Vegas bound. Any ideas?

Cradle, where did you eat. I use restaurant.com but never thought it about for Vegas. Nice tip.

 

I've looked those up, BTW, and a lot of the restaurants are off-strip places.

 

For those of use that are loyalists of the locals joints, they also recently opened one at the M Resort / Casino. HUGE portions...

 

Can't remember if this was already covered in the thread, but the Ellis Island casino has possibly the best BBQ in Vegas, and maybe the best deal on BBQ I've had. Last time I was there, you got a half rack of ribs, two sides and a pretty decent beer from their brew pub for $5.99 (I think). The pizza there is pretty good too - I know it's where a lot of the cab drivers in town eat on their down time, so that's usually a pretty good indicator.

 

We checked one and carried on a fairly large bag and they never even looked at us when we went on Spirit last month. I'd go to their website and try it through there.

 

Did the steak dinner there 2 years ago. Came with a potato, green beans, salad and a beer for $6.99. It's $7.99 now.

 

Pancamo, while Mustang is correct that many of the Vegas Restaurant.com offerings are off-strip, there are plenty of stellar options on the strip if you search the site hard enough.

The three aforementioned restaurants where we enjoyed some of the best dinners of our young lives are Valentino at The Venetian and Mix and Fleur de Lys, both at Mandalay Bay. I believe Fleur de Lys shut down late last year and reopened as a completely different restaurant retaining part of the name, now called Fleur by Hubert Keller, though it no longer offers anything through Restaurant.com. Not sure if this cropped photo really does our Fleur de Lys food justice, but I could search the globe and never find tastier surf and turf (front plate).



Mix and Valentino still sell certificates on Restaurant.com last time I checked (planning to return to both during a trip to Vegas this summer when we’re back in the States for a month).

Also on the strip, we enjoyed ridiculously cheap lunches at El Segundo Sol in the Fashion Show Mall and right next door at Stripburger, arguably the most popular Vegas Restaurant.com certificate spot.

The only off-strip Restaurant.com certificate we used was the Hash House on West Sahara, and they now sell certificates to the newer on-strip location at IP.

Two other popular Restaurant.com certificates friends have raved about are Ocean One Bar & Grille at Miracle Mile Shops (on-strip) and Flame Steakhouse at El Cortez (downtown).

The key is to visit Restaurant.com on the first of the month, because most restaurants only release a certain number of these certificates (always at the beginning of the month) and ones like Stripburger can sell out within the first day.

Hope that helps. Happy travels.

 

was trolling the 2+2 poker site and found this about Adelson's hotels, which probably explains the 'cheap comp' stuff up thread:

from the LVRJ 2/5/11:

"Las Vegas Sands Corp. has eliminated free hotel rooms and other complimentary offerings for middle-tier customers at its two Strip resorts, a move one gambling expert called "a terrible thing."

High-end gamblers still receive benefits, such as show tickets and meals.

Company officials said the move was taken to drive the bookings of hotel rooms through group sales and Las Vegas Sands' alliance with InterContinental Hotels, which began marketing The Venetian and Palazzo through its 52 million-member rewards program last fall.

During Las Vegas Sands' fourth-quarter earnings conference call, company Chairman Sheldon Adelson said the elimination of comps has helped sell hotel rooms at The Venetian and Palazzo, resulting in a substantial increase in cash income.

"We know that the subject of comps has been played out all across Las Vegas, but we've taken a different position," Adelson said. "We've essentially cut out all our accounts except the most highly rated players. No more packaging deals to try to be competitive with others. There's no more comp rooms given out. There's no more food and beverage. There's no shopping credits. There's no restaurant credits. There's no showroom credits."

 

And all those people you chased elsewhere, Shelly . . . they ain't coming back to youuuuuuuuuuuu.

 

likely staying at RIO wednesday and thursday. haven't been there in years. are the buffets still good? how about video poker?