Urban Grill

Never!!! The one star is very generous!!!

See, this is exactly the reason why I love Unilocal.Reviews are spot-​on and have always given great advice. Unfortunately I didn’t check the reviews on this «restaurant» before coming in. It was a spur of the moment thing… went to go have dinner at BJs next door and noticed a flyer on Urban Grill saying they were broadcasting the Pacquiao-​Bradley fight — for free! Sold.
We went in, were seated promptly and advised they were going to do a raffle for a pair of seats to the fight at MGM, only catch is you have to buy a $ 20 5-​beer bucket. Sold again. We didn’t win the raffle. Anyways, our beer arrived in a bucket of ice, two were cold and the other three felt like they were baking in the sun. Who gives out hot beer? That’s just wrong. We nursed the two cold ones until the other three were bearable to drink, didn’t have an option anyways because 30 minutes passed before the server arose from the deep.
After ordering, our food was brought out in a reasonable amount of time (not by the server) and for the next 90 minutes our server was MIA. The server decided to briefly stop by and see how things were, then disappeared for another 60 minutes.
The saving grace here was the food, which was good. Not unbelievable, but pretty good. We were entertained by the fight during this time so that kept us preoccupied from the absence of the server.
We absolutely will never visit this place again. Obviously there’s something wrong here that no one is addressing, and that’s unfortunate because there is so much potential.

Came here for lunch. Presentation and the food quality was great. Prices more than reasonable. No complaints there. Just nothing über special to make me come back.
The place was really nice and clean but dead… granted it was 2pm, technically the end of lunch. Service was okay. All the staff gave off a vibe like the hated life and were counting the days til the restaurant changed hands again.
Don’t know what it is about that eastern/​Richmar complex… But they can never seem to keep restaurants!

I’ve eaten here about 4 times now and I’ve yet to have an experience worth more than 3 stars. The food is pretty forgettable, its not bad per say just nothing that wows you. The cobb salad is… a cobb salad. The burger is a generic but good burger. Get my drift? No culinary delights, just decent tastes with decent portions.
I noticed that they recently dropped their prices, maybe in response to the feedback here. From memory I think the burger used to cost $ 15 and it is now $ 10 or so. They are also running a pretty serious happy hour, its like 3−9pm (dont quote me on that), probably trying to drum up some business.
The reason I always come here for business lunches is that it is always empty and the tables are comfy, making for easy conversation.

Drove around looking for a place to eat. As I was in the passenger seat, I had the Unilocal app fired up on the phone. Soooo many different places to choose from.
Settled on the UG.
Upon walking into the restaurant I found the décor and ambiance to be very nice.
UG has a very open feel to it. The dining area is close to the bar. Not so close that it interferes with the dining experience but close enough to observe and chat about it’s goings on.
The menu is small. Sometimes this is a good thing and sometimes not. Good for this evening as it made for an easy decision.
From an appetizer the GF and I split some nachos made with wonton chips, brie cheese, sweet italian sausage. It was pretty darn good.
I chose the buttermilk fried chick. It was served with a brown mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes and carrots.
My GF had the salmon which looked dry but was very most and delicious.
For desert we split the bread pudding.
Good chow but in the end the meal with two cocktails and a 20% tip was rather expensive.

There are too many good places to eat within the same price range for me to give this place a second shot. The staff was friendly and smiley, all the things you expect your hostess and waiter to be when you walk into a restaurant. The décor is nice. There is a beautiful red sculpture in the middle of the dinning room that I really liked. The booths are comfortable with good spacing. You’re not sitting on top of the people next to you. They also have a patio that looked nice and an outdoor fireplace. I would sit outside on my next visit except I won’t be going back.
The food was less than awesome. The soup of the day was a really good cream of mushroom. Good consistency, great flavor. The salad was iceberg lettuce with a few cucumber slices and tomato wedges. Pretty standard house salad, decent vinaigrette. From there we split a lobster hoagie with arugula and paprika remoulade and the pan seared Pacific salmon with wild mushroom risotto. I substituted asparagus for the french fries that come standard with all the burgers/​sandwiches. When the plate arrived in front of me, there were only 3 short, fat stalks on my plate which is a shame because I really love veggies. The risotto was the only other item worth mentioning or maybe it’s just that I really like mushrooms. Anyway, the risotto was good, but not good enough to make up for everything that the other food lacked.
The restrooms here are ridiculously small. The door to the stall opens inward so you literally have to step back between the toilet and the wall to pull the door back toward you. Seriously? I was wearing a skirt and the last thing I wanted was to accidentally touch my bare skin to the toilet bowl. The whole outing was not a terrible experience but there is no need for a repeat performance.

