Siegel’s 1941

It is very inexpensive here. Definitely a dinner ambiance feel to this restaurant. But its clean service is hood and most importantly food is pretty good for price. I would come back. And they have pretty good wine selection.

Prime rib special for $ 10.95. Apple cobbler was tiny, like one bite and Abra cadabra gone!!! I may come back for the prime rib… nothing else. The restaurant is nice and pretty but don’t be fooled, the potato they gave me with my prime rib was small and wrinkled. Nothing to see here.

Wow! Prime rib for $ 10.95! It was delicious. I ordered my rib medium rare w/​mashed potatoes w/​a light brown gravy and their seasonal veggies. It came w/​at jus sauce! It was to die for! The severs were awsome and very nice to us and the service was fast Also. The wait time for our food wasn’t long at all either! Would definitely come back.

Mid-​century modern light fixtures, rich red leather booths, dimmed lighting, and televisions showing classic black and white films from the 40s and 50s– Siegel’s tries (and mostly succeeds) at establishing a classy retro atmosphere. The menu encompasses breakfast and dinner specials, a series of «sandwiches of the world», and a $ 19.41 steak dinner, which makes Siegel’s not what I expected. The atmosphere is geared more toward a steakhouse, but is instead utilized as a diner.
The $ 19.41 steak dinner includes a salad (heads up, the house vinaigrette is a creamy version), sliced sirloin served topped with steak sauce (usually not something I like, but nicely zesty here), heap of fresh fries, and a bread plate (which never materialized). The Tuesday dinner special is a country-​fried steak with mashed potatoes and vegetables, which was generously sized and solid for the low $ 11 price tag. We couldn’t resist adding on a bowl of their matzoh ball soup with challah, which was surprisingly meaty for $ 8.
We wanted to share a dessert, but upon asking to see the menu, we were handed our bill– guess that makes the decision for us, huh?
Unfortunately, the subpar service kind of ruined it for me. Regulars were enthusiastically greeted, and we were helped in a polite and competent manner, but odd delays (20 minutes between courses, 10 to run our card, the dessert thing) made things a bit frustrating. The location and décor lend this space the potential to be a higher-​end restaurant, if they kicked up the menu and retrained the staff.

I’ve been to this restaurant 2 times and both times were awesome the food is awesome and the staff is great. Not to mention the interior is slamming so retro looking can’t wait to eat there again. If I could give this place more stars I would

I had heard some good things about this fairly new rendition of the dining premises at the El Cortez Hotel that had formerly been The Flame, and finally visited to find out for myself. While less upscale than its predecessor, the décor is still classy and now mob-​oriented, and the more casual menu is now the very embodiment of comfort food.
A Gulf Shrimp Cocktail was quite tasty and the equal of this classic starter at many other fine restaurants in town. And a bowl of Matzo Ball Soup was really hot and excellent. After I began attacking this concoction, I was ambivalent about having ordered it at all, because – chockful of chicken, carrots, and celery – this dish was really more an entrée than a preliminary adjunct to another main course. In the midst of the steaming broth was a large, nice and fluffy Matzo Ball, but the soup also came with Challah (Jewish home-​baked bread) that was unfortunately dry and did not taste at all fresh.
A House Salad tasted good, and a generous portion of Country Fried Steak with Mashed Potatoes and Country Gravy was delectable and comforting. All others at my table liked their ordered food as well.
The décor, with big blowups of Bugsy on walls, was pleasant and somewhat historical. And, while our waitress was rather stern and slow, our busboy provided good service.
I will be back soon to try other tempting offerings!

