The restaurant is located in the actual Eiffel Tower that sits on top of the casino. You take an elevator from inside the casino up to the restaurant. The restaurant is a square where all the tables face out towards the windows. On two of the sides you get a great view of the strip and the fountains of Bellagio. We got lucky to have a seat directly across from the fountains. As a matter of fact we probably had the second best seat in the house. The table next to us on the right is the famous corner table shown in a lot of the advertisements for the restaurants...you can even reserve the table for special occasions for a mere couple hundred dollars...so our table was spectacular and we got to enjoy the fountain show many times over the course of our dinner.
Now onto the food(and I will admit this blog entry has been sitting half written for months. We went in Oct and it's now May. So when I say it was delicious and go on about the courses we remember you know they were good). We did the tasting menu and added souffles for dessert(which they ask about before you even order so they have time to make them). The first course was a seared sea scallop with roasted onion and capers and a garlic mousseline. It was very good. I am a sucker for a perfectly cooked sea scallop. The second course was probably hands down the best bite of food Pat and I have had in Vegas. It was a seared New York State fois gras. I had never had fois gras before. I wasn't sure I would like it and I wasn't sure that morally I would want to eat it but it was delicious. So delicious. It was smooth and rich both in a fatty rich way and well balanced perfectly seared way. It was good. And I would eat it again. The third course was a sea bass with celery root puree and roasted brussel sprouts. It too was good. Pat wasn't the biggest fan of the brussel sprouts but brussel sprouts are one of my favorite vegetables so I thought this course was delicious. The fourth and final savory course was a sauteed veal medallion on top of a fava bean mousseline with mushrooms. It too was delicious. I can't think of anything that we didn't like about the meal.
Then came my favorite part: dessert! The wait staff had casually asked us if we were celebrating anything earlier in our meal and we had said it was my birthday so while waiting for or dessert they actually brought a plate with Happy Birthday written in chocolate and a tiny shooter of chocolate mousse. It was good. I'm not always a chocolate mousse person but this was out of this world. It was light and airy and just perfect. Then came our souffles. Pat ordered the pistachio one and I ordered the caramel one. Pat's was better. Hands down. Mine was delicious don't get me wrong but his was uber delicious(is that even a way to describe something?). Both souffles were light and airy. They came to the table and the waiter took a spoon and made a small hole in the souffle and added a sauce. It was delicious. The best dessert(even my caramel one) that we have had in Vegas.
We highly recommend the Eiffel Tower Restaurant. As a matter of fact we got another gift card for our anniversary this year(Thank you again!) and can't wait to go back. With an abundance of deliciousness in Vegas you know it was a really really good meal if we can't want to go back. And if you decide to go make sure to make a reservation because I would not have wanted to wait in the crowd of people who didn't have reservations.
