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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
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Eight Restaurants and Bars Still on Their Way to Resorts World This Fall and Winter (Eater Vegas): Bar Zazu, Carversteak, Eight Lounge, Zouk Nightclub, and more will open at the new resort this year Resorts World opened on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip, and it still has so much more on the way. Already diners are finding their way to chef Nicole Brisson’s Italian restaurant Brezza, chef Ray Garcia’s Mexican ¡Viva!, and Famous Foods Street Eats with its bevy of stalls that primarily focus on Asian cuisine. Beginning this fall, a number of new dining and drinking outlets start to open, mainly on the resort’s 70,000-square-foot shopping esplanade dubbed the District that runs along Las Vegas Boulevard. Here, a look at what’s to come. Bar Zazu Estimated Opening: Opens this fall. The second restaurant from chef Nicole Brisson, who opened Brezza at the resort, offers a European café serving hot and cold tapas, cheese and charcuterie, and sweet and savory pastries. The 140-seat restaurant next to Brezza promises wines from around the world served by the glass, bottle, and flights, along with European beers and cocktails. Eight Lounge Estimated Opening: Opens this winter. John Pettei and Clique Hospitality bring the cigar bar Eight Lounge, which plans to offer more than 150 cigars, showcased in a custom-built walk-in humidor. Eight Lounge specializes in limited-edition cigars for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to smoke these rare puros. The lounge incorporates the number eight throughout the venue, even dividing the space into eight rooms with deep tufted couches and dark wood trimming for a masculine touch. A bar-length chandelier and subtle pops of color give a feminine feel for balance. A filtration system refreshes air every four minutes to keep air clean, fresh, and constantly flowing. The cigar bar also plans to have a 2,300-square-foot outdoor patio overlooking the Strip with a fireplace and a misting and heating trellis. Carversteak Estimated Opening: December Carver Road Hospitality, the new hospitality company from nightlife impressario Sean Christie, plans to open Carversteak at the resort in December. The 14,500-square-foot restaurant stakes a claim as the city’s largest steakhouse and the resort’s only steak-focused restaurant. The steakhouse specializes in thick dry-aged American cuts, global artisan beef producers, and Japanese-certified wagyu cuts. Two private dining rooms — dubbed The Knife Shop and Scotch Room — a 70-foot honed quartzite stone bar, and 3,500-square-foot terrace complete with a bar, dining, and lounge gardens overlooking the Las Vegas Strip make up the desert landscape space. Carversteak already tapped Daniel Ontiveros, the former executive chef at Scotch 80 Prime at the Palms and T-Bones Chophouse at Red Rock Resort, as the executive chef and Gianni Toffanello, the former general manager of Cut by Wolfgang Puck at the Palazzo, as the general manager. Caviar Bar Estimated Opening: Opens this winter. Caviar Bar from chef Shaun Hergatt plans to open on the north end of the District with caviar and cocktails. Diners can order Russian Osetra, beluga, Kaluga gold, and more, or turn to the warm section of the tight menu for savory baby waffles with crème fraiche and caviar, smoked salmon lavoche and caviar, sea urchin with bonito gelee and caviar, and other caviar-centric dishes. Zouk Nightclub Estimated Opening: September 17 The highly anticipated nightclub opens on Friday, September 17, with Tiësto on the decks. The 26,060-square-foot Zouk will become the Las Vegas resort’s nightlife focal point, building on its almost three-decade dominance as a state-of-the-art destination in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysia. The club offers the Capital Bar and Empire, which can operate as an addition to the main club or separate venues on specific nights and seasons. Zouk, with room for 2,160, plans to be open Thursday through Saturday from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. Mulberry Street Pizza Richie Palmer’s Mulberry Street Pizzeria of Beverly Hills, which originally opened in 1991, serves pizzas about as thick as a piece of paper by the slice and in pies with specialty toppings such as chicken ranch, eggplant Parmesan, and rigatoni. Tacos El Cabron San Diego’s Tacos El Cabron, which opened across from UNLV and has a second location in the works at the intersection of Decatur Boulevard and Meadows Lane, plans to serve Tijuana-inspired Mexican cuisine such as street tacos, elote, burritos, bowls, and specialty dishes such as birria. Tiger Sugar Announced as an original tenant for Resorts World’s Famous Foods Street Eats, Tiger Sugar is officially listed as coming soon to the globally inspired food hall. The creamy drinks will be served from a prefabricated food cart. https://vegas.eater.com/2021/8/25/22639989/restaurants-bars-opening-soon-resorts-world-fall-winter-2021 -
Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
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Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
