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Brunch at Max Brenner Isn't All About the Chocolate (But the Chocolate's So Good)

Where: 3570 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89109
August 24, 2010 at 3:16 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

It’d be remiss of us to leave you on a bad food-related note when it’s coming up to lunchtime, so to redress the balance of our poor meatloaf experience, we present to you: Brunch at Max Brenner, A Yummy Experience.

Yes, we hit up Max Brenner at the Forum Shops last weekend to see whether we would eat the finest brunch in Vegas, as they’d promised. The verdict? We’re never ones for superlatives (unless we’re talking about the wunderbar Tom Lowe) so we won’t say that. In fact, we wouldn’t say it was spectacular, but it was very, very nice.

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No Cheap Shots About Cheap Trick - It's Really, Really Good

Where: 3655 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
August 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

Cast aside your aspersions about what this looks like. It’s really good.

There’s nothing we like better than being proved wrong here at VegasChatter (well, kinda), especially if it’s being proved wrong in a good way. So we’re delighted to say that in our latest Vegas mistake, contrary to our expectations, Sgt Pepper feat. Cheap Trick is, in our humble opinion, astonishingly good.

We finally got around to seeing it a couple of weeks ago, although we weren’t looking forward to it. What we were expecting: washed up rocker has-beens massacring the Beatles that belong back in the Hilton (sorry Hilton) rather than the Paris.

What we got: the surprise of our lives. They were ace!

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First Food and Bar May Not Be First in Our Hearts, But It's Well Up There

Where: 3325 [map], 89109
August 17, 2010 at 2:17 PM | by juliab | 1 Comment

As big fans of Tasting Las Vegas, we normally think that anything the fine people behind that like, we should like too. And seeing as they’re always banging on about First Food & Bar at the Palazzo, and First always does interesting things like a wing eating contest and – its latest event – a Luau to celebrate the anniversary of Hawaii becoming a state on August 21 at 9pm, we thought it was time to go check it out.

So we checked it out a couple of weeks ago and you know what? It was so good we checked it out again, and then again. They may have taken off things like the Dobranksi Burger off the menu, but we’re glad to say there’s plenty more to accommodate your tastes.

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Breakfast at Rumor is Worth Waking Up For

Where: 455 East Harmon Ave [map], 89169
August 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM | by Mr Pappagiorgio | 5 Comments

Last week we told you about our rough intro to Rumor Resort when we tried to check-in. Surprisingly it turned out we still enjoyed the rest of our stay. Still undecided for yourself? The Hotel’s restaurant, Addiction, might sway you. Valet parking is free if you’re driving, so you can easily zip on in and check out the any of the four menus without ponying up for a room before you’re ready.

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Brad Garrett's Comedy Club Is Worth a Trip, Even Without Brad Garrett

Where: 3801 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89109
August 11, 2010 at 11:09 AM | by juliab | 5 Comments

It’s taken us a while, especially given our status as Trop-lovers-in-chief, but we’ve finally got round to paying Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club a visit.

Last time we saw comedy at the Tropicana, we weren’t too impressed with Paul Rodriguez, so we’re pleased to report that our faith in the place and its GSOH has been restored by the BGCC.

A note to those of you in the wilderness who, like our friend we took, assumed that “Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club” meant that Brad Garrett was performing comedy every night: he doesn’t. He made an appearance when it opened on June 28, he popped up for a secret gig a few weeks ago, and he’ll next be on stage 17 August to kick off Locals’ Week (according to the Trop website there are only $64.90 VIP tickets left for this night).

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Staying at the Rumor (Part One): A Tale of Four Check Ins

Where: 455 East Harmon Ave [map], 89169
August 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM | by Mr Pappagiorgio | 6 Comments

The valet and front entrance face the Hard Rock. Good idea keeping it guarded.

As you know by now, Rumor is the newest kid on the Vegas block; the St. Tropez turned boutique hotel off the Strip across from the Hard Rock. We’ve given you a preview of the grounds and peeked inside the rooms. But what was is it like to actually stay as a guest? Would it be a case of a pig in lipstick, as one of our readers thinks? Thanks to the Buy One Night Get One Free offer, which has been extended a month, we found out that wasn’t the completely the case last weekend. It starts out rough, but hang with us.

Last week, we made a Vegas Mistake of not informing our waiter we had show tickets. We learned from that but never dreamed we might have to also apply that policy to hotel check-ins.

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Prepare For a Sugar Coma: Max Brenner Opens Tomorrow

Where: 3570 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89109
August 4, 2010 at 5:29 PM | by juliab | 2 Comments

Max Brenner and his beans

Yet another reason to love tomorrow (as well as free knickers and English eyecandy): it’s the opening of Max Brenner’s new flagship store in the Forum Shops. At 10am, Mayor Goodman will come along to declare the store/restaurant/chocolate temple officially open (and most likely declare it Max Brenner day or something), and after that, you’re free to fill yourselves with sugar and cocoa beans to your heart’s content.

