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On 7/21/2024 at 2:10 PM, kevwun said:

Peter Lugar's does not make good steaks.  The sides are fine, but I can make a better steak at home and it's not close.

 

I doubt we ever go back for dinner, to be honest.  It wasn't bad..but it was just...meh.  

 

However, I told my wife that one thing I am planning on during our next trip is to go there for lunch to have the cheeseburger.  Surely they can't fuck that up too much, right?

 

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So it was worth it.  We did two choppers and threw extra girls on a party bus. It was 2 hrs each way.  Chopper worth it.  Here’s a pic of the party bus at 9am.  

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New Jose Andres restaurant opens Wednesday:

José Andrés will celebrate all things briny, beachy, and seafaring at his newest restaurant, Bazaar Mar, which opens next week with a stunning dining room, whimsical dishes, and even a brand new coffee shop concept.

The new restaurant opens on Wednesday, August 7, inside the Shops at Crystals on the Las Vegas Strip, down the street from Bazaar Meat — Andrés’s ode to all things carnivorous — at the Sahara. Manuel Echeverri, the concept chef and partner for José Andrés Group, leads the sprawling menu with dishes that are rooted in Spanish flavors with playful elements. Take, for instance, the Sea Anemone, a cluster of oyster mushrooms meticulously arranged with pickled mushroom cups and citrus leaves in an anchovy aioli. “It looks like a sea anemone with life coming out of each layer,” says Echeverri. Fans of Bazaar Meat will recognize the salmon roe cone. Here, a crunchy two-bite cone is filled with both smoked and fresh trout, plus preserved Meyer lemon and crème fraîche.

Visitors will have the option of selecting a whole fish from a market section, with seasonal choices like branzino, snapper, or sea bream, that can then be grilled in a wood-burning oven, baked in salt, fried, or prepared as sashimi, and then served tableside. The menu has more than 50 items — including small bites like a take on crispy rice sushi but with a filling of ricotta spicy tuna, and fresh sashimi in a puffy hollow bread. Another dish is a play on popcorn shrimp but with baby squid. A plate of delicately sliced ora king salmon carpaccio comes with crackers in the shape of salmon. “We wanted to represent that salmon’s travel and jumping out of the water by having the fish crackers almost jumping out of the fish,” says Echeverri.

For desserts, a key lime pie gets a beachy spin with ice cream molded into the shape of seashells and sea stars, a lime foam and cream to emulate sea foam, and a graham cracker sand castle. The wine list has a heavy Spanish influence and the cocktails will similarly lean into playful takes on the beachy theme.

The 7,428-square-foot restaurant will have an open kitchen, private dining room, and a tapas bar. With shades of emerald green and orange, Bazaar Mar also has a centerpiece bar, velvety seating, a mural, and sculptures of centaurs.

Like Bazaar Meat, Bazaar Mar will have a Bar Centro. Located one story down from Bazaar Mar, the bar will offer lounge service in the evenings with caviar and cocktails. But, in a first for the restaurant group, it will open as a sophisticated coffeehouse in the morning and afternoon. “There’s no syrups, no Frappuccinos, no blenders, none of that,” says Echeverri. The drink menu will have coffee and espresso drinks for mall-goers to dine in, order to-go, or even linger over a mug with their laptop out. The bakery will sell laminated spiral ensaïmada pastries with fillings like berries and cream or chocolate and hazelnut. Other bites include sugary Spanish xuixo pastries, Basque cheesecake, and pressed sandwiches. ”I’m so excited that we’re doing this,” says Echevarri. “I’m having a really hard time finding good coffee around here.”

https://vegas.eater.com/2024/8/2/24212157/new-las-vegas-strip-restaurant-jose-andres-celebrity-seafood-fish-good-coffee

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Andres pretty damn consistent with their quality.  Definitely a fan.  

Really wanted to sneak a weekend in for July/August but fuck that damn heat.  F1 it is.  Can’t wait…

On 8/5/2024 at 8:50 PM, bigup2dahorns said:

New Jose Andres restaurant opens Wednesday:

José Andrés will celebrate all things briny, beachy, and seafaring at his newest restaurant, Bazaar Mar, which opens next week with a stunning dining room, whimsical dishes, and even a brand new coffee shop concept.

