Joanne Philpott
We booked this restaurant for Christmas evening as we have been at a few other Gordon Ramsey restaurants in London were we lived. Our experience in the others were great,we had high expectations of this one in Kansas. This particular restaurant is inside the Harrah's Casino Hotel and a short drive outside of Kansas. On first impression its not as fancy as we had expected, whilst we were dressed up others were in pj's, casual jeans and t-shirts. You have to walk through the hotel which is basic, slightly different from what we were expecting. The restaurant itself is next to the Casino slots and the smell of smoke was overwhelming. Our overall impression of the restaurant was not great, it felt like a bbq place and lacking the higher end feel we have become used too with Gordon Ramsey restaurants. Our table was in the back area, dark and dim lighting and had a feeling of being like a forgotten room at the back of a function room. To say we were shocked is an over statement. The staff were nice, friendly and helpful. The food was nice but not fantastic like we have been used to. My husband had the special menu for the night with what was described as Gordon's amazing Beef Wellington, sadly it was over cooked and dry. My husband was so disappointed. The rest of our family had steaks, all nice but the upgrade to one of the stakes was a Lobster Tail which was tiny, it looked more like a large Florida shrimp, very disappointed with that. Our overall impression was about 5/10 and at $250 a head we thought way overpriced. We left disappointed as it was a special treat to our family who live in Kansas. We still can't get over that Gordon Ramsey has put his name to this kind of restaurant.