My friends and I came here for the awesomely cheap prime rib special. We walk through downtown LV from our hotel which was at the other end of the downtown area and once we get there, the rudest hostess tells us that we can’t come in and sit because we aren’t wearing a shirt with sleeves. Are you kidding me?! This place is located in downtown Las Vegas that serves a $ 11 prime rib special. It’s not like its a 5 star restaurant.
Anyways, we ended up buying shirts next door and came back since we had walked for 30 mins to get there. When we finally got seated, we looked around and saw people in flip flops and cargo shorts. Classy stuff right there.
The best part of our experience was our server. She was so nice and sweet and she even apologized for the rude hostess. She saved the experience for us. We ended up ordering the prime rib special which comes with a baked potato, but our server let us switch it for mashed potatoes. The food itself was nothing special. My stab of meat was overcooked even though I asked for rare and my boyfriend ordered medium and it came out medium rare, so we switched. Maybe when they dropped it off they announced it wrong, but if you used your eyes then you could clearly see that it was wrong. Not really sure if we would come back here again because the food wasn’t so great and pretty out of the way.

There were a few glitches with the hostess… I called ahead and made a reservation, but our table wasn’t ready when we arrived. I had also asked for a table that would handle a wheelchair, but the hostess set us up toward the back and had us navigate through the other patrons. The restaurant itself is very nice looking, especially the Bugsy memorabilia and tin ceiling. One hotel/​casino issue is that there are no Family Restrooms nearby, and the Women’s Room handicapped stall was broken — we have a full-​time female nurse with us for my father, so this made it difficult for him to use the facilities.
Food: Both of the steaks we ordered were lukewarm on arrival. After heating, both were quite tasty. The matzo ball soup was very salty and the challah served with the soup was dry. Nice side salad, good penne vodka, good garlic bread. The salmon a top of the Caesar salad was delicious.
Most of these issues were handled and somewhat erased by the sweetness of our server, Linda. She is a treasure! All in all, Siegel’s 1941 has good bones & hopefully, will only get better.

Decided to try out Siegel’s after discovering the café was closed. Found the service to be on par and friendly, albeit a little slow. Nice and pleasant atmosphere (like the mobster vibe).
Ordered the Lucky Luciano burger which was cooked to a nice medium with marinara sauce, mozzarella on a ciabatta roll. Italian all the way; appropriate for a burger named after a mobster. Liked that it was served on a metal tray – like in the «joint» Haha.
Was really disappointed by the very small sized wings; $ 10 is a bit steep considering they weren’t even very good.
Overall, a pretty good experience and will stop back when at the El Cortez.