The new restaurant opens on Wednesday, August 7, inside the Shops at Crystals on the Las Vegas Strip, down the street from Bazaar Meat — Andrés’s ode to all things carnivorous — at the Sahara. Manuel Echeverri, the concept chef and partner for José Andrés Group, leads the sprawling menu with dishes that are rooted in Spanish flavors with playful elements. Take, for instance, the Sea Anemone, a cluster of oyster mushrooms meticulously arranged with pickled mushroom cups and citrus leaves in an anchovy aioli. “It looks like a sea anemone with life coming out of each layer,” says Echeverri. Fans of Bazaar Meat will recognize the salmon roe cone. Here, a crunchy two-bite cone is filled with both smoked and fresh trout, plus preserved Meyer lemon and crème fraîche.

Visitors will have the option of selecting a whole fish from a market section, with seasonal choices like branzino, snapper, or sea bream, that can then be grilled in a wood-burning oven, baked in salt, fried, or prepared as sashimi, and then served tableside. The menu has more than 50 items — including small bites like a take on crispy rice sushi but with a filling of ricotta spicy tuna, and fresh sashimi in a puffy hollow bread. Another dish is a play on popcorn shrimp but with baby squid. A plate of delicately sliced ora king salmon carpaccio comes with crackers in the shape of salmon. “We wanted to represent that salmon’s travel and jumping out of the water by having the fish crackers almost jumping out of the fish,” says Echeverri.

For desserts, a key lime pie gets a beachy spin with ice cream molded into the shape of seashells and sea stars, a lime foam and cream to emulate sea foam, and a graham cracker sand castle. The wine list has a heavy Spanish influence and the cocktails will similarly lean into playful takes on the beachy theme.

The 7,428-square-foot restaurant will have an open kitchen, private dining room, and a tapas bar. With shades of emerald green and orange, Bazaar Mar also has a centerpiece bar, velvety seating, a mural, and sculptures of centaurs.

Like Bazaar Meat, Bazaar Mar will have a Bar Centro. Located one story down from Bazaar Mar, the bar will offer lounge service in the evenings with caviar and cocktails. But, in a first for the restaurant group, it will open as a sophisticated coffeehouse in the morning and afternoon. “There’s no syrups, no Frappuccinos, no blenders, none of that,” says Echeverri. The drink menu will have coffee and espresso drinks for mall-goers to dine in, order to-go, or even linger over a mug with their laptop out. The bakery will sell laminated spiral ensaïmada pastries with fillings like berries and cream or chocolate and hazelnut. Other bites include sugary Spanish xuixo pastries, Basque cheesecake, and pressed sandwiches. ”I’m so excited that we’re doing this,” says Echevarri. “I’m having a really hard time finding good coffee around here.”

https://vegas.eater.com/2024/8/2/24212157/new-las-vegas-strip-restaurant-jose-andres-celebrity-seafood-fish-good-coffee

 

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On 8/4/2024 at 8:14 AM, kevwun said:

Vegas in the summer is the only place I have felt myself getting sunburned through a rash guard.  120 is crazy.

It’s been a hot bitch the past 3 days. I’m glad I don’t have to come back until November 

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14 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Andres pretty damn consistent with their quality.  Definitely a fan.  

Really wanted to sneak a weekend in for July/August but fuck that damn heat.  F1 it is.  Can’t wait…

 

I made reservations for Bazaar Mar in November (going to catch the horn basketball game while i am there). 

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A money clip fell out of someone’s pocket and hit me on the head. I tried to meet the guy at the end but was gone by the time I got there. I tracked him down by calling hotels and got lucky on the 4th try. He was staying at El Cortez. He offered me $500 for being honest by I declined it as it was too much. He forcibly put $200 in my hand so I put it all on black. Didn’t win. 

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5 hours ago, shakahorn said:

Not a big fan of the zipliners overhead on Fremont.  Always feel like one of them is gonna crap their pants.

Done it twice, both ways (sitting and flat on stomach), once in the fall and once in the winter.   It's alright.  Once each style was enough.   

When I did it on my stomach, I was drunk.  You lay face down on a platform and they harness you up.   Then the platform lowers down and you are suspended, they open a gate and off you go.  It's kinda unnerving the first few seconds but after that, meh.  

 

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10 hours ago, shakahorn said:

 Always feel like one of them is gonna crap their pants.

 

5 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Done it twice, both ways (sitting and flat on stomach), once in the fall and once in the winter.   It's alright.  Once each style was enough.   

