360 Vegas Reviews: Lemongrass @Aria Spring 2014

Thai food has a reputation for being some of the hottest cuisine on the planet, Asian food with a kick.  The concept has always intrigued but as with most new foods, the vast collection of things featured in their dishes intimidated. 

Enter Keren, Vegas, Aria and Lemongrass, the perfect storm to inspire food experimentation.  It’s also the only Thai restaurant on the Vegas strip so clearly the options are limited.  Prepare to have your senses stimulated as Thai food is an art form.  It’s dishes feature at least 3 of the 5 of taste senses; sour, sweet, salty, bitter and spicy, in each dish with a grand plan to visit them all making a harmonious finish.

Rating

Mark and Keren - 1/5

360 Vegas Review: O'Shea's @LINQ Spring 2014

Never has the death of a shittier place been so lamented by so many.  When O'Shea's was closed in 2012 to make way for the Linq project, even though it was announced it would return once the Linq project was done, people bemoaned.

Maybe people were skeptical that Caesars entertainment wouldn't keep its promise. Maybe they thought it wouldn't be the same or maybe people just really like having their shoes make that suction cup sound as they attempt to traverse across the urine and vomit covered linoleum. 

Whatever the reason, people celebrated its return. Little more than an Irish bar with a casino in it, O'Shea's made sure to bring back its staples, Beer pong, karaoke, cheep booze and gambling as well as the drunken loud vibe are alive and well. In fact, it’s been so successful that Linq promised to expand O'Shea's into the space next door left vacant due to a failed deal with a potential tenant. However that has yet to materialize.

Rating (scale of 1-5)

Mark – 3.5

Keren – 2

Alistair – 3

360 Vegas Review: Pizza Rock @Downtown Grand Spring

Pizza. Many people will tell you there is no such thing as bad pizza. There are clearly varying degrees of quality be even the worst pizza is still pizza. While some strive to create the best pizza you've ever had, others look to reinvent the culinary medium and blow your fuckin mind. Pizza rock is the latter.  

At first glance, the menu can be concerning, especially for the picky eaters among us.  Balsamic reduction? Sautéed Pear? Quail Hollow Farm Honey?  What the fuck are you doing to pizza!  Good things, I assure you.  Very good things.

Need some reassurance?  They also have the classic New York slice with the standards, a slice that rivals Secret Pizza at Cosmopolitan.  Pizza Rock isn’t just the best pizza place off Fremont St, it’s one of the best places to eat in Vegas.

Rating

Mark, Keren & Alistair - 5/5

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Steward Ave, the main road running across Fremont St. is named after Helen Stewart, the women who originally owned the land and water rights to what became Las Vegas.  She sold to William Clark for $55k, (1.4 million today). (Chronicles of Old Las Vegas)

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Looming over the strip like a bird of prey, but there is no attack in the agenda today.  Instead, a leisurely stroll through the sky.  Taking in what can only be described as a living representation of manifest destiny in the desert.  It’s the Las Vegas strip, brought to you by the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci.  Thank you helicopter and @_lucky45 for your aerial arousals.

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