The architecture is an ode to Italy, with the interior holding replicas of various Venetian landmarks including the Lion of Venice Column, St Mark’s Campanile, and the Rialto Bridge. Well, it sort of started to come out.The Venetian is the world’s second largest hotel, opened in 1999 with singing gondoliers. From there, the meat started to come out.
I wasn't really interested in that stuff all that much. I was pretty hungry, not having any lunch that day since we were busy in our suites for the show, so the rolls were pretty tasty with the dipping oil.Īfter finishing the salads and most of the rolls, some servers brought out bowls of rice with black beans, some mixed veggie dishes, plantains, and - interestingly - some guacamole on the side to go along with the meat. Now, the salad was pretty nondescript, but the rolls - with a spicy olive oil dipping sauce - were pretty good. The first thing they brought out at Samba was a Caesar's salad and some small soft rolls. That's a staple of many Brazilian steakhouses - they want you to load up on the salad bar as part of the prix fixe meal so you don't eat as much meat. Samba was much different from other Brazilian steakhouses that I've been to - it didn't have a salad bar. And he stepped up to the plate in a big way by ordering multiple bottles throughout the meal of the 2012 Jordan Cabernet. My boss decided that he wanted to have good wine for the meal, so he made a deal with our hosts that if they bought the meal, he would buy the wine. She was sort of sassy and had a good demeanor for putting up with 16 conventioneers. We had a pleasant middle-aged lady as our lead server that evening. One of my colleagues actually crawled under the table to get out rather than make three or four guys on either side of him get up so he could go to the restroom. It was sort of cramped with guys seated along a wall and those in the middle having no way out except for making others along the way move out of the way in case they needed to get up and use the restroom. We were seated in the back of the place at a long table to accommodate our larger group. There was a small open kitchen in the main dining area with a modernistic bar off to the side. Evidently, you were to get the feeling that you were in a Brazilian rain forest with the decor in the place. It featured a colorful motif with accented lighting around the walls and into the ceiling of the space. The interior of Samba isn't all that large. As my colleague Ian said, "I'm guessing they wouldn't be as good as the ones we got at Larry's." Even though Larry's supplies steaks to a number of restaurants in and around Las Vegas, Samba appeared not to be one of those types of places. We didn't want to appear to be rude to our hosts and we declined the beef tenderloin option. If they didn't serve you the beef tenderloin, it would be $39.95 per person. At right are a couple flat pans of beef tenderloin filets that I cooked for our group of 14 guys one evening.Īt Samba, if you wanted to get beef tenderloin filets as part of the never-ending revolving selections of meat they serve you, it would have cost $49.95 each. At least compared to the steaks that we got from Larry's Great Western Meats that we had at our rental home a couple of nights.
So I went into our meal at Samba without a lot of hope that the food that evening would be all that great. I've gotten to the point that if we're in a group of more than 10 people at a restaurant, you can pretty much be guaranteed that the food and will suffer.
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Always up for a free meal from a manufacturer, I joined a group of about 16 people for dinner at Samba one evening. One evening, one of our manufacturers asked us if we'd care to join them for dinner at Samba, a Brazilian rodizio-style steakhouse that I'd walked by numerous times when we stayed at the Mirage, but had never been to. It's better to go back to a home at the end of a long day than to go to a hotel. The past couple of years we have rented a large house that has turned out pretty nice in terms of comfort and accommodations. For a handful of years, our company would stay at the Mirage - still one of my favorite Las Vegas hotels - during the annual Consumer Electronics Show.
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