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It\u2019s 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, \u201ctaking a day off\u201d 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\u2019re 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\u2019t have a mortgage anymore. No car payments, either. Thank you, Casino.org<\/a>. Moving on.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s just like St. Mark\u2019s Square in Venice, just without the knee-deep water and Italians sort of wishing you\u2019d vacation somewhere else.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyway, there\u2019s 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, \u201cHow big is Djibouti?\u201d 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\u2019s start with a couple of very exciting restaurant announcements about famed restaurants we\u2019ve never heard of before.<\/p>\n

Gjelina opens in Venetian\u2019s \u201cRestaurant Row\u201d later this year. We are already annoyed by the whole \u201cproduce-forward\u201d thing, but other people seem to hold this restaurant in very high regard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s pronounced \u201cja-leena.\u201d The \u201cg\u201d 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 \u201cCelebrate You\u201d 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. \u201cCote\u201d is a Korean word that means \u201cflower\u201d or \u201cbloom.\u201d When capitalized, COTE can also mean \u201csubject to occasional episodes of Tourette syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cote is touted as \u201cAmerica\u2019s first and only Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse.\u201d It\u2019s also described as \u201cblending the conviviality of Korean barbeque together with the hallmarks of a classic American steakhouse.\u201d Any restaurant that serves its dishes with blended conviviality, we\u2019re 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\u2019s too damn Cote outside.<\/p>\n

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What part of \u201cslow news day\u201d didn\u2019t you understand?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Let\u2019s move on to some renovations, shan\u2019t 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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\u201cLavo\u201d means \u201cto wash, flush or mop\u201d in Italian. Sexy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sugarcane Las Vegas has also closed for a renovation. Sugarcane<\/a>, too, sits in Venetian\u2019s \u201cRestaurant Row.\u201d 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 \u201csaccharum officinarum,\u201d 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\u2019ve 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

\u2014 Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) August 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Grand Canal Shoppes is a whole other realm of openings and closings at Venetian, technically. Keeping track of all that would involve \u201cresearch\u201d or \u201ceffort,\u201d so good luck with that.<\/p>\n

That said, as we shared recently on another slow news day, Royal Britannia Gastro Pub<\/a> recently closed and Fogo de Chao is rumored to be taking over the space.<\/p>\n

To help keep track of all these restaurant moves, Venetian has a page of \u201crecently opened restaurants\u201d on its Web site<\/a>. It defines \u201crecently\u201d very loosely, however. Chica opened in May 2017. Wakuda opened two years ago. Hey, it\u2019s a search engine optimization thing.<\/p>\n

All these restaurant changes (openings, closings and renovations) are happening during an interesting period for Venetian and Palazzo. Las Vegas Sands sold the resort to Apollo Global Management and Vici Properties in 2022.<\/p>\n

In honor of the resort\u2019s 25th anniversary, the new owners have undertaken a $1.5 billion refresh. The renovation will touch just about every part of the resort. As the kids who write news releases<\/a> say, \u201ca comprehensive top to bottom reimagining.\u201d<\/p>\n

The list of changes is long, so just read the news release, already.<\/p>\n

We have heard the construction walls have come down on Venetian\u2019s renovated Convention Center. That one aspect of the project cost in the neighborhood of $188 million, and was done by Tre Builders. Tre has its hands in a lot of projects<\/a> in Vegas, but we mostly know Tre because one of the partners runs the Project BBQ truck at Circa and they are putting our name on their menu because we love their BBQ chicken pizza. Hey, that\u2019s sort of a restaurant update! Not that everything has to be about us.<\/p>\n

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A first look at Venetian\u2019s newly splendified ballroom. If that wasn\u2019t a word, it is now, it\u2019s on the Internet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Venetian also opened its new poker room. Fun fact: The Venetian poker room is nowhere the Venetian anymore. It\u2019s in the Grand Canal Shoppes. Park in Palazzo\u2019s self-park garage, go up to the second level of Grand Canal Shoppes, it\u2019s 30 feet from the elevator. Open 24\/7, unlike most things in Las Vegas as the moment. Don\u2019t get us started. Here\u2019s more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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They had us a self-serve soda station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Las Vegas never fails to deliver new and different and delicious. Only the strong survive, and there are new temptations around every corner.<\/p>\n

Oh, hell, let\u2019s let ChatGPT take a stab at it, \u201cLas Vegas presents an unparalleled symposium of epicurean delights, wherein an extravaganza of resplendent dining venues proffers an exquisite melange of gastronomic masterpieces, each dish meticulously curated to evoke a transcendent synthesis of sensory euphoria and culinary virtuosity, thus elevating the art of haute cuisine to unprecedented zeniths of sumptuous magnificence.\u201d Reminder: You\u2019re this close to being replaced, casino public relations persons.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re dying.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n