It's been a while since I have blogged and I first off want to apologize. It's been a couple whirlwind months and I got backlogged. I tried to catch up while on a flight in May and I don't know what happened but the 5 entries I wrote got lost...so I decided to just start over. So hopefully my new school year resolution will be to stay up to date with this blog.
A couple weeks ago Pat and I tried a new twist on Date Night. I have recently been reading the blog A Cup of Jo. In one of her entries she talks about meeting your husband someplace for a date rather than leaving the house together. It was a good entry(read it here). So Pat and I decided to give it a try. I have been teaching an evening Calc class at the college and so we decided to meet on the strip for dinner after my class. We got dressed separately and all so it was a total surprise what we would be wearing and all. And it totally had that "like we were dating feeling" where you can't wait to see the other person and talk about your day.
We decided to try D.O.C.G enoteca an Italian restaurant by Scott Conant. It's in the Cosmopolitan, which Pat and I have come to see as the chic, hip hotel. We sometimes feel out of place in the hotel but they do have a plethora of good restaurants. D.O.C.G. is fairly on the small side so we did find it more noisy. It could also have been because we went to dinner more at the Vegas "prime time" of 9pm.
We started off with a couple appetizers. We had the Affettati Misti, which was a selection of Meats and Cheeses by the Chef. It was good, but we would have liked a better explanation of what the meats and cheeses were, although must were good. We also had the Beef Carpaccio. Pat and I have a soft spot for beef carpaccio. We had the best beef carpaccio ever at a restaurant called the Burgundy Room in Columbus, OH. It closed a couple years ago and we haven't had a really good beef carpaccio since. And unfortunately the beef carpaccio at D.O.C.G. didn't fill the void from the Burgundy Room. The carpaccio lacked flavor. The only bites that had any type of flavor at all was the bite that was loaded with the lemon aioli. The beef, which should have been the star, was just lackluster. And it was so thin that it was practically plastered to the plate. We had to scrape the slices off of the plate. Overall just not up to our standard of beef carpaccio.
Onto the main dishes. I had a Pappardelle with a mushroom ragu. The mushrooms were earthy and the pasta was cooked perfectly. I'm a huge fan of pappardelle pasta and D.O.C.G. didn't disappoint. Pat had the Cavatelli. It was served in a sauce that had sausage and porcini mushrooms. I tasted his dish and he definitely picked the better one. It was a rich and hearty dish and it was delicious. Our main dishes definitely made up for the poor carpaccio.
After having both an appetizer and a main dish I didn't think I would want dessert but the waiter tempted us with a dessert that was voted "best dessert on the strip" twice! So of course how could you not bite? I couldn't. It was a salted caramel budino. It was a creme brulee type custard that had a salted caramel sauce and whipped cream on top with a salted caramel pretzel bark. Don't get me wrong it was good but I have a hard time thinking that it is the best dessert on the strip. I guess maybe I'm a little bit of a dessert snob. We haven't had many desserts on the strip so who knows.
Overall we would recommend D.O.C.G., just skip the beef carpaccio.
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