Six New Venues Open at Caesars Palace

By Scott Roeben, on January 07 2025
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Las Vegas

There was a cavalcade of new venues unveiled at Las Vegas resorts toward the end of 2024, so many it’s been tough keeping up.

We’re keeping track of everything so you don’t have to. We know how busy you are bickering with strangers on social media and worrying about whatever virus local news is telling you to freak out about, probably “human metapneumovirus,” which everyone’s bringing to Las Vegas via an event right now called “CES” (Jan. 7-10, 2025). It sounds ominous, but you’ll be fine, just don’t cough on your grandparents. Nevada elected a Governor solely based upon the fact he will never support casino closures or mask mandates, so we’re good.

Enough trivializing plagues and back to the Las Vegas newness! In just the past couple of months, Caesars Palace opened six new offerings including three food concepts, two high limit salons and a swanky new lounge. Let’s take a look at the new bling at Caesars Palace, the Pamela Anderson of the Las Vegas Strip.

Caesars Palace founder Jay Sarno needs a biopic. We can just leave out all the philanderphizing stuff.

Let’s start with the two high limit rooms, because they’re fancy.

There’s a new high limit table games salon, as well as a new high limit slot room. These are in addition to existing high limit areas.

Here’s a quick look at both rooms through the miracle that is shaky video taken with a smartphone we aren’t entirely sure how to use despite having owned it for 14 years.


Sorry the video was cut short by a well-meaning and poorly trained security guard who informed us of the hotel’s 1974 policy of not allowing photos or video. Don’t get us started. Don’t argue with these knuckleheads, just move on and follow our handy tips for taking photos or video inside any casino.

Anyway, the new high limit lounges are glorious.

The high limit table games salon even has a name: Aureus.

The aureus was a gold coin of ancient Rome, worth 25 silver denarii.

Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive spherically shaped bacterium, which we should all be freaking out about, but local news hasn’t heard about it yet.

The gold theme can be seen throughout the new lounge.

These gold eyelashes are on fleek.

On the evening we strolled through, Aureus had two single-zero roulette tables with a $100 minimum and eight blackjack tables (four at $100, two at $200 and two at $500). No craps table for now.

Caesars Palace has evolved a smidge.

Aureus has an adorable little bar and the lounge has a custom beverage menu. Here’s a taste.

We’d show you the whole cocktail menu, but your heart might not be able to take it.

The specialty cocktails are comped for players, so those prices aren’t really meant to be paid. It’s like when Golden Nugget’s self-park garage is $50. They aren’t expecting anyone to pay that, they just want to make sure they have spaces for their players.

The high limit slot room looks amazing as well. Caesars Palace needed a high limit slot parlor worthy of itself.

Caesars Entertainment is breathing new life, and butt-friendly chairs, into its flagship resort.

Bonus newness: An existing high limit slot room (right off the main casino floor) recently got a much-needed refresh, including the chairs which had been in use since the Lennon Sisters headlined the place.

In another splashy debut, Caspian’s Cocktails and Caviar opened in the former Cleopatra’s Barge space.

Caspian’s looks like a typical casino bar, but the real story is the speakeasy.

Some people are into eating bait, we don’t judge.

Here’s a look inside the real Caspian’s, complete with a stage for live music, which as everyone knows tends to ruin everything.

Live music prevents people from having to be interesting.

We sort of have to share the official description, “Clique Hospitality’s new Caspian’s Cocktails & Caviar rewrites the rules on refined. Hidden behind a picturesque caviar bar lives the bustling hideaway for serious rock fans, Caspian’s features emphatic live music nightly and just the right amount of mischievousness. A speakeasy shrouded in mystery, Caspian’s blends music, elegance, stealthiness and a thriving electric pulse.”

We can’t make this sort of description stop, we have tried, sorry.

Oh, man, we also have to include this part: “Located in Caesars Palace, where the likes of The Killers, The Who, Madonna and Stevie Nicks have performed, Caspian’s adds to the rebellious legacy one gin, one vodka and one guitar riff at a time.”

Weird flex, but we’re looking forward to checking the place out, anyway. Caesars Palace certainly has a legacy, but “rebellious” is pretty far down on the list of words that describe it.

We love most of our friends in P.R., by the way! The company doing Caspian’s P.R. is one of our favorites. Remind us to regale you sometime with a story about how we poked fun of another P.R. company here in town and we got a call from the owner saying their feelings were hurt and asked us to remove our snarky comment about how they’re terrible at P.R. Doing a blog in Las Vegas means living in a special circle of Hell.

Find out more about Caspian’s. Warning: The Web site contains the phrase “Rock and Roe.” We are not making this up. You can also find the menu on the official site, no prices, of course.

This just wins.

As for the other three new spots at Caesars Palace, they’re in the food court. Sorry, the food court is now officially the Celebrity Food Hall. Again, not making this up.

The three newly-opened concepts are Buddy B’s Pizzeria, Mok Bar and Tortazo. Each has a fascinating backstory but we’re exhausted from all the inkslinging at this point, so you’re going to get the quick-and-dirty version. You’ll manage.

Buddy B’s Pizzeria is from Buddy “Cake Boss” Valastro, and the place is already printing money, mainly because it replaced the gougy and forgettable DiFara Pizza.

Buddy V used to just do cakes, but expanded his empire because the meaning of “cakes” has changed a lot and it got awkward.

Yes, a slice is $11.99 and a whole pizza is $59.99, but it’s Buddy V and everyone loves Buddy! Jersey sandwiches are $16.99. Fountain drinks are $6.99 and cannoli is $9.99.

Still gougy, but since that’s not a real word, let’s move on.

Hey, it’s the Las Vegas Strip and it’s the Celebrity Food Hall!

Mok Bar and Tortazo have opened side-by-side. Technically, it’s Mokbar, but the sign says Mok Bar, so we’re going with that.

Food courts are the new Las Vegas buffets. They’re still all you can eat, you’re just paying at each food station separately.

Mok Bar comes from popular chef Esther Choi. Yes, the term “celebrity” is being used fairly loosely here. Everything is relative. Here’s a look at the Mok Bar menu.

Korean differs from other Asian food due to fermentation, the sexiest of all food preparation techniques other than casu martzu which you absolutely do not want to Google.

Tortazo is Mexican and comes from Michelin-starred Chef Rick Bayless. The menu is limited, but it should do the trick for your drunchies.

We have no idea how these cocktails got approved, as casinos don’t love competition for their guests’ liquor dollars.

There’s a lot to check out at Caesars Palace on your next visit! Let us know what you think.

Yes, the lucky Cleopatra statue is coming back, eventually.

Yes, the poker room is coming back (in the vicinity of Vanderpump Cocktail Garden). No date announced yet.

Yes, there are plans for an Omnia dayclub.

Yes, there’s much more to come. It’s Vegas, you must be new here.