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ITALIAN AMERICAN PSYCHEDELIC When Spiegelworld, the carnies behind Las Vegas’s most excellent entertainments—Atomic Saloon Show, OPIUM and Absinthe —debuts its first-ever dining, cocktail and live entertainment caper, well… you don’t wanna miss it. Peel back the purple doors and step into Las Vegas’s Las Vegiest place: Superfrico[emoji769] at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Tag in supertalents ‘International Pizza Czar’ Chef Anthony Falco, Executive Chef Mitch Emge direct from The Cosmopolitan, ‘Principal Pourer’ Leo Robitschek of Eleven Madison Park, General Manager Greisy Pacton of Gordon Ramsay Steak and you’ve got the makings of the ultimate, be-all, end-all, taste-all house party. World-class, rule-breaking creatives everywhere you look: in the kitchen, behind the bars, inside the walls, under the bed… and you’re invited. The cuisine—Italian American Psychedelic—honors the recipes and traditions passed down by generations of Sicilian family cooks while taking fearless detours with ingredients and techniques. As irreverent as Spiegelworld itself, it’s an all-senses-overloaded take on grandma’s favorites, all night long—including Falco’s signature selection of pizza perfection, pasta, steaks, seafood, showcase desserts and late-night finales. Dinner? Cocktails? Whatever. Go off-menu. Stay all night. First service: September 24, 2021. ART EVERYWHERE Spiegelworld has commissioned works by leading contemporary artists for Superfrico, beginning with Psycho Pop Party, by acclaimed South Korean-born, New York City-based artist Adehla Lee. The painting, showcasing Lee’s bold, graphic style and signature candy-colored iconography—including two penguins stepping out to party—continues to inspire much of Superfrico’s visual identity. https://www.superfrico.com/?about -
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Check airfares now and see what they look like. March is busy time with spring break and March Madness. If you see roundtrip from Dallas less than $250 or $300 on American or Southwest I would consider booking it now. -
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(LAS VEGAS, NV) – The Las Vegas Raiders will require all attendees at home games to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination through CLEAR’s free mobile app and Health Pass feature, allowing fans to attend games without wearing a mask. The policy will take effect for the first regular season home game, September 13 against the Baltimore Ravens on Monday Night Football. The Raiders are the first team in the National Football League to announce a vaccine/no mask policy. The Raiders implemented the change in accord with a new Emergency Directive from Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak regarding large events. “Health and safety has always been our number one priority,” said Raiders owner Mark Davis. “After consultation with Governor Sisolak and other community leaders, this policy ensures that we will be able to operate at full capacity without masks for fully vaccinated fans for the entire season,” Davis explained. The Raiders will offer the opportunity for fans to receive vaccinations on site at Allegiant Stadium prior to Raiders home games, permitting newly vaccinated fans to enter wearing a mask. The Raiders announced a policy requiring all full-time employees on the business and football staffs of the organization to be vaccinated in May. Stadium management company ASM and stadium concessionaire Levy also have implemented mandatory vaccinations for all full-time staff at Allegiant Stadium. The Raiders will hold a press conference at 12:00 noon on August 17th at Allegiant Stadium to announce details of the program and introduce CLEAR representatives who will discuss the verification process. Raiders season ticketholders will receive an email with additional information and instructions. https://www.allegiantstadium.com/news/detail/las-vegas-raiders-to-require-proof-of-covid-19-vaccination-for-raiders-games-at-allegiant-stadium -
Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
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They aren’t really enforcing the laws on the books regarding weed smoking on the sidewalks of the Strip but that could change soon when the smoking lounges open. They just passed some ordinances to allow for the new lounges as places for tourists to smoke their weed. Then we might see some improvement in the smell on the Strip, or not. -
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Brothers Kevin and Steve Aoki follow in their famous father’s footsteps with the opening of Kuru Kuru Pa Yakitori at Resorts World (Eater Vegas): Thanks to the restaurant pioneer Rocky Aoki, Benihana was the first exposure to Japanese cuisine for many Americans of a certain age. The teppanyaki trailblazer paved the way for other Japanese foods — such as sushi — to eventually become as ubiquitous as pasta and tacos in the U.S. “The minute I forgot I was Japanese, success began,” Aoki, who died in 2008, once told the New York Times. Now, Rocky Aoki’s oldest two sons have opened Kuru Kuru Pa, a fast-casual chicken yakitori spot, at Resorts World’s Famous Foods Street Eats with hopes to do for yakitori as their legendary father did for teppanyaki in the 1960s. Though the Japanese-style chicken on a skewer is common in the coastal U.S., it has yet to find the wide popularity that sushi and ramen have. But if things go the way the Aoki brothers want, that is about to change. “The goal with Kuru Kuru Pa is to blow [yakitori] up so that everyone knows about it,” says Steve Aoki, the younger of the two by almost a decade, who made his name as a DJ performing acrobatic stunts on stage. “We are owning our Japanese heritage and making it as Japanese as possible with anime, manga, and all the familiarities