We booked my wife's 40th birthday here for 13 people and made arrangements in advance to have separate bar checks. So I do have an idea about what it's like to be a server. By the way, I have 15 years of restaurant experience. At the end of it all, it took me 45 minutes to pay for our meal after we asked for the check.īottom line, STAY AWAY! Unless you like mediocre food and downright awful service. She waited patiently to review the check before I signed it and thanked me. He had one of the other waiters find him and she brought me the check. I told him that he never introduced himself. He then proceeded to yell at me for not knowing who my waiter was. He went to look for our waiter and came back with the wrong ones TWICE. I told him that I haven't seen my waiter and that we had already asked for the check already. I literally waited for 20 minutes before I went to the maître d. Our daughter started to get fussy, so we asked for the check and my wife took our daughter for a walk in her stroller. When it came time to leave is when it all fell apart. The rest of the main course came steady to where we weren't overloaded, but we weren't looking around for the next course. I wasn't expecting Fogo De Chao, but I wasn't looking to eat McDonalds either. The service started off good, we got a salad and cheese balls and they were really tasty. We had our young daughter with us and asked the maître d if he could accommodate us and he led us to a table in the back. We showed up at 6 pm and the place was relatively full. So we wanted to try out Samba for ourselves since we saw it walking through the casino that day. My plan for the next few months is to bring you more from Las Vegas and participate in the dismantling of the saying, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.”Ĭheck out all of PokerNews' videos, and for up-to-the-minute news, follow us on Twitter.This review comes literally one hour after we left. Needless to say, my table image was shot. After a couple of minutes of friendly small talk, he went on his way and I returned to the table. That was way too easy to steal.” Hmmm good point Daniel, good point. He’s laughing and modeling my oversized Guess hobo bag. WHO IS STEALING MY PURSE? Daniel Negreanu. So anyway, on Saturday night, I was minding my own business playing poker at Aria, when suddenly, I see my purse slung over a man’s shoulder. I’m surprised McConaughey had enough time off from filming chick flicks with his shirt off to visit Vegas. Just a couple months ago Lynn Gilmartin and Donnie Peters stalked Matthew McConaughey at a blackjack table in MGM. In this city, you never know who you’ll run into. All the meat is also served with black beans and rice, sweet fried plantains, creamed spinach, farofa carrots, and Samba salad. It’s $39.95 and you get slow-cooked sausage and sweet peppers, honey-brushed turkey breast roulade wrapped in bacon, Hawaiian-style chicken, churrasco sirloin, Samba’s daily lamb selection, chicken legs, ginger soy flank steak, and Samba’s daily pork selection. Although restaurant week is over, Samba offers an all-you-can-eat option year round, and if you’re a meat eater, this is definitely the place for you. This Brazilian steakhouse is ridiculously amazing. Out of the more than 60 restaurants that participated, Tony, a few friends, and I decided to go to Samba inside the Mirage. Many hit the cutting room floor, but here is the final product.Īfter Tony and I shot that video, we talked about going somewhere for restaurant week, which is a yearly event in Las Vegas when restaurants from around the valley offer three-course prix-fixe lunches for $25.09 and dinner for $50.09 per person. The first installment of it was posted yesterday, and it showcases a few instances in which a couple of men's actions didn’t “stay in Vegas.” They ended up in a PokerNews video.Ĭash-game player Thuy Doan and I got together and compiled a list of our most annoying experiences at the poker table. Post-WSOP life for me has been pretty calm, but in the last two weeks, I’ve been working on a couple of new video ideas for PokerNews and one is called The Sin City Series. Who am I kidding? Las Vegas is probably the hardest city to pace yourself in, and I’ve been guilty of going “balls to the walls” a couple of times, but hey, it’s good advice nonetheless. Solution? Keep trustworthy company and PACE YOURSELF! It will end up tattooed on your face, in embarrassing blurry pictures on Facebook, or on the Internet in someone’s blog/article like this one. I’ve lived in Las Vegas for the past three years, and if I’ve learned anything, it’s that the saying, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” is most certainly not true.
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