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This family got home from a four day trip to Las Vegas, NV on September 22^nd. While we were there we made plenty of food memories.

List of places we ate:

1. Mirage (room mini bar) Ha Ha!

2. Mirage Buffet

3. ExcaliburDinner Show (Tournament of Kings)

4. Mirage Room Service

5. TheCoffee Cup Café (Boulder City, NV)

6. HashHouse a Go Go (The Imperial Palace, Las Vegas, NV)

7. Circus Circus Buffet

8. TheCheesecake Factory (Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV)

9. MaxBrenner (dessert restaurant)

There were other things we ate here and there, but the previous list includes the main attractions.

The Excalibur Dinner Show turned out to be one of the more unique things that we did. Food was plain in presentation, but I think that was supposed to be part of the allure. The food was cooked and seasoned very well, which was very impressive, considering the amount of people being served all at once. I think that we figured over 400 people at the performance. No utensils were allowed! You had to eat with your hands!

I thought that the Hash House would be our best meal of the trip since it was raved about by Rachel Ray and Adam Richman, among others. It was OK. It had fun and original food presentation, but was a little lacking in seasoning.

I figured there must be gold baked into each one of Max Brenner’s cookies since they were $5 each! My only explanination for this phenomenon is this: In the Las Vegas struggle in the current economic climate, I believe they have come up with this plan: Let’s make items so astronomically expensive that people will see them and say, “Oh my God! A five dollar cookie! I simply must see what a five dollar cookie tastes like!” You bite in to something like this expecting to be transformed or transmitted to cookiegasim land! But what you really get is a mouthful of sugar which tastes really good, but not $5 good. Think about it. Who can just eat one cookie for dessert? Will, maybe? So we are talking at least 7 cookies for this family. This, with a tip, translates to almost $50 dollars just for a paper bag, not even full, of cookies!

I hate to admit it but The Cheesecake Factory turned out to be our best meal in Las Vegas. Not that I do not love The Cheesecake factory, but I thought that we might get to experience something culinarily extraordinary! I thought that I would be able to come home and tell all of Idaho Falls that they must travel to Las Vegas immediately to experience the culinary delights at…….. But alas, all you really have to do is take a short drive to The Cheesecake Factory in SLC. I recommend the Miso Salmon for dinner and the Dolce de Leche cheesecake for dessert. One slice of cheesecake almost the size of my head is $7.95 (1 slice easily feeds two people). Just for the record: At the cheese cake factory we had 3 appetizers, 3 entrees, 3 sodas, and 2 slices of cheesecake. This added up to ~ $105 (rounding up, and not including a tip). So for the price of dinner and dessert at The Cheesecake Factory we could get exactly 21 cookies at Max Brenner’s! And, I do not consider The Cheesecake Factory an inexpensive place to eat. Oh, Well! Don’t worry, I still ate everything in sight, and gained exactly five pounds!