You are given a review about a place. You need to provide a rating from "1 star" to "5 stars" for this place.
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Question: Is it weird that Firkin has an urban dictionary definition? Did I ever tell you that I thought I came up with the word Fathlete only to have my hopes and dreams crushed by urban dictionary? Another story for another day...on to Firkin on Paradise.

I've been here a few times for co-workers going away parties. So I'd say the majority of my experiences here have been for beer n' app's. Not too shabby, they do make a pretty mean onion raaang. So when I saw that they were doing a Groupon I jumped at the opportunity.

On a quiet, no plans, just back from vacation, not really feel like hanging out with anyone kind of night my wife and I decided to redeem the Groupon and grab some grub here. We were pleasantly surprised when we walked in and UFC was playing on every TV and blasting over the sound system. It was kind of weird that this was a Saturday night and outside the bar they weren't advertising that they were showing the fight and they had food specials listed Mon-Fri, but nothing on this Saturday night. Huh?

So I went with the chicken strips, which sounded like they were made in similar fashion as the fish n' chips. Whoa, these were world class bad strips. Over cooked, stringy, and a batter that just tasted poor. The waitress was fantastic and took these back and offered to bring me something else. I went with a plain ol' cheeseburger, which was real good. Nothing special, just a good bar burger. My wife went with the parmesan grilled cheese. Here's the problem, they ran out of parmesan bread, so it was a plain grilled cheese. The part I don't understand is that when you run out of an item, why do you just assume that somone won't know that the item isn't as described and serve it anyways? Como que what? It was a decent grilled cheese, every 6yo in the world would have been satisfied. The bread pudding was very good and I would recommend that.

So overall it was a pretty poor dining experience. I would still come here if someone was having a party of sorts, the beer is great, but I wouldn't go out of my way to break bread in this establishment.

Schmeh...

Answer: 2 stars

Question: One star because I cannot award less. Our reservation was for 8:30 at Caesars.. when the shuttle was not yet there by 8:40 we called to find out where it was. We were told they were picking up passengers at Bellagio and we could walk over there to catch the bus!!! WALK UPSTAIRS, OVER A BRIDGE, DOWN STAIRS, SCHLEPPING LUGGAGE BECAUSE IT WAS MORE CONVENIENT FOR CLS????? The insipid driver finally arrived and informed us they don't pick up at 8:30. WHAT???? She radioed dispatch and told them she just picked up 6 that were giving her a hard time, what should she do with us? REALLY???? Then she informed us there were 3 more stops along the way when there were only two empty seats left. WHAT???? Honestly, what if anything was RIGHT about this? When we didn't tip this horrible driver she awarded us the dirty look of the year and smirked at us muttering something vulgar under her breath and sarcastically waiving *goodbye* In a town dependent on tourism, being nice to customers is not an OPTION. CLS seems to be unaware of this little fact.

Answer: 1 star

Question: Messy fries and $5 martinis during happy hour are enough to make me love this place. I have dreams about those messy fries and I can't wait to come back soon. Service was a little overly attentive, but I think this was just the case because we were the only party in the restaurant. They have so many martinis it's hard to decide what to order. I wish the menu was a little more organized to help make the decision a little easier. I really liked sitting outside while enjoying our cocktails, that's a nice touch.

Answer:
3 stars