Where do I start…
The Meal: My Mom asked me to take her for the prime rib special she has enjoyed over the years. The coffee shop is closed but we were told Siegels 1941 offers the prime rib deal. $ 10.95 just like before, however you need to ask for it.
Meat:The meat was perfectly rare, and was seasoned nicely they scored 10 points, Her piece was extremely fatty and she left a pile of fat on the plate. Mine was perfect, there was enough marbling to add flavor, it was not as tender as I have had before but still good.
The Potato: The baked potato was rinsed and baked, there was no seasoning, not even salt, nor did they rub oil on it, so it was presented plain, and it was not even split. My first thought, was that it was not cooked! There was a generous amount of butter and sour cream to add taste, presentation is everything…
The Vegetables: The green beans, carrots, and waxed beans were no better than the potato. There was no flavor, no salt, come on, at least throw garlic powder on them. My Mom asked me to taste the carrot, it was textured mush, so two bowls were returned on our plates minus one carrot each.
The Salad: I give points for the salad, it was a spring mix and the dressing was good. What ruined the salad, the bag of saltine crackers. If the bag was opened and crackers were placed on the plate the salad would look more appetizing. The looks of the plates were cafeteria
The Décor: When you first enter, you feel as though you stepped into vintage Vegas, as we sat down and as we looked around we could only shake our heads. I loved the photographs on the wall of Bugsy, the black and whites are great, the chandeliers and lighting, Sinatra and others are singing in the background and this is a nice touch. Then in the corner there is a flat screen TV with sports on, I am then looking to see where the bar is and there is none, it is so out of place. The red booths against the wall are nice as well as the chairs that are retro, then I look at our side of the dining room and we are all sitting on wicker chairs that belong on a veranda. Order more of the elegant chairs, or if you can’t get them, sell all of them and make them uniform, or cover them all in red fabric covers! The room does have glass windows and you can see into the casino and that is nice, however I began to cough because the smoke enters in through the front of the restaurant, for that reason alone I cannot go back, I have asthma. The beautiful drapes at our table with the wicker placemats, ruins the ambiance. It is like Siegel’s can’t decide if it is a nice dinner spot or a coffee shop. If they change the name to Siegels Coffee Shop some of this could be forgiven. The servers have great uniforms so maybe I expected more, it just needs to decided what it wants to be, casual or elegant. If management polished what they have, Siegel’s 1941 could be a gem!
The Service: Poor. We were seated and a server came by and asked what we would like to drink, then a second one came over and was asking about drinks and food, they had my Mom and I both speaking till I stopped and asked, «Who is the server because I am not sure who to talk to since one was on the side and the other at the front. We both declined water and a few minutes later the water arrived. We both thanked the server/​busser. Then came the wine. I do not expect 5 star service but when one pours from a carafe, if you lift it away from the glass it looks nicer. A busser had a quick conversation with another employee that was leaving for home at our table, so we looked at her back as they spoke. Having a better command of English without an accent would help, I had a difficult time but my Mom really struggled. Part two, the busser came by to fill the 2 inches of water my Mom did drink and my Mom said, «No thank you» but she continued to pour the water. I am not sure if this was a language issue, or a busser on auto pilot. The server came by to ask if we needed anything, as we said no thank you, she left before thank you came out of our mouths, pausing a moment would be a good thing. I thought for sure she would return with the bill without asking for dessert, this is a peeve of mine, if there is a check in hand I always ask to see the dessert menu, much to my delight, she asked if we would like dessert! She scored points. Training could make the dining experience very nice.
I do not like to write a negative review, I feel guilty, the El Cortez has been a favorite place to take friends from out of town to have the chance to experience old school Vegas, and the charm was lost here. I will watch other reviews and see what happens, but if it does not change, I will not be returning.

Inconsistency is the name of the game here. Portions are generous, quality is above standard coffee shop fare, and service can sometimes be amazing. But combining good food and good service appears to be a struggle to get the balance right.
Sticks to burgers, salads, and the daily specials for a worthwhile visit.

We ate at Spiegel’s three times while in Vegas this trip since we stayed at the Cortez. I found it to be needlessly expensive and slow.
The first meal (around 10 pm) the staff was slightly slow but good, but the food (meatloaf dinner) mediocre.
The second meal (5 – 6 pm) the waitress ignored us while the other table (people the waitress knew) were treated like royalty. The food of that meal was good but extremely expensive for what was given to us. $ 24 for a strip steak with three pieces of shrimp. That’s it. Just meat and shrimp. No salad, no sides, nothing came with the meat! Who does that?
The third meal (around noon) the waiter was very good, and the waffle was good, but for $ 9 I think they could have given me two. I mean really a waffle is not that expensive to make!
I think I’d rather eat somewhere else…

Ahhhh, Vegas.
While playing some video poker and waiting for some friends to arrive at the El Cortez bar, I noticed an advertisement for their restaurant, Siegel’s 1941. The deal being offered was Las Vegas at its finest and I couldn’t get it out of my mind.
Starting at 11pm you can grab yourself an El Cortez burger and a beer for $ 6.00.
My interest was peaked and you can bet your big ol’ butt that I was in the half empty restaurant, waiting to be seated and hungry as all hell at a few minutes past 11pm. Okay, the service is horrid. One waitress, spread super thin, completely frustrated and ready to clock out… for life. She puts a lot of trust that the menu does a good enough job explaining the food because when she’s at your table, she’s all biz, no chit-​chat. Thankfully I was already prepped and primed for the burger/​beer special, which was not listed anywhere inside of the restaurant but verified to actually exist.
I ordered mine cooked medium with a ice cold PBR to wash it all down. Twenty minutes later an impressive looking burger surfaced and I was quick to dig in. Where’s the salt? Where’s the pepper? Sure it was cooked to the perfect temperature and looked pretty, but damn, where’s the flavor? A little seasoning could have bumped this burger up a few levels seeing as all of the other components were pretty decent. Hey, for $ 6.00 I’ll still chalk this one up as a win.

