picasso dress code? all i see is jacket preferred. what exactly that mean?

Business casual is fine. Dress shirt, jeans and sneakers will get you in.

I wore a t-shirt and jeans...I wouldn't recommend it, but they won't say anything

Most places won't complain. At Cut, a girl wearing a blinking t-shirts was sitting next table. Annoying as hell.

Carnevino didn't complain about me wearing shorts, but it made me feel kinda uncomfortable. But that was around 5PM, maybe they are more strict in the evening.

Vegas is Vegas, they really don't care. I wore a button up to Joel Robuchon which says Jacket only, and the only reason I wore a dress shirt is because I was taking my family to dinner.

If every restaurant enforced their dress code here, they'd lose tons upon tons of business. Imagine the $2mill player that loses $500k at the tables and then strolls down to a restaurant only to be turned away...

I had some moron buddies show up to join me at Michael Mina in shorts a month ago and they got turned away.

Justin and I went to Le Circ last week. He was concerned about the dress code, I said F it... lets just walk in and sit at the bar, what will they do to us? We ate dinner at the bar, Justin was wearing a nice tshirt and jeans, I was wearing a button down with jeans and a suit jacket - with SNEAKERS. Now in case you do not know, Le Circ has a no sneaker policy.

During dinner at the bar some of the staff came up and introduced themselves, including the chef. Everyone was pleasant, they treated us very well. As we were walking out, I saw everyone turn around as their jaws dropped - they saw my sneakers for the first time. I wonder if we got someone in trouble? Pretty funny!

Picasso is not the restaurant you want to test the dress code lines with.

Wear a button down + black shoes and you won't have problems, but I wouldn't be surprised to see someone in a t-shirt and/or sneakers turned away despite Gobbo's experience.

I'm pretty sure I was turned away there for a smaller offence ~5 years ago, but before the economy got crushed, many restaurants seemed to be much stricter about dress codes.

thanks for replies to dress code derail. heading there monday and get too hot wearing a jacket. i will go with standard midwest 40yo look. khakis and a golf shirt.

Your right, Gobbo's photo has been passed around by people in the industry, they might know who he is even before he steps into the restaurant - this means he will have some extra latitude that may not be afforded to others. I found this out accidentally when I discovered my photo and info is also passed around like a trading card, the only other person I knew about from poker for sure was Jimmy - but I hear David William's and Antonio's name come up often as well - the management of many restaurants in town know who they are before they even step in the door. I discovered we are both on at least one list of VIPs that management people take with them when they switch jobs, its kind of creepy in some ways but its also very flattering to know that some people treasure our business so much that they will go to great lengths to make sure that their co-workers know who we are in advance.

First time this happend I was at DOCG, manager walked up to me, shook my hand, and knew me by name... even brought out plates for me to try. I thought that was really odd so I asked a friend in the biz, she filled me in how I ended up on their database.

creepy... yet kind of nice that they respect your business that much. Anyone can end up on this type of list, just be a good customer that refers others to the restaurant - and when you least expect it you will get flagged like the other VIPs and food critics do.

Yeesh, humblebrag much?

If sharing ways to skirt the system is bragging, then I am guilty.

cool. Chipotle will probably have his pic on their wall next time I come out.

Got lots of great info in this thread. Want to take my wife out for 5th anniversary. Based off previous posts I have it down to Nobu and RM Seafood (upstairs).

With a strong emphasis on atmosphere which one do you guys recommend?
Does Nobu have a fixed price menu option? Would have no clue what to order there.

RM imo.

I think Nobu's atmosphere is terrible.

Nobu is loud, crowded, and there's always a lot going on. Presumably that's not the atmosphere you want for the anniversary.

Yes Nobu has I think 2 fixed price menus. The sake pairing I thought was also very interesting.

Sounds good, yeah, don't want a crowded and loud environment. I will go to RM and splurge on the 7 course fixed offering.

I have a groupon for RM, I'm pretty excited about it.

Also, tried Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris. Food was fine for standard steakhouse, their Mac and cheese was actually quite good, we enjoyed that a lot. But something that was just unacceptable for fine dining for me was the seating. They have one of those long benches with a bunch of tables for parties of two, or four if you put two tables together. But that puts you right on top of all the other people in that section. It's just terrible. Like if you're on a date or something (unfortunately for me that doesn't seem to come up often...) everyone can hear your conversation and you can hear everyone else's. I'm not sure if that's standard for most fine dining these days, but in my limited experience, I haven't had to be crammed in next to that many people when I'm paying upwards of $100 a person. And I would rather go somewhere else to not have that happen.

Also as someone has complained about earlier, it's Harrah's so they do that TR pricing and regular pricing, which is a 1-2 dollar difference across the board. I can't see a good reason to go back.

seriously these ****ing restaurateurs, i can't stand it. i simply can't stand it. whenever a hostess tries to seat me in one of these i ask for a real table. i can't believe anyone in the world likes these seats. this isn't ****ing europe, this is america, we enjoy personal space and not talking to ****ing strangers over a meal.

i believe we are the more outgoing of the two cultures so this sentence confuses me.

might be true in some sense but from a personal space standpoint it's not even close, americans enjoy their personal space much more than europeans. we're similar to some countries like england but many of the countries have a much smaller "personal bubble."

you greet a new person here and anything more than a handshake is usually inappropriate. across the pond you're more likely to get a hand on the shoulder, hug, kiss, etc.

and when you sit down to eat in a lot of places there it's sooooooooooooo much more likely that a random stranger is going to strike up a conversation with you. most americans are appalled at that idea and don't even want others to hear them much less talk to them.

interesting. the main reason i mentioned it is because i was reminded of a picture i saw on 2p2. there were people waiting for a bus and they were all standing like 30 feet apart. someone then went on to say that it would be unusual for them to be close enough to make random conversation while waiting, like you would commonly see in america.

People who are social tend to love communal seating. Most foodies are social... not everyone of course, but most. I love communal seating, but I cannot sit at a bench anymore due to back pain... if I didnt have the pain, I'd request the bench in most situations. Example - I love the communal tables at China Poblano, they are a blast!

I think thats true in some cases, in others it is not true. Too hard to make a generalization IMO, its person and culture specific.

Citation needed.

This is accurate. Not close.