3 Over&the&Top New Restaurants Opening on the Las Vegas Strip This Week

Caspian’s Cocktails and Caviar. | Celano Design Studio Co.

A caller caviar bar, a retro-style Italian blistery spot, and a personage cook steakhouse deed the Strip this week

December again proves to beryllium a engaged clip of twelvemonth for Las Vegas’s culinary scene. Earlier this month, 3 celebrities opened their restaurants successful 1 star-studded play erstwhile pastry cook Dominique Ansel debuted his caller bakery, state vocalist Jason Aldean opened his Kitchen and Bar, and Lisa Vanderpump introduced a 3rd glam nighttime spot.

This week, the opening fest continues, with cook Michael Mina debuting his sixth Las Vegas edifice — and his 2nd caller Vegas edifice this year. Caesars Palace is scheduling a timely opening of a caviar barroom and euphony venue conscionable weeks earlier New Year’s Eve. And Tao Group volition soon present a caller candy and retro-themed edifice astatine Planet Hollywood. Here are 3 edifice openings with eye-catching designs and over-the-top menus that should not beryllium missed this week.

Caspian’s Cocktails and Caviar

Caspian’s Cocktails and Caviar astatine Caesars Palace replaces Cleopatra’s Barge lounge with a sleek caller introduction adjacent parts glossy European caviar barroom and technicolor unrecorded euphony lounge. The beforehand of Caspian’s volition beryllium an 1,100-square-foot caviar barroom wherever up to 50 guests tin bid murphy latkes, waffles, and Pringles chips with caviar toppings and sides. Decorated successful tones of achromatic and white, the barroom volition beryllium stocked with top-shelf intoxicant for pouring soiled martinis with caviar-stuffed greenish olives and cocktails, similar the “Fig”ure of Your Imagination with bourbon, Cointreau, fig jam, and honey.

Sporting an Art Deco design, the venue is stuffed with oversized couches successful vibrant upholstery tucked down the bar. Here, Ben Carey of Savage Garden and Lifehouse oversees a lineup of musicians who volition execute Tuesdays done Saturdays. And a unrecorded set volition backmost karaoke nights connected Thursdays. The lounge, arsenic good arsenic the bar, volition service nutrient and drinks similar the extravagant Full Boat — a array work of 20 ounces of Imperial Golden Osetra caviar and a vessel of Dom Perignon champagne.

Caspian’s Cocktails and Caviar opens Friday, December 20. The cocktail lounge astatine Caspian’s volition beryllium unfastened from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily, with the room closing astatine 10 p.m. The unrecorded euphony speakeasy volition beryllium unfastened from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesday done Thursday and 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. connected Friday and Saturday. Reservations tin beryllium made online.

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Caramella

Caramella continues 1 of Las Vegas’s favourite caller trends by keeping things retro astatine a caller edifice and candy store that overlooks the Las Vegas Strip from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Opening tomorrow, Tao’s eighth Las Vegas edifice takes inspiration from 1970s Italy. Walking inside, a Murano solid chandelier floats implicit a velvet-covered entryway, the eating country decorated with backlit onyx walls and gleaming finishes.

A candy store stocked with Italian treats sits astatine the halfway of the restaurant, with a concealed doorway wrong giving mode to a wallpaper-swaddled lounge with a mirrored DJ booth. Tao’s culinary officer, Ralph Scamardella, who besides helms the kitchens astatine Stanton Social Prime and Lavo Italian Restaurant, designed a paper that skews glamorous Italian. Think bluish crab malfadine with citrus and toasted breadcrumbs oregon cavatelli bolognese with crushed veal. Other dishes volition see bony marrow surf and turf with stone shrimp drizzled successful ail butter, and a wagyu beef tartare with a fried egg. For cocktails, the La Granita is chill and fruity with tequila, orangecello, and prosecco. And the signature dessert is simply a tart with acheronian cocoa custard and salted caramel.

Caramella is connected the mezzanine level of Planet Hollywood adjacent to the Criss Angel Theater. The edifice opens connected Friday, December 20 and volition service from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. nightly. The lounge is unfastened from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., Thursday done Sunday.

Tao Group Hospitality Caramella.

Michael Mina’s Bourbon Steak

Chef Michael Mina opened a Vegas outpost of his Bourbon Steak edifice connected Tuesday, December 17 astatine the the Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas. Fresh disconnected opening Orla astatine the Mandalay Bay successful January, the caller steakhouse is Mina’s 11th — with locations successful California, New York, and different states.

In lieu of breadstuff service, meal work astatine the steakhouse begins with complimentary duck-fat fries with pastrami spice for the table. Steak present takes the signifier of 14-ounce New York strips and 20-ounce bone-in ribeyes. The wood-fired grill besides cooks A5 striploin from Japan and a petit filet mignon from Australia. But the showstopper is simply a Vegas exclusive — a salt-baked and hay-smoked dry-aged tomahawk served tableside and accompanied by steak sauce, achromatic truffle butter, oregon reddish vino demi-glace. Truffle macaroni and cheese, pastrami-spiced wagyu abbreviated rib, and spinach souffle circular retired the menu.

Trolley carts volition rove done a eating country designed with peacock feather tones and aureate arches to service flambéed cocoa fondue desserts. Beneath a golden ceiling, the cocktail barroom pours drinks similar a martini with yuzu, vodka, and gin — and the Moondance mixing bourbon, elderflower, pear brandy, and pomegranate. And much than 400 bottles including 12-liter bottles from Napa Valley cult Cabernets and Super Tuscans from Italy comprise the vino list.

Bourbon Steak is unfastened for meal from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and the lounge is unfastened from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. with late-night hours to beryllium announced successful aboriginal 2025.