I'm not a huge oyster fan for whatever reason, but I gave them a big go yesterday and enjoyed it, had them three different ways. Chargrilled oysters were a pretty big revelation. I'm more of a shrimp/crawfish/fresh fish guy when it comes to New Orleans cuisine generally.

And Spike, Commander's Palace was high on my list, they're just crazy booked for the holidays. But I'm going to try to get in for lunch tomorrow if I can.

Commander's Palace was so fucking good.

I'll have to make reservations next time. Luckily we had a great dinner at a place called Herbsaint tonight. Delicious duck confit and the desserts were sublime.

booked a weekend of golf in vegas in a couple of weeks and was able to get a reservation at lotus of siam

Used to live a few blocks from this place. We would do walk-ins for lunch but dinner reservations were so hard to get. If you have some cash to blow and want great sushi, Yui Edomai was probably the best meal I had in Vegas. Also Sparrow+Wolf is good, as is the newish Atomic Kitchen.

I maintain that Vegas is the best food city in America even if you blackout every casino restaurant.

nice...will look into the sushi joint..every time we go to vegas lotus is the first reservation i make

We ate at lotus last time there. I recommend trying something from their northern Thai menu. I love that place, and the location is such a dumpy strip mall

They got a fancy new place now because the roof caved in at the old one (which was also just steps away from one of the other best Thai places in the city, Komol). Kinda not the same experience if you don't have to park by the adult day-care and walk past the German leather bondage shop, but the food is just as good.

Ah man, I'll still go for the food, but I did like going to that shithole. Last time there we got there an hour before opening, were a few back in the no reservation line, and were the last people to get in. Must have been a slow night.

It's unreal how busy that place would get. When we arrived in 2014 you could do a 7 pm walk-in on an off-night, but around 2016ish they no longer even answered their reservation line after like 5 pm.

It's also by far the best Thai food of my entire life. I still dream about one of the jackfruit curries.

its the only thing i look forward to in vegas other than a bar seat at the double down saloon

mickey used to live in las vegas? this changes everything.

Noooo not the double down. You go for punk rock bingo?

Four years, bub.

The saddest meal I’ve ever had was at the Fat Burger near MGM.

Pretty easy to get taken for a ride on the strip. Fat burger was a local chain--the owner's son went to Columbia and then came back to Vegas to start a DSA chapter before being unceremoniously removed from his position for trying to block a sit-in at Dean Heller's office and then later that month the Fat Burger at Green Valley Ranch tried to break up a unionization drive.

Best cheap drunk food on the strip (excluding the gross hotdogs at Casino Royale) is hands-down Nacho Daddy, just outside of the Planet Hollywood.

I just meant that the hard lighting and the lack of hospitality skills on display during a Fat Burger graveyard shift makes you second guess not using that last twenty in your pocket on one more roulette spin at Sahara.