"publicbj"
05/13/07 -see other reviews-
 Attitude - 4 Eye Candy - 3 Price - 4
"Food very good, wine is excellent!"
Took the family before the VH1 Rock Honors show.
Aureole (not areola!) is a Charlie Palmer restaurant and features the 40-foot wine tower that the "wine angels" fly up and down to get your wine. (Side note: Had a steak at Charlie Palmers in DC a couple months ago, was incredible!) Their wine selection has some 40-million bottles. (Okay, maybe not millions, but it was around 4,000 different types of wines available.)
Their menu is a little different. You can do the six (or was it seven) course tasting menu for around $95 per person, our you can pick and choose a three course dinner for $75 per person. We (wife, daughter and I) decided to do the tasting menu, the wife and I added the wine flights, which adds another $65 per person.
Now since Andre's is currently tied for our favorite restaurant in Vegas, where we also did a seven course tasting menu w/wine, it's very difficult for us not to compare. Let me sum it up: Aureole's food was very good. The wine selection that went with it was spectacular. We tried wines that we would never have before, and we were very surprised. Even found a red wine we could live with. So, food-wise, we have to give a significant edge to Andre's. But the wine at Aureole beats the pants off of Andre's. (It may have also just been the selection at the time.) We also thought that Andre's was a more intimate a setting.
The service was incredible. Service-wise, it didn't hurt that our table was right next to a high-traffic server area, but I suspect the level of service is maintained throughout the restaurant.
We recommend the place, it ranks high on our list, but it's not the best.
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