Problem: As an avid fan of Top Chef, I have watched Tom Colicchio on so many occasions shred a chef for failure to season food, especially not to use salt and pepper. Imagine my surprise to find underseasoned food in every course at Craftsteak. At $300 for dinner for two with one drink and one glass of wine, no dessert, I do expect better than this. The starter of lobster salad was very good, just woefully underseasoned, lacking both salt and pepper and not tasting very much of the ginger alleged to be in the dressing. My very expensive shrimp cocktail had a very faint taste of iodine which really surprised me. Moving to the salad course, my partner's beet salad featured under-roasted and bland beets with no salt to speak of and a dressing so mild as to be nearly nonexistent. My salad of persian cucumber was nearly undressed and the vinaigrette tasted barely of lemon juice and olive oil. There was no savor to the dish at all. Since everything is a la carte, here, $14 for unseasoned raw veggies is not the way to my heart. I will say the short rib main was delicious. My bone-in prime NY steak was a flavorsome cut of meat, but the absence of seasoning did not enhance the steak. While the room was very nice and service good, underseasoned food in every course pretty much ruined the experience for me. The side dishes were generous portions, but ran the gamut in quality. Asparagus was bitter and a bit woody. Grits were very nice if in need of a bit of salt. The mushroom assortment was undercooked. The Maui onions were the star side at our table. Quite good. Again, for what this place charges, they need better quality control. I could not in good conscience recommend this place to friends, because at this level, the food ought to be well-seasoned and well-prepared, every course, every time. I know "celebrity" chefs are too busy to actually cook in their eponymous venues, but they could at least hire executive chefs who would occasionally taste the offerings to find out what the line cooks are doing. The wine list is quite extensive with some very nice offerings, but with such variable quality in the food, it would be frustrating to order a special vintage if the food was as uneven as we experienced. In short, would not return here since there are too many truly wonderful places in Las Vegas.
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Problem: Layover. Looking for a hot breakfast. I was impressed by the variety on the breakfast menu, for an airport joint. I ordered some kind of scramble with mushrooms and sausage in it, with a side of thick-cut bacon. I also tried to order hot chocolate, but only some coffee was available. They didn't even offer tea. I got the coffee anyways... it was decidedly gross. (It's not that I don't drink coffee, just wasn't in the mood, but I was freezing.) The breakfast portion was huge, but I really didn't eat most of it. Everything was cold, which was a bit confusing because it came out so fast. The scramble was watery. The toast was not toast at all... just bread. Not warm, not crisp. The potatoes were pretty dry. Bacon was reasonably delish, though. Still, I guess for a "sit-down" breakfast in the Charlotte Airport without having to go out of my way, I'm fairly grateful for Bad Daddy's existence. Just wish it would've been hot. Service was good, though. Attentive, smiley. Energetic. It coulda been worse, but I've definitely experienced better-- even in airports.
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Problem: My family and I just ate dinner here. It was my second time (hardly remember my first time was in Vegas) for my family was their first food trip here. Our appetizers were the Nachos & Onion Strings. And for the main course - We ordered the dinner for two. It had chicken, cole slaw, spare ribs, beans, corn bread, sauce and fries. The waitress gave us chips to munch on while waiting for our appetizers. It was good! The apps came 15 mins later (which we got full) because our main course meal came in 40 mins later. Everything was good, but waiting and getting full because of the apps, we could have gotten our food and not waiting on it. It was not that busy. But the waitress gave me a refill of Dr. Pepper without me asking and she was really helpful coming back to ask how we were doing. We had dessert, the brownie! It was a big portion, so shareable (if you'd share because my sisters didn't want to share lol). It was ok not that sweet (I like it sweet though).
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Problem: Great food can be served anywhere. My wife and me got lost couple of times while on gps!!duh! Who thinks of such a neat and cool place in this neighborhood. The food is great , really really great and their salsa bar is seriously awesome.thanks to all my yelp family for giving me this place!
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