They’re big, they’re beachside, they’re World Famous.  That’s their name! World famous is their name.  And that’s clever calling themselves that because they get to tell everyone that they’re world famous.  That’s almost like me naming my show Best Food Show Ever…except that we actually are…  Read more »

Have you ever intentionally gone to a restaurant that you were almost sure you were gonna hate… just to see if you were right? This is what I was thinking when I went to the expensive, the extravagant, the pretentious, Hakassan! Naturally I made this dubious decision while in Las Vegas, and I figured that since an evening of room service would probably cost me about as much we went to Hakassan instead.

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At the bottom of a lovely overpriced Marriot hotel is the hip, modern and swanky restaurant/ bar/ patio lounge known as Arterra, with a fresh sushi bar and tight shirted waitresses and live music and hip low furniture and dark wood and all male bartenders and pretty much the entire list of everything you should look for in a night-time hot spot.  Enjoying a comfy seat outdoors by a lovely fire spouting out of a pile of jagged cut glass, we surveyed the menu and drink offerings for some time before finally managing to get a server, who then pretty much ignored us from then on.  After moving to the inside which was cozy and full, we commandeered a table after again getting left to our own devices.  Read more »