Lindo Michoacan Restaurant (Palace Station)

 

 

REVIEW: LINDO MICHOACAN (PALACE STATION)

If ever there was a Mexican restaurant experience that’s *average* in every way, it would be my visit today to Lindo Michoacan, at Palace Station Casino in Las Vegas

Average doesn’t necessarily mean bad. Rather, it means the food, the service, the ambience were all satisfactory. Satisfactory is not good, nor great. There’s nothing to make me want to go back. But, I also can’t say that it was an unpleasant experience.

For many years now, the Palace Station Casino has been that old comfortable pair of shoes that’s a serviceable location and destination for serious gamblers who aren’t looking for any thrills but also want to stay away from headaches of The Strip, nearby. There’s always been enough value to make me visit here, on occasion and check out new things.

Palace Station has attempted to go more upscale by overhauling the entire property, including bringing many new restaurants. However, based on my visits these have mostly been misses. Nothing has really stood out among the many changes. This is the kind of locals casino that needs a great cheap Chinese restaurant, maybe a good hamburger Fuddrucker’s type place, and attractions that bring in a crowd. Think of food that sticks to your ribs.

Previously, there was an outstanding Mexican restaurant in this same location for a while, but then it closed down even though it was one of the better values in town (apparently Las Vegas locals don’t know their heads from their asses–recall that the previous place went under, which is a collective crime and should be a class action suit against this city). Yet, despite the failure which must have cost quite a penny and peso, now we see +++another+++ Mexican restaurant opened in its place. Go figure. I give this place 18 months as an over/under. Yeah, I’m still bitter about losing the old place (read my review HERE, though it’s no longer open).

Lindo Michoacan has a number of other locations scattered around Las Vegas, but I’ve never found them to be anything more than an emergency Mexican food stop that I would never seek out but it’s not the worst I’ve had, either. I’m just not a fan.

The great thing about being a player at Palace Station or any of the Stations casino chain is if you’re a senior (50+) they give you half price on comp points. So, that gives me license to go into a lot of restaurants I normally wouldn’t try and I can have a $50 meal, but then I pay $25 in comp dollars. This applies to every Wednesday. You follow me? So, everything becomes a steal, which prompted this visit to Lindo Michoacan today for lunch.

For Wednesday lunch, I ordered two beef enchiladas, a side taco, rice and beans, a soup, and a margarita. Marieta basically did the same and we were out the door for a $25 comp which is one of the better values you’ll ever get nowadays in Las Vegas. But if I would have paid full price for this say $50 plus a $10 tip, I would have said this really wasn’t worth the $60 lunch price point. And at dinner this same experience would have cost me $80 to $90. There’s nothing different between lunch and dinner and many of these places except the time of the day as the food’s the same you’re just going to pay a 30 percent premium because you’re going in after 4:00 p.m. Remember that. If you like getting ripped off–go to dinner.

I take no pleasure in bashing restaurants unless it’s truly deserved and there’s really nothing that Lindo Michoacan did on this visit that was terribly offensive, or disappointing. But the utter lack of anything that made the visit special makes me conclude that this was worth visiting once, but I will not return.

Let me give them props for an outstanding house margarita which I’ll grade at an 8.5…..all the rest of the food was a 5.  Bland.

Not recommended.