Switch Steak

Some Of the Best Steaks I’ve had, Ever !! and I love to eat Cows ! Eating Cows is a daily routine for me ! although the whole Switch thing can get a bit annoying if your there for quite a while, Which we were.
Either way the food was awesome. I brought my boyfriend here for dinner on his Vegas birthday weekend and i did not regret it. +1 because we managed to get a table without a reservation on a Friday night.

This place has a pretty unique design. So the restaurant is called switch because the whole restaurant wall switches to different themes or decorations every 20 min or something like that. It was quite beautiful inside.
The beef carrpacio was pretty amazing. Main entrée was some white fish and steak but was not too memorable. I think i liked the fish more than the steak. Their chocolate lava cake is phenomenal. It was so moist and light yum. Great place for a date or just a night for dinner.

Vince was a life saver.
We stayed at this hotel back in Feb. I am a vegan and this is the only hotel that I know of that has any vegan options. The food was great and the drinks were awesome. However when it came time for coffee I asked for a Soy Cappuccino. Vince informed me they didn’t have soy. I asked if there were any vegan «milk» options. He said no but that he was going to check. I probably made a sad face and then decided not to have anything. Then he, or his manager or someone ran to a different restaurant or storage room or magical place that wasn’t SWITCH, and got me soy milk.
I was so impressed. i’ve worked in the food service industry for a while and I can tell you right now, i wouldn’t have done what he did.
:)
YOU RULE

The Vegasy gimmick walls were fun, the steak was delicious, and the service was impeccable.
So why 3? Compared to other high-​end steakhouses, it’s just okay.
First off, the selection of steaks is very small. For a steakhouse, I would expect a broader variety of cuts. There are only 5 selections including 2 New York strips (one aged) and 1 bison steak.
Second, the Cesar salad. Insipid. Bland. Watery.
I’m glad I went for the experience, but I’ll be eating steak elsewhere on my next visit.

I’ve been to Switch quite a few times and it’s one of my go to places for steak in Las Vegas. First I must say that the service is great and i’ve been here enough times that I also know many of the GMs here (which also helps with my service). The theme at Switch is pretty entertaining and for first timers that I have brought here, they are impressed with it. Now for the food — their signature steak is the 20 oz bone-​in rib eye. I am huge fan of bone-​in rib eyes and this one is definitely one of the better ones that I have had. Switch definitely allows the steak to shine with only a touch of salt and pepper and then grilled and charred with just the right temperature. They also give you a side of roasted garlic that goes with the steak that is just great (if you are a garlic fan).
The sides — mac and cheese, creamed spinach, black truffle risotto, caesar salad or the chopped salad. All of the sides are great and definitely enough to share.
The desserts — i’ve had a few of them including the profiteroles and the various pies/​cakes. Most are good, but by the time we got to dessert, we are usually so stuffed from all of the food. I suggest sharing a steak if you want to make it to dessert.

I’m torn between giving Switch 3 or 4 stars, because I really want to say 3.5, but I’m going to err on the lower side for this one.
Dining at Switch is an interesting experience and worth the novelty, but the entire concept of the restaurant switching it’s designs and lighting every 20 or so many minutes is actually distracting and annoying after a while, because the dramatic music they play during the switch can drown out your dinner conversation. I’m not exactly a fan, but it’s interesting at the least.
More importantly, the food had its high and low points. In order of consumption: bread, good; guava mojito, probably the highest note of the entire meal… really good; butternut squash soup, good but standard; caesar salad, also good but standard; grilled octopus, plentiful but a little underwhelming; bone-​in-​ribeye, far outstripped my expectations by a whole lot and served alongside some curiously deliciously out of my mind unfathomable garlic heads that were so good we ate all of them; monkfish, also really good if a tiny bit salty… tasted like lobster; standard mac n cheese; the most god awful cauliflower mush I’ve ever tried to shove down my throat, which really surprised me after the hearty endorsement our waiter gave it; and finally for dessert a chocolate cake I can’t even remember because it was so mediocre.
The most important parts of this meal, the two entrees, were both very good and beyond my expectations, but the rest of the meal was sort of lackluster (barring the delicious mojito). The entrees make me want to give Switch 4 stars, but the remembrance of that unacceptably disgusting cauliflower side and the sheer annoyance of the restaurant itself prevent me from doing so.

