We’ve eaten in a number of places lately that may have the shelf life of a bunch of bananas. That’s not because the food isn’t any good at Matryoshka, Mantra Masala, or Ali Baba Fine Lebanese Cuisine — far from it — but these economic climes, combined with a common and fatal flaw, will most likely result in their early demise.
Category: Reviews
SOLARA Lunch
Robin Leach took us to lunch the other day. It was beside The Palazzo pool at a Wolfgang Puck venue called Solara, and throughout the meal, so many bikinis walked past our table that we could barely concentrate on Chef Eduardo Perez’s picture perfect and light as a feather cuisine.
Since it’s on the third floor, and not open to the public per se, the only way to dine there is to show the security guy on the first floor your room key — or tell him you’re heading up to Solara for lunch.
Saying you just want to ogle the girls ain’t enough. But the food is so good (if a bit too healthy for a couple of trenchermen), you’ll be tempted not to look up from your plate.
But then you will. Repeatedly.
Because you’re a sucker for these things (good food and gorgeous girls).
Just like Leach and ELV.
Bad Omelet
You’ve heard of Bad Lieutenant. This was Bad Omelet.
We at ELV don’t know how a place that calls itself the Omelet House can make bad omelets, but somehow this place manages.
Omelets are supposed to be fluffy, precise and folded over, not a bunch of inartfully scrambled eggs stuffed with “chorizo” of no particular breeding, or recognizable spice.
The cheap cheddar cheese tweren’t nuthin’ to shout ’bout neither.
And the home fries were greasy, as in: too greasy for ELV.
And ELV loooooves his greasy home fried ‘taters
And from where we wuz sittin’, it didn’t look like they’ve dusted the plastic flowers that decorate this joint, or changed the carpets, since 1982 — when we first discovered it at the corner of Rancho and Charleston.
But it wuz cheap then, and it is cheap now.
Too bad it ain’t any good.
Our small chorizo omelet cost $6.95.
Just thought you’d like to know.
OMELET HOUSE
2160 West Charleston Blvd. #A
Las Vegas, NV 89103
702.384.6868