganoff the second time. Very noisy--not a romantic spot. Great selection of vodka, okay selection of caviar, surprisingly small menu selection (I thought). Been to Emeril's Fish House for lunch. Okay...a bit spicy and a little pricy. Had the gumbo and personally, I think Sunset Station's Oyster Bar does better (but that's not anywhere near the Strip). Might be a little longer walk than you want, but Circus Circus (yes, Circus Circus!) has a place called simply "The Steakhouse." They have a wonderful Sunday brunch--buffet, but you can order off the menu also. Great steaks. I understand, but can't vouch personally, that the French restaurant (sorry, I don't know the name) at Paris is great. The one in the Effel Tower replica. Also a bit longer walk, but friends tell me "Top of the World" (Top of the Strip???) at the Stratosphere is really good, as is the Vodoo Cafe at the Rio. Haven't heard anything about the restaurants at the Monte Carlo, but it's a very nice hotel--they should have good food! October is a really good time to visit here...the weather is still very nice, but the heat is gone. Enjoy your visit. :-) Les Jim D. wrote: > Hi All, > > My wife and I will be in Las Vegas at the end of October. We are familiar > with the various buffets but wanted to try some sit down restaurants. > > Has anyone had experience with Delmonico's, Emeril's Fish House, or any > others on the strip. We'll be at the Monte Carlo and a walk for good food > helps the appetite on the way and reduces calories on the return. > > Thanks for the recommendations. > -- > Every day above groud is a good day > Jim Dolliver > Bel-Rob Services > to reply, remove the 3 from the address
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NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Oct 2000 22:46:42 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:51934 Jim D. wrote: >Has anyone had experience with Delmonico's, Emeril's Fish House, or any >others on the strip. We'll be at the Monte Carlo and a walk for good food >helps the appetite on the way and reduces calories on the return. I stayed at the Monte Carlo right after it opened. I seem to remember a decent brewpub there, didn't check out other restaurants. Some of the restaurants that I've enjoyed in the past were Spago's and Palm's at Caesar's forum, Rosewood Grille (near the old Sands is that where the new Alladin is?), etc. Here is a review of a recent trip to Vegas (just over a week ago), that I posted on ba.food. Vegas Trip, the report... Our flight to vegas friday afternoon was miraculously on-time, and we arrived by cab to the Luxor hotel and casino by 5:30 pm. We ran into our friends in the lobby (it's a huge place, guess we got lucky). The check-in was very painless, and we had a few minutes to unpack and rest before heading over to Mandalay Bay next door for our 7pm dinner reservation at the Red Square. The Red Square is something else. You can find various descriptions on the web, but I don't think they do it justice, you simply have to see it. From the beheaded Lenin statue in front (huge and covered with fake pigeon droppings), to the head that's now inside the vodka-tasting lockers with glass walls, it's a hoot. We got there early and got seated after checking out the bar (with a wide strip of ice down it's middle). A lot of excellent food and alcohol (vodkas mostly) were consumed. We had: Siberian nachoes (creme fresh, caviar and smoked salmon on wonton chips) Beluga caviar (best I've had in a while) Greens salad with goat cheese Blini with creme fresh and smoked salmon 2 Tuna and Salmon tartar appetizer Yellowfin tuna (rare, over a potato "salad") 2 Salmon kulebyaka (salmon and stuff in puff pastry) Creme Brulee Chocolate cake with liquid center Frozen lemon souffle Stawberries Romanoff 4 Red Square shirts (small red square on front, "JOIN THE PARTY" on back) 1 glass of wine 10 vodka shots and/or cocktails. The total bill was in the $600 range. Other than Salmon only two other entrees (out of a dozen or so) were "Russian": chicken Kiev, and a beef stroganoff type dish. There was a fixed price 4 course meal, of choices not available on the a la carte menu. The atmosphere was very "old Russia" inside, lots of red velvet, etc. The service was excellent. The food was excellent. The bill was... well, anyway, it was great. And their smoked salmon was the best I've ever had. After dinner we went to "Tally Ho", Las Vegas' best strip club and met up with some more friends there. It's gone a little more upscale since the last time we were there, but that didn't interfere with the excellent experience. We also got a free limo back to our hotels. The next day, we split up (they all went to the Star Trek experience which we'd done before) and we went to explore the nearby casinos to the Luxor: Excalibur, New York-New York, and MGM. We played in the arcade at the Excalibur, split a Krispy Kreme glazed donut there (and got a Las Vegas Krispy Kreme t-shirt for a cow orker of mine), had a quick bite a the "Italian" place in the NY/NY food court (which is sort of modeled after Greenwich Village, it's kind of cute). Then we rode the Manhattan Express -- a kick-ass roller coaster, even if it costs $10/each. We walked over to MGM where we oogled the parrots, watched the lions, and got our picture taken with a lion cub for another $20.00 (the money was bleeding out of me this trip). After getting back to the Luxor, going for a swim in their pool, a soak in their hot tub and a nap in our room (very nice room on the 23rd floor), we were ready to meet up with our friends for the next food excusion, to "Stephan Pyles' Star Canyon" at the Venetian. I'd not been to the Venetian before and was suitably impressed -- very classy (for a LV casino anyway). The gondola ride was sold out for the rest of the day. The area around the canal is even more impressive than the Forum ship area in Caesar's. Star Canyon is supposed to be a Southwestern Cruisine place and was picked as being vegetarian friendly. See menu here: