Red Square is the ultimate destination for dinner, cocktails, and nightlife featuring easy-to-share plates including Steak Tartare, Truffle Penne, Grilled Branzino and an impressive caviar selection.
This restaurant was reviewed in the February 2005 LVA; some of the information contained in the review may no longer be accurate. When Mandalay Bay’s Red Square first opened in 1999, we wound up canceling a scheduled review, because there weren’t enough Russian dishes on the menu. That’s now changed. We tried beef stroganoff ($25), chicken Kiev ($22), and a salmon-in-puff-pastry dish called “Kulebyaka” ($25). Surprisingly, even at the high prices, none of them was overly impressive. What we loved, though, was the huge vodka selection--160 in all. How do you choose? One way is by ordering themed flights of four shots each. For example, the Potato Flight (potato vodkas) is $26, the Motherland Flight (Russian vodkas) is $40, and the Ultimate Flight (premiums from around the world) is priciest at $56. The flights are delivered in chunks of ice--cool (actually, cold). In fact, our recommendation for eating at Red Square is to go for vodka and appetizers. Get the flight of your choice and a good steak tartar ($16.75), smothered blini ($33.50), or Siberian nachos ($16). Or splurge on caviar, priced per ounce from $40 (salmon roe) to $95 (Russian Osetra), or Beluga at market price.