I’m working my way through the new vegan menus at Wynn and Encore, and Switch was a lovely stop on the journey.
I met up for dinner on a Monday night (surprisingly very busy!) with another vegan foodie friend and her very non-​vegan husband. We started with some cocktails — she had the margarita (good, but nothing special) and I had the Ketel 1 Basil Gimlet ($ 12), which she was immediately jealous of. This is a fine fine beverage, if a tad sweet. The basil flavor really comes through and the drink is well-​balanced. We both had this on the next round!
The vegan menu (see pictures) is included on the right flap of the menu, no need to specially request it! We decided to split the Tofu Carpaccio appetizer, then also split the two vegan entrees, Ratatouille and Polenta with mushrooms.
The Tofu Carpaccio was really delicious. Raw, thinly sliced tofu was topped with artichoke hearts, porcini mushrooms, shaved fennel and some ridiculously good sauces. The sauces really shined in all of our dishes.
The entrees were good, but pretty over priced for the small portion size and lack of high-​end ingredients. The ratatouille was very good, but the timbale was only about ¾ c of food! And it was topped with almond slivers, which are tasty, but it would have been nice to get some pine nuts up in there for $ 28. The polenta cake ($ 32) was also a fairly small portion, but came topped with several good-​sized grilled royal trumpet mushrooms and a smoky, earth sauce that I wanted to lick off the plate. The polenta itself was well-​textured but slightly underseasoned.
After the main course, I was hovering between a 3 and 4 star review, but dessert pushed it up to 4! We split the vegan brownie with raspberry sorbet and fresh raspberries ($ 12). Whoa. I wasn’t sure after the first bite, but it just got better and better with every taste. So good!
(The hubs got a steak and mac n cheese, both of which he said were excellent, then the profiteroles for dessert. Also a win.)
I kind of like the gimmick of the environs changing every 20 min, although it does tend to stop the conversation dead for a second while you watch the show and adjust to the change.
All in all, it was a pretty great dining experience. The service was also awesome and all of the servers seemed to understand and accommodate our vegan needs. I would definitely return to try the remaining vegan items or give some new entrees a shot if they SWITCH up the menu a bit. hahahahaha, I slay me.

I am now a huge fan of Switch. This awesome steak and seafood house located in the Encore was one of the finest meals I have ever had in Las Vegas. It’s also home to the largest wine list I have ever laid eyes on.
Our server, Will was one of the main contributing factors to this as well as the amazing food and a restaurant ambiance that hasn’t seen it’s equal.
Will was very patient with us as we looked over the menu. The level of quality service that he provided was astounding. He offered thorough explanations as well as suggestions on what we should try. We ended up ordering the lobster mac and cheese, green tea spiced ahi, and Montana bison. Yes, bison.
–Vermont cheddar mac and cheese with Maine lobster: $ 18
A very perfect portion of the best mac and cheese this stomach has ever digested. We both don’t like mac and cheese but loved this one. The lobster portions in here were nicely cut and prepared.
–Green tea spiced ahi tuna: $ 42
This was served with lentils and endive. It was a HUGE cut of ahi. Very fresh and seared to perfection. The green tea added a nice dimension of flavor here. I’ve had a lot of seared ahi in my day but none like this. Amazing.
–Montana bison rib eye: $ 48
This was served with a very nice port wine sauce. It was cooked medium well and it remained juicy throughout. The bison was very lean and tasted very clean. It had no gamey taste at all. Very impressive.
–Caramelized profiteroles: $ 12
Think of these as very small cream puffs. I had never heard of this dessert before dining at Switch. The puffs were full of flavor and very light. It was the perfect way to end the meal. We didn’t want to get bogged down at all: we had shopping to do.
So why call this place Switch? Well every 20 minutes the restaurant itself transforms. Wall panels give way to one of three different types and even the ceiling opens up and recesses to give a different point of décor for the discerning customer. This was a very nice touch and although I knew it was going to happen ahead of time thanks to Unilocal reviews, they can’t really prepare you for the real deal. I had never seen anything like it before in my life.
So thank you Switch, Will, and Montana bison for a culinary experience that will always be remembered.

