Food halls persist in replacing buffets end-to-end Las Vegas, with the Rio announcing Monday that the unexampled Canteen Food Hall testament undetermined in its former Carnival World Buffet place inward January. The Carnival closed in Mar 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and ne'er reopened.

“When we started preparation the revitalization of the resort, 1 of the world-class things we wanted to redeem was an approachable yet exciting dining terminus that appealed to a widely variety of people, often the like the Carnival World Buffet did rearward inward its heyday,” said Trevor Scherrer, the Rio’s chairman and CEO, in a statement.

To get word why nutrient halls are replacing buffets inward Las Vegas, read our report from Mar 2023.

Canteen’s restaurant concepts will include:

  • Southland Burrito Co.
    Described as an homage to the flavors that shaped his Mexicano cultural identity, Chef Marco Herrara’s distinguish features burritos and quesadillas prepared with a fluffy, crepe-like regional variation of the flour tortilla.
  • Shogun Ramen
    The final result of a partnership betwixt Chef Foo Kanegae and restauranter Takashi Segawa, this Nipponese eatery serves umami by the bowlful with hundreds of ramen variations.
  • Tony Luke’s
    South Philadelphia’s iconic cheesesteak strand will print the Rebecca West Coast debut of its specialty sandwiches, including the joint porc Italian with Brassica oleracea italica rabe and tart provolone, yellow-bellied cheesesteaks, and yellow-bellied cutlets.
  • Tender Crush
    The young volaille concept, from Black Tap Craft Burgers & Beer founders Chris Barish and Julie Mulligan, delivers a New York’s have on fried and grilled white-livered tenders.
  • Nama Nama
    This street sushi spot, from the creators of Cosmopolitan’s Tekka Bar, testament sharpen on made-to-order handrolls, slash rolls, and pigeon berry bowls.
  • Attaboy Burger
    Chef Alex Resnick testament proffer a little computer menu of just now III burgers — the bingle smash, the doubled smash, and a deep-fried bologna sandwich.
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay (Image: delicious.com.au)

Ramsay 7.0 to Spice Up Flamingo

Michelin-starred famous person chef Gordon Ramsay is preparing to undecided a young restaurant at the long-neglected Flamingo. The restaurant, his 7th on the Strip, was right prognosticated rearward inward Sept 2023 past Casino.org’s own Vital Vegas blogger, George C. Scott Roeben.

While the $3.5M restaurant’s identify is stock-still unknown/undecided, its encipher gens on lately submitted edifice countenance paperwork is “Bird Bar,” which is the epithet of a Strip-facing Flamingo watering golf hole that may or may non follow doomed. (We think it’s doomed.)

Finally, reality TV principal and restauranter Lisa Vanderpump has named her third Las Vegas eatery, which we told you near in August. Pinky’s past Vanderpump testament debut this summer in the place formerly tenanted past the Purple Zebra bar.