VEGAS DINING ROUNDUP: Health Department Shutters Bellagio Room Service Kitchen

Posted on: September 26, 2024, 06:02h.

Last updated on: September 26, 2024, 06:20h.

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The Bellagio may offer the most elegant dining destinations on the Las Vegas Strip. But that reputation apparently doesn’t help it pass routine health inspections.

Mangia is the employee dining hall inside the Bellagio. A fry/grill station here was closed here on Sept. 19 by the local health department. (Image: foursquare.com)

On Sept. 19, the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) closed a room service kitchen at the MGM Resorts property. According to SNHD’s website, it dished out five demerits to the kitchen for violations including “sewage or liquid waste not disposed of in an approved manner.”

The same facility was also closed on March 5 for receiving eight demerits, according to SNHD.

After the same routine Sept. 19 Bellagio inspection, SNHD also closed a fry/grill station at Mangia, Bellagio’s employee dining facility. The station also received five demerits for the same violations.

Casino.org emailed MGM Resorts’ publicity department for a response but received none before this posted on Thursday afternoon. If one is received, we will update this story with it.

From Super Bowls to Soup Bowls

Move over, Emmitt Smith. Your early-noughts gridiron rival, fellow retired NFL star Brandon Marshall, has opened a Las Vegas restaurant, too.

Marshall in a Meatplate: Brandon Marshall is shown inside the Three Meat Plate, a specialty at his Hattie Marie’s restaurant. (Images: hattiemariesbbqlv.com and Wikipedia)

Marshall, a member of Super Bowl 50 champions the Denver Broncos, debuted Hattie Marie’s Texas Style BBQ & Cajun Kitchen just south of the Strip on Monday.

This is the second location for the brand, which Marshall introduced to Atlanta in 2017. Named after the mother of one of its co-founders, restaurateur Willie Griggie, the Southern smokehouse specializes in smoked meats, particularly brisket.

Smith opened Emmitt’s, a contemporary steakhouse, in the Fashion Show Mall in February.

Dining Ins & Outs

Caesars Entertainment is partnering with Tao Group Hospitality to introduce an Italian restaurant and lounge to Planet Hollywood this winter. Caramella will feature Las Vegas Strip views and a menu created by Tao Group chief culinary officer Ralph Scamardella. It will open next to the Criss Angel Theater in the second-floor space formerly occupied by Koi, which went belly up in January.

Chow Fun, which quietly replaced chef Kris Yenbamroong’s Night + Market at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas in June, has now itself been quietly replaced three months later, as per Vital Vegas.

The new concept, also Asian, is called Chef Xue. It’s pronounced sh-way and boasts only 11 menu items so far.

According to its official website: “Chef Xue serves refined Chinese cuisine in a vibrant and comfortable setting. Be prepared to discover a diverse selection of stir-fried entrees from Chef Xue’s Michelin-rated menu, where everything is freshly prepared with only the finest ingredients.”

Lucino’s, the family-owned pizzeria named No. 40 in the US by Yelp in 2022, will reopen in a new space on Saturday, following an electrical fire that destroyed its building in April. The new restaurant, which more than double’s the previous iteration’s square footage, is located at 3035 E. Tropicana Ave.