 

Which style was more messy? Assume the pants were thrown away after each?

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Which style was more messy? Assume the pants were thrown away after each?

as I was reading his post I was laughing because his wording almost actually works better for the shitting scenario. 

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Which style was more messy? Assume the pants were thrown away after each?

 

In both instances, pants were ruined.  Patrons below were horrified.   But it's Fremont, so no one really cared.

Good times were had by all.  

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MGM gonna MGM

MGM Resorts appears to be charging $15 extra per room, per night if the room was reserved through a human. The charge will show up on your final receipt upon checkout, where it’s called an 'ICE Contact Center Fee.'" Casino.org reported.

The fee does not apply for people who book through the company's online reservation system.

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Looks like American has stopped flying direct to Vegas from Austin.  We had to use some expiring credits from Alaskan so we booked an American flight for a trip in November.  Flight got cancelled and we weren't automatically rebooked.  I started playing around on google flights and there are no longer any direct flights to Vegas for American. 

 

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Looks like American has stopped flying direct to Vegas from Austin.  We had to use some expiring credits from Alaskan so we booked an American flight for a trip in November.  Flight got cancelled and we weren't automatically rebooked.  I started playing around on google flights and there are no longer any direct flights to Vegas for American. 

 

Yep, they’re cutting LAS and MSY on November 1. LAS is a pretty crowded field with WN, DL, F9 and NK all flying the route. I imagine yields are trash.

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15 hours ago, squib said:

Anyone conferencing out here this week? Fairly dead. But it's Tuesday....

I actually have been. Agreed it’s dead, which is kind of nice. 

Went to Carbone for the first time last night. It was fine, I don’t blame anyone that likes to go there. For. me, Piero’s is way better, way less expensive and you can almost always get a reservation, even day before-ish. The server last night explicitly stated that the Carbone veal parm was better than Piero’s, out of nowhere. So I had to try it. It was good but Piero’s is the best I have ever eaten, anywhere. And $45 less expensive. 

They’re building some sort of structure in front of the Bellagio fountains that I don’t recall reading about here. It looked permanent but construction and engineering are not my bailiwicks. 

The conference I attended was at Caesar’s, so I played some blackjack to bide time when the craps tables were dead. They were paying 3/2 on blackjack, which I haven’t seen on the strip in forever. I thought it might be a Caesar’s empire thing, but no, I played some blackjack with my wife after eating brunch at Mon Ami Gabi yesterday and it was back to the shitty 6/5. 

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They’re building some sort of structure in front of the Bellagio fountains that I don’t recall reading about here. It looked permanent but construction and engineering are not my bailiwicks. 

 

That is the stands for the F1 race. 

If you are visiting between now and December and want to know what sidewalk/road closures construction looks like here you go. 

https://lvgp-transportation-info-lvgp.hub.arcgis.com/pages/pre-race-main

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I may do Battista's tonight and sit at the bar since I am solo. Last time I sat at the bar there was this huge old guy sitting next to me and we started chatting as we were watching a baseball game. He had worked in casino management in Vegas and was working for a casino in Reno but here for a meeting with some mothership casino. Super interesting stories--but the best was that he had pitched in college for Arizona or Arizona State (can't remember); he also had a short stint in the pros. He was like Randy Johnson tall (not near as ugly). I suspect his release point was 9 foot when he pitched. He said he always hits up Battista's when he comes back as do most of his casino buddies. 

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On 6/13/2024 at 8:48 PM, bigup2dahorns said:

Eagles to the Sphere
 

Will be there on Friday, then headed to see Garth at Caesar's on Saturday - that is if he isn't completely cancelled by then.  Will find a good spot to watch the game Saturday afternoon.  Should be a fun weekend.

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6 hours ago, Armybrat said:

All that remains of the Tropicana…in just a little over 24 hours these two towers will be a pile of rubble.
 

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Yea supposed to get demolished at 230am my uber said. Never seen a live demo before I’ll be up and drunk for it. 
 

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I saw a building demo'd on Canal street in Nola once.  It was pretty neat and that building was nowhere near as big.  They had to completely gut the Trop because of asbestos.  That's why it's taken so long.

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Boss saw the eagles at the sphere forgot to share. Going to Hell’s Kitchen tonight with a vendor, never been because I suck at remembering reservations any recs on what to order or just stick with google reviews? 
 

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