Always have a special spot in my heart for dive bars, especially the Coach House. Love this place!
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I want to like this place so badly. We only live about a mile away, and the food/drinks/ambiance are all decent. BUT, the prices and service are both deal killers. Dishes cost about twice what one would expect, and you always get the sense that the people that work there absolutely hate it. We take our family there to try again about every six months, and each time we vow we'll never go back. Look elsewhere...
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This is the review for their happy hour. The Skinny: Came in for Monday night Martini night and was unimpressed with the quality of the food (2), service: the bar service is below expectations (1) value: for $30 to try their happy hour menu, not only is it expensive but not that impressive. Avoid.(1.5 star experience bump up to 2). I was running late from work to meet up with the hubs for Roy's Happy Hour. For the record, this was his idea. We'd previously been to the Summerlin location (before it closed) for happy hour so we were expecting a somewhat similar experience. To describe the atmosphere, the happy hour crowd looked like a bunch of aspiring yuppies who can't quite afford the lifestyle. Not exactly my scene but whatever, I went with it. After all, I was here for the food. Meh. We tried the Misoyaki butterfish lettuce cups ($6 during Monday night happy hour), Shrimp and Pork Gyoza($6), the Red Curry Samosas($6) Crispy Pork and Steamed Bun ($6). Because I got there late, the hubs finished off his Wagyu burger without me ($9). I will have to rely of my husband's input on the Wagyu burger. Here's his take on it: the bun:meat ratio was decent however the lack of truffle/togarashi flavor, overcooked patty (medium-well... the cow is crying) and piss poor presentation (the crust of the bun looks like it was molting) makes it a pass. The Misoyaki butterfish lettuce cups (3pcs)were very lackluster. Although the misoyaki butterfish tasted fine, the dish felt underseasoned with the boiled/watery verimicelli noodles underneath. The flavor of the fried shallots were overwhelmed with some dismal thick batter it was drenched in. After tasting a really exceptional steamed bun the other day from a new ramen establishment, I was really looking forward to sampling Roy's Crispy pork belly with steamed bun. Sporting 2 small steamed buns, I would have been willing to pay the $6 if I thought they were drop dead good. Unfortunately they did not pass the muster. The crispy pork belly was a bit too dry and it just didn't melt in your mouth like it ought to. There was definitely too little meat in the bun. The bun itself was a little generic tasting and didn't have the lightness of a great mantou. The flavors were okay but nothing special. This was the least offensive dish. Shrimp and Pork Gyoza. If you serve boiled dumplings, the filling better taste damn good just by the nature of how you plan to cook them. Unfortunately, this dish can't recover from the lack of shrimp and under seasoned pork. In addition, the dish was texturally uninteresting. Served with standard yet diluted (likely due to the water from the boiled dumplings) sweet Thai chili sauce - aka known as "Firecracker" sauce, they were definitely underwhelming and not worth 4 gyoza for $6. Not to mention, these were the fugliest dumplings I have ever seen. No Asian worth their salt would ever let these dumplings out of their kitchen out of sheer embarassment. The Red Curry Samosas fell flat... literally. The puff pastry did not hold up to the rather flavorless bland curry filling. The pastry just sank into a greasy, soggy mess and didn't have the distinct butter layers one would expect with a half decent puff pastry dough. Even freaking Pepperidge Farm puff pastry tasted better than the crap we were served. Of note, the filling contained very little chicken and was very starchy due to all the potatoes. Again 3 pc for $6 is a rather small serving size. That being said, it perhaps was a blessing there wasn't too much of a bad thing. Considering the level of cuisine you'd expect given the price, this joint doesn't pass the muster. The hubs and I paid $33 for badly presented, poorly textured, flavorless, greasy food and I can in no way recommend this place. Adding insult to injury, service at the bar was pretty dismal. As soon as I arrived, the server came up and asked what I wanted to drink. I said water. I never got my water and resorted to stealing my hubs glass. And I was there for at least 20 minutes. I'm not even sure why she bothered to ask. I tried to wave her over to grab the check. We made eye contact but she was too busy yammering with her coworker to care. Finally, when she did deign herself to bring the check, she messed up the charges on one of the dishes. This was despite my husband confirming with her before he ordered if the misoyaki butterfish was discounted to $6 on Mondays. Given the current plethora of great restaurants in Vegas, you could do much better elsewhere at a much more reasonable price. Combined with the poor service, I am uncertain how this location is able to survive in this competitive environment. I was really tempted to give this place a 1 star review however the food was still edible albeit not much more than that. Therefore this joint gets a 1.5 starred review with a very reluctant bump up to 2 star.
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