Switch Steak.
A steak house located inside Encore, right next to Surrender.
Now this ain’t your ordinary steakhouse. Afterall this is Vegas, and nothing in Vegas is ordinary. At Switch Steak, you get ever so timely environment changes (every 20 minutes) and fantastic food.
I personally loved the décor, over the top vegas style! And every 20 minutes the lights will dim and dramatic music will play and the restaurant will literally change in front of your eyes. The ceiling changes or a new wall will come up… it’s very impressive.
The food here was excellent! I ordered a 14 oz steak… medium rare and it was cooked perfectly:
Steak was about $ 56 and sides were 10 bucks a pop. But definitely worth every penny!
My only complaint was the smell. It was subtle but lingered throughout the whole meal. At the end we figured out it was the leather placemats that were wiped with dirty rags… because it smelled like old dirty rags! Minus 1 star!
I would definitely recommend this place for a special occasion or if you wanted a dramatic dinner. Just think of it as a transformers restaurant! Definitely more than meets the eye!

We ate here in April of 2009 and were excited to go back during our recent visit in Dec. 2010. I was a little worried, though, by some of the recent Unilocal reviews. After our visit, however, I just don’t know what the recent reviewers are talking about. Switch was excellent and stood as one of the highlights from our three days of very fancy restaurant experiences.
We both ordered fish, in this case the sea bass and the monkfish. I suppose this means some folks won’t find the review interesting since the restaurant now claims to be a steakhouse. But each of these seafood dishes were excellent. And we started with the shrimp cocktail, which comprised three huge but very delicious shrimp and perfectly seasoned sauce.
Service was quite good, and we enjoyed the atmosphere (including the «changing» walls, etc.
We didn’t have time for dessert since we were heading to the Sinatra show down the hall (surprisingly good too!) but returned after the show to have dessert then. My wife had the four sorbets, delivered in four tiny cones, which were quite good. My pear-​based dessert is difficult to describe but exquisite and delightful as well.
We’d love to go back again.

Only in Vegas can you eat at a restaurant where the ceilings and walls changes every 20 minutes! It was quite the experience. Music comes on and the whole restaurant dims as if a magic show was about to start. The décor changing wasn’t anything spectacular, but it was entertaining for sure.
This restaurant is definitely pricey, but that’s what you can expect for dining at Encore. We started off with the grilled octopus which came with potatoes, olives, tomatoes, cured lemon oil. I was worried the octopus was going to be chewy, but it wasn’t at all. The potatoes, lemon oil and tomatoes were a perfect compliment to this dish giving it a light and delicate taste. I also ordered the Hudson Valley foie gras that came with chesnut & cranberry cake and cranberry syrup. It was easily the best tasting foie gras dish I have ever had and would highly recommend it if you are a fan of foie gras. The chestnut & cranberry cake with cranberry syrup brightened up the foie gras. The flavors came together effortlessly and were truly divine.
For steaks, we ordered the dry aged New York Strip and bone-​in Rib-​Eye. The New York strip had a deep, beefy flavor. It was delicious. The Rib Eye was juicy and made to perfection! The steaks come with a roasted clove of garlic which had great flavor and complimented the steak very well. For sides, we shared the Yukon Gold Potato, Gratin Dauphinois and the Black Truffle Creamed Spinach. My favorite was the creamed spinach. You can definitely taste the black truffle in the spinach and it gave the dish an infusion of flavors.

Why Steve Wynn needed two top flight steakhouses in a single resort is beyond me. Makes choosing so hard and forces a comparison.
SWITCH elevates steakhouse dining to an elegant affair. Plate presentation is very modern; if you eat with your eyes, this place wins over SW.
Prices are higher than SW.
The American kobe beef carpaccio is excellent. It is served Italian style with a parsley pesto, porcini mushrooms, arugula, and Parmesan cheese. Yum
I don’t usually order seafood at a steak place but had to try the monk fish. Wow. Perfect. The micro herbs and horseradish just make the dish.
The steaks are excellent. The aging of the corn fed beef really brings out the beef flavors. The dry aged new york strip is incredible. Nutty with blue cheese notes. The NY strip steak flight is also a must try. You get to try all three offerings of SWITCH side by side. Its like a mini beef tasting! Its a lot of fun but recommend you share it.
Sides are more inventive than at SW. The cauliflower gratin, woodland mushrooms, and switch ratatouille are all good choices and all pair well with the dry aged beef.
Service is excellent.
The wine selection is vast. Prices are a little high by Vegas standards.
Great restaurant.

Family dined here for NYE 2010 and we were so happy with our dining experience. The bone-​in rib eye was the best steak I’ve ever had and I’m hungry just thinking about it. The bread and butter they served was also really delicious. I’m not a person who eats a lot of bread but I couldn’t stop eating it. I don’t know why people weren’t pleased with this place because the food is top quality and the servers were very attentive. The «switch» is cute and just make the dining experience a little more fun than your typical dim steakhouse.

