Las Vegas go hard or go home thread

[thunderlounge 7,890]

What’s its name at Cosmo was kinda meh on the burger. Shakes were average. This was back in October.

Did not go back in February.

 

[Murfdogg21 4,413]

23 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

What’s its name at Cosmo was kinda meh on the burger. Shakes were average. This was back in October.

Did not go back in February.

 

Holsteins hasn’t been great in a few years, but it was good for late night drunk hunger. After Lurch reported they no longer give you the shake mixing cup (which is about 50% of the shake), I’m a hard pass. 

[Bogeywon 2,519]

5 hours ago, hornbri said:

M resort in Henderson is pretty nice and between 10-15 miles away. 

Go here. DM me I know the head barber. He’s the head barber at the aria. If he’s not slammed might be able to get you a good rate. 

[kevwun 15,811]

Lardo in the food hall at Cosmo has good sandwiches and fries.  Eggslut is also supposed to be really good.

Edited July 12, 2022 by kevwun

[conVINCEd 21,469]

1 hour ago, kevwun said:

Lardo in the food hall at Cosmo has good sandwiches and fries.  Eggslut is also supposed to be really good.

Eggslut is really good.

[gyroprotagonist 2,594]

4 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

Eggslut is really good.

it has a Franklin bbq-like line in the morning.  At least on my last couple of visits to the Cosmo.

[conVINCEd 21,469]

2 minutes ago, gyroprotagonist said:

it has a Franklin bbq-like line in the morning.  At least on my last couple of visits to the Cosmo.

I have only been to one of the LA locations.

[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

22 minutes ago, gyroprotagonist said:

it has a Franklin bbq-like line in the morning.  At least on my last couple of visits to the Cosmo.

This.

Went ahead and had it then, but once was enough for me.   Not that it was bad; but I'm not going to wait 45 minutes for an egg McMuffin.

 

[bigup2dahorns 3,343]

I like the breakfast experience at Peppermill just north of the Wynn. It’s not a buffet but has that certain Vegas charm plus good food.

[bigup2dahorns 3,343]

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A famed Las Vegas strip club will be demolished after it suffered a string of fires over the past month.

Crazy Horse Too, located at 2476 Industrial Road just west of the Las Vegas Strip, will be demolished by the City of Las Vegas after code enforcement officials were on site on Monday and Tuesday. City of Las Vegas spokesman Jace Radke said a demolition notice was issued June 30.

“City staff are in the process of obtaining bids to demolish the buildings, bids are expected returned to the city next week,” Radke said in an email. “If the city ends up demolishing the property the costs would be reimbursed to the city by the property owner.”

Crazy Horse Too has suffered three separate fires in five weeks. On June 5 around 3 a.m., the property suffered a two-alarm fire that badly damaged the building, including a roof collapse. On June 16, there was a minor fire that was out within minutes, Radke said.

Then, on July 9 around 7 a.m., there was another structure fire reported at the diner directly connected to the strip club. A construction worker in the area hypothesized that squatters may be the cause of the recent fires at the property.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/07/13/crazy-horse-too-strip-club-be-demolished-by-las-vegas-officials-after-string-fires/

[thunderlounge 7,890]

Feckin bums. 

[Buzzrock 14,935]

Here for a couple days for a meeting and staying at the Park MGM (used to be Monte Carlo). It’s fine, the casino is on the smaller side and rooms remind me of an Aloft if you’ve ever stayed at one of those.

Eataly is a pretty cool Italian food hall concept and I understand it’s a chain (there may be one in Dallas?).

But Best Friend was fucking awesome. I’m so stuffed on Korean short rib tacos and uni dynamite rice. I’ve never seen uni on anything but a sushi menu but it was really good. It’s a Roy Choi joint, the guy who made the film Chef and The Chef Show with Jon Favreau. Very casual, kind of a speakeasy vibe since it looks like a tacky convenience store and the main restaurant is in back through a big red plastic curtain.

It’s hot as fuck but it’s nice to be back in Vegas post-Covid. Dropped $400 at the dispensary to restock friends at home. Might take one more run at craps (currently down $300).

[Buzzrock 14,935]

Double

[Lurch 5,931]

Here for a couple days for a meeting and staying at the Park MGM (used to be Monte Carlo). It’s fine, the casino is on the smaller side and rooms remind me of an Aloft if you’ve ever stayed at one of those.

Eataly is a pretty cool Italian food hall concept and I understand it’s a chain (there may be one in Dallas?).

But Best Friend was fucking awesome. I’m so stuffed on Korean short rib tacos and uni dynamite rice. I’ve never seen uni on anything but a sushi menu but it was really good. It’s a Roy Choi joint, the guy who made the film Chef and The Chef Show with Jon Favreau. Very casual, kind of a speakeasy vibe since it looks like a tacky convenience store and the main restaurant is in back through a big red plastic curtain.

