Q: Let's just get this out there. Downtown Las Vegas is depressing. Remnants of an era left behind by the flashy mega-hotels, hardcore older gamblers, sad looking showgirls..this is not the place for the younger crowd. However, I love the Cal. Big Hawaii crowd (you'll almost always run into someone you know) and they have the delicious Aloha Specialities restaurant. Low table prices ($5 blackjack, roulette, craps, three card poker) and supposedly the loosest slots in Vegas. Can't really go wrong here. The dealers are nicer and more willing to help you out here. You just get a generally good feeling here. The rooms are cheap but you will definitely get what you pay for. I'll pass on staying here if I can get a comped room on the strip, but it's always nice to visit The Cal.

A: positive

Q: Completely disappointing show -- I think I must be missing something, because I did not find anything spectacular, breathtaking, or dazzling about this show. Having watched Cirque Du Soleil on TV before, I knew I had to see it live when I was in Las Vegas -- let me just say that this is the first and probably last Cirque Du Soleil show that I will see. I spent $350 on two tickets very close to the stage and walked out wondering why in the hell I just wasted all that money. This isn't really anything beyond synchronized swimming and acrobatics that are glorified to the extreme. It wasn't as funny as it should be and you won't get chills because you are so moved. I sat so close that I spent most of the time staring at the lights changing and gears/wires lifting the performers. Can you tell that I'm still bitter about how disappointing this show was? The stage itself was truly a work of art and they made the transitions from deep ocean to surface land very seamless, but it takes a lot more than an architectural marvel to keep me entertained for that much money. You're paying mainly to see the stage (they skimp on the gymnastics and fancy footing because of the presence of water) and lord only knows that you can see the same moves on TV and from a better vantage point.

A: negative

Q: My friends and I pop in about 2 a month (usually on a Thursday, there's a reason, but that is for later) to sing karaoke and have a few drinks. I want to cover a few topics so I will break them up by numbers. 1.) The staff here are great, I have been going to this bar around a year or so, and spare one waitress, I know and like all the waitstaff and bartenders. Sam is by far the best waitress. 2.) The food and drinks here are pretty decent, its bar food, lower your expectations to bar food and you will be pretty happy with it. I have had a lot of things from the menu and I can't recall anything that has been particularly bad. I usually have the tacos if I eat. The bartenders can make just about any drink and can even be creative if you ask to be surprised 3.) The trivia is alright, only been to it a few times, so I can't really review it 4.) Now for the reason I go to this bar, a couple of my friends used to come down to this bar weekly to get some singing and drinking together to keep up. We have kind of stopped coming down here. Bob is a great guy, but a really terrible karaoke host, it is the same canned show week to week with no variation, I don't know how long he has been in this business, but it is time for a new schtick. We have started to come down on Thursdays specifically because Bob ISN'T working it, its usually a guy named Mike. Mike has a lot of personality and variation in his show and there are breaks in the action to keep things very interesting, putting Mike in a different day of the week would probably bring us back to this bar more often. In short, this is a good dive bar for service and food, but the karaoke show has GOT TO GO, bring in someone else, PLEASE?

A: positive

Q: Normally I don't write a review but I thought I should share my experience here.... First of all we waited approximately 40 minutes to get our food. That is ridiculous. Second the burgers were not cooked as we requested. We requested medium rare to the rare side but what we received was medium well to well done side. Third I ordered the honey pig bao buns, which taste really good and I do recommend this but one of the buns had piece if a hair inside. The restaurant did change the item with new one and the manager person came by to apologize and removed it off my tap. That I really appreciate because not that many places have manager to come out to apologize. Fourth we ordered the truffle fries and they forgot to bring the truffle aioli sauce. Now about the food. The burgers my group ordered was ok... Not as great as we expected. The truffle fries seemed no difference with regular fries. The onion ring was the best!!!! I would be rating with a single star but for the taste of onion ring and the honey pig bao buns I added another star. Next time if I come here I probably prefer not to sit at the table but instead sit at the bar and order my onion ring and the honey pig bao buns!!!

A:
negative