Q: negative

A: Was this a joke? If it was, neither of us was laughing. My sis and I were in Vegas for a nursing conference. I love French food, she's up for almost anything, Bouchon seemed an obvious choice. The interior is fancy-French (in an overdone, Vegas sort of way). We were seated quickly and attended by an initially cheerful waiter who couldn't stop crowing about the heirloom tomato salad. He was so insistent I had to wonder if the chef had ordered too many. We ordered the spring pea soup, melon salad, octopus salad, and a main of gnocchi (all to share). The soup arrived and was beautiful. A bright spring-green with a flourish of flash-fried black rice skimming the top. I was SO excited. Then I tasted it. WHOA. The SALT. I couldn't believe it. My sister grimaced too. To our dismay, we had to send it back. The melon "salad" was an odd little assortment of shaved barely-there melon curls balanced on their ends, tiny slices of fig, mini-marshmallow-sized bits of cheese and daubs of a meyer-lemon cream delight. This dish was fresh, tasty, and beautiful to look at (though so miniature as to seem like a plate you'd make up for a doll's tea party). No stranger to tiny bites (nor to the Las Vegas markup) I thought the over-salted soup must have been a fluke. WRONG. Here's a run-down of our other dishes: The octopus salad: Quite salty on the outside, but since octopus meat is pretty bland, it worked out o.k. I love salty food when it's done right, and this octopus was cooked perfectly. The tomato salad: We grudgingly ordered this when our soup had to go back. Heirloom tomatoes, a little cress, a garnish of fried onion. The tomatoes, sadly, did not knock our socks off as the waiter had suggested. They had no more or less flavor than an heirloom bought at Whole Foods. The gnocchi: So incredibly over-salted I couldn't believe what I was tasting. Clearly the pasta was hand-made and cooked perfectly, so why was the dish RUINED by too much salt? And gnocchi is a perfect cushy, carby, salt delivery system! How in the hell do you over-salt gnocchi? It was as if the kitchen was bored and dared each other to screw with the poor tourist saps to see if they'd catch on. The skate: (Ordered after the gnocchi disaster.) Flavorful and also too salty, the skate was overcooked. By this time we were an hour and a half into our meal, and thought, "fuck it, let's just eat this and get the hell out". Our waiter had abandoned us for a table of 8 vulgar, shiny, tits-up-to-there, nouveau-riche cougars who were already sauced. Cutting his losses. I can't say I blame him. The gang of Real Housewives types were so lit, I'm sure they couldn't taste anything, and as the waiter was cute and young and full of flattery, no doubt he got a good tip. In total, with only one glass of wine a-piece, and even after all the dishes we had to send back, the bill was well over $100. We got no real apology from anyone about the over-salted food (by the 3rd dish we sent back it was clear the staff was annoyed). If we hadn't had to get out the door to a show I would have caused a scene. As it was, we paid the bill and fled. I still can't get over how clearly well-prepared the food was and what a shame and a waste it was that it was ruined by something as simple as too much salt. Is the Chef-de-Cuisine a chain smoker with nary a taste-bud left to his name? Was the Chef-de-Partie not paying attention when he made the stock and salted it twice, sending it out to ruin every dish it touched? What a waste.

Q: negative

A: I was so disappointed with this "restaurant" and Caesar's for having it! They must really capitalize on the fact that they're open 24hours and when its late -you just want anything in your stomach. I paid $55 for "TGIF frozen" BBQ chicken wings and fries for my wife. Our waitress was nice (can't talk bad about that) but service was slow and again, the food was so bad that even a couple sitting next to us were like "don't order the nachos!" -they tasted cheaper than a park's snack shack nachos. How anyone would go other than past midnight is beyond me. Save your money and go outside to anything that'll probably taste the same but much cheaper.

Q: negative

A: Went there for Christmas vacation and the Buffet was not good. Food was not fresh, paid extra for the Holiday buffet, but it was worse than Denny's restaurant and costs 3X as much. Our waiter was nice, but it was not worth $40 for dinner per person.

Q: positive

A:
I went to Sugar Bowl on September 11th. 2001. No national tragedy was going to come between me and a chocolate milkshake. A young girl enjoyed her birthday party while her parents stared out the window. It was a bizarre experience worth sharing. More to the point, the milkshake was good. Tonight, my hot fudge sundae was good. It's a very basic ice cream dish. Hard to screw up, even harder to differentiate. Our waitress let us know she has worked at Sugar Bowl for 40 years. It seemed sweet, but now I wonder how she has supported herself so long this way. The walls are a shade of faded pink. Kind of silly, but who cares? It's ice cream.