It’s hot as fuck but it’s nice to be back in Vegas post-Covid. Dropped $400 at the dispensary to restock friends at home. Might take one more run at craps (currently down $300).

I just stayed there.and really enjoyed Primrose for breakfast.

[kevwun 15,811]

15 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

Here for a couple days for a meeting and staying at the Park MGM (used to be Monte Carlo). It’s fine, the casino is on the smaller side and rooms remind me of an Aloft if you’ve ever stayed at one of those.

Eataly is a pretty cool Italian food hall concept and I understand it’s a chain (there may be one in Dallas?).

But Best Friend was fucking awesome. I’m so stuffed on Korean short rib tacos and uni dynamite rice. I’ve never seen uni on anything but a sushi menu but it was really good. It’s a Roy Choi joint, the guy who made the film Chef and The Chef Show with Jon Favreau. Very casual, kind of a speakeasy vibe since it looks like a tacky convenience store and the main restaurant is in back through a big red plastic curtain.

It’s hot as fuck but it’s nice to be back in Vegas post-Covid. Dropped $400 at the dispensary to restock friends at home. Might take one more run at craps (currently down $300).

We went to the Eatay in Rome and it was an actual grocery store.  They had an amazing selection of groceries, but the employees were dicks.  You have to weigh and tag your own fruit and vegetables there and the checkers get real mad when you didn't know that when you got in to the checkout line.  They also refused to slice cheese for us at the meat and cheese counter.  We were trying to make sandwiches to take along to Pompeii.  The one in Vegas isn't like that and is mostly food like you mentioned.  It's ok, but nothing that will blow you away.  I don't really feel the need to go back to it.

[bigup2dahorns 3,343]

Yeah the Eataly in Dallas (at Northpark Mall) is better than the Vegas location. It’s bigger and has more stuff for sale. The Vegas location isn’t bad if you wanted to pop by for pizza for lunch or have a meal. But I was over there recently looking to buy some imported Italian pasta and they had none for sale. It’s not a big deal, I can just order off their website and have it shipped to me.

[6th Street 6,444]

The Eataly in Chicago is/was a tourist trap. Feels like there's much better options for Italian in Las Vegas like Rao's, Amalfi, and Sinatra at Wynn.

[bigup2dahorns 3,343]

The Eataly in Chicago is/was a tourist trap. Feels like there's much better options for Italian in Las Vegas like Rao's, Amalfi, and Sinatra at Wynn.

FYI Rao’s closed awhile back at Caesars.

[6th Street 6,444]

20 minutes ago, bigup2dahorns said:

FYI Rao’s closed awhile back at Caesars.

Unfortunate. That place was money

[Buzzrock 14,935]

On 7/13/2022 at 11:44 PM, Lurch said:

I just stayed there.and really enjoyed Primrose for breakfast.

Sat at the Primrose bar yesterday morning and got eggs benny and coffee. The food was not very hot and the hollandaise sauce was way too thick for me, but the service was really good. 

[Brew 3,049]

On 7/12/2022 at 3:13 PM, kevwun said:

Lardo in the food hall at Cosmo has good sandwiches and fries.  Eggslut is also supposed to be really good.

Everything in the food hall is good, especially if looking for something quick and/or not fancy. We eat at Bang Bar and the breakfast place at least once each trip. 

[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

I'm here, bitches.

(picture taken on Thursday, but I got too hammered to post it yesterday)

 

[kevwun 15,811]

Heading that way tomorrow morning.

[Kel Varnsen 8,540]

More of her crotch and not yours

[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

Just got out of Omegamart. If you don’t know what this is, words really can’t describe it. If you are into art, then this is up your alley.


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[hornbri 1,400]

5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Just got out of Omegamart. If you don’t know what this is, words really can’t describe it. If you are into art, then this is up your alley.


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Oh great - i have that on the list for our August visit. How long did you stay there?

[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

32 minutes ago, hornbri said:

Oh great - i have that on the list for our August visit. How long did you stay there?

 

Almost 4 hours.  That's how in-depth it was.

 

 

 

 

[kevwun 15,811]

Fun night.  A glass door or something shattered at mgm and caused a stampede.  We were on the floor in cosmo at the slot machines when people started running by and yelling.  Then someone yelled there was a shooter.  We ran out out of a service exit and stayed outside the bellagio until we found out what happened.  When we initially got out of the casino and were in an alley, we decided to go to the strip to get away from Cosmo. Then some people behind us ran out the exit screaming and we hauled ass the rest of the way down the alley to the strip.  Fucking crazy.

