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Multiple James Beard-winning Mediterranean chef Alon Shaya is opening a new restaurant at the Wynn. The as-yet-unnamed eatery will launch sometime next winter in the 14,000-square-foot space, formerly home to Wynn\u2019s Tryst and Intrigue nightclubs.<\/p>\n

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Celebrity chef Alon Shaya is bringing the Israeli food of his youth to Wynn Las Vegas. (Image: faviar.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe restaurant is really going to have to live up to that space,\u201d Shaya told Eater Vegas.<\/em> \u201cI expect to bring my style of cooking out to Vegas and make something really, really special.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Israeli-born Shaya \u2013 who will run the restaurant with his Georgia-born wife, Emily Shaya \u2013\u00a0described the food to Eater Vegas <\/em>as \u201cvery soulful\u201d and \u201cnot overly contrived \u2013 a lot of spices, a lot of grains, a lot of roasted meat.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As they dine on the home-cooking Shaya grew up on, guests will get to enjoy a hallmark of the former Wynn nightclubs: a full view of a 90-foot cascading waterfall outside.<\/p>\n

Spicy Start<\/b><\/h2>\n

Shaya\u2019s parents moved him from Israel to Philadelphia when he was 4 — a tough time to be different.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you\u2019re that age, you just want to be the same,\u201d Shaya told Eater Vegas.<\/em> Finding himself alone a lot, he sought solace in the kitchen. By age 7, he found himself emulating the hummus-heavy Middle Eastern and Mediterranean recipes of his beloved Bulgarian-Israeli grandmother, Matilda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Shaya, who attended the Culinary Institute of America, got his professional start in Vegas, interning at Napa at the Rio under legendary French chef Jean-Louis Palladin. By 2015, he won his first James Beard Award, for “Best Chef: South,” after opening the Italian restaurant Domenica in New Orleans. By then, he\u2019d been sneaking Middle Eastern ingredients onto the restaurant\u2019s menu.<\/p>\n

Difficulty in the Big Easy<\/b><\/h2>\n

Shaya was also once the executive chef and part owner of an Israeli restaurant that still bears his name in New Orleans. In 2016, the James Beard Foundation named Shaya \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best New Restaurant.\u201d However, Besh Restaurant Group (BRG) \u2013 the company with a controlling interest in that eatery and Domenica \u2013 terminated Shaya from both in 2017. That was after the publication of a New Orleans Times-Picayune<\/em> expos\u00e9 on sexual harassment charges at BRG. Shaya wasn’t implicated, but shared information with the article\u2019s reporter.<\/p>\n

“I do feel like I was fired for talking … and for standing up,” he told the newspaper in a follow-up interview. In court filings, BRG disputed that claim. Shaya sued BRG to have his name removed from the restaurant, but lost that battle in 2018. He later settled with BRG.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Shayas were forced to start from scratch, opening two of their own modern Israeli restaurants in 2018: Saba (Hebrew for \u201cgrandfather) in New Orleans, and Safta (Hebrew for \u201cgrandmother\u201d) in Denver. Shaya told Eater Vegas<\/em> he looks forward to his third new restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cVegas is, to me, like a homecoming,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a full circle to be able to come back and express myself (with) this cuisine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multiple James Beard-winning Mediterranean chef Alon Shaya is opening a new restaurant at the Wynn. The as-yet-unnamed eatery will launch sometime next winter in the 14,000-square-foot space, formerly home to Wynn\u2019s Tryst and Intrigue nightclubs. \u201cThe restaurant is really going to have to live up to that space,\u201d Shaya told Eater Vegas. \u201cI expect to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":238190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886,82353],"tags":[23,82166,83314,83315,83313,13652],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nChef Alon Shaya, James Beard Winner, To Open Israeli Eatery at Wynn - Casino.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Multiple James Beard-winning Mediterranean chef Alon Shaya is opening a new restaurant at the Wynn. 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