This place has so much potential but was such a disappointment.
The décor is nice. This place is huge with lots of seating and has a nice bar area with several flat screen TV’s that don’t distract from the overall atmosphere. The service was very good but I have to keep in mind that we were one of four tables in the whole place during what should have been a dinner rush on a Wed night.
The food was where the disappointment came into play. The menu made things sound much better than they actually were. The salads are decent but nothing to get too excited about, the kobe beer sliders were dry with no ‘fixings’, fish tacos were pretty good just really small. This biggest disappointment was the wonton nachos. The menu says is comes with sausage and brie. We asked for no sausage and it ended up being fried wontons with cheddar melted on top. When we inquired about the brie we were told that the sausage was in the brie and that is why we got cheddar. Ummm… maybe you should have told us that when we ordered? Not at all what we were expecting.
We ordered some happy hour drinks and the pricing on the HH menu was different than the actual price.

To piggyback off Ryan B’s review, there’s nothing specifically wrong with this place in theory, but the food leaves much to be desired.
Ordered «The Works» burger, which is a cheesburger with lettuce, tomato, sauteed onions, mushrooms, aoili and, oh yeah, bacon. Sounds like a winner, and while there’s nothing particularly awful with the burger, it simply doesn’t stand out at all. It just tasted like «food.»
I don’t really like to over-​think my burgers, but this one was simply so bland and average (crazy, when you consider the burger’s ingredients) that it stood out in my mind all day.
By the way, I actually forgot about the bacon while writing this review– how the heck do you forget about something as amazing as BACON?! Seriously, this burger was memorably forgetable.
The fries were relatively crisp on the outside, but a bit mushy and undercooked inside. Prices seem a bit high for the quantity when there are comporable lunch specials around town for a few bucks less.
The service is fantastic and the staff is very attentive, and the ambiance is pretty cool, though I wish they’d have a bit more variety on the sound system. The food just needs some work. Of course, this is a new restaurant, so I’d be happy to give it a second chance in a few months as they tweak their recipes a bit.

Ryan B., Jorge L. and I eat lunch together at least 3 days a week and I have to say I’m not sure I’ll be back to Urban Grill anytime soon. First of all for a place with the word «Urban» in it… all I can remember listening to there was Goo Goo Dolls and Matchbox 20 tracks.
I digress…
Those two guys had «The Works» burger so I decided to try the Thai Beef Salad. The moment my plate hit the table I wished I had ordered something else.
The menu seems to have a good variety of options… the street tacos were a possibility, chicken lettuce wraps, I even considered the pulled pork sandwich… yet I opted for this terribly mediocre salad.
The staff was super nice, the overall vibe of the place seems nice although I can’t imagine there’s ever more than 25 people in the building at any one time.
If the prices were a little lower I’d be willing to try Urban Grill again. But if you want to put a $ 15 French Dip in front of me for lunch… I want to leave with a big belly and a bigger smile.

After driving past this place every day for the past few months, I finally convinced fellow Unilocalers, Shewchuk and Jorge L. to give this place a chance for lunch today. After this visit, I’m not sure they’ll be listening to my recommendations any more.
There’s nothing inherently «wrong» with this place, but there really isn’t so much that is «right» either. You see, the staff are all extremely nice and attentive (expect your beverage to be filled at least 12 times) but the prices and the food quality kind of ruin the overall experience of dining here. Jorge and I ordered «The Works» burgers and Shewchuk ordered the Thai Beef salad. We were all satisfied with the portions, but there was much to be desired in the taste department. Shewchuk’s salad looked, for lack of a better word, boring. Nothing was going on with the plate at all. It was literally iceberg lettuce with thick strips of steak layered on. The burgers were a weird combination of undercooked while also being charred and the ingredients just didn’t flow well. The french fries matched the burger in that they were a little too crispy on the outside while being almost raw on the inside. The pickles were alright though.
The funny thing about dining at this restaurant is that we all felt like food critics afterward. I eat with these guys almost every day and we never sit around and discuss what we ate. However, after eating here, we were fervently discussing what was wrong with our meal because we couldn’t quite put a finger on it, it alluded all of us.
I wouldn’t necessarily say pass this place up, but I couldn’t really recommend it to anyone looking for delicious food either.

