VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Wolfgang’s WTPuck Next Opening, All the Pizza News You Can Eat

Posted on: June 26, 2024, 06:24h. 

Last updated on: June 27, 2024, 10:00h.

Corey Levitan Read More
Expertise: Commercial Gaming, Entertainment, Expert Insight, Las Vegas.

Wolfgang Puck is planning his next Las Vegas opening after Carama at Mandalay Bay earlier this year, and it will be the celebrity chef’s first outside a casino.

Wolfgang Puck will operate the sole restaurant in a swanky, under-construction condo complex in Vegas-adjacent Henderson, Nev. (Images: Inset: MGM Resorts; Background: thedhs.com)

According to Eater Vegas, Puck will be the “sole culinary operator” at the Four Seasons Private Residences, currently under construction in the tony MacDonald Highlands enclave of Vegas-adjacent Henderson, Nev.

The $1.3 billion condo complex, where condos will start at $3.5 million each, will open in late 2026 with 171 condos in two 25-story high-rises. Puck’s as-yet-unnamed eatery will occupy one of the towers’ upper floors.

Puck’s staff will also provide poolside dining and onsite catering for residents and their guests.

The announcement comes at an awkward time for fine dining in upscale private Vegas residences, as The Sundry food hall recently failed and folded after a little more than a year at the Uncommons residential development in southwest Las Vegas.

The pie-in-the-sky aspirations of Pizza Rock’s Tony Gemignani have come true. (Image: Pizza Rock)

Pizza the Vegas Action

Two Las Vegas pizzerias have made 50 Top Pizza, the worldwide pie ranking founded in Italy a decade ago and considered by connoisseurs to be the most influential in the world.

Pizza Rock bubbled under at No. 28 in the US, while Double Zero Pie & Pub rated a crusty No. 45. (Chef Tony Gemignani, who co-founded Pizza Rock in 2013, also founded San Francisco’s Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, which snagged the No. 2 spot this year.)

Good Pie, which built up a big pizza following downtown, is opening a second location at 835 Seven Hills Drive in Henderson, Nev.

And in the final piece of Las Vegas pizza news, Yukon Pizza, at 1130 E. Charleston Blvd., had to stop serving its most popular item this week — slices. During the current Vegas heat wave, the extra wood-fired oven required for slices heats the pizzeria beyond tolerable temperatures for Yukon’s employees and customers. The owner promises that slices will return once he installs a second A/C unit in a few weeks.