So this used to be Flame, which I heard was an awesome steakhouse. I usually stay at El Cortez because, its easy to get to, navigate around, friendly staff AND had a great steakhouse and 24 hour café. Now the café is gone and the steakhouse is now Siegel’s open 24 hours. I went there for breakfast and had the crescent sandwich. It was not very good, dry and really lacking in any type of flavor, reminded me of cardboard. The potatoes were also on the cold side and and also lacked in any type of flavor. I miss my $ 5 burger, fries and a beer at the old café. Might give them another shot or might have to look elsewhere to stay as I prefer to eat where I am staying.

Tonight we had the opportunity to dine in a recent newly opened 24 hour restaurant at the El Cortez that was named after one time owner Benjamin «Bugsy» Siegel. The restaurant achieved the blessing and cooperation of Siegel’s daughter who was a teenager at the time of his assassination in 1947. She donated some family photos and even 8 mm video of her father and family.
In premise, backstory, and even aesthetic execution, I would give this place ⁵⁄₅. Unfortunately, the ultimate execution falls short on a few levels.
Unilocal has this restaurant categorized as a «Steakhouse» but the truth is it it just one step above a 24 hour coffee shop. The restaurant is located in the former space that was occupied by the El Cortez Steakhouse which was a fine dining old Vegas style restaurant. Siegel’s isn’t really a steakhouse at all. It offers breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night with a menu that includes low priced sandwiches, appetizers, and basic steaks and soups. We ordered the calamari which was ok to mediocre. The Poutin was a travesty. Had it not been labeled as Poutin and instead just advertised as cheese fries, we would have probably been more impressed.
The overall restaurant is quite nice. My recommendation would be to nix the 24 hour and go for a more traditional darker Siegel Steakhouse fine dining restaurant. The concept is done nicely with napkins, China, and mosaics all adorned with their Siegel’s 1941 logo done in Bugsy’s handwriting. I do recommend giving it a try but I also recommend that they revamp their overall structure.
Service was satisfactory. Not great but not bad either. Just mediocre to okay. I think this restaurant, now a month old, will reinvent itself eventually and when it does, I look forward to returning.

A combo coffee house and steak house is what they are going for. I had breakfast here and it was very good. Service was good. They got the drinks and food out quickly. The only issue was a bit slow on the check.
As for the food it is not a cheap dinner but that is not what they are going for. The omelet was huge and very tasty. The potatoes were good and bread fresh. I liked it. Will update if I come back for a steak

The Skinny: skip the Cuban and the chicken pot pie (2)service: slow and inefficient for a 24 casino diner (2) value: skip this joint… There are better places in the city (2).
The hubs was craving some chicken pot pie so we decided to hit Siegel’s for a good tuck in.
We headed over to the El Cortez and braved the smokey hallway to get to the restaurant. The question is… Was it worth it?
Overall, I am grateful the hubs decided he needed a pick me up and got us a venti green tea frappucino before getting there. Because if he hadn’t, we would have been way less patient with the service.
Once we were seated, the server took a while to come to our table. The buser got us some water but our server was largely MIA. This is even after we purposely closed our menus to signal that we were ready to order. We didn’t know who our server was until a good 15 minutes when she finally showed up at the table. Our food also took a while (yes, I know we ordered chicken pot pie which takes longer… But it took 30 minutes+). The only thing our server was good at was leaving a check. Picking it up was another matter and I had nearly finished my review before she came and picked it up.
On to the food. I ordered the Cuban which was pretty horrible. The roasted pork was dry and extremely salty. The lack of mustard mayo also added to the dryness and lack of flavor. They also did not have properly sliced pickles in there — just lay a large pickle spear inside. Plus, the cheese was not completely oozing out of the sandwich like a real Cuban. Boo! The side of coleslaw was pretty meager and served in a small ramekin for butter. That may have been a good thing as the coleslaw was tasteless.
The hub’s chicken pot pie was bad too. The chicken was cooked to the point of mushy baby food and certainly not in chunks. The stringy bits of chicken could only be matched by the undercooked vegetables. The puff pastry was doughy/​gummy yet slightly burnt on top. Flavor wise and texture, a Marie Callender’s frozen chicken pot pie is far superior to what we experienced here. Served with a side of rubbery unseasoned broccoli, we had enough.
Between the subpar service and the food, there is no reason to schlep it to downtown and brave the smell of El Cortez for this. 2 starred review.

