Friendly, professional service, attentive when needed, and delightfully absent when we didn’t. We both started with vegan ceasars, coffee, and grapefruit juice. Let me tell you something – grapefruit juice in Vegas is not as awesome as grapefruit juice in San Francisco, but they make a mean ceaser.<\/p>\n
After looking over the menu, JC and I both ordered the “Eggs” Benedict with “Hollandaise” sauce. Tofu Scramble, with a yellow tomato hollandaise sauce, gardien<\/a> breakfast patty on an English muffin, and shared some potatoes.<\/p>\n Everyone has their own spin on vegan “eggs” benedict, but I wasn’t blown away by the one at Tableau. It was pretty, but was missing something – I added salt.<\/p>\n We spent the rest of the morning wandering around, and ended up getting a pair of Encore Red Cards with our names on them.<\/p>\n Walking around in Vegas, and interacting with was a little weird, because everyone assumed JC & I were either married or that I took his last name. I don’t plan on changing my name when we do get married in the fall, so the assumption kind of bothered me. But I imagine the people that care about looking married and taking their partners last name would probably be more annoyed than I was<\/p>\n There are\u00a0truly\u00a0a myriad of\u00a0nonsense\u00a0slot machines, and we definitely played into a few of them – Ghostbusters, Princess bride, and Lord of the rings are just a few of the themed machines they had in Las Vegas. But I’m sure they are cooking up more nutty ones next year – I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a 50 Shades of Grey one in the works.<\/p>\n As unusual as it is (not unusual), we did do more than\u00a0gambling. Next on our agenda was a very long walk to a very special donut shop.<\/p>\n Up until this point the Birthday trip had included:<\/strong> In another edition of throwback Tuesday, I attempt to recap the food and fun we had in San Francisco and Las Vegas in December 2012 \/January 2013. Our first morning in Vegas and JC had made brunch reservations at Tableau. Tableau is one of the Wynn restaurants, right near the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,24,242],"tags":[708,715,1381,1376],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-las-vegas","category-travelling","category-vegan","tag-las-vegas-2","tag-tableau","tag-travelling","tag-vegan-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"the](\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8361\/8339217197_83882c2d76.jpg\")
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\n–\u00a0Millennium<\/a>\u00a0– Happy birthday to me!
\n–\u00a0St. Francis Fountain<\/a>\u00a0– Brunch of Champions
\n–\u00a0Souley Vegan<\/a>\u00a0– Amazing vegan Soul Food in Oakland
\n–\u00a0Herbivore<\/a>\u00a0– Brunch of okay.
\n–\u00a0Gracias Madre<\/a>\u00a0– Delicious food with a side of sexism.
\n–\u00a0Another visit to Souley Vegan and a quick run to Cinnaholic<\/a>.
\n– First Night in Vegas – Living it up with vegan room service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"