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There Was No Flavor at Flavortown Sports Kitchen

There Was No Flavor at Flavortown Sports Kitchen

   As much as I love Guy Fieri on television, his aura was not transferred to his Flavortown Sports Kitchen Restaurant in the Las Vegas Horseshoe.    Stepping in for lunch/brunch we were met by a more than half empty restaurant and a really snippy hostess, who told us that if we did not have  a reservation we could not be seated; It was full up with reservations. However, they said we could sit at the bar, and we did, and we had a great bartender. That ends the good stuff. My wife took advantage of the low cost brunch menu and I ordered the 18 hour smoked brisket.

    We were anticipating a nice lunch, and the brisket was VERY expensive so I was looking forward to the meal. Well, we had to keep looking forward for almost 45 minutes for the meal to come, and only after asking our bartender to expedite it.

    He went to the kitchen, and the meal came out partially with him and another person  brought part of my wife’s brunch a minute or two later. Meanwhile, the restaurant was even emptier than it was before…and it never got any more full, in fact it was less than 1/3 full. So much for all the reservations, taking up all the tables in a relatively large restaurant. Frankly, had it not been for the bartender being so nice, we would have packed it in by the time we received our food, and left the place.  After we received our food we discovered that it was was awful. Awful. Awful.

   Where do I start?  Let’s do the brunch first, which looked like a deal. A deal does not really matter if the food is not good, and it was not. My wife had the All American breakfast slam which is two eggs, bacon or sausage and toast. She got VERY limp pieces of bacon, greasy eggs and semi burnt big Texas style toast. The breakfast potatoes were cold, undercooked and somehow still managed to be  greasy.

   The 18 hour smoked brisket might have been good for the three to six bites I got out of it. I got two (I kid you not) slabs of entire fat, wish I would have taken a  picture, a few more pieces odd meat, mostly fat,  and a little brisket and then a hunk of fat, complete fat, on the bottom. The Mac and Cheese was waaaay over-cooked and the saving grace of the dish was the cole slaw which was really good. The BBQ sauce was not particularly memorable.

   Remember this was 44.99 for the brisket, I had figured when I ordered it that it  would be delicious the small scraps of actual meat were tasty. I showed the plate to the bartender (whose name I won’t mention because he was the only thing good about the place and do not want him to get into trouble) and he commented that I should have sent that back that,  it looked horrible. We paid and left.

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