ROBERTA’S CAFE
The prime rib was overcooked, and served with mint jelly(?), but the crab cakes were appropriately crabby, the lamb chops were fine, and the chopped salad mighty tasty (even if it wasn’t that chopped and was too cold). Nothing was wrong with the huge portion of trout almandine either, and the cranberry walnut bread…addictive to the point of embarrassment. Best of all — this being downtown — you can get a bottle of big, bold and chewy Whitehall Lane merlot for fifty bucks, or a large pour of Ferrari-Carano cab for twelve. And when available, the walleyed pike they fly in from the midwest is a steal at $16.95.
At those prices, who cares if you’re sitting next to folks who remove their teeth at night?
ROBERTA’S CAFE
El Cortez Hotel and Casino
600 East Fremont Street
Las Vegas, NV 89101
702.385.5200
Restaurant reviews, quips, picks and pans-with some seriously salivating history-from the man who eats his way through Sin City every day.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Hey ! was that jackie taking the teeth out ? as in Jackie Gaughan the owner ?
Roberta’s is a monthly stop for me. The walleye is the ticket !
May 9th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Food was excellent a bit expensive, not a problem. The problem was you order Prime rib and thats all you get , no potato, no salad unless you pay 4.95 per item extra.