Perhaps the most aspiring downtown hotel dining project in recent memory, and one that instantly sparked interest given the ²⁴⁄₇ concept within the historic El Cortez, it was with three friends that a four-​course feast was enjoyed at Siegel’s 1941, the sizeable space and immense menu showing promise of great things to come despite only officially being open for five days at the time of our mid-​morning arrival.
Inspired by Bugsy Siegel, an early investor in the El Cortez, with a soundtrack that veers vintage as Rat Pack classics float beneath gilded ceilings overhead, Siegel’s 1941 features several touches harkening the era for which it is themed and with Virginia Hill gazing on over wood and red leather the menu is wide-​reaching with breakfast, ‘all-​day,’ and late-​nite versions offered depending on the time, the transition from breakfast occurring at 11:00am proving the impetus for the party’s 10:15am reserved table.
Managed by Scott Farber and conceptualized by ESPLV, a design group behind several local restaurants with varying degrees of value, it would seem obvious that a concept as aggressive as Sigel’s 1941 would be marred by a few issues in its opening days, and fully admitting that staff/​kitchen transitions are one of those ‘kinks’ it was no-​doubt a pleasant surprise that saw Scott diligently looking over his team throughout the stay, a middle-​aged Hispanic woman providing almost universally impressive service given the complex coursing of the order, while a few kitchen delays and errors in execution seemed a bit more egregious — the chicken sent in place of requested eggplant, while a side of meatballs was instead served as the spaghetti centered entrée with a whole lot of watery noodles eventually going to waste.
Beginning with breakfast, a few cups of coffee as well as orange juice, milk, plus a cocktail all brought along with water with refills rarely requiring a request, course one saw four plates delivered and while the flaccid pancakes with a simple spread of nutella could have benefitted from a bit more imagination both the chicken and waffles beneath peppery sausage gravy and the challah French Toast were as good as any served within a local diner, the use of 100% pure maple syrup a definite highlight, as was the quality of house-​made corned beef acting to anchor a hash that featured golden-​brown potatoes and lightly seared red peppers alongside a pair of poached eggs.
Designating round two as ‘the sandwich course,’ it was on the advice of EatingLV that ‘the city’s best Cuban’ was ordered, and served with fries on a silver tray one would be hard pressed to argue with such an assessment, particularly as relates to authenticity, as each ingredient melded nicely between layers of toasty pressed bread, the ‘Monte Cristo’ equally tasty and loaded with ham despite missing an opportunity to be the only deep-​fried version currently offered in Sin City while the ‘Carolina’ pulled pork was unfortunately quite dreadful, a total lack of vinegar in either the pig or the slaw not at all resembling the stuff served in the Southeast while the bun was a soggy mess mere seconds after arrival.
Receiving repeat apologies for a delay that stretched just under forty minutes at the midpoint of the meal, it was almost as though the extra time only served to confuse the kitchen since the aforementioned mistakes were sent out despite being correctly listed on the ticket, but thankfully not meeting any harboring a distaste for animal flesh as the enormous chicken parmesan was an exceedingly high quality rendition with light breading and good sauce while meatballs were unfortunately a bit dry and almost entirely devoid of spice, the pot pie undoubtedly proving a far more worthwhile bite as golden puff pastry formed a buttery dome over a creamy potage chockablock full of chicken and vegetables that outdid many more expensive versions found elsewhere in Sin City.
Not yet dialing in the dessert menu, and as such unable to offer the Strawberry Ice Box Pie while also admitting that breakfast pastries are currently brought in from an outside source, the meal conclude with a duo of Bread Pudding and Turtle Pie, the former a dense block of brioche swimming in bourbon infused sauce beneath slowly melting ice cream while the later was an absolute must-​order for those fancying caramel or chocolate, the filling a spot-​on rendition of the inspirational candy with a graham cracker crust crisp too the tooth and heavy with spice.
Already rivaling anything downtown for 24-​hour fare, and only likely to get better with time, Siegel’s 1941 is the sort of retro-​rebrand that places such Roxy’s at the Stratosphere have long aspired to emulate — a place where tourists and locals alike can get a good meal at a fair price, all while experiencing the old-​school Vegas vibe that flows throughout its longest continuously running hotel and gaming space.