of Japanese culture. We want the Japanophiles to come and spread the gospel. It’s about the cult of it. We want to get to the core, and we want to break open chicken yakitori in America.” The Aoki brothers have always had a close relationship, and their differences in personalities and skill sets make for a fruitful business partnership. “We have a lot of ideas together,” Steve says. “We’ve always wanted to do [food and beverage] concepts together. I love building brands and food and beverage is in our DNA, so it just made sense.” As a natural creative, Steve gravitates toward marketing and ideas, whereas Kevin Aoki is more operations-minded. The image and branding of Kuru Kuru Pa — which translates to “crazy” — is attributed to Steve. The menu, sources for ingredients, recipe preparations, and systems are Kevin’s specialty. He sourced the juiciest Jidori chickens, sweet and smoky kiawe wood, and the flavorful tare sauce from their mother’s recipe. “I am different from my dad,” says Kevin as he reflects on his father’s larger-than-life persona. “I am more of an operations guy, my dad was more of an entertainer. Steve has that entertaining spirit. My dad loved being in front of everything. When the cameras came on, he would light up. When they turned off, he’d fall asleep.” As the eldest, Kevin spent the most time with their father and went with him everywhere — from thrilling boat races to bustling kitchens — until he was 7. He would watch from the corners as Rocky — who he saw as a godlike figure — fiercely pursued his dream of creating an empire. “I had always wanted to open a restaurant and be like my dad,” says Kevin, who started working at Benihana was he was 13 years old. “I grew up thinking that I was going to try — especially as his firstborn son.” He started by working in the kitchen and learning all aspects of the business in the front and back of house, eventually earning his way into management. Steve also grew up in the restaurants and remembers peeling hundreds of onions a day. “After working in a kitchen, I never wanted to be in a kitchen again,” he says, despite his admiration for their father. Steve was a vegetarian between the ages of 15 and 30, so he steered away from Benihana and instead pursued music — a career that catapulted him to international fame. However, Kevin remained in the food industry, and today he has a thriving restaurant portfolio of his own, including coffeehouses, sushi hot spots, teppanyaki venues, and even a Vietnamese restaurant called 1938 — named after their father’s birth year. Although the Aokis are partners in restaurants in Miami and Honolulu, Kuru Kuru Pa is their first joint venture in Las Vegas. As with many things in Las Vegas, the restaurant on the Strip came about through relationships. “Huey Lim is one of my really good friends who I’ve known for more than 10 years,” says Steve, referring to the chairman and CEO of Genting Berhad, the Malaysian corporation that developed Resorts World. When Lim told them about the smaller space they had available at Famous Foods, the siblings knew that their chicken yakitori idea would be a perfect fit. “The chicken has many interesting parts to it that are really delicious that the Japanese eat,” Kevin says. “The nankotsu that is the cartilage of the chicken, the skin, the thighs, the gizzard; chicken is probably the most delicious animal to eat. Ours is free-range. We are going to explore all of the delicious parts of the chicken and introduce them to Americans.” Steve’s personal favorite is the chicken hearts skewer, while Kevin prefers the nankotsu. The cartilage has a crunchy texture and contains lots of collagen, among other nutrients such as phosphorus, magnesium, and calcium. At Kuru Kuru Pa, the skewers range from $7 to $10 each, and they also offer other Japanese items such as musubi and other entrees adapted from family recipes. The brothers say that they have “a lot of plans in Vegas,” so this restaurant seems to only be the beginning. Their father was a man on a mission, whose train would stop for no one, including his family. “You had to jump on his train or miss out on the experience,” Kevin says. Now, as grown adults, Rocky’s sons have adopted a similar iron ambition. When asked what their father might have said if he had witnessed the grand opening of Kuru Kuru Pa on the world-famous Las Vegas Strip, the pair laughed, since Rocky was not one to offer heaping praise, no matter how proud he was. “He’d say, ‘Not bad,’” says Kevin while tipping a flat hand side-to-side with a “so-so” motion. “We know what that means.” https://vegas.eater.com/2021/8/10/22601345/steve-kevin-aoki-kuru-kuru-pa-yakitori-feature-resorts-world -
Las Vegas go hard or go home thread
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One recent article: no mask wearing inside the clubs https://www.businessinsider.com/las-vegas-mask-mandate-covid-restrictions-resort-testing-mgm-cosmopolitan-2021-8 -
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3/2 BJ on the Strip possibly almost gone soon, as we have discussed recently. (CET = all Caesars properties) -
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Shaq already with some DJ gigs in Vegas and now some more Vegas exposure -
From my real world experience meeting degenerates off HF/Shaggy/Surly over the years, I’d say the hit ratio on these statements is about 8 out of 10.
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Depends if he used a screwdriver or not. Who are we kidding, doesn’t matter.
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