Hmmm, busy dining room or quiet view of the pool? No contest, and I suggest anyone dining at the Grotto ask for the latter and not the former.īut of course, it always comes back to the food, and there Italian restaurants - which are, along with a steakhouse and a Mexican cantina, practically a requirement in any casino - have more than the usual uphill battle. I was just about to demur when I looked to my left and spotted, beyond a wall of glass, the hotel’s justly famed pool area, closed but attractively illuminated and, with the sea life drifting around the huge tank, quite the island of tranquility. Then, despite the presence of empty tables in the main dining room, we were led across the hall to a sort of annex. We’d have been none the wiser, but as it was, we wondered both if we’d really needed to wait those 45 minutes and just how disorganized the front of the house was if they couldn’t keep a simple wait list straight. But the first part? That was something the hostess really should’ve kept to herself. Well, OK, the second part was exactly what we did want to hear at the Grotto Ristorante at the Golden Nugget. Andy Madrid, center, serves Tomomi Watanabe, left, and Lee Crockett at the Grotto Ristorante in the Golden Nugget.Īmong the things you really don’t want to hear after putting your name on a restaurant waiting list and killing time for 45 minutes: “I can’t find it.

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