Q: positive

A: Great place to get your smog check done. I was there during lunch time. From start to finish it took 10 min. There is a coupon online from their website. Make sure you present the coupon before the smog or they may not honor it. Professional staff as well. I will go back there from now on.

Q: negative

A: I really wanted a good pizza on my last night in Vegas, but sadly was disappointed at Enoteca Otto pizzeria. Should have known better than to expect authentic pizza in a major tourist area! Oh, well! I had the prosciutto/arugula pizza and my hubby had the pancetta/goat cheese. The pizza crust was thin but not flavorful and the sauce was too tangy for my taste. I'm Italian-American and have been to Italy several times and this pizza is not what Italians consider acceptable! Oh, by the way-I ordered Prosecco and was served in a wine glass-not a flute. Picky, I know-but they are not shy about charging top dollar for inauthentic experience!

Q: positive

A: Stunning! Looks and good service! I'm not a Vegas person. I'm not someone who goes to Vegas every chance I get...every long weekend, holiday break, or celebration is not automatically cause for going to Vegas in my mind. I've had friends who do...and I've participated but its not my thing...This hotel makes me want to re-evaluate that. This place is fantastic. And I was not even a hotel guest!!! I didn't stay here but I did just spend 4 days allover this b**** attending a conference. One long-a** conference. Spending 12+ hours here for work. Anyways, my review is of the hotel in general, their event spaces & service, catering, staff and bars/lounges. Just to get this out of the way, the drinks everywhere we went were totally fantastic. Fun, inventive, unique, tasty and strong!!! This opinion may be partially biased because my drinks were 1.) also largely free (during conference evening "networking" receptions and/or paid for by my work) and 2.) I imagine there is probably some concerted effort to generally keep the business travelers/conference-goers "happy" and liquored up and more likely to hit the hotel's bars, dining spots, and casinos after the daily conference events are over, where they'll probably spend more money since they can "expense" some of their costs. Anyways, mucho kudos for the stiff drinks and the fun mixes. (Check out the "adult vitamins" at Holstein's!) As everyone has noted, the ambiance and decor are amazing. Its a good-looking hotel. Lots of beautiful glass and shiny metal work. Very pretty and modern. But also not too cold. Just the right amount of plushness and dark leather to feel some warmth. Very with the times, electronic displays for hotel directories and info. Lots of chandeliers. Check out "The Chandelier", which apparently is the world's largest chandelier....something like 3.5 stories tall! The pretty light fixtures in the conference rooms make a nice distraction when you're bored during an afternoon workshop. Service was decent in the hotel in general. The staff in the lobby, casino floor, valet, taxi stand, general "public" areas of the hotel were always friendly, attentive and seemed to make their best effort towards helping you out. The catering/event staff still met the friendliness/sincerity mark but unfortunately they seem to have a lot of kinks in their processes that need to be worked out. That has nothing to do with their politeness & what-not but the wait staff/catering crews seemed a bit uncoordinated and less than methodical in their set-up & workflow coordination. Whoever is coordinating or attempting to manage the crew and oversee the set-up/layout for some of the receptions and luncheons needs to rethink some of their strategies and layouts. The food from the catering crew was definitely way better than their service/strategy. I had no complaints about the event food and neither did any other fellow conference go-ers. Everyone seemed to love the food! Lunch had a great variety of vegetarian and carnivore options. Fresh salads. Attempts at innovative combinations. Their versions of snack breaks were really cute! They included some different items for workshops breaks that I haven't seen at a conference/hotel venue before. Different, interesting & more fun than normal. I love getting cookies and coffee at conferences but the Cosmo did it even better...caramel popcorn, candy bar assortments, handmade potato chips, clif bars, red bull & sodas! It was a welcome surprise! Pros: Decor, catering food, strong/creative alcoholic beverages, friendly service, people-watching, location, style, for now I hear they are loose and fast with free room upgrades on weekdays. Cons: Catering staff/crew has some kinks to work out in their system, crowded in the evenings, can get a bit crowded in the evenings. If I was a Vegas person, I would stay here. For Vegas lovers, this is definitely a must.

Q: negative

A:
If they had a Culver's on every street corner, the cardiologists would all have twice as much money. I went there for my first time today for lunch, and I was hoping for a good, non-processed burger. I got my wish; a soft bun, red onions, lettuce, fresh tomatoes... all the fixings were great. The cheese was very good, and the beef patties were also good. (I got the deluxe). Since I never had fried cheese curds, I got those as my side item. It was very reasonably priced; $8 or so for the combo with a root beer. Service was fast; food was fresh and hot. But here's the kicker.... I looked up the nutrional information after lunch, when I felt like I couldn't get out of my office chair. This combo had 84g of fat and 3000mg of sodium. Even if you don't watch what you eat, these numbers should scare the hell out of you. To put it into perspective, my diet calls for 1500mg sodium DAILY. I could've gone to In-N-Out, gotten an animal style double-double with fries and saved 15 grams of fat and saved 1300mg sodium. I could've ordered 2 quarter pounders with cheese and 2 large fries and still eaten fewer grams of fat and sodium. Now do you see exactly how bad these burgers are for you?!? Imagine if I had gotten the bacon cheeseburger with a custard for dessert. That'd be another 30 grams of fat. We're talking triple digits here. Scary stuff. Now, I like to splurge on occasion for great food. Unfortunately, for that caloric catastrophe, it simply wasn't worth it. It's a good burger, definitely better than the typical fast food, but come on. These numbers are beyond reasonable. To be fair, the fried cheese curds constituted 38g of fat alone. Now that I've had them for the first time in my life, I'll say I enjoyed them. They're almost as good as fried mozzarella, but I still prefer the Italian version over the Wisconsin one. So if you want to splurge, enjoy the custard. I've had it once before here, and it's excellent; especially the vanilla. But if you want to blow your diet, even though the food is decent here, do it somewhere else.