citizens kitchen and bar

perfectly fine with french food and well experienced with ‘modernist’ cuisine, both at local spots as well as internationally revered recipients of three michelin stars, but born in the midwest and raised on anything but foie gras or liquid nitrogen cocktails suffice it to say that i’m a fan of the whole “upscale american” movement – the sort of food that takes the shake n’ bake that mother used to make and turns it into something worth leaving the house for, the sort of food that critics love to critique even though they likely cannot make it as well themselves…the sort of food being served atcitizenskitchen and bar in mandalay bay.

opens late. if you find yourself hungry andcitizensis the only restaurant opens after midnight in mandalay bay, it is not a bad place. we missed our dinner reservation at elsewhere because the show ran longer than expected, we ended up at citizens.
two of us shared a turkey burger and a lobster roll, in fact, they're pretty good for what they were. service was spotty but still attentive.

i feel like i’ve probably experienced most of the decent burgers in town at this point and am starting to fish for restaurants that serve an ok burger. such is the case withcitizenskitchen & bar that recently opened in mandalay bay. no one has suggested i try their burger, but it’s a venue that pushes their comfort food, and what speaks more to that than a burger? plus, with the rapidly declining quality of burger bar, mandalay is in desperate need of a good burger. so could this be it?

will not go there again !. met someone for breakfast atcitizensat mandalay bay on monday for breakfast. was not busy at 8am. it is small and cramped, with small tables. we were seated fast and i ask what happened to "red white and blue" restaurant? and she just shrugged. waiter took our order and food came out fairly fast. the table was so small we had to put the bread on our huge round plates and put the bread plates on a chair, along with other table items, so we could use our coffe cups. food was barely warm, and looked really dumb in the middle of this huge round plate. my bill for one eggs benedict and coffee was way over priced even for vegas. $20.00 +. the service was really bad, we had to flag down someone for refill, when we were done the dirty plates just stayed on the table, even after he finally brought the bill. there was no room to sign the bill with all the plates! he never came back to get the bill, so i raised it over my head and the manager took it out of my hand, and i thought someone was stealing my credit card, as i pulled it back i ask if he worked there and he said he was the manager, so i asked him to clear the table and take care of the bill and he did. i told him of the problems, and so did three other tables while we were there. i don't think is was because we are older, but they just have very bad service !!!