The menu is huge (see it here) but luckily (for us, mostly), on Monday we were given a sneak preview of what’s on offer by the bald man himself. We only sampled the sweet stuff (there’s a whole savory menu too, and they also said they have ambitions on the title of the finest brunch in Vegas) but we sampled a lot of it.

Our verdict? In short, we’d say if you already think you’ll like it, you’ll love it. And if, like us, you’re as yet unsold and worry that it could be tacky and nasty, you’ll be far off the mark, and hugely pleasantly surprised. This is no irritating, famewhore-endorsing, faux penis lollipop-licking Sugar Factory. This is a classy joint.

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The One Where We Forget to Tell The Server We Have Show Tickets

Where: 3355 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
July 30, 2010 at 2:53 PM | by Mr Pappagiorgio | 12 Comments

David Burke may have left but Humpty Dumpty ain't getting off that wall.

While we like to tell you what to do and not do in Vegas, that doesn't mean we don't mess up every now and then. It's true. VegasChatter makes Vegas Mistakes, just like everyone else! In this episode, we try out Timpano Tavern at The Venetian. See what important lessons we learned below.)

We here at VegasChatter like to eat try new restaurants so when we’re going to a show we often look to work in a meal beforehand. Our therapist even suggested we write about our pre-show eating obsession.

Ever since David Burke at the Venetian closed we were curious about its successor, Timpano Tavern. Located near the Blue Man Group theater and owned by the same group running Aquaknox, the spot has a lot going for it from the start.

On this particular outing, we took a large group of seven people for a 7:30pm reservation. The catch being we had a show to catch across the street at The Mirage at 10pm. Still, we figured two and a half hours would be plenty of time to eat, drink, be merry and scurry across the street before 10pm. We were wrong.

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Azure Keeps the Douchebaggery to a Minimum With a Different Kind of Pool Party

Where: 3325 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
July 26, 2010 at 2:29 PM | by juliab | 1 Comment

Water you can see? What kind of Vegas pool party is this?

As we told you last week, we got a looksie at Azure in its 2010 incarnation when the Palazzo peeps let us hang around after we stalked Jennifer Love Hewitt. You already know we liked Tee. Here’s what we made of the rest.

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If You're Staying at Imperial Palace, We Suggest You Bring a Hazchem Suit

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
July 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM | by juliab | 5 Comments

Right, here it is. We’ve processed the trauma, learned how to swallow the little bit of sick that pops into our mouth when we think about the room of mirrors, and so the time has come to bring you our review of our stay in Imperial Palace last week.

Now, we had been hoping – nay, praying – that we’d have some kind of Circus Circus-style Road to Damascus moment at IP. We told ourselves that our friend who likes nothing more than to stay at Gold Coast and hit up O’Sheas, but who said IP is the one place he checked out of early, was being prissy when he said “it’s just disgusting”. We hoped. A lot.

Reader, we hoped in vain.

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For Better and Worse, The Queen Vic Pub is Authentically English

Where: 2901 Las Vegas Blvd South [map], 89109
July 1, 2010 at 2:00 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

Real live English men. Whoop.

As we said on the old Twitter last night, we popped over to the Riviera for our tea last night at the new Queen Victoria British pub. Being English, straight off a trip to the motherland, and fans of the Crown and Anchor (the atmosphere, not the food), we were eager to see what they were doing with the place. And despite its location in the Riviera, we had high hopes, seeing as they’d named it after the pub in EastEnders – this must either be run by some actual Englishes, or some Anglophile yanks, we reasoned.

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If Only We Didn't Have to Leave Our Room at Aria

June 21, 2010 at 6:34 PM | by juliana | 2 Comments

So last week we spent two nights at Aria exactly six months after it had opened. Back in December, we only toured the hotel rooms, casino and restaurants. But this time we got the FULL effect. And how was it? Mixed. Very mixed. Aria, if you are reading this review--pay attention.

Check-In
Check-in took about 20 minutes because of some snafu with our reservation and the promo code we used. But all worked out well and our rate was honored. We were then sent on our way to room 19036. Upon stepping out of the elevator on the 19th floor, we had to study the room numbers sign really hard to find where our room might be located. Then when we started walking to our room, the numbers seemed to be in the wrong order. It started off with something like 19236 and then after a few doors, it reset to 19000.

We didn't really understand this but we pressed on and found our room near the very end of the hallway. It two minutes to get from our room to the elevator each time (without luggage), which is, despite what you'd think, is a long time. It also instilled a sense of dread in us about leaving our room. How long is the walk going to take this time, we thought?

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