Vegas Trip: Celebrating 50 in Sin City, page four

The Monte Carlo poker room.

Posted: October 26, 2009

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Food preparations here are simple, but the ingredients are not. Bartolotta specializes in importing types of seafood that you rarely find elsewhere in America. Stunningly sweet, grilled slipper lobster, Sicilian amber jack, perfect sardines fished out of Italian waters, and Mediterranean snapper cooked in sea-salt crust are just not the kinds of dishes that you are likely to encounter elsewhere in the United States or even all in one place if you dine out in Italy. By the time we're sipping dessert wine and eating gelato, Steve declares this dinner the highlight of the trip. And for once, nobody offers up a counterpoint. He's right. The meal is one that we won't forget.

After exiting the restaurant, we attempt to clock another late night with a whirl through the packed and sweaty XS, but it's pretty clear that the long weekend is catching up with us. Glen and Steve hit the sack pretty quickly. I run into a rather fetching friend for a short bit of chat alongside the outdoor blackjack tables—I tell her that I just turned 50 and she acts surprised enough that it makes for a great nightcap—before I follow suit.

After all, we have fairly early flights to catch tomorrow. It's back to Newark for them and off to L.A. for me, proving, perhaps, that some things never really change.

Photos courtesy of MGM

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