Bazaar Mar - Review - The Strip - Las Vegas - The Infatuation

"Bazaar Mar brings José Andrés’s expanding restaurant empire to The Shops At Crystals, and it comes with all the signature molecular gastronomy touches, including the famous silly-but-delicious trout cones (imagine a lox bagel compressed into a single bite). The scientifically engineered appetizers are what draws diners in, but the best food at Bazaar Mar is the most homey. There’s a focus on seafood—lobster croquetas are like jalapeño poppers made from shellfish, bold and creamy where everything else is delicate. A slice of fried monkfish wrapped in gem lettuce and served with a floating cloud of “lemon air” made us giggle when it hit the table. But it was so fine-tuned—crunchy, sour, fatty—that we could look past the fussiness of it all and admit that sometimes flavored foam still hits.  And we’d come back just for the ora king salmon—audibly crunchy on the outside, medium-rare inside—sitting on an incredible meyer lemon sauce more sweet than it is tart. photo credit: Andrew Ryce photo credit: Andrew Ryce photo credit: Andrew Ryce Pause Unmute These are like steakhouse classics redesigned for a seafood restaurant inside a shopping mall in view of the Cartier store: a bit over the top, but worth it if you have a taste for luxury. Settle in with the $175 tasting menu and tell yourself that it’s better to spend hundreds of dollars here than at the Louis Vuitton store across the way." - Andrew Ryce