A popular restaurant for value-seekers, Ocean One, has closed for good at Miracle Mile Shops inside Planet Hollywood resort.
A sign posted at the restaurant says, “Thank you for allowing us to serve you for the last 20 years. With your support we will continue serving the Las Vegas community as we search for a new location. Lease has expired.”
Leases expire all the time. Often they’re renewed and extended. There’s always more to the story.
We don’t know what the rest of the story is, but thanks for sticking around, anyway.
Here’s the notice we transcribed above at great expense due to the rising cost of transcription services. Our friend @LasVegasLocally was the first to share Ocean One appeared doomed.
This morning 11/13 pic.twitter.com/G7xdLvWra2
— CL (@Ceedo702) November 13, 2024
A sizeable red flag went up back in Sep. 2024 when Ocean One closed overnight due to a rent kerfuffle.
Ocean One Bar & Grille—popular cheap eats restaurant at Miracle Mile Shops—appears to have abruptly closed. https://t.co/7Efnzz3NUc
— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) September 20, 2024
The restaurant opened a day later, but it was a harbinger of things to come.
Update! Our hours-long national nightmare is over. https://t.co/XwI9JW7d84 pic.twitter.com/xOyTMepqcF
— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) September 21, 2024
We never dined at Ocean One, but we hear the pan-seared harbinger was absolutely delicious.
The closure of Ocean One is heartbreaking for many travelers who made the venue a regular stop during their visits.
Ocean One at Planet Hollywood was the last remaining outpost of a defunct restaurant chain that once had several locations in Florida.
Ocean One says it’s looking for a new location, but we’re calling a possible relocation a longshot given recent developments. Ocean One’s management didn’t wake up one day and realize their lease was expiring. They probably couldn’t come to terms with Miracle Mile Shops and pulled the plug. That includes the restaurant’s Web site which currently has an “under construction” graphic from 1984. It doesn’t sound like employees had much notice, which always sucks.
The only constant in Las Vegas is change and not being able to get change from TITO ticket redemption kiosks.
On the bright side, a new food hall is coming to Miracle Mile Shops. The new cheap eats “collective” opens by the end of 2024. Maybe Ocean One saw the writing on the wall.
The list of cheap, forgettable restaurants on The Strip is one shorter today.