http://lasvegas.citysearch.com/E/V/LASNV/0003/92/42/8.html There were five of us this time and we had: Rock Shrimp Taquitos w/mango BBQ and avocado-tomatillo salsa Southwestern Caesar Salad w/Jalapeno Polenta croutons & achovy-parmesan wafer Fried Green Tomato Salad w/ marinated-grilled mozzarella and crisp capers Roasted Poblano Soup w/hoja santa and smoked pepper crema chilled shrimp & jicama soup w/fresh goat's buttermilk and basil barbecued mussels w/goat cheese-scallion toasts Fennel crusted halibut w/green olive potato cake and sour orage mojo iron seared tuna w/Three Bean-Arugula Ragout, Calamata Olives, and Preserved Lemon Aioli Star Canyon Vegetable Plate Wood Roasted Corn, Green Olive-Potato Cake, Maple Glazed Sweet Potatoes, and Ratatouille Tamale Oak Smoked Prime Rib with Roast Garlic Mashers, Asparagus and Horseradish Crema Lace Cookie Taco w/Berries, cream and caramel I think there was at least one other dessert but I can't recall what it was. The food and service were excellent here also, but not quite as good as the red square. Still worth a trip, IMHO if you like the sounds of the menu. After dinner we went to the Bellaggio for "O" the Cirque du Soleil in water show which was the goal of this trip. It was breath-taking and awe-inspiring. I did almost kill the a-hole behind me who was doing the "Hey, guess where I am" on his cellphone as the pre-show was starting, luckily he must have sensed the bad vibe and hung up. Sunday was a pretty laid back day. We had a breakfast at the Luxor buffet (one of the fewplaces that wasn't doing Sunday brunch), but since we got there around 11:15 we got to have breakfast for $8.49 and still sample their lunch. It was an average buffet, I mainly stuck to omlette station ( where they will make an egg-white only omlette if you ask), and other "safe" things. I do have to say their bacon was phenomenal. After killing the rest of the afternoon gambling at the Excalibur (which had low minimum $3 tables, and a non-smoking section, but not together!) we headed back to the Luxor for dinner at Isis, their best of the best gourmet room (or whatever they call it, it was their top restaurant). Very classy, impecable service, very creative menu and good food. (We had read review and menu at http://www.unlv.edu/Tourism/ISISLuxor.html) We had Seared Foie Gras with Sauteed Apples in a Port Wine Sauce Baked Prawns Filled with a Duxelle of Crab and Scallop Mousse Grilled Sea Scallops with Roasted Pepper Sauce Sonoma Greens with Warm Goat Cheese, Walnut Dressing Salmon Fillet in Phyllo with Spinach, Pine Nuts, Lobster Sauce Seared Sesame Chicken and Lobster, Tahini Sauce Braised Breast of Pheasant filled with Foie Gras of Duck and Pistachio Opakapaka with stuffing of crab meat, brie and walnut Asparagus and Broccoli Hollandaise, wild rice pilaf The Opakapaka was the special, and the stuffing was the most amazing thing we'd ever tasted. No one could stop eating it. It was one of our party's birthday and the waiters brought a very nice "dessert" (because of flights and early shows we couldn't actually get dessert) two chocolate dipped stawberries on a place of custard with "Happy Birthday" written in chocolate sauce (really, it looked nicer than this sounds). We then ran off to catch our flight as our friends went off to catch the Blue Man Group. Yet another fun trip to Vegas if a bit expensive. And we didn't even make it to the Luxor Spa which is open 24 hours...
AJ's at the Hard Rock. A great steak house with a really nice atmosphere. Jim D. wrote: > Hi All, > > My wife and I will be in Las Vegas at the end of October. We are familiar > with the various buffets but wanted to try some sit down restaurants. > > Has anyone had experience with Delmonico's, Emeril's Fish House, or any > others on the strip. We'll be at the Monte Carlo and a walk for good food > helps the appetite on the way and reduces calories on the return. > > Thanks for the recommendations. > -- > Every day above groud is a good day > Jim Dolliver > Bel-Rob Services > to reply, remove the 3 from the address
NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Oct 2000 14:13:49 GMT User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:52042 wrote: >We recently returned from Las Vegas, where we had two dinners. One, at >Picasso at the Bellagio, was a fine, if flawed, essay in the current American haute >cuisine. The other, at Lotus of Siam, said by some to be the finest Thai >restaurant in North America, was outstanding, although Arun in Chicago would >still be my choice for the best. Interesting. John Mariani's choice of Picasso as the best new restaurant in American last year, as noted in his December article in Esquire would have made Picasso my first choice if I was in Las Vegas or maybe even reason enough to go there. I tended to find his comments in line with my reaction to the restaurants I knew. Unfortunately (for me) he has a much better budget for travel and dining around the country.
NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Oct 2000 03:50:21 GMT X-Accept-Language: en X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) Xref: usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu rec.food.restaurants:52066 We had a really great dinner at Aureole at the Mandalay Bay in August. We went with friends who live in Las Vegas, and have been to many of the fancy places, and they agreed that it was the best they'd been to. The price fixed menu was $55 in the main dining room, which I think was actually a pretty good bargain. For $20 more you can sit in a nicer room with a view of the swans, if that sort of thing is worth it to you. We had a nice view of the wine tower. Bill Robert S. wrote: > > We recently returned from Las Vegas, where we had two dinners. One, at Picasso at > the Bellagio, was a fine, if flawed, essay in the current American haute cuisine. > The other, at Lotus of Siam, said by some to be the finest Thai restaurant in > North America, was outstanding, although Arun in Chicago would still be my choice > for the best. > > Robert Schonfeld > [email removed]