Wolfgang Puck's Spago at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas

Spago, a Wolfgang Puck Restaurant at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, is two great dining options in one, if you know that they both exist, that is.

If you book tickets through Tix 4 Tonight, you can get a dining voucher for a percentage off your meal at Spago, which is what we did. When we made the reservation at Tix 4 Tonight, we looked at the menu for this restaurant and saw it was an Italian restaurant and were looking forward to the seasonal butternut squash ravioli.

When we got to the restaurant, the hostess asked us if we wanted to sit on their patio, which faces into the walkway of the Forum Shops for Caesars, or in the quieter dining room. The four in our party didn’t have a preference, and the hostess sat us in the more formal, quieter, dining room.

However, when we were handed menus, they looked nothing like what we had seen earlier in the day when we made reservations. There wasn’t your typical Italian dishes and the prices were much higher – and no butternut squash ravioli. We shrugged it off and ordered anyway.

After ordering, we saw a waiter deliver sandwiches to a table behind us. We looked at each other, knowing there were no sandwiches on the menu we had ordered from. We asked our waiter what was up.

Here’s the scoop: the patio is more informal dining and has an Italian menu and lower prices. The dining room is a more standard restaurant with steaks, chops, seafood, and higher prices.

You can, however, ask for the patio menu in the dining room and vice versa, if you know there is a difference.