Problem: Write a negative yelp review.
A: Had great hopes with this restaurant, given all the great reviews. This was my first time there - went for the omakase - Roka has two choices - a $98 which is composed of "the most premium ingredients" and a $128 "comprised of rare and hand selected ingredients." I ordered the $128 menu. Perhaps I am more of a "foodie" then I thought, or it was the chef's choices, but I was pretty bored with the dishes that were sent out, as I've had most of it before. Ponzu sauce and truffle oil were on most of the dishes. The yellowtail sashimi and oyster both had a bad aftertaste. Requested some ginger to cleanse the pallet. Squash blossom tempura wasn't anything to write home about. Steamed mussels are well, steamed mussels. Also on the menu were the beef tataki, which was good, black cod, domestic wagyu beef (a little gamey), grilled asparagus and zucchini, and a wild mushroom hot pot (somewhat interesting). The only dish that I hadn't had before was a Japanese pepper that had been grilled - which was pretty good also included was a a toro flight which I enjoyed. For desert, passion fruit and a berry sorbet, panecotta, and fruit ie. cantelope, grapefruit, pear, mango, some berries. Desert was definitely a dud. Overall, expected more - the taste of the food was okay. For what I recieved, this place fell flat. This is not even considering the price. Including the price into the equation, definitely thought it was overpriced and not worth it.

Problem: Write a positive yelp review.
A: Annie and I have been waiting for this place to open for a while and I'm happy to say that Paul and the gang were able to navigate the ridiculous rules and regs' of local government to get this place going'. This review will need to be updated because the menu will change after this "soft" phase and I'm being just a touch generous in my initial review due to the joint being only open for a few days and the fact that I've been out of the review game for a while now. "Brix" is owned by the team that brought you "toast" on Baum. I'm a huge fan of toast and pleased to say that some of the most enviable attributes of that restaurant have translated to Brix. Brix is a wine bar. It looked to have a great selection of wine at multiple price points with different serving sizes that allow you to sample many items...Let's call it a "wine buffet" if you so choose. This is wonderful and I wish other restaurants could copy this idea. The space is very nice and I so hope it will be successful because this location has been the demise of so many multiple restaurants. The most recent being "cassis" which was not to be long for this earth, with its dungeon like interior and multiple personality menu...but that's another story. They re-arranged this place a bit. The interior is pleasant with a large bar in the main dining room with high ceilings and plenty of room to move around. The outdoor seating was wonderful. They did a great job with the lighting, music and accents on the space. It was one of the few times in recent memory that I really enjoyed eating outside. The weather being perfect helped. We arrived at about 730 PM on a Friday and there were no tables available. This is a good sign for the place being it just opened, however this also meant they didn't really have a system set up for seating and even though we arrived first a couple tables were seated ahead of us. I'm not too concerned about this; because I'm sure they'll have a system resolved for this shortly. The guy who greeted us at the door,,,Troy and Michael who ultimately sat us were both pleasant and professional. Mathew was our waiter and he's served us before multiple times at Eleven. This place had more than a couple big burrito alum'. My dirty martini was perfect with just enough dirty and no garnish. The menu is a much simplified I hope version of what the full menu will be. It seemed to me to be more of a lunch menu, but Michael assured me there will be entree' features in the future. The prices were more than fair for the food. We started with a charcuterie and cheese plate. We really enjoyed this and Will was able to explain each meat and cheese. There was a large selection of some common and not so common (beef tongue) charcuterie and a better than pedestrian sample of hard and soft cheese. We followed this up with a $5 personal margherita pizza. The crust was okay...I was hoping for it to be a bit crispier and texturally satisfying given the brick oven. The tomatoes were delicious and actually tasted like tomatoes and the cheese was restrained,,,which is a good thing with this type of pizza. Annie then had the prime rib sandwich and potatoes salad for her entree'. This was served with a jus. The potatoes salad was very good and had some type of herb I couldn't identify that added to a complexity of flavor that surprised me. The jus was bland. I think maybe a little seasoning or longer reduction would have aided the flavor. I liked the beef, but Annie couldn't eat too much of it. It was very rare. This is okay with me, but a no no for the lady. I had the stuffed pepper. It was stuffed with a lamb sausage and served with a roasted sauce. It was okay, but again suffered a bit from lack of seasoning. There were no desserts on the menu yet. Overall the space is beautiful and the service good by competent highly trained professionals. This is a good new addition to the area and I'm sure some of the small misses will be rectified. I believe this will be part of our rotation and I look forward to a bit more of an expanded menu. Paul, Chet and the rest of the team deserve a shot at your business.

Problem: Write a negative yelp review.
A:
This may be the largest gift shop and merit a look through but there are many things wrong with this place. I promised some kids in San Diego that I would bring them Vegas caps and t-shirts, 1st problem NO KIDS HATS, 2nd problem no one knows their inventory in this store. I asked 3 different people for help and received 3 different answers. So it was left for me to look through all this junk until I found something that would work. 3rd thing, do not mistake the junkie appearance inside/out for inexpensive souvenir cr**. They are not cheap, but everything looks so cheaply made. I bought my items under constant scrutiny from all the rent a cops that patrol the store in their khaki regalia. Next time I am asked to bring souvenirs it will NOT be in this dirty over stocked junk store..