Four of us met for brunch this morning so we could have some of the breakfast menu and some of the lunch menu. Items ordered were:
Chocolate Nutella pancakes
Challah French toast
Chicken and waffle
Fat Irish Green house made corned beef hash.
Monte Cristo sandwich
Miami Cuban sandwich
Pulled pork sandwich
Chicken pot pie
Eggplant parmigiana
Meatballs
Bread pudding
Caramel turtle pie
This is a 3 star restaurant working on it s fourth star. As Siegel’s 1941 has only recently opened, there are bound to be a few kinks but the restaurant is a solid place to eat. The restaurant has been completely renovated from when it was the steakhouse for the El Cortez. I was sorry to see that go, but I was happy to see what they did for a replacement. While more open and more open to the casino than the former steakhouse, I’m glad to see how they’ve given honors to Benjamin Siegel for when he had partial ownership of the El Cortez. Also prominent in the decorations are photos of his girlfriend Virginia Hill.
Now the food. The restaurant did a better job with the savory dishes than the sweet breakfast ones. The Cuban, Monte Cristo, corned beef hash, and chicken pot pie were the standouts of the savory items. The chicken and waffle was good as was the French toast. The chocolate Nutella pancakes were a disappointment. I expected something more than sloshing on some Nutella on top of pancakes.
There were a few glitches in the kitchen. We ordered eggplant parmigiana but got chicken parmigiana. We also ordered just meatballs but we got spaghetti and meatballs. These are the issue which need to be worked out.
Our server, Claudia, did an outstanding job. She almost singlehandedly served the food to this hungry foursome.
I’d return for the corned beef hash if for breakfast and I will definitely return for the chicken pot pie. I cannot give that high enough praise.
Thanks to Mr. Farber for stopping by to check on us and see that all was well. When they get some of their newness worked out, this can be a 4 star restaurant.

Replacing the classic Café Cortez, Siegel’s 1941 is the El Cortez’s attempt at modernizing things in the otherwise vintage «Old Vegas» hotel. The menu boasts a good assortment of appealing options including the tasty Bugsy Burgers (I had mine with a fried egg and cheddar) and nice salads. The coffee, by the way, is more bitter than one would like.
Our experience with the service, however, was terrible. Our waitress, Luba, was completely inept. She had little knowledge of the menu and possesses poor table side manners.
The kitchen, which took some time to get our food out, got half of our order wrong. My burger came out just fine, but my girlfriend’s salad came out as a noodle dish. That’s not even close and she was very much not happy.
We’re Las Vegas locals and would like to come back seeing as we enjoy the hotel and the food, but that waitress all but ruined the place for us. We’ll give it one more try, but if Luba is our waitress again we’ll leave without ordering.