A Wine Cellar, Tropical Lounge, and English Pub Hit the Rio — and That’s Just the Beginning

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The Wine Cellar. | Rio Las Vegas Big changes are coming to the off-Strip casino The Rio Las Vegas is successful the midst of a rebirth. Even if diners haven’t stepped wrong recently, the caller LED airy show connected the gathering tin surely drawback their attention. Inside, the changes are conscionable arsenic apparent. New owners took implicit operations for the Rio from Caesars Entertainment successful October and person since been engaged making a flashy statement. Dreamscape Companies has already renovated each 1,500 suites successful the resort’s Ipanema Tower, refurbished the excavation and its poolside menu, and transformed the buffet into the Canteen Food Hall. On the nutrient side, the not-so-secret Wine Cellar Tasting Room softly reopened a mates weeks ago, the English-style pub Luckley Tavern & Grill is acceptable to debut this month, and the tropical Bohemian barroom Lapa Lounge is expected to unfastened by the Fourth of July. In addition, six caller yet-to-be-announced restaurants volition beryllium rolled retired successful the months to come. “Basically, everything successful present is going to get touched,” Patrick Hoefler, the Rio’s vice president of nutrient and beverage said. Ryan Slattery Wine Cellar Tasting Room. The instrumentality of the Wine Cellar gives passionate oenophiles successful hunt of hard-to-find wines a spot to nest. It archetypal opened successful 1997 and, successful its heyday, the Wine Cellar stored a museum-like postulation of uncommon vintages worthy much than $2.2 million. Heads of authorities were known to huddle successful the backstage country and guests would routinely popular successful and casually bargain a $10,000 vessel of wine, sip and savor it successful the basement confines, and past possibly person different shipped home. The Cellar closed successful March 2020 owed to the pandemic. Hung Nguyen has tally the spot for 17 years and knows each inch of the Tuscany-inspired country — each the archetypal chromatic of the cave-like abstraction was imported from Italy. He developed the vino and tone tastings and paired them with charcuterie plates and fancy cheeses similar a French Brie, creamy Camembert, and Hook’s 12-year-aged cheddar. The Wine Cellar is an experience. Surrounded by chromatic walls, sipping everything from mundane wines to ultra-expensive vintages, it’s casual to hide wherever you are and melt into the acquisition of surviving successful the Tuscan hills. Ryan Slattery Hung Nguyen. While Nguyen has wine, whiskey, bourbon, tequila, and rum tasting menus astatine the ready; he’s often blessed to tailor a tasting to the whims of an idiosyncratic guest. And for those who privation to dine arsenic good arsenic sip, the Wine Cellar hosts three-course vino dinners by partnering with VooDoo Steak and the Rio’s different restaurants. In a instrumentality to form, guests tin acquisition bottles oregon cases of vino to beryllium shipped location to them. Ryan Slattery Wine Cellar Tasting Room. Meanwhile, Luckley Tavern & Grill from Oliver Wharton’s A Perfect Bite hospitality radical is connected the brink of opening. The pub’s plan draws inspiration from the English hilltown of Cotswold, portion the luncheon and meal menus from cook Alex Resnick volition diagnostic items specified arsenic lollipop-style buffalo wings, lobster cookware pie, a 32-ounce tomahawk steak, and table-side crystal pick sundae cart. Expect an upgrade connected the barroom broadside arsenic the Rio is adding a fig of signature drinks and section beers. Rio Las Vegas A rendering of Luckley Tavern & Grill. And finally, operation is underway for the tropical Lapa Lounge. The lobby barroom is getting a implicit makeover arsenic Dreamscape looks to bring vigor and amusive into the space. The lounge, named aft the lively, bohemian amusement territory successful Rio de Janeiro, volition person a paper of signature cocktails and service a assortment of trade beers. Rio Las Vegas Rendering of Lapa Lounge. “Expect a spectacle,” Hoefler explained erstwhile describing the space. Brass monkeys and jaguars volition bent from the ceiling, gazing astatine guests from supra a country that features an Italian-blown solid chandelier, a honey-onyx bar, and a veined achromatic marble floor. Lapa Lounge volition person a capableness of astir 60 radical with seating successful some an unfastened lounge and astir the circular bar. More details connected the different six restaurants are inactive to come. “It’s going to beryllium a truly amusive abstraction to conscionable just up and bent retired oregon person an informal meeting,” Hoefler said. “We’re putting the Rio backmost connected the map.” Rio Las Vegas Rio Las Vegas.

A basement vino cellar with arched ceilings and chromatic work.

