Wolfgang Puck Exits the MGM

[Bham1982]

I thought this place was pretty decent, but yeah, it was expensive, and casino restaurants never feel elegant. Casinos have a trashy feel no matter what they do.

I always assumed fancy casino restaurants were loss leaders, or filled their tables through comped guests. I can't imagine folks going on a fancy anniversary dinner by winding through a depressinng gauntlet of chain smoking + oxygen tank customers.

[poobert]

I thought this place was pretty decent, but yeah, it was expensive, and casino restaurants never feel elegant. Casinos have a trashy feel no matter what they do.

I thought I was alone in feeling that way, and I've never been to a casino restaurant because of it. I don't mind gambling but the casinos feel so repressive. I like to relax when I go out to eat, not feel like I'm in prison. Also, while the Detroit casinos were never classy they seem to be a lot shabbier these days, or maybe it's just the crowd...

[Zacha341]

Hah! Chain smoking and oxygen tanks 'side by side' [[what does the city fire marshall say about that? Nothing, apparently!). High volumne cash exchange allowances barters alot of descretion indeed.

MGM Casino offers that 'cheeful' vision coupled in general with the sullen downtrodden countenances of most of the loosers, um-eh, I meant to say 'gamers'.

And of some the food servers in that thing they call their buffet and that little food joint near the front were they serve that fried junk, dull Chinese and those burgers from hades! I stopped going a few years back now...

...I can't imagine folks going on a fancy anniversary dinner by winding through a depressing gauntlet of chain smoking + oxygen tank customers.

[Danny]

Adieu! Wolfgang took a gamble on his precious five star restaurant in a doom and gloom city and lost! Now he can start all over in Europe from scratch.

Let's hope The Roost in the Westin Cadillac Hotel doesn't fail!