Iluv Does Las Vegas (with pics)

This thread will be updated everytime I am sober enough to do so.
Wednesday: Got in late, no food for me.

Thursday: lunch from pool menu

Dinner at Koi at Planet Hollywood.
Koi did not have a lot of people dining in there and it was rather dark. I considered asking for a flashlight to read my menu. Mr iluv and I shares the lobster tacos. It was 4 mini tacos with lobster, mango salsa and a guacamole spread. For our rolls, we ordered the baked Lobster roll, spicy tuna roll, and another roll that was maybe called a firecracker roll. That lobster roll was fantastic! It had this gooey cheese cream sauce on top of it and I was full after eating two of them. Several other people at the table had this roll and agreed it was their favorite. One person did order the chilean sea bass off the regular menu and while it tastes good, it was a little on the bland side. I really want to go back to koi for breakfast and eat another lobster roll right now. The other two rolls were just standard tunu rolls except the firecracker roll had some mini wonton strips sticking out of the top.

Overall I would give Koi a 8.9. I have to take off points for it being so damn dark in there, but otherwise they had great service, fresh tasting fish and our total bill was about $125, and I think that is very reasonable for Vegas dining.

Friday: despite being told not to, We proceeded to try out the Aria buffet for breakfast. It was $70 for both of us but there was all kinds of stuff that you don't normally see at casino buffets. Well at least in comparison to biloxi and nola casino buffets, I would say a bit more exotic. was it worth $70? not really. I will try the Patasserie or Vettro for breakfast

Lunch: ate at Julian Serrano. It's classified as Spanish fare but nothing I ate seemed spanish.
Tuna cones- ahi tartare, cucumber, won ton, avacado, ponzu. Pretty good stuff, but avocado cannaloni was amazeballs.


Avocado cannaloni- salmon, seaweed, rocoto mayo


Dinner at Cut. We had a party of 9 so I got to try a lot of food. The service was outstanding. They do a presentation at the beginning where they bring out the Wagyu steaks and hybrid wagyu steaks which was interesting. I give this place a 10. Mr. John's will always be my favorite steakhouse but this place offers so much more that I was overwhelmed in the best way.
Appetizers:
Pork belly!

Tuna tartare



Bone marrow- conflicting opinions around the table on this one. Half the table hated it. Mr iluv loved it. I thought it was ok. Prob wouldn't order it again though.


I didn't bother taking pics of everyone's steaks but I did get one of my Wagyu Beef Short Ribs “Indian Spiced”, Curried Pea Puree, Garam Masala, Slowly Cooked For Eight Hours. everyone agreed mine was the best.


Saturday: Lunch- mahi mahi tacos at cabana. Room service for dinner. I had a major hangover after friday night, and webt straight to bed after the haunted hotel. It was a pretty fun haunted house though.

Sunday: See page 2