After carefully researching LV steakhouses - and having been to a good many before - we decided on Prime for dinner before seeing Love a few weeks ago.\n\nI am giving it three stars on a straight ratings system. Grading on a curve, using other top-end steakhouses as a reference, I would give it two stars.\n\nThe food was good, but not great. The small lobster tail in my $100+ (DANG!) surf and turf was overcooked. I've never sent anything back at a nice restaurant before and I rarely send anything back period, but that had to be resolved. Staff was cool about it and handled it perfectly.\n\nService was good, but not amazing. Our waiter was nice enough, but was not allowed to taste the bottle of wine that we brought, which was kind of a drag. We never even smelled the somalier. Where the eff was (s)he?\n\nFinally, as we finished dinner and the wildly overpriced Chteau DY'quem, we were asked to move out to the frikken patio! The restaurant was nowhere near full. \n\nTurns out, however, that last half an hour after dinner was the highlight of the meal: we got to enjoy the water show, finish our wine and cast occasional glances at TV's own Tom Selleck sitting nearby.\n\nUnlike meals that I have had at other fine establishments, looking back, nothing about Prime (other than the patio scene) stands out to me.\n\nHere's the thing: when dropping major coin of this sort, I expect to be dazzled. Good does not cut it. Prime just didn't dazzle me.
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