Villa Azur to Close at Palazzo, Rumor is Boa Steakhouse Will Move In

By Scott Roeben, on December 02 2024
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A highly-touted restaurant, Villa Azur, is set to close in the Grand Canal Shoppes at Palazzo.

Employees of the restaurant have been informed the venue will close on Saturday, Dec. 7. 2024, mostly because finding a new gig during the holidays is such a freaking hoot.

First word of the rumored closure was shared by @LasVegasLocally on Dec. 1, 2024. Our sources confirmed the rumor and the date of closure, and say there’s another restaurant ready to take over the space, Boa Steakhouse, formerly at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.

“Villa” translates as “country house” and “azul” means “that needed better marketing.”

No official announcement of the closure has been made, and the Boa Steakhouse scoop has yet to be confirmed. Give it a minute.

Villa Azur has been open just two years. It opened Dec. 8, 2022.

There was a vastitudinous red flag back in Sep. when Villa Azur closed suddenly due to a rent kerfuffle. The restaurant reopened the next day, but that’s rarely a good sign.

The soon-to-be past tense Villa Azur is promoted as “a chic restaurant and lounge concept that blends French-Mediterranean cuisine with a lively nightlife vibe.”

The concept got its start in Miami in 2012 and has locations in Dallas, Mexico City, St. Tropez and Bodrum, wherever that might be. We attended public school.

We stopped by Villa Azur when our scoop about Bazaar Meat moving to Palazzo was confirmed. We thought the Villa Azur space was a likely candidate for the popular Jose Andres restaurant.

Villa Azur is in the vicinity of Sushisamba, Kamu Karaoke, The X Pot and Grimaldi’s Pizzeria.

We’ve since shared Bazaar Meat will go into the Dal Toro Ristorante space.

Anyhoo, if our sources are right, Boa Steakhouse is preparing to make a return to the Las Vegas Strip.

Boa Steakhouse is from Innovative Dining Group, the folks behind Sushi Roku and other concepts.

There are Boa Steakhouse locations in Manhattan Beach, West Hollywood and Santa Monica in California, as well as Austin in Texas, which is about the only acceptable part of Texas at the moment.

Boa Steakhouse opened at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in 2005 and closed in 2020. We honestly can’t remember ever hearing anything about the place and we worked at Caesars Entertainment for several years (from 2007 to 2013).

As mentioned, none of this has been confirmed yet, but when has that ever stopped us from sharing the newsy restaurant goodness? Eater Vegas has lost its edge and the Review-Journal is useless, so somebody has to do it.

We’ll share when we hear more through official P.R. channels. They’ll say everything is awesome and amicable and immersive, then we’ll tell you the truth in the most entertaining, original and modest way possible, of course.