Okay, I know I will probably put this up on our group blog, but It's good here too since I could not make classes this week.
I love Vegas. I go there almost every year with my family for various reasons. One of the things that I love about Vegas is the food. My family and I love to try and sample different foods we would not normally eat at home. One year we went to a Wolfgang Puck restaurant in the MGM, last time we went to Bobby Flay's Messa Grill, (it was awesome).
This year we decided to try out one of my favorite television chef's: Gordon Ramsay! He has several restaurants in Vegas, including Hell's Kitchen in the Paris, several television shows (Kitchen Nightmares and The F Word), I even have his Nintendo DS Game: Hell's Kitchen and through the game he as on occasion called me a donkey. However in real life he has always been a advocate of fresh simple food. He states it in all of his shows and I was so thrilled to see that he actually applies what he teaches in other restaurants to his own shows.
Gordon Ramsay's Burgr is in Planet Hollywood. Now we actually had one burger a piece.
My father had the Hell's Kitchen Burger because he loves hot food. This burger had Asadero cheese ,Roasted jalopeno peppers, avocado, and oven roasted tomato.
I love cheese so I ordered the Uber Cheese Burger. My burger was medium rare and so juicy. It had Fontina Cheese, Raclette Cheese, and Goat Cheese. They blend so well together the only word I can think of is ..not even a word but a sound of happiness.
My mother had the Southern Yardbird Burger. This is a chicken burger with sharp cheddar, pickle, butter lettuce and mustard bbq sauce. Now, this is very important, my mother hates chicken burgers. She says that they are always dry, tasteless and you can taste that it has been frozen. But this chicken burger she had was none of those things. It was juicy. Seriously I could see the juiciness from across the table. She loved this burger.
The next day I tried the Euro Burger. This burger was topped with truffle aioli, goat cheese, arugula and oven roasted tomato. Again this was medium rare and just so good. It was my first time having Truffle aioli.
I had asked to speak with the head chef, but that was not possible. It's okay! It's Vegas! I understand.
Fresh, simple and delicious. I wish he would open up a location in Chicago, but it was worth the trek.
This experience just reminded me why he is one of my culinary heroes. He practices what he preaches!
(I took the pictures)
