Pip’s is a pip. It’s over designed, too big, and probably in the wrong hotel, but the food is fantastic, and the wine selection is palpably palatial, parsimoniously priced, and impeccably palatable.
We want to like Mario Batali’s restaurants (all three of them in the Venetian). We really do. We try to ignore his less-than-appetizing appearance, celebrity status, high prices, and the overwhelming mediocrity of the food….but sometimes, it’s just hard.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water. – Galileo
“I rather like bad wine,” said Mr. Mountchesney; “one gets so bored with good wine.” – Benjamin Disraeli
If you love good, inexpensive wine — and let’s face it who doesn’t? — you’ve gotta love the gamay grape.