{"id":9673,"date":"2012-09-21T10:30:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9673"},"modified":"2012-09-21T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T18:31:25","slug":"yellowtail-douchetastic-hyde-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/yellowtail-douchetastic-hyde-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellowtail = douchetastic; Hyde & seek"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"If you’re ever tempted to envy those of us who must attend media events for restaurants: Don’t. They’re a chore — crowded, noisy and sprinkled with microbes of food that is usually grossly unrepresentative of the daily bill of fare. Although a minor on-the-job accident got me out of last night’s Golden Gate<\/strong> re-launch<\/a>, which I’m told was a complete and interminable trainwreck, at least from the media-relations standpoint, I still had to show the flag at Yellowtail<\/strong>, formerly known as Yellowtail Sushi. However, taking “sushi” off the name appears to have been a change of form than substance. It’s still a Japanese restaurant<\/a> that prominently hawks … sushi<\/a>. That was also most of what was being handed around on trays, along with some cubes of eggplant. Oh, a couple of pizzas were spotted but they seem to have been earmarked for the Beautiful People.<\/p>\n

\"\"For you see, Yellowtail is a restaurant that has mistaken itself for a nightclub. Pounding “house” music filled the ears and the pungent stench of Axe body spray jammed the nostrils. (It should be the official scent of Bellagio<\/strong>.) The prospective clientele was epitomized by a couple of exceptionally scuzzy-looking men and more Kim Kardashian<\/strong> klones than you could shake a Botox<\/strong> needle at. If you were 30 or older, you looked very<\/em> out of place. Indeed, there’s a fascinating and very curmudgeonly thread on Two Way Hard Three<\/em> concerning whether Strip casinos have simply written off the average American<\/a> as a customer base.<\/p>\n

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\nHyde and seek<\/strong>. Getting to and from Yellowtail also means navigating past the entrance to Hyde<\/strong> and all I can think is that Roger Thomas<\/strong>‘ thoughts on this disastrous design afterthought must be unprintable. The fa\u00e7ade is a huge, graceless box — in MGM Resorts International<\/strong>‘s preferred, Cubist fashion — that protrudes into the gaming floor, forcing a couple of 90-degree turns in the traffic pattern. Also, to accommodate the backwash of clubbers waiting to get past the velvet rope, there’s a big, awkward, empty spot on the casino floor where slot machines clearly ought to be. It might pass muster in The Mirage<\/strong> or Aria<\/strong> but at Bellagio it looks maladroit and out of place … or should I say ‘pLace<\/strong>‘?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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