Edited July 17, 2022 by kevwun

[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

 

14 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Fun night.  A glass door or something shattered at mgm and caused a stampede.  We were on the floor in cosmo at the slot machines when people started running by and yelling.  Then someone yelled there was a shooter.  We ran out out of a service exit and stayed outside the bellagio until we found out what happened.  When we initially got out of the casino and were in an alley, we decided to go to the strip to get away from Cosmo. Then some people behind us ran out the exit screaming and we hauled ass the rest of the way down the alley to the strip.  Fucking crazy.

 

Checking in.

 

We were in the pool at Caesars for the night swim.  Pretty chill.  I looked up and saw the cocktail waitress sprinting away from the bar, along with the bartenders.  Some guy came out and told everyone at the pool to evacuate through this door; that there was a situation in the casino.  So, we obliged.  We were led into the basement, which is a fucking huge labyrinth.  More and more people kept pouring in (dealers, food service, regular people, you get the idea).  No one had any idea what was going on.  Eventually, someone in a suit with his Caesars badge came in and told everyone to start walking in this certain direction.  We must have walked in the basement for at least 15 minutes (sidenote:  Caesars doesn't spend any money on the upkeep of their employee dining area and all the other stuff down there).  We came up a flight of stairs, down another hall and were outdoors.....in the parking garage on the opposite side of the casino from where we first started.  We got back inside at the food court by the Forum Shops, wound our way back to our room in the Palace Tower and that was that.

Saw a lot of police, security, whatnot while walking back through the casino.  No telling how much money was lost; left behind on tables, not cashed out on slots, whatnot.

Bad night for casino security and LVPD.  Some door shattered at the valet at MGM Grand, people thought it was a gunshot, and it started a chain reaction of panic among strip properties.

 

 

[kevwun 15,811]

Yeah absolutely no communication from the resorts.  I imagine quiet a few people got hurt running.  We saw one lady on a stretcher and a man getting his bp checked.  There are building wide sound systems and giant billboards everywhere.  It’s easy to get a message out.  Once we got to bellagio I felt like we were ok because all we could see where two cops standing by a door and a couple ambulances and had heard no gunshots.

 

Edited July 17, 2022 by kevwun

[bigup2dahorns 3,343]

Here’s one video from inside Park MGM

[bigup2dahorns 3,343]

4 pictures on this one. Shows the rocks that were thrown at main valet of MGM Grand

[bigup2dahorns 3,343]

[kevwun 15,811]

I hope they catch the jackasses who threw the rocks.  That video is pretty much what we experienced in Cosmo.  I will give credit to people for exiting pretty calmly.  Not much jostling as we went exited the building.

[Landomatic 3,813]

9 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Checking in.

 

We were in the pool at Caesars for the night swim.  Pretty chill.  I looked up and saw the cocktail waitress sprinting away from the bar, along with the bartenders.  Some guy came out and told everyone at the pool to evacuate through this door; that there was a situation in the casino.  So, we obliged.  We were led into the basement, which is a fucking huge labyrinth.  More and more people kept pouring in (dealers, food service, regular people, you get the idea).  No one had any idea what was going on.  Eventually, someone in a suit with his Caesars badge came in and told everyone to start walking in this certain direction.  We must have walked in the basement for at least 15 minutes (sidenote:  Caesars doesn't spend any money on the upkeep of their employee dining area and all the other stuff down there).  We came up a flight of stairs, down another hall and were outdoors.....in the parking garage on the opposite side of the casino from where we first started.  We got back inside at the food court by the Forum Shops, wound our way back to our room in the Palace Tower and that was that.

Saw a lot of police, security, whatnot while walking back through the casino.  No telling how much money was lost; left behind on tables, not cashed out on slots, whatnot.

Bad night for casino security and LVPD.  Some door shattered at the valet at MGM Grand, people thought it was a gunshot, and it started a chain reaction of panic among strip properties.

 

 

You left the part out where you found the hottest girl in the room and told her “we’re all gonna die…might as well bang”

[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

33 minutes ago, Landomatic said:

You left the part out where you found the hottest girl in the room and told her “we’re all gonna die…might as well bang”

 

We are in the basement, maybe 2-3 minutes after we were evacuated.  Wife was carrying her coverup and her pool sandals; she didn't have a chance to put them on.  We are standing next to another woman who had been in the pool, and my wife commented something to the effect that she didn't want to get shot while wearing a bikini.  The  woman told her to strip it off and go out the way she came into the world.  It was a good laugh.

It was such a mish-mash of people down there.  A young couple in a tux and cocktail dress, speaking in some foreign language.  Most of the Caesars employees speaking in Spanish.  Some guy holding all his poker chips. A few macho types wearing Nine Line t-shirts wanting to go back out and "take care of things".  Old women crying.  Some people who had just gotten to work and didn't have a chance to put away their belongings into their lockers.  A Caesars employee carrying room service food.  You get the idea.  There might have been at most 500 people in the basement all clustered together.  

