Cities Bar & Grille

This review is for Sunday brunch only: We used to go to the Verona Chophouse several times a year for Sunday brunch. We enjoyed the wide selection of items and the mellow atmosphere. We went today partially to celebrate a birthday — and had requested a specific server in our reservation if she was available. The server we had requested had been sent home because they were too slow (Verona Chophouse was always packed during the winter), so we were a little disappointed in that. Cities Bar and Grille is a much more updated look, probably better suited for a casino. I’m not sure I like the lack of separation of the bar and restaurant. You can sit and watch TV from the restaurant area. We found the food very good and enjoyed everything we ate, but there are probably half the selections available that there were previously. The server we did have was quite attentive and very pleasant. Overall it was an enjoyable experience, but we missed having the wonderful choices of cheese, berries, the small desserts, and wider variety of entrée items. The salad was fine, but there was no vinaigrette choice for dressing. If you’re not a prime rib fan, you’re there pretty much for breakfast. The waffles were wonderful.

For Sunday Brunch:
$ 19.99 for each player’s club member in your party and $ 24.99 for the others. Good selection: omelet station, waffles, prime rib, shrimp, salad and a few prepared dishes and desserts. Price includes coffee, tea, soda, etc.
The food quality is pretty good and the restaurant is nice.
If you’d been to the previous restaurant in this place, it’s the same.

Great food and service even on Thanksgiving Day. We had a party of 11 and yet everything arrived hot and as we ordered. Chefs squash soup and the turkey were knockouts. Servers were efficient and anticipated our needs. We will be back for the brunch next.

While others commenting aren’t so happy, my wife and I find Cities one of our regular places to go when dinner out is on the menu.
A great place with great service — Thomas is THE BEST! And Manager David makes sure everything is to our satisfaction — never a disappointment.
The choice: go there for our week-​day night out or the Sunday brunch — a tough choice to make. In fact, we do both a couple of times a month.

The menu is ok, except for the steaks, which are ridiculously overpriced. Has the management looked at the clientele recently? This isn’t the Wynn you know.

Such a disappointing experience and a huge misstep by the casino. My review is solely based on Sunday brunch. Based on their advertising, I was truly expecting a completely new and exciting experience. However, this is the exact same Brunch they served at Verona. Our server was clueless, inexperienced and inattentive. Tables were crammed together and the dining room itself just felt uncomfortable. It’s a smaller space room than before but I think it’s because they carved out a private room for their Platinum players. Food was mediocre at best. Desserts were still the same old off-​site prepared desserts — boring & tasteless. I recently received a BOGO brunch offer. Didn’t even use it… wasn’t going to waste my money or my casino comp money. The best part of this horrific experience was the Chef who was making omelets to order; she had a winning smile and an awesome attitude.

Stopped in 10 min before happy hour and asked for specials. Bartender rudely says «its not happy hour yet! We said we would wait. She is annoyed. So we left.

We had been waiting for Cities to open for a couple months now and boy was it not worth the wait. We went for a table and were told we had to wait which I though odd because there were all sorts of clean tables open. Anyway, no big deal, we put our name on a list and came back in 20 minutes. When we came back all the same tables were still open and we were seated immediately, I’m still confused as to why they couldn’t seat us prior. There is absolutely no atmosphere here unless you consider a dimly lit cafeteria atmosphere. The menu selection is small which I thought would be a plus. If they don’t have to cook a lot of items then what they do serve should be very good,…think again. I had prime rib which was by far the worst prime rib I had ever had. I know that seems harsh and the wife thought I was exaggerating until she tried it. Her reply, «we should have gone to Denny’s» She had the shrimp scampi. The attempt, at what was described to me as a white wine sauce, tasted exactly like the water the pasta was cooked in but actually may have been runnier than the pasta water. The pasta was however cooked very well but the rest of the dish was terrible. We each only had a few bites of our meals and when the waiter asked we politely told him that the food was extremely poor. After this the manager came over and talked to us. He was extremely pleasant and very apologetic and took the meals off of our bill even though that is not what I was looking for.
Needless to say I think that Lone Butte Casino missed the mark in a big way when they opened Cities. If this place doesn’t make a complete u-​turn I can’t see it lasting more than a year although it probably will just because it is inside of the casino. Save your money and grab a burger at American Bandstand in the food court, you’ll be glad you did.

This is a definite step down from the previous Verona Steakhouse. I’m not sure whose idea or why they closed Verona and opened Citie’s B&G. We went for the Sunday Brunch, which we have been going to for several years at Verona. They raised the price substantially and have the same food, although the scrambled eggs were just awful. They actually used to be eggs. I miss the ambiance of Verona. It had class. It was hard to have a conversation with my husband across the table since he was so far away. The music for Sunday Brunch was OK, but I miss the soft jazz. It was very loud in there and not just because of the music. It’s also very cramped now. I doubt we will return. I do want to add the service was great. Our waiter, Thomas did a great job. Luckily, they kept the great omelet chef.

Service good. Prime rib mediocre. Nice atmosphere after gambling at casino. Great lobster tail.