Restaurant review - Japonais, Las Vegas

Before dinner - we went to the Terry Fator show. What a great show that was.  He is a ventriloquist that had won America's Got Talent a couple of year ago. He was incredible....his talent is undeniable.  He sings, talks and you never see his mouth move...and it is all so clear.  I can't imagine how he does this!  The only negative thing was that in the middle of the show he put down the puppets and spoke about a kid that died of cancer then he sang a song he wrote was a dying kid who wanted to know if there were horses in heaven.  Can he sing? Yes. Can he write music? Maybe.  Was this a good idea to put a song like this in the middle of this fun show? Not at all!

We then went to Japonais. What I don't get it how early the kitchens close here (10pm).  We had to order pretty quickly in order to be able to get food from the kitchen.  Everyone looked at the menu and just threw out dishes to order.  Here are a few of our dishes....I didn't get pictures of everything.  It was a great meal - and I would like to go to Japonais here in Chicago sometime.  And it was also rather affordable for the freshness and creativity of our meal.  About $50 per person.  Not bad at all......

 This was the amuse bouche....raw shrimp with a peppered honey sauce.  It was delicious.

 This is called "The Rock" with waygu beef.  This rock is heated to about 600 degrees, and you put the thin slices of beef onto the rock to cook it.  It only takes seconds on each side.  It just melts in your mouth.

 This dish is sweet shrimp and diver scallop.  It was simply delicious....simplicity at its best.

 Here is soft shell crab rolls.  The crab was crunchy and tender.

 This is koby beef carpaccio.  It had yuzu and dark soy sauce on it.  This was a very delicate dish.  The pieces tore to pieces with one touch.  Tasty and fresh.