DINNER IN VEGAS

Ok all, I realize that it's been over a month since Tom and I went to Vegas, but better late than never on these posts. So why were we in Vegas in the first place? Well, it started off with my little sister. She works for Fox (or will for one more day) and every year, they have a conference in Vegas. This year, she got to have a room all to herself, so she invited us to stay. Then Virigin America launched it's flights from SFO to Las Vegas, and when it launched, they had a deal to buy one get one free on airplane tickets. Ok, so there was really no reason not to go. Then my parents heard that we were going, so they decided that they wanted to go, too. And rather than us crashing with Cathy, they booked us a hotel room with them at the Wynn.

I hadn't been to Vegas in over 7 years- 4 days before I turned 21 and Tom had never been there at all, so for this trip, I vowed to show him around and eat myself silly. (especially since my parents were paying for the whole thing. ) We landed in the afternoon, and my parents had made dinner reservations at the Corsa Cucina, a more casual Italian restaurant inside the Wynn that they had been to before and enjoyed.

When we arrived for our reservations a bit early, before 7, the place was already pretty packed. The restaurant is also kinda open, and adjacent to the casino and theatres, so it was pretty loud inside, but I did like the modern decor of the place. I wasn't super hungry (having snagged a bunch of cookies and chocolates in the VIP lounge when we checked in)l, but I still ordered a bunch.

To start off with, my parents ordered two appetizers. One was their version of a mushroom pizza (on the left) and the other was grilled shrimp on white beans.

The "pizza" was actually not bad. It was basically like a mushroom pate spread on a very very thin crust and covered with cheese, and that was put in the oven. I kinda enjoyed it. And the shrimp were also pretty good.

For my own appetizer, I had this deconstructed version of a Caesar salad, which was pretty good. I was having this weird Caesar salad craving that whole week.

And for my entree, I ordered an agnolotti with guinea hen and mushrooms. The words agnolotti on the menu just made me dream of the amazing chesnut agnolotti that I had at Per Se over a year ago, and though I knew I would never get anything like that, I was hoping for something close. Unfortunately, my pasta turned out to be WAAAAYYYY over cooked and totally mushy, the sauce was far too salty and the guinea hen was a bit tough. I didn't each much of it, but was pretty full by that point, anyway.

But you guys know me. I always have to order dessert, so I got some fresh apple donuts that were filled with this cooked apple mixture and served on a caramel sauce and topped with ice cream. The donuts themselves were actually pretty good. I'm totally a sucker for freshly fried donuts, but overall for dinner, I think in the future, I'd stick with a selection of the appetizers and generally avoid the entrees.