Steph C.
Yelp
My brother Andrew C. turned 30 at the Alibi Ultra Lounge earlier this month. We went after dinner at Blossom the night before his birthday and stayed there drinking until after midnight. We had a great time, though that doesn't change that the bar was a little bit terrible.
We went in to drink away from the tables, where Andrew and I had been gambling like degenerates while his girlfriend and my husband looked on. The Alibi Ultra Lounge was right there, a box of a bar on the casino floor. It looked to have plenty of open seating, though it turned out that most of the tables had very high drink minimums. We started at the bar and waited for one of the free high tables to open up. This happened pretty quickly, so we were at least able to sit while we had our cocktails. Service was reasonably fast and polite, both at the bar and at our table.
The lounge was loud and clubby in a sad way, with none of the grandeur of an actual Vegas club. It was fairly busy, and got busier while we sat there, between 11:00 and 12:30 or so. I'm almost certain we saw a prostitute pick up a john, a stupid-looking middle-aged guy who might not have known she was a prostitute. I hope she got lots of money out of him.
The cocktails were $19 each and not particularly good. It seems like Vegas is way behind L.A. when it comes to fancy cocktails. I had the Spicy Encounter, which was okay, made with jalapeño-infused Don Julio Silver tequila, lime, watermelon, agave nectar, thyme, and Tajin. I switched to a standard Moscow Mule for my second drink and this was much better. I also tried the other cocktails on the table and they were all pretty unbalanced and heavy on the sugar. The Mio Amore Margarita was the most acceptable of these, with Avión Silver Tequila, Aperol, agave, basil, lime, and strawberry. The Bananas Foster Old Fashioned was way too sweet, with Ambros Banana whiskey, brown sugar, baking spices, vanilla, and aromatic bitters. The Blackberry Bliss was light and forgettable, with Ketel One vodka, blackberry shrub, lime, mint, and ginger beer.
I had fun at Alibi, but I wouldn't go back, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you like overpaying for mediocre cocktails. That said, it was nice to have something to do that wasn't losing money at blackjack. Maybe I saved some chips by spending an hour and a half here--though I might have scored big at the tables, no way to know for sure.