Problem: we order delivery from here at least once a week, the food is good and the delivery is better :) i love the cashew chicken...mmm..and shrimp egg rolls... sweet and sour chicken is also very tasty! love the fried wontons and chinese doughnuts...yum! :)
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A: positive

Problem: The Skinny: generic, unauthentic sushi (1) with tired decor and service (1). This little "sushi" bar is located across the street from Mountainview hospital. We'd read so many positive reviews of this place that we were eager to check it out. My husband got there earlier than I did and got a table during lunchtime. As soon as I arrived, he gave me an uncertain look like maybe we ought to vamoose this popsicle joint. Yes, it was that scary. Really, it's not a sushi bar in the true Japanese sense of the word. It's a travesty to say that this place is a sushi bar. I mean, it tries to be cute with the little dirty flower taped pens on the table (yeah - yuck!). The decor definitely meets the hole in the wall criteria with it's dingy lighting, and a sad looking "sushi bar" area that was (when we arrived) half occupied by empty paper boxes. I ordered a diet coke which came in a large plastic glass which the hostess refilled with another large plastic glass (classy!). But hey, give us points for sticking this place out. We wanted to give this place the benefit of the doubt. We probably should have listened to our better instincts. On to the food. The fish is not that fresh - the texture is mushy suggesting the salmon was frozen or not stored properly . Sushi was poorly wrapped - overly loose, actually, making it difficult to eat. Tempura was hard and probably throwing it at someone could get you arrested for manslaughter. Miso soup was like the pre-packaged dehydrated stuff you can get at the supermarket. Given the plethora of great Japanese restaurants in the city, give this one a pass.
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Problem: I really, really wanted to love this place. It's beautiful and in a great location, has lots of highly regarded restaurants and shops. Unfortunately I end up having a decent time only about one out of every five times that I'm there and that's in spite of the place and not because of it. Take tonight for example; I played at the slots for SEVEN HUNDRED points before I could get a drink. It's a friday night at peak hours, yet there wasn't a waitress to be found. Eventually I asked someone to send a waitress by and when one still didn't come I lucked out by a creepy floor guy corralling one in my direction with what I'd consider lewd behavior (I'm pretty sure he smacked her *behind*). Try going to the bar to get a drink instead you say? I have. I've been to the downstairs chandelier bar on almost every visit and god forbid you open a tab at the bar, because waitresses on the floor will close you out and make you reopen with them if you order from the bartender (which is often a necessity). Half the girls that I've seen are in over their head, or so it would seem from the way they charge around the floor. It's not the sort of behavior (or level of service) you would expect from a place like this. I hear that they are having a hard time getting people to gamble here and I can see why. It's a place to come and eat, shop or even stay (I hear the rooms are amazing) but it's not a place to meet friends for a casual drink or gamble (at least in my experience). As a repatriated local I really wanted this place to be more welcoming, but either my expectations were too high or this place is (as I see it) a Las Vegas stereotype; beautiful but lacking substance.
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A: negative

Problem: Worst buffet in all of Las Vegas. Avoid at all costs. Everything is a shade of brown and comes from a can. No creative thought process, no demonstration of any culinary skill or art form whatsoever. If you have or like the sound of screaming children, enjoy lukewarm food that all tastes like chicken, you will enjoy Cravings. We thought we might like this buffet for lunch. It was around $45 USD per person; we both left feeling as if we were cattle being led to slaughter. Few healthy alternatives and supermarkets have fresher and better tasting sushi. By the way, how is it possible to create in edible macaroni and cheese? Cravings buffet made this possible.
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