text: Look I am a local in Las Vegas so I know that you are going to be paying a premium to eat on the strip but as far as nickel and diming its customers Circo takes the cake nnIf you are going to charge that amount for food it better be something good There better be fresh ingredients there should be good service and there should be a decent ambiance nnCirco had none of these traitsnnFirst I never would have gone to this restaurant if it were not for a group that convinced me to go with them Before we went into the Circo we decided to have a drink at the bar across the way I struck up a conversation with the bartender there about living in Las Vegas among other things The bartender was a nice regular guy with the twang of one of the boys from the old days After talking for a while he asked at which restaurant we were eating I replied Circo and he laughed and said Hope you brought your checkbookBad OmennnTHE ATMOSPHEREnnWe get there and the atmosphere is like children of the corn meets Candyland It seriously reminded me of the part in Fear and Loathing where Gonzo had to be pulled off the Circus Circus carousel because he took too much ethernnThere are demonic Monkeys on tricycles and clowns hanging from the ceiling Why anyone would want to eat in a place like this is totally beyond my comprehension Unless of course they are a serial killer who decided to stop taking his medsnnI understand the whole French people like this sort of thing thing so ok I can get past it nnPlus the fountains were nice to watch but I was always hesitant to watch them as I was sure as soon as I turned my back on the tricycle monkey from hell I would get a shank to the backnnAnyway I digressnnTHE FOODnnFirst of all the food names on the menu do not actually make any sense like for instance if its a Caesar salad call it a Caesar salad Do Not call it Bagna Cauda because that is not even what Bagna Cauda isnnBagna Cauda is akin to a garlic and anchovy fondue Hence why it translates to Warm BathnnBagna Cauda is NOT A CAESAR SALAD And by the way I am pretty sure they import their Caesar salad from pizza hut because it tastes exactly the same and has the same ingredientsBut at least the pizza hut Caesar salad does not cost you DOLLARSnnI have to laugh at the other reviewers that posted saying this is Authentic ItaliannnI digress again I wanted to stay on the cheap side of things so I just ordered a roasted garden vegetable pizza and got a Peroni to whet the whistle I figure OK you cannot really screw this upnnThe Peroni comes out first Peroni is like the Italian BudweiserIts at the most about bucks for a pack at the corner store So i am thinking for bucks they are going to come out with a Hafbrauhaus style liter stein for me to drink out ofnnWRONGit comes out in apparently a drinkware made for tiny people from another time period On the bright side though it made my hand look gigantic in the pictures we tooknnThe grilled garden vegetable pizza came out nextSince I knew I was getting bent over anyway for eating at the Bellagio I was not expecting too much At least it met my expectations The Garden Vegetables were the typical Eggplant and zucchini that were grilled using the same time honored techniques as used by traditional airline stewardesses And the crust tasted like Boboli I actually like Boboli crust so its not knocking Bobolibut I do not really want to pay bucks for itnnThe girls got some other food that nobody could ever pronounce and they liked it at the time It seemed fancy and shiny and girls like that sort of thing But afterward when they got back to their rooms they were facedown in the toilet from either food poisoning or they had become possessed by the monkey demon king I am guessing food poisoning since from my point of view their fish was actually fresh sometime during the Carter administrationnnTHE SERVICEnnApparently Circo is way too trendy for ice water Because they do not give you any Which is OK since when the waiter actually DID come around to pour the warm water he would extend his arm across to reach for the glass thus revealing the ripe smell of industrial armpits I had to keep checking him to make sure his shirt was not melting onto the tablennThe main waiter was probably nice but I would not actually know that since not even a babelfish could translate what he was saying At least in the end he tried to stiff us on the check which had a couple charges that we did not make nnNow that I think about it i am pretty sure the reason why they use erroneous menu terms is so that they can add it to the end bill and nobody would be the wisernnAll in all I managed to only spend bucks and still look like I was not the cheapest man on earth to the present company Even with my dollar tab our person table was able to rack up a dollar check only getting half entrees and appsnnNever again Ci