We had dinner at Le Cirque last night, and let's start off by saying that the food was terrific. The service, well, that's a completely different story. To recount everything that went wrong would go on too long for anyone to bother to read. It started out with the two of us being seated squeezed between two tables such that I was bumped into a half dozen times by servers for the next table. We assumed that there was good reason for this initially, but after a while it was clear there was no good reason why they couldn't have seated us somewhere else. Then, no one came to even ask if we wanted something to drink before asking for our orders.\n\nWe were looking forward to a nice meal, and we both decided to have the degustation menu with wine pairings. Without running through all six courses, there was at least one significant problem with each course: I was brought the wrong dish for one, my wife was brought the wrong wine for another, etc. And they could never seem to get the timing of the wine down, with respect to the food. We went from getting the wine for one course 20 minutes before the food arrived to getting the food before the wine got there at all for the next. Even when they began to sense that we were getting irritated, it seemed that they were too hopelessly disorganized to be able to get to correct the situation.\n\nIt would be nice to able to experience the food at Le Cirque under better circumstances, but I can't imagine going back there any time soon, and I certainly could not recommend it to anyone else.\n\nAddendum: To their credit, the GM of Le Cirque contacted me to apologize for the bad experience and asked for the opportunity to make it up to us. No telling when we will be back in Vegas, though.
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