
Their menu of main courses lists Spicy Seafood Ramen, a maple-leaf smoked duck, and glazed sea bass. Choices include unagi, akami, Hamachi, madai (Japanese red snapper), Uni (sea urchin), and tako (octopus), among classic rolls and the “Chef’s Specials from the Sushi Bar.” Japonais is a sushi-lover’s heaven, with individually prepared sashimi, nigari and rolls. Hot appetizers include lobster spring rolls, sweet and sour calamari, and “The Rock” – thin slices of New York strip served over hot rocks. It’s described as “Where modern day Japan meets European elegance.”

Mirage’s website says Japonais was included in the Conde Nast Traveler magazine’s top 100 restaurants in the world. There’s everything from milk chocolate pancakes to chicken-fried steak and eggs, omelets, a feta and spinach scramble.Īfter 11 AM, added menu items include shareable dishes like a pretzel, calamari, loaded waffle fries, to non-shareable soups, salads, brisket cheese steak sandwiches, club sandwiches, pork sliders, ribs, grilled cheese sandwiches and the like.ĭelectable desserts include the “Hot Iron Cookie Skillet” (with ice cream of course), and Cinnamon Sugar donut bites. #Pantry /s9eBenWbNHīreakfast is available day and night. Sunday and Monday and Thursday – Saturday: 5 PM to 10 PMĪ classier, updated version of the classic casino diner, the pantry is Mirage’s centrally-located 24 hour a day restaurant with a welcoming, “homey” décor.Ĭraving something sweet? We bet you are now. Uniquely-prepared versions of scallops, snapper, lamb and veal osso buco are among the more popular entrees. The selections of hand-made pasta, include the Burrata Agnolotti (lobster and chanterelle mushrooms), and Portofino’s famous Ripatelli, which consists of wild boar Bolognese. Start with the Crab Cake Arancini or grilled octopus appetizer. Very disappointed in our whole experience and most definitely won't be back.Classic Italian dishes with some contemporary twists. Frankly, we could have overlooked the service and food quality if the manager had not been such a complete and embarrassing jerk right off the bat. For $1,200, one would expect quality food, top-notch service, and at least a modicum of respect from management. Ultimately, we had a good time, but the food was mediocre at best and, under the circumstances grossly over-priced. We literally went 30 minutes without a server of any kind and had to track down an assistant to get things moving again. Our guests had to get their own drinks from the bar. And he did not apologize.Īfter the first tound of meat and drinks were served, our service came to a halt. After she showed the manager the hard copy, he stormed off complaining about his employee not having authority to do that, never to be seen again. Our guests waited and my wife went to the room. My wife tried to explain that she had separate confirmation on her email, but he would not even look at her phone and made her go to our room to get the hard copy, as if we somehow forged an email. A few minutes after confirming this with the waitress, the manager stormed over, angrily waiving our contract in the air and stating loudly in front of all of our guests that this would be the only contract he accepts. We booked my wife's 40th birthday here for 13 people and made arrangements in advance to have separate bar checks. So I do have an idea about what it's like to be a server. By the way, I have 15 years of restaurant experience. At the end of it all, it took me 45 minutes to pay for our meal after we asked for the check.īottom line, STAY AWAY! Unless you like mediocre food and downright awful service. She waited patiently to review the check before I signed it and thanked me. He had one of the other waiters find him and she brought me the check. I told him that he never introduced himself.

He then proceeded to yell at me for not knowing who my waiter was. He went to look for our waiter and came back with the wrong ones TWICE. I told him that I haven't seen my waiter and that we had already asked for the check already. I literally waited for 20 minutes before I went to the maître d. Our daughter started to get fussy, so we asked for the check and my wife took our daughter for a walk in her stroller. When it came time to leave is when it all fell apart. The rest of the main course came steady to where we weren't overloaded, but we weren't looking around for the next course.

I wasn't expecting Fogo De Chao, but I wasn't looking to eat McDonalds either. The service started off good, we got a salad and cheese balls and they were really tasty. We had our young daughter with us and asked the maître d if he could accommodate us and he led us to a table in the back. We showed up at 6 pm and the place was relatively full. So we wanted to try out Samba for ourselves since we saw it walking through the casino that day. This review comes literally one hour after we left.