To be honest, we only dined here because we could not get a reservation for SW. I can’t say I’m sorry with our choice: my bone-​in rib eye was tasty beyond belief (I only order a steak maybe three times a year, but I’m glad this was one of those times). The lobster bisque was also very good, as was the apple & cranberry crunch dessert. The Caesar salad was the only food choice that wasn’t up to snuff.
Drinks were very good (we had a dirty martini with more olives that I thought could fit into a martini glass, and a kamikaze). Service was a bit slow; despite the room only being about ²⁄₃ full, we had to wait about five minutes from the time we were seated until our waiter approached our table.
As for the «switch part,» I found it a bit gimmicky. I think I was hoping for something a bit more radical; maybe they switched your orders with the table next to you, or you switch rolls with the busboy, or they serve you food that tries to eat you… really, there are many unexplored possibilities here.

While located in the luxurious Wynn, in my opinion, this steakhouse does not deliver the commensurate quality of seasoning and preparation needed to be an elite steakhouse. The servings were a bit salty, and the meat a bit dry for me. Salads were similarly lacklustre.
Given the price, one would expect more… especially since much better options exist nearby!

Me and my friends were starving and found this place through the list of restaurants that were in hotel. We made our reservation last minute on a Saturday night and the only tables they had were on the patio, which is right next to Surrender nightclub or Encore Beach Club during the day. The patio was pretty and the view of the nightclub and the pool at night was beautiful. We thought it was going to be cold but it wasn’t cold at all.
Our first waiter was really rude and condescending, I was simply trying to order for 3 people including myself because we all wanted the same entrée. But, for some reason he got confused or pretended to be confused to make me feel stupid because there was nothing complicated about it. Then a friend was just asking for his opinion on what seafood to get and he goes ‚“You mean you want fish?” He continued to repeat three times, like are you freakin retarded! Fish is part of the seafood family numb nuts. I got fed up with the waiter and as he walked by I said, «I’m going to Unilocal this!»
So why would I give this place 4 stars if we had such a condescending waiter? Well because I guess the guy heard me and they switched our waiters to someone who was super nice and talkative. After our new waiter, we all calmed down and we were as happy as can be because the food was good and our waiter was nice! =) I had the chicken and it was really good, usually chicken is really dry and mine was really moist and flavorful! I tried some of my friends steak and it was also really good!
Minus the d bag waiter we first had, the experience here was good!

Transformers! More than meats the eye. Switch is known for the way the walls change every 15 – 30 mins. I kid u not. Walls come out of the ground up, walls come from ceiling down, the ceiling transforms and the light fixtures change. I’ll have to admit while it does feel like a gimmick, that is one expensive ass gimmick. Think about the motors and rotors and mechanics to make everything so fluid and change with the beat… On to the food, the more important part.
Summer truffle risotto. Holy crap those pieces of truffle are large. With more mushrooms and sugar peas. The texture rolls on the tongue and slides into the stomach.
Ribeye is tender and quite gigantic. Scallops are fresh and bathed in a delightful sweet pea verjus sauce, topped with mushrooms corn and more peas.
The desserts are not to be missed either. Picture perfect and perfect tasting donut holes and masterpieces of art.

This plaec is cool, the walls change every so often. The food is good, but not AMAZING. It’s a high qualty place, mr Wynn did a good job here.
I went the first week it opened and they made me wear a jacket. Pissed me off. So i just took it off at the table. The hostess was hot so I obliged to her every request.
Good spot to check out, but there are better places within Vegas and the Wynn

My husband and I dined here to start off my 30^th birthday weekend. Absolutely lovely experience.
We arrived a little before opening time (5pm LV time 7pm Chi time) because we were hungry. The bar located right outside the restaurant had the best bartender I’ve ever encountered in LV (I travel there a lot). He had great conversation, good suggestion for our wines, and assisted with getting us seated right away once the restaurant opened.
A host came and got us in the casino to take us to our table. Our waiter was great with suggestions. It is called Switch because the room switches every 20 minutes. It was great to watch — something new.
We ordered a tomato tart to start. It’s no longer on the menu for some reason but really enjoyed it. I had the jidori chicken and my husband had the NY strip. Both cooked excellently.
They knew it was my birthday so they had me choose a dessert the chocolate lava cake and brought it out with Happy Birthday scripted in chocolate on the plate. A true work of art that I took a picture of before enjoying.
I’m a foodie when it comes to LV and like to go to the restaurants in LV due to the chefs. Chef Rene Lenger’s menu at Switch was great and made the start to my birthday weekend fantastic.
For those of you complaining about the price — the restaurant is located in Encore at the Wynn complex. Everything Mr. Wynn does or has in his hotels is pricey.

