content: Went back to Aureole after about 2 years and a very good meal. Mandalay Bay has become rather seedy like the rest of the strip. Entering the restaurant one is \""greeted\"" on a very cool level by a maitr D' speaking to a helper. They continued their conversation for a few minutes before seating us. Not an auspicious beginning. The menu arrives and it is their most expensive, the tasting menu. We asked for their other menus, a prix fixe and an a la carte. They seated us in the Swan Court which used to cost an extra $10, petty no. They don't charge that now but you have to have the tasting menu there. When I told them, in less coarse terms, that they were nuts, they said I could stay there with any menu. Whooppee. The 4000 bottle wine list has 2 Beujolois, none of them high quality. The wine is horribly overpriced, I would guess 400% over cost. A pleasant young man acting as sommelier hung in and finally bought us an OK Spanish wine for $75. We ordered a la carte. A foix gras we ordered turned out to be seared, not a pate. They rectified that. If you are very strong you can get what you want. The service was good, the food excellent. Bottom line the place has absolutely no class. There is nothing elegant about it or the hotel. Upon leaving we asked them to call the valet to get our car ready. That was against their policy for some really inane reason. As I said, no class at all. We will never return.