This is a good place here in Vegas. They menu is limited, but the food is very good. They just started a Sunday Brunch which we happened to catch and they have some kinks to work out in getting organized for this, so for this review, I will say it was average.
I ordered eggs over medium and they were well done, the steak was overcooked as well. The hash browns, looked like mine I make at home (this is NOT a compliment). For the food they serve and what we have had in the past at this place, I expected a LOT better then what we received.
Normally I would give this place 5 stars, but on this visit, 3 is pushing it. Now, if they can get a better system in place for the Sunday Brunch and a better cook who does not over cook the food, then they will have a winning combination on Sunday’s.
I will give this place some time and try the Sunday Brunch again as like I said before, we have been to this place a few times since reopening and we do like the food and the experiences we had in the past and I believe this does deserve another chance.
Oh yes, if you like mimosa’s and bloody mary’s, during Sunday Brunch it is all you can drink for $ 10.00, so that alone should be an incentive to get you in if you like those drinks. We would return and this is a place we would recommend so you can be the judge and jury to base your experience on return or not. For now, Sunday Brunch, one more chance will be given.

The food was decent but as any new restaurant they are still working out a few kinks. I’ll be back in a couple months to see if everything has worked out. The server was nice and friendly and dealt with our party of nine just fine. Three people didn’t get their food due to a glitch but as soon as they realized the waiter was very apologetic and gave us some dessert on the house.
They have a happy hour that goes till nine on Friday night which was awesome!

Just went in for happy hour. Had attentive service, very friendly.
The Street Tacos are a definite pass. There isn’t anything remarkable about them and completely forgettable.
The Twisted Nachos were very good. The crispy wantons are of good quality, everything blends together well.
Drinks are good, ambience is good. Got them to put on soccer on one of the TVs, no hassle. Definitely worth returning for Happy Hour and we’re eager to try the full dinner.

I am often hesitant to critic a restaurant in its first six months, due to the hurdles that prevent itself upon opening.
I arrived during happy hour on a sunday and the place was pretty empty, the bartender presented both menus for me and was very attentive, however there was only 5 people at the bar.
I ordered the street tacos. They came in a set of three and were paired with lime wedges. Excited, I expected some bite with these «spicy» tacos. Not so much, save the limes for shots.
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The food was so-​so and our service was slow. Also the music was so loud that I couldn’t hear half of what my wife was saying. Now that’s not a bad thing but when it was my turn to speak it was annoying. We won’t be going back. There are many better
places to dine.

Met a girlfriend for an early lunch on a Friday afternoon (read: 11:30a).
The service and attention were great. At first it was because I was — literally — the first patron in the place, but over the course of the meal it was apparent our waitress had a head on her shoulders. The waitress, Paris, was knowledgeable, helpful, and very accommodating. She was accurate in her descriptions and spot on with her wine suggestion. She was frank when I asked about items on the menu (either because I needed to make a substitution or was curious about the creative wording; the carpaccio has shaved parmesan… it does not say that the beef is shaved).
The cream of mushroom soup was really tasty and Paris’s breakdown of it was perfect. It was exactly as she described and quite good. A definite high spot and, in a slightly larger portion, possibly a meal in and of itself.
The «Caesar» salad was not a Caesar, being made from mostly iceberg lettuce with only a few romaine hearts thrown in and hard, stale parmesan shavings (I opted to have them remove the croutons ahead of time). The dressing was thin and bland. The fresh ground pepper was helpful, but it should be an augment… not a savior. I was told it was a «new salad guy,» but you don’t need to be a salad guy to know the basics of a Caesar, especially in a professional restaurant environment. Salad fail; I sent it back.
The Twisted Nachos were lacking in both taste and ingredients. The brie was barely whispered into a weak cheese sauce and the meat portion was lacking. There was an odd disparity between the thin cheese sauce and sausage as heavier ingredients versus the brightness of the tomatoes (very fresh), black olives, and crisp pepperoncini. It *wanted* to be a tasty combination, it really did. The idea is there but something is missing. (Suggestion: use actual brie and complementary cheeses instead of the sauce. It’s a start.)
The bright stars were the Thai chicken lettuce wraps, spicy and sweet and a great portion size. I only wished the chicken was chopped more; but the dish was fresh and bright and most delicious.
The 2 pots of French press coffee we shared were fresh, aromatic, and done very well. Presentation was also done very well.
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I went back Sunday for a glass of wine during the farmer’s market. Empty again, but the waitstaff was fabulous and the wine they helped us choose was perfect for what we said we wanted (i.e. flavor profile).
Will I go back to eat? Maybe for happy hour with friends. The food and drink prices are good and the wines they have (at least at the moment) chosen for their specials are ultimately happy-​hour drinkable, even for those of us who like to be picky about our wine.
The food is what makes me hesitant, however, and this is a restaurant, after all.

