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Mario Batali Puts His Crocs on Display at B & B Ristorante

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September 26, 2007 at 9:17 AM | by juliana | 0 Comments

How could we hit up Vegas without checking out some of the city's fine dining. Inside the Venetian (we promise this is the last story from this hotel) is the B & B Ristorante from celeb chef Mario Batali and winemaker Joe Bastianich (Hence the B&B).

As you arrive at the restaurant, Batali's big ole nasty orange crocs greet you. And we think he may have actually worn this pair as they looked a bit scuffed.

Nevertheless, we looked past the orange crocs as we were seated to our table. A super sommelier helped us pick out a Terlano Pinot Grigio and we started our first course off with Three Goat Cheese Truffles with peperonata while our friend enjoyed the sliced fresh heirloom tomatoes. We have a big thing for goat cheese and so we ended up saving what we couldn't finish. Yes, our waiter thought we were weird.

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For our main course we had the Bucatini all' Amatriciana with guanciale, hot pepper and pecorino which was spicy but extremely good. Our friend had the Beef Cheek ravioli with black truffles and crushed duck liver which was out of this world and probably the best thing on the menu.

Lastly, we split some monstrous grilled tiger prawns which would have been amazing (even for a non-seafood eater like ourselves) had they not been a little too charred for our liking.

After all that, we were too stuffed for dessert which was a shame since the after-meal samples the pastry chef sent out were sumptuous. But we had a date at Tao nightclub.

Notes on Tao
One bit of advice should you go clubbing at Tao. Get a table so as to avoid the major clusterf#*k that happens outside. Seriouly, round-up like 9 people even if you don't know them all and get a table. It will work out to be like $75 a person or else you brave the madness.

And that madness includes seriously drunk girls, weird table dancers (one man was wearing a Batman mask) and leering men. And at one point someone through dollar bills from the sky. Seriously! It was some rich jack-ass in VIP. But we totally grabbed $6 for ourselves.

Also, ladies try to pee before you go here and then try to hold it out until you leave. They have about six stalls in the entire place and it takes about 10 minutes for you to get into your own stall.

Lastly, we were also hoping to see K-Fed but then we remembered he had the kids last weekend.

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