text: The Cosmopolitan's  \"grand social experiment\".  It delivers!\n\nWalk in to be greeted by five doors.  Some leading into turn of the century meets Star Trek rooms, others, well...  Spaces morph, the experience evolves, life happens all around you.  Live bands, eclectic music, spontaneous vaudeville acts and a stage production, good food, great craft cocktails.  You need to experience it to understand.\n\nEssentially it's a craft cocktail ultra lounge, stage production, and mega club and restaurant all in one.\n\nBreaking it down:\n\nCraft Cocktails - Excellent, many reinvented, from classics.  Very consistent (a rarity when some cocktails contain 10+ ingredients).\n\nStage Production (Vegas Nocturne) -  Similar to Absinthe.  Acrobatics, comedy, tap dancing, strip teases. No more details as you are sworn to secrecy.  \n\nClub - Still need to experience this.\n\nRestaurant - Inventive and indulgent.  Many items to be shared like the outstanding caviar mini tacos (Yukon gold shells filled with hamachi and drowned in caviar), deconstructed oysters Rockefeller (fried oysters on a bacon butter saut\u00e9ed spinach and bacon dust in an oyster shell) or the tete de cochon (deep fried panko crusted head cheese topped with a poached egg).\n\nFor larger dishes, the reinvented beef Wellington (beef tenderloin with a generous portion of seared foie, trumpet mushrooms, studded with cream spinach, topped with shaved black truffle and crowned by a flaky, latticed puff pastry is very good albeit rich.\n\nIncredible caviar service (five types sold by the ounce, half kilo, kilo).\n\nOutstanding wine and champagne list.  Ultra lounge prices.\n\nTip;  To make the most of your experience:\n1.  Make a night of it.  Drinks, dinner, and the show.\n2.  Move through the rooms.  There is something different in each.\n3.  Make reservations if you want to eat a full meal.\n4.  Purchase your tickets in advance for the show.  Don't skimp.  Pay the $135 for the best seats.\n5.  Shows are not the same.  The later you go, the edgier.\n6.  Be prepared to spend $$$$.  The show, dinner, and some cocktails averages $300 per person.  Add some caviar and bottles of wine and it's easy to drop several dimes.\n\nNow if only I can remember how Alice got home after falling down the rabbit hole.