I passed this place while paying bills. I thought id pick my bf up and try it out for lunch.
They just opened a few weeks ago so it was quiet inside only two other tables. We started off with the Crispy asparagus roll ($ 9). It was Kalua pork, cream cheese around the asparagus wrapped with a fried phylo dough side of lime and sambal… delicious.
Next the chicken lettuce wraps ($ 10). Not going to explain because it wasn’t anything special, it was not good.
However my fried egg grilled cheese brought me back home to the islands, I think one of the chefs has to be from hawaii. Imagine mozzarella grilled cheese with tomato, sweetness of the bacon, ahhh and topped off with a perfectly cooked fried egg… yum, and only for $ 10.
My Bf got the shrimp caprese pasta ($ 14). I thought it was ok just needed a little more love in the dish, but hes a chef and was totally not having it. Needed salt, acidity, and yes love.
Well that sums up the food part. Service was ok, but Ill give them a break because they had just opened. Wont be rushing back in, but will not be avoiding it as well.

The menu looked good but the food sucked. Little was edible. So sad cuz I really liked the menu and wanted this to be a new go-​to spot in Hendo.
I was sick to my stomach the rest of the night and into the next morning. The fried shrimp were the most disgusting thing I’ve eaten in a while. They were battered and fried in old fry oil, so they absorbed a lot of brown grease. Also for some reason they through in some non-​battered zucchini and squash. Right into the fryer! Why? They are very pourous vegetables and absorbed so much oil they weighed as much as silver dollars! Bleccch.
Likewise their asparagus was awful. Paired with some kind of meat (hello!!! Wrap it in cream cheese and pancetta!!!) and there was no evidence of the promised cheese in there. Then they were wrapped in some kind of dough and appeared to be thrown into the fryer. Heavy heavy heavy. Limp, grease-​soaked asparagus. Absolutely disgusting.
We felt bad cuz the waitress was really nice and we were talking so much s### about the food every time she came around to the table. We ordered a lot and ate almost none of it. The sliders were okay. (Enough with the sliders already. Jfc.) The tacos were meh at best. The lobster roll was way too tarragon-​y and came with gross frozen, battered Oreida-​style fries. Make fresh fries. You’re supposed to be a trendy restaurant.
No discernible change in the décor from the 2 previous tenants, both of which were ill-​conceived «grill» concepts.
The music was weird 50’s stuff piped through cheap, tinny speakers.
Sorry, Urban Grill. I wanted to like you. You’re doing the no-​longer-​trendy updated junk food and comfort food thing which has played out in every other city but Vegas. You’re menu is strikingly similar to your neighbor, Republic, which also sucks.
I wanted to but I didn’t. In fact I hated you. One extra star for the nice waitress.

The interior design and ambiance of this restaurant has a very classy modern feel. It certainly looks and feels like a really good restaurant. Their seats and tables are comfortable and their menus are very easy to read and order from.
We had the Thai Wedge Salad, Indian Flatbread and a Twinkie Tiramisu for dessert. The salad and flatbread were good, but not as good as one would expect based on the price and look of the place. The salad was overpoweringly spicy. The tandoori chicken in the flatbread had only a bare hint of tandoori flavor. On the other hand, the Twinkie Tiramisu was delicious. Although, I’d be hard pressed to explain why it was called a twinkie tiramisu.
Perhaps they need some time to get up to speed. Definitely a nice place to have a meal. Perhaps some of the other dishes may be better.

The place was empty, but the bartender was nice, and attentive. We ordered all 3 courses and the food was good, Won Ton Nachos, interesting but could use more meat. Grilled Cheese with a fried egg, excellent choice. Banh-​Mi Burger, Spicy, there is jalapeño on it! Desert, was excellent.
The restaurant is huge and clean. The bar area will be great for game watching if the TV’s weren’t on the ceiling.
I recommend the food here, hope it lasts.