Saturday, February 9, 2008

We had an early pre-show dinner at 808 at Caesar's Palace. It's a Hawaiian fusion restaurant, apparently famous in Honolulu but not so much on the mainland. 808 is Honolulu's area code, which I think is a pretty terrible name for a famous restaurant, like I can't think of anything interesting about my restaurant except it's area code. The decor was boring and low ceilinged, and as far as I remember bore little resemblance to this photo. So they may have redecorated. Service was nice, but weirdly, everyone that worked there looked like circus freaks, to be politically incorrect. I don't think this was intentional, but each and every server had a very prominent (insert politically correct word for defect here, because it's escaping me at the moment). Weirdly, we had just finished a long lunch a few hours ago, and we were in a rush to see a show, so, we decided on a multicourse tasting menu, an exceedingly bad idea. Since we had little time, the obliging staff sped through the menu, piling dish after dish of food, for which we had absolutely no appetite. Their signature deconstructed Ahi roll is excellent, their big mass of lukewarm raw tuna, not so much. (Food-15, Decor-9, Service-12).


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