{"id":1112,"date":"2011-08-11T11:35:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T03:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2011-08-11T11:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T03:35:43","slug":"final-thoughts-about-food-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2011\/08\/final-thoughts-about-food-in-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Final thoughts about food in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are a few places we went to that don’t merit a post of their own.<\/p>\n

–McDonalds<\/strong>. Pathetic, I know, but pretty much every hotel has one in their food court, and they charge regular McDonalds prices (including their dollar menu). Most other food court choices are overpriced and don’t seem much better.\u00a0 Some McDonalds have free refills on sodas – which is great when they’re otherwise $3-4 at the hotel.<\/p>\n

–New York Pizza<\/strong>, on the mezzanine level (the one connecting you to the Excalibur and MGM) of the New York New York hotel.\u00a0 Pizza slices start at $5 for plain cheese.\u00a0 The slices are pretty large, though thin (like NY pizza).\u00a0 They are reheated in the oven, so they’re not particularly fresh.\u00a0 My daughter thought they tasted like Costco pizza. I thought they were OK.<\/p>\n

-Gelato at Trevi<\/a><\/strong>, near the “fountain of the Gods” at the Caesars Palace.\u00a0 Mika had a cone of the chocolate mousse ($5.75) and it was absolutely delicious, easily the best gelato I’ve had in the States. It’s expensive, but it’s a generous scoop.<\/p>\n

–Cafe Belle Madeleine<\/a><\/strong>, at the Paris hotel.\u00a0 The girls and I shared a chocolate mousse pastry ($5.50).\u00a0 It was very good, very chocolaty and very rich.\u00a0 It was more of an adult pastry, though.\u00a0 Other pastries looked just as sinful.<\/p>\n

–Frozen strawberry daiquiris<\/strong> by the MGM Grand pool.\u00a0 Ridiculously expensive at $22 for a daiquiri in one of those souvenir yard cups ($11 for refills).\u00a0 It was a lot of fun drinking it while traveling through the Lazy River, however.\u00a0 I shared it with Mike and didn’t get in the least buzzed, which makes me suspect it had little if any alcohol.\u00a0 It tasted quite good, though.\u00a0 A virgin refill for the girls cost just as much, and tasted the same.<\/p>\n

–Water & sodas.<\/strong> They were $2 on the hotel machines at the Luxor and $3 at the MGM grand.\u00a0 They’re more in the shops, but you can get them on the strip for just $1-$1.50.<\/p>\n

–Cheap breakfast.<\/strong>\u00a0 We brought cereal and had it with milk we kept in the cooler.\u00a0 Neither the Luxor nor the MGM had fridges in their standard rooms, but they both had ice machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are a few places we went to that don’t merit a post of their own. –McDonalds. Pathetic, I know, but pretty much every hotel has one in their food court, and they charge regular McDonalds prices (including their dollar menu). Most other food court choices are overpriced and don’t seem much better.\u00a0 Some McDonalds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-restaurants","tag-las-vegas","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}