On a recent trip to Vega$, I decided to try some local restaurants off \"the Strip\" for a change...partly to experience something new & also because it was a Sat & I detest the \"weekend & holiday\" price gouging at the casinos.  How dare you take such beautiful words as an excuse to jack the price of the buffet line when it's the same weekday food anyway!\n\nDriving down Trop Ave I noticed the banner hanging out front proudly mentioning a \"Best of Las Vegas\" award (albeit from 2010)...but would standards change in that short a time?  Maybe this raised my expectations.\n\nI arrived bout 11:30am & was given the lunch specials menu insert, but decided I would try some breakfast since it was still late morning.\n\nSelection was sorta limited...there were two choices.  Chorizo & eggs & Hueveos Rancheros.  OK, not many choices, but granted they don't open til 11am, so demand for break is probably minimal.\n\nGot the Huevos Ranch.  Just two (small to med sized) eggs on a tortilla...would it break to bank for the ownership to put large or XL eggs on a dish that costs 10 bucks w/tax?\n\nAnd on the side (Wait for It!) some beans (refried) Rice? no. Sour Cream? no. Some cheese sprinkled on the pintos? no.  Maybe a lettuce & tomato garnish on the side? no.  And maybe a pipe dream of a real ranchera sauce stead of the lame canned salsa?\n\nI told the waitress I needed some rice & she obliged...but it was kinda crunchy.  Ok guess the cook hadn't had a chance to cook some fresh stuff for the day & just grabbed what was left from the night before (albeit dried out enough that you could hurt your teeth.)\n\nEven though she didn't charge me for brittle rice, the bill came to nearly 30 bucks w/tax & tip for the huevos, guacamole (3) coffee (3), & albondigas soup (Carrots? no. Sprig of celery? no. Mex chayote squash? pipe dream.) Granted the cook didn't have a total aversion to vegetables...the soup bowl had the equivalent of one onion ring in it.\n\nNot that there's anything wrong w/ dropping 30 for breakfast for one(well maybe there is, but that's a different discussion) but it shouldn't have the minimal garnishments & burnt tasting coffee in one of the supposed culinary capitals of the country.