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Bazaar Meat Review – Jose’s Way Tasting Menu! Another Amazing Vegas Foodie Adventure!

July 28, 2022 / Comments Off on Bazaar Meat Review – Jose’s Way Tasting Menu! Another Amazing Vegas Foodie Adventure!

We tried Nobu and Vanderpump a Paris, and here’s one more Vegas food adventure on our trip – Bazaar Meat review! 

Location and Overview

Bazaar Meat by Jose Andres is located at the Sahara Hotel. Our reservation was for 5:30PM, and we were hoping to start closer to 5PM to ensure that we’ll make our show, but they seat promptly at the reservation time, which was fine. The 3 of us just played some blackjack at one of the tables and hey hey, we won! Bazaar Meat has a formal setting and if the smell of various beef bothers you a LOT, then this probably isn’t the place for you. They have an a la carte menu and a couple tasting menu options. We opted for Jose’s Way tasting menu to try a variety of stuff without choosing off the a la carte menu. Here’s my Bazaar Meat review, review on the photo captions!

Gotta start with some cocktails! We got the magic mojito and the red wine sangria. The magic mojito came with cotton candy like stuff that was then melted inside by some liquid nitrogen or whatever they used. It looked really cool! The red wine sangria was one of the best sangrias I've had. Not too tanin-y from the wine at all.
1st Course - Cotton Candy Foie Gras. Crispy amaranth. Melt in mouth cotton candy with a small piece of foie gras in the center. WOW, I feel bad for eating this, but it was really good! Foie gras by itself (not cooked or anything) is a bit odd to me, but it tastes soooo much better with the cotton candy in my opinion.
2nd Course - Ferran Adrià Olives, Modern & Traditional - Liquid green olive spheres, gordal olives with piquillo and anchovy. So you have the regular stuffed olives. and then the molecular gastronomy liquid olives! One of the friends and I aren't fans of olives, and these were tolerable. If you really enjoy olives, then these are excellent. The liquid version is pretty cool. I've had it at Jaleo (another Jose Andres place) in DC.
3rd Course - Bagels & Lox Cone - Dill cream cheese, salmon roe. What a great combination! We really wished there were more and that these were bigger! It was that yummy.
4th Course - Smoke & Ice Oysters - Applewood-smoked oysters, apple mignonette. Wow, I really enjoyed these oysters. You can really taste the smoke and the apple flavor in these. So good!
5th Course - Chef’s Selection of Cured Meats. A wide variety here. I wished I remembered what all of them were, but they are all good except the middle one. It's homemade, which is great, but we weren't too fond of that kind. The one on the far left (we ate right to left) was something really special - one of those super fancy hams or something.
6th Course - "Beefsteak" Tomato Tartare - Tomato, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, cucumber, black olive, gem lettuce. LOL, we didn't hear them say beefsteak so we thought this was their beef tartare and wondered why it tasted so much like salsa! It was delicious though, amazing acidity and flavor here. It came with some lettuce cups.
7th Course - The Classic Tartare -Beef sirloin, Savora mustard, egg yolk, hp sauce, anchovy, Parker House rolls. Now this is the REAL beef tartare! So good, but the parker house roll was a bit dry and got in the way of the tartare flavor and texture for me.
Main Course - Rosewood Texas Ribeye Wagyu/Black Angus Spanish-style bone-in rib eye, oak-wood fired. Very good steak! Tender, can tell that it has the wagyu melt-in-your-mouth to it. Cooked so perfectly too!
Side 1/3 of the Main Course - Buttered Potato Purée - Butter, butter, more butter, some potatoes. They literally said 90% butter, 10% potato! This photo is before it was stirred and served. Creamy, delicious.
Side 2/3 of the Main Course - Setas al Ajillo - Button mushrooms, garlic, nasturtium. Amazing flavored mushrooms!
Side 3/3 of the Main Course - Grilled Asparagus - Romesco sauce. These are amazing if you like asparagus! I'm not an asparagus fan, but appreciated this as a side.
Final Course - Dessert! The most disappointing part of the meal TBH. We got some raspberry cheesecake, walnut cookie, eclair, chocolate hazelnut torte, fruit jelly, brownie cookie thingy. The raspberry cheesecake was probably the best one here, and I usually don't go for cheesecake, so that's saying a lot about this dessert platter.

Pricing and Overall Bazaar Meat Review

We talked about how much we needed to make in order to eat like this everyday. The tasting menu was $195 a person. If you opt for the Chateaubriand, Tenderloin, Holstein instead of the Rosewood Texas Ribeye Wagyu/Black Angus, it would be $150 per person. These prices were as of July 2022. The 3 of us really enjoyed Bazaar Meat, and were impressed with the cotton candy foie gras, the salmon roe cones, and the meat! It was really nice to try a variety of the menu. Our server was AMAZING; she answered all our questions and made note of our timeframe so that we can leave within a certain time so that we can catch our show. We’d definitely come back here to try more stuff, but after we try some more restaurants over the years.

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