I went to Switch with 5 other friends. None of us had tried this place, but hey what the heck? The restaurant looked pretty inviting, and it was pretty packed with people.
Before I comment on the food, I must say that I really do like the ambiance here. The place is called Switch because there are 3 different «environments» that is being switched every 30 minutes. They are kind of fun; however, I much rather would have preferred to switch every hour. We were in the restaurant for 3 hours… so that means we saw the walls and windows switch 6 times. The wow factor was pretty much gone after the first few times.
As for the food, our group got a «Seafood Extravaganza for Four» to split ($ 150). The appetizer included the following: oysters on the half shell, jumbo shrimp, ahi tuna tartar, Maine lobster, bay scallop ceviche, and Alaskan king crab legs.
I personally loved the bay scallop ceviche. The oysters on a half shell, jumbo shrimp, Maine lobster, and Alaskan king crab legs were all good and fresh. I didn’t like the ahi tuna tartar. The tuna wasn’t fresh.
I ordered the Bone-​in Rib Eye with the bordelaise sauce ($ 52). The sauce was a recommendation from our waiter. I ordered my rib eye medium rare, and it was perfect. Usually restaurants cook the steaks too done for me. The only complaint I had about this dish was that it was a bit too salty. The meat itself and the medium rare cooking were both perfect.
Some of the other dishes that my friends ordered were the following:
— Sauteed Sonoma Foie Gras (appetizer) — I took a bite to taste and it was delicious. The sauce on the dish was really tasty.
— Filet — also the same comment as I had about being a bit too salty. This friend ordered his Filet also «medium rare».
— Slow Simmered Short Rib of Beef — he liked his dish; however, the portion was a bit small.
— Roasted Lamb Chop — she liked it; however, said the dish didn’t have enough salt.
The seasonal wild mushrooms on the side was delicious. I ordered a Lobster Mac & Cheese just to try. (I love Mac & Cheese… even though it doesn’t exactly pair with my entrée). Anyway, the lobster flavor and cheese was really light. I felt like it needed a small kick in the Mac & Cheese.
My friends had ordered their mojitos as a cocktail. The flavors are pretty good, but it doesn’t really have alcohol in it.
All in all, it was a pretty fun experience. The food was good. I wished my Rib Eye wasn’t as salty as it was. The seafood extravaganza had really fresh seafood (except for the tuna tartar). I liked the atmosphere a lot, but also wished the walls didn’t change every 30 minutes, maybe every hour or so. I don’t know if I would come back again for the price (my share was $ 130 with tip). It’s worth a trip to go to this restaurant once for the experience.

Two MAJOR slipups in the planning of Switch: location and table spacing.
I don’t like to dine looking at a casino or within earshot of my neighbors. Luckily we had an early dinner and they staggered the parties. Later in the evening we were joined by a lovely blue-​haired couple from Montecito, charming, but we were secretly happy they crashed our party at the end of our meal.
Otherwise, the restaurant is gorgeous and the three different backdrops of the evening were OOOOH and AHHHH worthy. Seriously it was like dinner and a show rolled into one. Remember to look UP too.
Normally they just have an ala carte menu, but NYE, there was a special tasting for $ 150/​pp. Well worth it for the quality and presentation.
No amuse, 4 courses, sorbet, dessert & no mignardises:
C1: Lobster bisque w/​a lobster claw on the side
Excellent, huge chunks of sweet succulant meat in the soup, robust flavor.
C2: Butternut squash ravioli
Quite enjoyable and not too sweet, it’s usually not my favorite.
C3: Pastry wrapped scallops w/​slivers of truffle
Bold and adventurous presentation, good.
C4: Foie topped Filet
This baby was HUGE, but also quite good.
Desserts: Cannot recollect too much, both were very good, but check out the visuals I posted, I liked the fruit one more, but the chocolate one was rich, moist and the crispy rice texture was delicious.
We were happy and surprised to find our sommelier from Restaurant Charlie had relocated to Switch. His pairings were spot on and much more reasonable in price. We did not mention a price cap, but it was only an additional $ 75/​pp for the vino.
Switch is supposed to be the premier restaurant at the Encore, but I was expecting a bit more luxury and elegance. Maybe he didn’t want another over indulgent restaurant to compete with Alex?