Best Restaurant Experiences / Restaurant Deals

Please tell about your best restaurant experiences and best restaurant deals.

Can someone please recommend restaurants with good quality food that is NOT a buffet?

Many choices. What are you looking for? Cuisine? Cost? Location? Food allergies? Kid friendly? All these are factors.

I think this thread is a prime example of how lame the site has become. This girl didn't have a single answer to a pretty good question for almost a month now, on the old site there'd probably be a page or two of people answering. It appears this place has become the place NOT TO GO TO for any answers, vegas and otherwise. Really sad to site this site not only go downhill but down the hill and over the cliff.

So why didn't you help? Forums are what their members make them. If you want this forum to work, then you have to do more than complain that it's not the way that you want it to be. Jennifer, there's all sorts of information about great restaurants on this website (you are in the forums now, which is a very small part of the whole product). If you go to "Dining" from the top nav of the home page, you'll see many categories of restaurants. When you click into them individually, you'll see that many have LVA reviews. Hundreds of them, in fact. We're working on making it more obvious where those reviews are, but they're there now if you're poking around. Easier yet, if you're an LVA member, you can read any of the back issues online. Every issue has a dedicated section on restaurants and dining deals with dozens of recommendations. Another option is to go to VegasWithAnEdge.com. This is a new blog that we're launching, that will serve as a trip reports and blogging space for our customers. It's not even incorporated into the website yet, so we haven't pushed it. But we've seeded it with several "Local Corner" reviews from the Las Vegas Advisor newsletter. These are the cool little restaurant gems that are located all over the city. I can guarantee you that these are the types of places you're looking for.

I do and have contributed to this forum over the years but on the things I know about. We do buffets mainly and not serious foodies so I didn't have much to say. People visit the forums with questions like these to hear personal experiences, did they leave leave full and happy or pissed off and food was lousy, this girl received pretty much nothing. I almost know for a fact that on the old site she would've gotten many responses. It just seems to me that all the major contributors have left. BTW I'm not alone in my thinking, you've read all the threads I'm sure and over half are calling for the old one back.

I understand. No doubt these boards are currently deficient. We will remedy that, but on a schedule. If the boards die out, we're prepared to accept that. They don't have to, though, and I hope they don't. We met on this today and our staff will pay more attention in the interim. We'll do our best to create a better experience and build it back on as quick a timetable as possible.

Below is a list of restaurants that I have and will continue to visit. As far as dining deals are concerned, I would start with the LVA's MRB coupon book. Next step check out restaurant.com, Groupon, travelzoo, KSHP etc. When in Las Vegas, stop in one of the tix4tonight kiosks and ask about dining discounts. Austin's Steakhouse - did someone mention ribeye? LVA coupon? Baguette Cafe - nobody doesn't like Baguette Cafe for breakfast or lunch. Now open on weekends. Border Grill - love the brunch and unlimited mimosas. Bratalian Neapolitan Cantina - only have been there once, but Carla Pellergrino and the pollo scarpiello warrant a second visit. Bronze Cafe @ The Center - repeat after me - I will have the LGBTQ. House made bacon jam (Yes!), maple cured bacon (Yes!), basil aioli, mixed greens, lemon vinaigrette on a ciabatta roll. Go vegetarian if you must like my wife does and order the Tree of Life (roasted red peppers, avocado, mixed greens, house made pickled onions, cashew crema, Brazil nut crumble and mango cilantro ginger vinaigrette on pita flatbread). Chada Street - 3 times in 12 months - enuff said. Commanders Palace (closed) - the $18.75 3-course lunch combined with 25 cent martinis are long gone, but never forgotten. Crab Corner - only for those of us who worship blue crabs from Chesapeake Bay. Don Vito's @ the South Point - not the best Italian restaurant in the city, but I do love my eggplant Parmesan and the fact I can use points plus a funbook coupon. Eatt Healthy Food - French - healthy? OMG! We have only dined here once, but it was the best meal of the last trip. Forte European Tapas - Bulgarian tapas - who could imagine? Try the biscuit cake for dessert. Friendly Donut House - an apple fritter that is bigger, better and cheaper than Ronald's - hard to believe, but true. German Bread Bakery - rumballs, rumballs and maybe some other dessert. Kitchen Table - 2 visits, 5 different breakfast treats, each one a winner. Note: one of the 2 owner/chefs has vacated the premises since our last visit. Lola's - A Louisiana Kitchen (Charleston location) - her name is actually Beth, but she does bronzed catfish over Gouda grits that will make you smile. Oyster Bar @ Palace Station - only if you can handle the long line. Pan Asian (David Wong's) - it was 3 years and 6 months between our 2 visits, but #3 is on the drawing board. Rosallie - Le French Cafe - on the last 3 trips we have enjoyed breakfast there 3 times. I ordered chevre quiche on 2 occasions and most recently a smoked salmon sandwich. The box score is 4.5 Forks, 4.5 Forks and 4.5 Forks. Soyo Korean Barstaurant - I am not sure if the spicy grilled chicken with mozzarella dish would be considered authentic, but it is lip smacking good. Suzuya Pastries and Crepes - I have mixed emotions because it out of the way for us. Japanese crepes - who knew? Not in the mood for a crepe - try the Mont Blanc or Green Tea crepe cake or just close your eyes and point. Todd's - Todd is in the kitchen every evening, the menu changes with what's currently fresh including seafood AND there is no corkage on Wednesdays. We have been happy customers since 2005. Weera Thai - another Thai restaurant worthy of multiple visits.

Thank you so much for that response Frank. That's what I was looking for. We are going to be in Vegas in 2 days so I'm trying to figure out our dining plans.

Tony, as a member I have looked through the newsletter and through the Dining Nav. I am looking for personal experiences and tips like the old site had. I am a new member but for the few weeks that I had access, the old forums had a wealth of information and they are the reason I signed up. The coupon book is great but I probably wouldn't have signed up to be a member solely based on it. Just thought you might like to hear my thoughts.