Paradise Cafe

This pool side restaurant is conveniently located amidst the Mirage pool for your dining retreat. My friends and I dined here in April 2014 after visiting the pool, not to swim but just take photos. It’s open to Mirage guests only so we had to present the room key. We were seated immediately on a weekend with a good view of crystalline waters. It must’ve been at least 90 degrees out but we kept cool. I ordered a frozen strawberry smoothie that tasted like a slushie. I was hoping it would’ve contained yogurt or something to give it a thicker consistency. My entrée was the club burger with bacon, not sure if it had avocado or not. Their potato salad is really good! Flavorful but not over the top in its richness. It was a welcome change from regular fries, which were tasty as well. My friends ordered the volcano burger featuring a whole fried egg, the unique veggie burger made with a messy mix of black beans/​corn/​onions, and the fried yellowtail tacos.
As far as I remember, our waitress was very patient and checked back regularly to see if we needed anything else. Lunch poolside is quite a treat!

Paradise café has awesome breakfast food and drinks. We had the traditional eggs benedict and the crab cakes benedict, with a delicious side of bacon (of course) and mimosas to drink. Everything tatsed amazing and our server Daniel was very nice and attentive. With no crowd at all and a great view and breeze from the pool it makes a great breakfast spot. The drinks are expensive but they give you your money’s worth in strength.

Great little place at the Mirage pool. Beautiful setting and surroundings. We always eat hear for a late breakfast or early lunch. The club sandwich is what I always get, I sometimes have them make it in a wrap which is also delicious. Friendly staff, nothing to complain about, we love it.

I read all the reviews and wondered if my husband and I had gone to the same place. Granted we only eat breakfast there when we’re going to the pool. We’ve eaten there several times over the years and this year they changed the menu a little adding and subtracting items but it’s just plain boring food. Recognizing that scrambled eggs are just that, the other choices are limited to breakfast wraps and so on. I tried the pancakes one day and that was a mistake. They were heavy and tasted like cardboard. This visit we went to the Roasted Bean inside and split a bagel instead of going to the café. Way less expensive.

Late lunch after a day at the pool. Service was great, quick. Ordered calamari wondering why it was in the salad section, made sense as it comes served over a nice salad, very tasty and lots of calamari. Mahi mahi tacos left quite a bit to be desired.

Has gone completely down hill. This is the café that services the pool and also cabanas. For some inexplicable reason, they change the menu every time we come out (and we stay here at least twice a year, minimum) This past visit was our last try here. My mediocre drink was $ 18 and our server kept trying to force more on us. It was annoying. The guac we ordered was good, but the chips soooo saturated in grease they were inedible. Split the mahi tacos and crab cake sliders (all new items, surprise surprise) The tacos were literally corn tortilla, slaw and two tiny pieces of mahi mahi. Took one bite and refused to eat the rest because it had a bad «fishy» taste to it that I never have experienced with mahi mahi before and I quickly envisioned myself kneeling over a toilet bowl later had I eaten the whole thing. The crab cake sliders were no better, completely mushy and flavorless. I’m over this place, the two stars are generous, I’m giving them for the nice outdoor seating and the birds that kept us entertained while we ate.

Are here for lunch. Ordered a medium burger that came well done. Burger was not only overcooked but boring with stale bread and fries were nothing special. My coworker had veggie burger and said it was not great either. Would not eat here for lunch again but I heard breakfast is good.

I had an exceptional breakfast here last weekend! As you can see from my pictures, the portions were huge (perhaps too much? Is there such a thing???)! I had my usual «American» breakfast… two eggs scrambled with extra crispy hash browns and sourdough toast (the bacon was donated to my husband). The breakfast was delicious and my hash browns were perfection. I miss them already…

After going to the Secret Garden to see the new white lion cubs, I stopped here for lunch when I found out that you could go here even if not a guest of the hotel. I was promptly seated with a good view of the pool area and the waterfall there. No sooner than I sat down, my server Cathy arrived with a tall ice water. She also broguht me an iced tea that I wanted.
I ordered a turkey and bacon sandwich and I mentioned that I could always take half the wrap home with me. Cathy pointed out it was a ciabatta sandwich. I asked her if they could do it as a wrap and she replied that she didn’t see where that would be a problem. For a side, I got fries.
The wrap was excellent, filled with much turkey and bacon and the fries were a good accompaniment. I did not get dessert. Instead, I got a to go box and took half the wrap and some fries home.
It was so pleasant sitting there and watching the tourists – one of my favorite things to do in this wonderful city! Even though the temperature was in the high 90s, the outdoor restaurant was pleasant. They have a very good misting system.
Since I have a year’s pass to the Secret Garden, I think I’ll stop more often during pool season when I go to visit the animals.

Worst breakfast! Stone cold and just bad. Probably find better eggs in a McMuffin. Typical Vegas but what choice do you have?

We tried this twice. 3 for me means I would go here. We had good quick lunch and good quick breakfast here outside of the less than attractive inside w casino.

Be prepared to pay a lot for your entrée, coffee, dessert etc.
Typical Vegas restaurant just like the rest of the the strip all pricey and but the food was excellent and the service was perfect. I ordered the Buffalo Wings $ 12and French Fries $ 8, onion rings $ 8 and glass of ice water. $ 0
After the waitress took my order, I received my glass of water right away and my food came 15 minutes which isn’t too bad and the servers were always checking up on me if the food was ok and if I needed a refill. The buffalo wings were perfectly cooked an the sauce was just right and not too spicy, the onion rings were deep fried and very crispy and so were the French Fries. I felt very taken care of and looked out for and that left me with a good impression on the Paradise Café but the price is a little to high for the kind of food ordered but hey IT’S VEGAS!
The waitress said we are allowed to bring food from the hotel restaurants (BB Kings, BLT, CPK, Carnegie Deli and Blizz from Yogurt) and not every hotel allows you to bring hotel food to the pool or even bottled water. So that was a good tip. =)

Its really this or another lame-​ass option called dolphin bar if your by the pool at the mirage. Or you can put on a shirt/​shorts and trek to the deli, cpk, etc. inside hotel. I know, too much effort.
It says don’t feed the birds, but they are so hungry and cute, couldnt resist.
Food is pricey, big suprise.
Ordered 2 items:
Shrimp and avocado salad: (1 star) not good shrimp, they are the tiny kind. It has bacon in it, very cold, fatty, nasty bacon. Never tasted such an awful bacon on a salad. Salad itself kinda limp so hard to find a nice crunchy salad. Its like 18 bucks too. RIIPPPed.
Steak sandwich was actually good, (4 stars) $ 16, came with a side of your choice (ask for the onion rings; they were puffy and tasteee. Horrible 4u but at least tasted good.
Steak was on a ciabatta roll, with arugula, mustard, cheese. A few unchewable parts but tasted like a rib-​eye cut. Top with A1 and this is your highlight of the day presented by AT&T…
Another 50+ meal for 2 plates and 2 non-​alcoholic drinks… goddamn this city… but those baby birds are soooo cuuuute!!!

I grabbed a quick lunch here with a co-​worker after we were traveling for what it seems like FOREVER. Since it was already after two when we sat down, we decided to get one appetizer and one sandwich to share. We started with Tempera Spicy Crab Roll and then moved on to the Triple Decker Sandwich. Both were very good and HUGE! The Tempera Spicy Crab Roll was my favorite. The only problem I had was that the roll was so big. It was so big that I couldn’t fit the whole thing in my mouth — I literally had to cut it in half. The Triple Decker Sandwich was just as big, I had to eat it in sections. Great place to come with an appetite.