{"id":41264,"date":"2024-08-20T18:04:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=41264"},"modified":"2024-08-20T20:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T03:14:17","slug":"perfunctory-round-up-a-metric-ass-ton-of-venetian-restaurant-goings-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/perfunctory-round-up-a-metric-ass-ton-of-venetian-restaurant-goings-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfunctory Round-Up: A Metric Ass-Ton of Venetian Restaurant Goings-On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s a slow news day in Las Vegas and that means we get to coast and do a round-up of restaurant news from Venetian and Palazzo.<\/p>\n

Breaking news constantly is exhausting. News round-ups are like taking a day off. In the social media world, of course, “taking a day off” is always in quotation marks because social media never ends.<\/p>\n

Yes, round-ups are incredibly boring, but they require introductory paragraphs (sometimes several), and all those words means we’re that much closer to hitting the casino to lose our mortgage payment on Double Double Bonus video poker. Which is an odd thing to lose given we don’t have a mortgage anymore. No car payments, either. Thank you, Casino.org<\/a>. Moving on.<\/p>\n

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It’s just like St. Mark’s Square in Venice, just without the knee-deep water and Italians sort of wishing you’d vacation somewhere else.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyway, there’s a lot going on a Venetian and Palazzo in the restaurant realm, mainly because between Venetian, Palazzo and the Grand Canal Shoppes, these venues are collectively home to 4,600 restaurants and are roughly the size of Djibouti. Which may lead to you asking, “How big is Djibouti?” First, never ask a woman that question if you value your life. Second, about 9,000 square miles.<\/p>\n

We just really like saying Djibouti.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with a couple of very exciting restaurant announcements about famed restaurants we’ve never heard of before.<\/p>\n

Gjelina opens in Venetian’s “Restaurant Row” later this year. We are already annoyed by the whole “produce-forward” thing, but other people seem to hold this restaurant in very high regard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s pronounced “ja-leena.” The “g” is silent. Or redundant. Annoying us is a full-time job for some restaurants, apparently.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gjelina sits in the spot formerly occupied by a sweet photo op at Venetian. We have a vague memory of the sign saying “Celebrate You” at one point, but it changed from time to time.<\/p>\n

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Feel free to stop celebrating yourself now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Also planned for Venetian is Cote Korean Steakhouse.<\/p>\n

Cote, irksomely stylized in all caps in the news release<\/a>, arrives in 2025. “Cote” is a Korean word that means “flower” or “bloom.” When capitalized, COTE can also mean “subject to occasional episodes of Tourette syndrome.”<\/p>\n

Cote is touted as “America’s first and only Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse.” It’s also described as “blending the conviviality of Korean barbeque together with the hallmarks of a classic American steakhouse.” Any restaurant that serves its dishes with blended conviviality, we’re so there.<\/p>\n

Cote Vegas will be located in the Waterfall Atrium at The Venetian. They thought about making the venue an indoor\/outdoor restaurant, but Las Vegas gets chilly in the winter, so that plan was nixed because it was determined it’s too damn Cote outside.<\/p>\n

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What part of “slow news day” didn’t you understand?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Let’s move on to some renovations, shan’t we?<\/p>\n

Lavo Italian Restaurant at Palazzo recently closed for a renovation. Lavo has been around since 2008, so it was about time for a refresh. Lavo reopens in fall 2024.<\/p>\n

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“Lavo” means “to wash, flush or mop” in Italian. Sexy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sugarcane Las Vegas has also closed for a renovation. Sugarcane<\/a>, too, sits in Venetian’s “Restaurant Row.” We have had some very enjoyable experiences at Sugarcane, so we hope the overhaul helps it keep its mojo.<\/p>\n

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Sugarcane is also known as “saccharum officinarum,” also the name of an affliction you can contract by French kissing cotton candy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In other Venetian and Palazzo restaurant news, we’ve heard once Bazaar Meat closes at its current location on the north Strip, it will move into the closed Dal Toro Ristorante space at Palazzo.<\/p>\n

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Latest rumor is Bazaar Meat may have extended its lease at its current shitty location. Too many pots on the stove for Jose Andres and his team? When they move, high probability is it will be into the Dal Toro Ristorante space at Palazzo.<\/p>\n

— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) August 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n