H.L Mencken called the cocktail: “The greatest of all the contributions of the American way of life to the salvation of mankind.”
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Despite the closing of the more formal upstairs dining room at RM Seafood, the downstairs RM Cafe at Mandalay Bay continues to operate and is going great guns from our recent drive-bys of the place. The upstairs bar will continue to operate with a casual, small plates menu and the usual great beers, cocktails and wines that have always been available there.
Rick “Sustainable Fish Man” Moonen” assures us that the upstairs, more formal operation is only on temporary hiatus until things (read: the economy) loosen up, and he and Adam Sobel will be pouring their hearts into the bar menu (upstairs) and keeping the Cafe humming along.
(ELV regrets the wording of his original post that may have misled readers into thinking the entire operation had shut down.)
Ay chihuahua!
Ay caramba!
Ay Dios mio!
…or as we like to say around the ELV household: Schwing!
Yomara (the hot one) and Emily (the equally hot one) are consummate professionals — so friendly, helpful and knowledgeable that regulars pack this place seven days a week.
But let’s face it: both are so muy caliente that we at ELV would eat at Lindo Michoacan even if it served nothing but lengua estofada with huitalacoche and chapulines.