Middle Child | Vegas Food Diary 🍽️📓

Restaurant: Middle Child Visited: May 2025, Lunch Food Rating: 2.5/10 Looking for a place to eat on a whim is always risky—when in doubt, just pick a familiar spot! 😂 🦑 Octopus Carpaccio (5/10): The only somewhat edible dish of the meal. The combination of chili oil and lemon oil is hard to mess up. But the green papaya "salad" in the middle was… eye-opening. Not sure if it even counts as a salad—tasted like it was briefly dipped in saltwater and drained. The crushed cashews and papaya felt like they’d never even met. 🍤 Calamari (2/10): My fault for assuming marinara sauce—the menu clearly said salsa macha. But making it this sweet? 😅 Sometimes I’d get a bite with a weird oily aftertaste… scary stuff. 🍖 Bone Marrow Biscuit and Gravy (2/10): A plate arrived with a gravy-smothered mystery object larger than my hand. I fantasized there might be something interesting inside—but no, it was just a giant, dense biscuit! The bottom was burnt and hard, and paired with the gravy, it was overwhelmingly salty. The bone marrow was unseasoned—admittedly, any more salt would’ve been lethal. Maybe I was just unlucky with my choices? But 2.5 fails out of 3 dishes feels a bit much… As I was reflecting, the next table raved about the beef tartare. I almost ordered it to test my luck—until they added, “The truffle oil in it is so delicious!”… I immediately changed my mind. 🙃 Maybe this place is really a cocktail bar first, and the food is an afterthought… I asked the bartender for a refreshing mocktail since I don’t drink—got a guava-pomegranate juice. Barely passable. Conclusion: I’d have been better off at any random brunch spot near home. And the restaurant’s name, Middle Child… painfully ironic. 🫠 Have you been here? Did you have a better experience? Tell me what to try—or avoid! 👇🤨 #VegasEats #LasVegasFood #FoodReview #HonestOpinion #DiningFail #VegasDining #MiddleChild #BrunchFail #FoodDiary #NotRecommended