*******UPDATE NOW CLOSED*******Twist By Pierre Gagnaire is a fine dining French Restaurant located on the 23rd floor of The Waldorf Astoria in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip. They offer a variety of menus. We went with the four course vegetarian tasting menu and it was like OUT OF THIS WORLD FORKING AMAZING….Like from another planet. It was one of the very best meals I ever had.

The dining room is sort of like dining under the stars with all those hanging lights..The tables are covered in linen and silverware actually looks like silver and not stainless steal.

My table has a view of the Las Vegas Strip.

They started us off with a whole bunch of amuse bouche.

They were all so thrilling and delicious and then it gets even better.

We get a baguette and this incredibly delicious bread that’s made from charcoal and apricots…..The butters that go with them are extra delicious too. The butters are hand churned French Butter and one butter is slightly spicy from Piment d’ Espelette.

First course for me is called Quinoa.

It taste as amazing as it looks. It’s made of red quinoa salad, avocado, pineapple mousse, coconut and marigolds. All the flavors are MIND-BLOWING!

My husband isn’t a big fan of quinoa and asked to exchange his starter for different one and got the Zezette Bouillon.

It’s also pretty as a picture…..I can see this on my wall somewhere. It’s made of pumpkin gnocchi, oyster mushroom, and a ricotta croquette.

Next for me was the Bell Pepper.

It’s crispy sun chokes, leeks bell peppers, mascarpone and sauce pitchi. So many flavors that it is impossible to describe…..

We added on the risotto special with white alba truffles and it was served with our main entree the Autumn Vol-au-vant.

We started with the risotto.

OMG it’s Forking amazing! These truffles are super flavorful. It’s bursting with so much flavor and then when you hit the parmesan tuile…it just pops a little more. This is the FORKING BEST Truffle dish I ever tasted!

The Autumn Vol-Au-Vant is also amazing. It’s made with onion cream, celeriac, turmeric cauliflower, Swiss chard, soy beans and quince puree. I don’t know how they made this but it taste so FORKING wonderful.

Then we get a palate cleanser.

OMG even the palate cleanser is FORKING delicious……..It has so many flavors…..raspberry sorbet, fennel, another MIND BLOWING PLATE!…..I could be done now.

Then we get three desserts each.

These are all CRAZY crazy CRAZZZZZZZZZY good….The little one on the bottom is some sort of lemon curd marshmallow and topped with a really delicious cream and topped thin milk crisps. To the right is a layered chocolate cake with a fig and really great chocolate on top of it with little gel fruit cubes…..But the thing in the glass was SUPER AWESOME FORKING MIND BLOWING….You crack the edible cube open and all kinds of flavors make your brain go bonkers…..There was pomegranate, grapefruit, I think Thai basil, Lemongrass and others I can’t remember….

Then we got surprised with another plate of very detailed amuse bouche…..all desserts.

The layer cakes are thimble sized painstakingly made opera cakes, the ones that look like pears on crackers are passionfruit cakes, little cubes are fruit gels and the chocolate is very intense with a nut….

Twist by Pierre Gagnaire in Las Vegas was astonishing as astonishing gets.

UPDATE*******NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS**************

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L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon is a high end exhibition French Tapas Restaurant with several locations in the world. The location that I go to is located in Las Vegas at the MGM Hotel/Casino on the Las Vegas strip. This restaurant is multi award winning.

The late chef was Joel Robuchon who was the most awarded chef in history and was known as chef of the century.

This is an exhibition restaurant. You get seated at a bar that views the kitchen.

Usually we drink wine…but the wine prices went up and the least expensive bottle is over a hundred……….Tonight we are having cocktails.

This restaurant offers many menu options but we usually go for the three course menu that includes an amuse bouche (for $85. at this time) (also this is now as of this year only an early evening option only offered 5-6pm)

Everyone that dines here gets a basket of amazing breads and French Butter.

Our alternate amuse bouche was the airy beets over a green apple gelee and topped with apple. We went with the alternative because I don’t eat the foie gras shooter and my husband is tired of this one that they’ve been serving for around ten years now.

It’s unusually light and earthy. The apple cuts the earthiness.

For our appetizer we both went with the Le Piquillo (pepper stuffed with smoked eggplant with tuna belly and romesco sauce.

The plate is interesting visually, and in textures. All the flavors go together very well.

We shared a special offering of the evening.

Spaghetti parmigiana foam, soft egg and fresh shaved Italian alba white truffles. WOW this was the plate of the evening. It is very rare that you taste a plate like this. I’ve tasted many different truffles over the years but this is the first time I ever tasted fresh White Alba Truffles. They certainly are something very VERY FORKING special. You don’t need to eat as many Alba white truffles to get truffle flavor like many of the other truffles. The truffles go expertly well with the foamy creamy parmesan foam, egg and spaghetti. I haven’t had any truffle dishes before anywhere near this level since my last meal at Binkley’s that used to be in Cave Creek Arizona. Now this dish was very masterful and exceptional.

My dinner was the salmon…..called Le Saumon…I get that on most visits and every time it’s a different presentation but it does come with those glorious Robuchon potatoes.

This evenings’ presentation is delicious but less detailed than previous salmon dinners I’ve had here.

Tonight the salmon is embedded with bitter olive tapenade and there are thin drizzles of bitter yuzu on the plate. Fresh tomatoes and basil brighten the fish some. the salmon is almost like custard and is cooked to perfection. It’s very good …..but not exceptional like it usually is…..

Below are a couple of the salmon plates I had from previous visits…can’t find them all..believe me I’ve had many. These plates below were exceptional!

Anywho-

My husband said his dinner was also very good but he also felt that his dinner was less detailed than from previous dinners….???? Maybe it’s just tonight?

Tonight he had the quail filled with foie gras with pureed potatoes.

For dessert we both had the Les Tarts…….(once known as little slices of heaven to me.)

There are two new ones tonight….the pumpkin and the apple.

My favorites are the cinnamon on the left and the passionfruit on the right…..These are magical…especially the passionfruit.

My husband has different taste than me and his favorites are the cinnamon and the chocolate caramel peanut.

Both of our least favorites are the pumpkin and both of us don’t like the apple. (first time I didn’t enjoy a les tart)

After dessert they presented us with some chocolates.

That was my trip to L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon. Most of the magic is still there but I think it’s fading.

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