 

 

 

 

 

[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

Just came downstairs. About half or more of Caesars slot machines are down. No electricity. Also affected many of their restaurants and whatnot.


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[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

Update. There is no gaming going on at Caesars. The sports book is closed, there are no table games being played, and no machines are in operation. Been this way over an hour now.

Sure it’s a Sunday morning, but how much are they losing right now?


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[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

This is just surreal:

 

[Surly Bevo 25,087]

This is just surreal:
 

[After irth 1,243]

15 hours ago, bigup2dahorns said:

 

That is some kind of fucking record of fat fucks in that pic. There should be a weight limit. 

[After irth 1,243]

20 hours ago, kevwun said:

Fun night.  A glass door or something shattered at mgm and caused a stampede.  We were on the floor in cosmo at the slot machines when people started running by and yelling.  Then someone yelled there was a shooter.  We ran out out of a service exit and stayed outside the bellagio until we found out what happened.  When we initially got out of the casino and were in an alley, we decided to go to the strip to get away from Cosmo. Then some people behind us ran out the exit screaming and we hauled ass the rest of the way down the alley to the strip.  Fucking crazy.

So…a Tuesday?

[RPM 26,327]

Sounds like a prime opportunity to get some comped nights.

[Underdog 28,751]

I can’t be the only one finding it amusing that people are evacuating while Take On Me by aha is playing in background.  

[Skipper 6,157]

I was there for a couple of nights seeing clients (Sun-Mon) so missed the Sat chaos.  What is funny is everyone I talked to heard the rock throwing incident instigated but each thought it was limited to the resort they were at (Aria, Cosmo, Caesars).  Nobody realized it was a chain reaction all down the strip.  Just crazy.

On another note, did Amalfi and Yellowtail for dinners.  Both were excellent.  Slight nod to yellowtail if I had to compare the 2.  We had 5 and I just told the waiter to bring us out his favorites for table (mix of apps, sushi, sashimi and a sliced steak) and it was great.

[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

Got home late last night.  I've commented on the unusual of the trip, so nothing more to add.  This was a very laid back trip (no shows, no sightseeing except for Area 15-Omegamart).  Just eating, drinking, some light shopping and laying in the sun.   Missus had a spa day, and I had a shave + haircut.

As for dining:  Barry's Downtown Prime at Circa is outstanding.  I'd put it up against anyplace on the Strip.  It's really hard to separate the high end steak joints; you can make an argument for SW over Prime, or Bavette's over Cut, for example.  This place is worthy of a visit, despite having to venture to Fremont.  Had the Barry's Rib Cap.  Barry himself came to our table and visited for a few moments.  On the whimsical side, we had the tableside Smore's for dessert.

Had outstanding jambalya with shrimp at Emeril's Fish House one evening.  Joe's Stone Crab did not dissappoint as usual.  Jardin for breakfast is a must-have for us as well.

Caesars is really into the deferred maintenance thing.  We had never stayed there previously, and had wanted to.  Just a lot of overall shabiness that you wouldn't expect at that place, considering it has Bellagio/Aria/Wynn level pricing.  Too many mergers, too much debt being incurred, etc.  The room was fine (Palace Tower suite), but the public areas are really showing their age.

Oh, followup of my previous post on why there was no gaming at Caesars Sunday; their security cameras were all down.  For nearly two hours, either they had no security cameras at all property wide, or all the cameras in the gaming areas were off line.  Either way, that has to be inexcusable for a Vegas strip property.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RPM 26,327]

24 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

For nearly two hours, either they had no security cameras at all property wide, or all the cameras in the gaming areas were off line.  Either way, that has to be inexcusable for a Vegas strip property.

On second thought, I should send a resume.

Edited July 20, 2022 by RPM

[LonghornJones 837]

Those are all Terry Benedicts properties.

[kevwun 15,811]

On top of the stampede, Cosmo lost power for an hour and a half on Monday because of a lightning strike during the brief rain storm.  Our room was completely dead and the public elevators weren't working.  A friend was gambling in the lobby and said things were mostly on there so we walked down 7 or 8 flights of stairs to collect a different friend at her room and then found an employee who took us down a service elevator the rest of the way.  It was a surreal trip.  Javier's was great, but it was crowded as fuck because of some kind of business conference and they were trying to get us out quickly.  We got our apps and then 5 minutes later the mains came.

Edited July 20, 2022 by kevwun

[Skipper 6,157]

3 hours ago, kevwun said:

  Javier's was great, but it was crowded as fuck because of some kind of business conference and they were trying to get us out quickly.  

Conference I was at @Aria.  Restaurants in Aria/Cosmo were extremely tough to book Sun-Tues.  Conference is typically in February so people aren't opposed to a walk but nobody wanted to leave the buildings in suits when it was 110 - imagine that!