Had dinner at this restaurant last night.
Gourmet room with Champagne and Caviar Bar in center.
We arrived for our 5:30 reservation. The restaurant was empty, and our reservation was checked and then we were told that our table was not ready, and to have a seat in the lounge (which overlooked the empty restaurant), and that our table would be ready in about ten minutes. ???
Someone from the reservation guard desk came to escort us to our table, and began by saying "You're the ones with no reservation, right?"
The room was very cold looking.........all silver, white and black. Not one bit of warmth. I felt like I was in a refrigerator. I suppose it was supposed to be very avant garde, but I just thought it looked cold.
Service was very over the top, and we felt that the servers were VERY impressed with themselves. Everything was a la carte. Appetisers were almost all seafood. Caviar started at 95 dollars an ounce. Salads began at 18.00 for two....for their "Garbage Salad", which included greens, hearts of palm, and a few shrimp. There was quite a bit of seafood on the menu, and different steaks. I had a filet, which was 32.00, and came with no accompaniments except for a sprig of rosemary, a dab of bernaise sauce, and two small mushroom caps. A HUGE baked potato was 9.00. Toby had AuGratin Potatoes for around 12.00. My steak, while large, was improperly cooked. The waiter had gone through a huge rigamarole "educating" me on what I was ordering, when I ordered my steak cooked to a medium degree. It came with no pink inside whatsoever, and was rather tough. Toby had ordered his steak cooked the same way, and it arrived cooked to the same degree that mine was. Our friend ordered hers medium well, and hers was almost raw! Go figure! The dessert menus were brought, even after we said we did not wish to have any dessert, and we were left alone (first time all evening.......servers kept interrupting our conversation), for about ten minutes to decide which desserts we didn't want! (The waiter said he was "required" to leave the menu, no matter what) The most interesting sounding one was a "S'More" something that came with "fire"! Oh, rolls were nice, and warm. Saw a diner with a big lump of something black......didn't know if it was chocolate cake, pumpernickel bread, or what.....so I asked the bus boy (excuse me, "our waiter's assistant") what it was, he said it was the prime rib!!! Be forewarned and go hungry, but not picky about what you eat....
Bill for the four of us, with two of us having a drink, and two of us having a glass of wine, no desserts, no appetisers, including tip, was about $300.00.
The restaurant staff was so ostentatious, but not elegant, and the food was so ordinary tasting, that we would not go back. Of course, any time that someone goes, they might have a different experience......I hope they will post a review, too.

PS - I can't figure out how to edit my previous message to add something, so I am adding another note.
Waiter suggested that we take home our leftovers, all but one declined. Our friend said she'd take her steak, and the waiter took her plate away and returned with her leftovers packaged in a chinese take out box, with no handle. Made it rather difficult to transport, so keep that in mind if you wish to take stuff home.

Wow! It sounds like the entire place is a bit too impressed with itself! I don't know what would annoy me more .... lack of quality for that price, the snobbish wait staff or the inability to carry on a conversation due to the interruptions?

Wow - that sounds like a place I wouldn't like. I hope for their sake they loosen up a little bit and pay a little more attention to the food. Thanks for the review!

It does sound like the entire property has a very high opinion of itself. With $200 a night rooms and poor restaurants that give less than satisfactory service it sounds like they had better get their act together fast. I won't be going there anytime soon. And that is too bad because I thought the place had promise.

Hmmmm,
Someone went a little over the top on selling the place to the waitstaff, but forgot about the customers. <S> Up untill recently we've gotten away from the high end places for this exact reason. Highend with shabby service/food in a tourist town can survive quite a long time. However in our home town word will spread like wildfire, and they'll be closed in 3 months.
On our macrh trip, we are already looking at high end places to dine with our friends that get a kick out of that sort of thing. It is a nice change of pace, and if the food lives up to the billing, I have no problem with a dinner bill like you had for your meal. However, you didn't receive quality anything IMHO, and where over charged.
Better luck next time (at a differnt place)!

Hi All,
Appreciate your comments. Perhaps someone else will try Nine and the restaurant will have "settled in", and earned a try!
For my money, Prime at the Bellagio is MUCH superior to Nine, as is the casino! We had eaten at Billy Bob's, at Samstown, the night before, and had a much better meal, IMHO, for less than half the money.
Time will tell if the Palms will find it's niche. It seems, to me, a glorified Fiesta, which is not a surprise, but more of a disappointment.......I've never won at the Fiesta either! They were announcing, not very often, 500 dollar slot winners, and 1000 dollar Royal winners, and the music kept getting louder, and LOUDER..........but I DID win at Blackjack......so there WAS one saving grace...

I'll eat at Nine as soon as the pit boss comes over and asks if I'd like a comp!

The empty restaurant and empty lounge routine with a 10 minute wait is exactly the same treat-ment I received at the "Rosewood Grill" several years ago. The amazing thing to me is how the people who train their employess to behave in this manner- remains on the payroll. Wendell (The restaurant wasn't all that fancy nor the prices all that high - which makes this sort of a hustle that much more "weird")