Lavo revamps with a bright new look and modern Italian flair

Thu, Nov 7, 2024 (2 a.m.)

The Italian connection lavo means “wash,” and that’s what has been done astatine Lavo astatine the Palazzo connected the Las Vegas Strip. Dark wood has been replaced by white-washed brick, elemental black-and-white chairs person been traded retired for botanical-inspired upholstery with airy wood and insubstantial lanterns person been swapped for Italian solid with golden flakes, each portion of a redesign that started successful June and wrapped up successful September. The effect is simply a translation into a agleam and breezy portion of confederate Italy.

It’s the cleanable mounting to bask the blase confederate Italian cuisine that Lavo is slinging. The Tao Group venue has been known arsenic overmuch for its enactment brunch arsenic its evening offerings, and the caller meal acquisition centers astir caller ingredients, due mentation and modern flair. The refreshed beverage programme features citrus-forward cocktails and an extended vino database that unit volition happily assistance brace with your meal.

For antipasti, tuna tartare ($27) is mixed with avocado and achromatic olive dressing with a crispy cracker to scoop it each up. Grilled octopus ($28) comes with celery hearts, castelvetrano olives, cipollini onions and babe potatoes. And we’d beryllium remiss if we didn’t notation the instrumentality of the celebrated meatball ($31), 16 ounces of caller imperial Wagyu beef, Italian sausage and veal with marinara and caller whipped ricotta.

Brick-oven pizzas, freshly made pastas and much await for the main course. Cacio e pepe pizza ($24) is topped with pecorino crema, cracked achromatic capsicum and refreshing escarole. It’s hard to prime 1 pasta, arsenic the dough is each made caller successful house, but we urge either the lobster fra diavolo ($56) featuring scallops and calamari with linguini, oregon the comforting garganelli Genovese ($32) with saccharine onions, braised abbreviated rib and pecorino. Hearty proteins similar grilled branzino ($42) with laurel, citrus and parsley salad, oregon the 48-ounce premier Meyer Ranch porterhouse ($350) with outpouring onions and crispy smashed fingerlings circular retired the meal menu.

And of course, dessert should not beryllium skipped, particularly considering the hazelnut tart ($20) with gianduja mousse and the citrus olive lipid barroom ($21) with crème fraîche and almonds. With a fresh, cleanable look and a modernized menu, Lavo is acceptable to service up its renewed instrumentality connected Italian. –Shannon Miller

LAVO Palazzo, 702-791-1800, taogroup.com. Dinner nightly, 5-10:30 p.m.; Brunch Sunday, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

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