Time to hit the road, and my family's never had Mexican food. Border Grill has tables, and we love the gorgeous view of the beach club at Mandalay Bay.
Love the view, hate the food. Mexican food is awesome, but it's not meant to be upscale. Turning comfort food fancy is the fastest way to ruin it altogether. Take the Torta Ahogada, for instance. Sometimes you have to let a sandwich be a sandwich. The pork cheek is soft and tender, but it's a bit bland to begin with. Put it into a giant sub roll, and it all becomes undetectable. As if that roll weren't heavy enough, they turn it into a wet torta, soggy as heck in a thick layer of red sauce "consome", which makes it impossible to taste anything else. It also turns the bread into the texture of something a duck would eat, culminating in a bizarre creation that is more of a hot mess than a stripper at Sunday brunch.
Avoid the "special". There's nothing special about it. Delicious ingredients for sure, but they're not much fun when they're just thrown together with abandon. Juicy shrimp and tender, medium-rare carne asada. Love the surf n' turf, and it's a theoretically winning combo with avocado and a gooey fried egg. The crunchy tortilla adds texture, but the bed of beans adds nothing. It adds up to separate entities with nothing to tie them together. Plus it's impossible to eat it all together the way it's intended, and for this price, you might as well go to a buffet and throw random things on a plate yourself.
Mandalay Bay is a must, and their gorgeous beach club makes waves. Border Grill is a mere ripple in Vegas's ocean of opportunity, and it's not a ripple worth recalling. If you're craving Mexican in Vegas, you're better off looking for something less hoity-toity - it'll probably taste better that way.
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