Big changes are coming to the off-Strip casino

The Rio Las Vegas is successful the midst of a rebirth. Even if diners haven’t stepped wrong recently, the caller LED airy show connected the gathering tin surely drawback their attention. Inside, the changes are conscionable arsenic apparent.

New owners took implicit operations for the Rio from Caesars Entertainment successful October and person since been engaged making a flashy statement. Dreamscape Companies has already renovated each 1,500 suites successful the resort’s Ipanema Tower, refurbished the excavation and its poolside menu, and transformed the buffet into the Canteen Food Hall. On the nutrient side, the not-so-secret Wine Cellar Tasting Room quietly reopened a mates weeks ago, the English-style pub Luckley Tavern & Grill is acceptable to debut this month, and the tropical Bohemian barroom Lapa Lounge is expected to unfastened by the Fourth of July. In addition, six caller yet-to-be-announced restaurants volition beryllium rolled retired successful the months to come.

“Basically, everything successful present is going to get touched,” Patrick Hoefler, the Rio’s vice president of nutrient and beverage said.

A dispersed of cheese, charcuterie, and vino astatine the Wine Cellar Tasting Room.

The instrumentality of the Wine Cellar gives passionate oenophiles successful hunt of hard-to-find wines a spot to nest. It archetypal opened successful 1997 and, successful its heyday, the Wine Cellar stored a museum-like postulation of uncommon vintages worthy much than $2.2 million. Heads of authorities were known to huddle successful the backstage country and guests would routinely popular successful and casually bargain a $10,000 vessel of wine, sip and savor it successful the basement confines, and past possibly person different shipped home. The Cellar closed successful March 2020 owed to the pandemic.

Hung Nguyen has tally the spot for 17 years and knows each inch of the Tuscany-inspired country — each the archetypal chromatic of the cave-like abstraction was imported from Italy. He developed the vino and tone tastings and paired them with charcuterie plates and fancy cheeses similar a French Brie, creamy Camembert, and Hook’s 12-year-aged cheddar. The Wine Cellar is an experience. Surrounded by chromatic walls, sipping everything from mundane wines to ultra-expensive vintages, it’s casual to hide wherever you are and melt into the acquisition of surviving successful the Tuscan hills.

Hung Nguyen poses successful beforehand of a mural and vino bottle.

While Nguyen has wine, whiskey, bourbon, tequila, and rum tasting menus astatine the ready; he’s often blessed to tailor a tasting to the whims of an idiosyncratic guest. And for those who privation to dine arsenic good arsenic sip, the Wine Cellar hosts three-course vino dinners by partnering with VooDoo Steak and the Rio’s different restaurants. In a instrumentality to form, guests tin acquisition bottles oregon cases of vino to beryllium shipped location to them.

Wine barrels enactment the stonework walls astatine the Wine Cellar Tasting Room.

Meanwhile, Luckley Tavern & Grill from Oliver Wharton’s A Perfect Bite hospitality radical is connected the brink of opening. The pub’s plan draws inspiration from the English hilltown of Cotswold, portion the luncheon and meal menus from cook Alex Resnick volition diagnostic items specified arsenic lollipop-style buffalo wings, lobster cookware pie, a 32-ounce tomahawk steak, and table-side crystal pick sundae cart. Expect an upgrade connected the barroom broadside arsenic the Rio is adding a fig of signature drinks and section beers.

A rendering of Luckley Tavern & Grill shows a woody barroom surrounded by barstools with pendant lighting overhead.

And finally, operation is underway for the tropical Lapa Lounge. The lobby barroom is getting a implicit makeover arsenic Dreamscape looks to bring vigor and amusive into the space. The lounge, named aft the lively, bohemian amusement territory successful Rio de Janeiro, volition person a paper of signature cocktails and service a assortment of trade beers.

A rendering of Lapa Lounge is illustrated to amusement colorful seating and brass animals prowling the ceiling.

“Expect a spectacle,” Hoefler explained erstwhile describing the space. Brass monkeys and jaguars volition bent from the ceiling, gazing astatine guests from supra a country that features an Italian-blown solid chandelier, a honey-onyx bar, and a veined achromatic marble floor. Lapa Lounge volition person a capableness of astir 60 radical with seating successful some an unfastened lounge and astir the circular bar. More details connected the different six restaurants are inactive to come.

“It’s going to beryllium a truly amusive abstraction to conscionable just up and bent retired oregon person an informal meeting,” Hoefler said. “We’re putting the Rio backmost connected the map.”