The Sundry is the brand new food hall at the unfinished Uncommons, Las Vegas’ latest lifestyle center located just off the 215 Beltway and directly across Durango Road from the Durango, Station’s hotel-casino in the southwest valley.
Like Famous Foods Street Eats at Resorts World and Proper Eats at Aria, your first time here presents something of a challenge. When you walk in the front door, the big signboard directs you to the hostess, who seats you.
At the table, the hostess points to two QR codes, one on a placard that connects to the menu, the other glued to the tabletop that puts you into the ordering system.
So far so good. But we found that the menu wasn’t entirely up to date, so we scanned the ordering code for the complete current lists from the 10 eateries.
We were there for the Ipswich clams from Bar Oysterette, which weren’t on the menu, but were available, it turned out, on the ordering app.
In the app, you first enter your name and phone number. On the next screen, you have to scroll through 25 “staff picks” (the most expensive stuff), 10 food and 15 drink items, to get to the full menu.
Everything — ordering, paying, table delivery, text updates — is done on the phone. No cash.
Like all the food halls, the menus are minimal, three or four main choices with a few sides. Bar Oysterette serves clam chowder ($14), trout roe dip ($16), the clams ($25), and a Maine lobster roll ($39). Kavos, from the people who run Meraki, one of the best Greek restaurants in town, dishes up octopus ($18), scallops (two for $21), calamari ($18), and hummus, pita, and tzatziki ($9). Barzotto has meatballs and pasta ($16-$24); Dhabi Ji offers naan for $4 and curry and a couple other entrees ($23); Kowbird’s fried chicken and sandwiches are $18-$20, with the usual mac ’n’ cheese and fries $5-$9; Petite Pesos offers Filipino empanadas ($9) chicken/pork skewers $12, and lumpia $14; Easy Slider grills beef, turkey, peanut butter and bacon, and crab cake sliders (one for $4, two with fries for $15); and Happy Hoagie makes sandwiches ($15-$17) and salads ($17-21). For dessert, there’s local donuts and Smitten ice cream out of San Francisco.
As for our clams, the breading was pretty overpowering, but we did find a few fat mollusks inside all that fried dough. The rest, though, were more like Mrs. Fields, way too expensive at $25.
The Greek coleslaw ($9) from Kavos was excellent. Still, for a $40 meal (with tax and tip), we were hungry a couple of hours later.
Uncommons is in the midst of major construction, so the entrance is unmarked so far; just take the first left off Durango after the Beltway. Park in the garage across from the Sundry; the first two hours are free and $3 per hour after that.
Not a lot of interest in visiting an overpriced food hall.
what happens for seniors who don’t have a phone? No food?