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Vietnamese District One Returns to Chinatown After a 14-Month Closure Following a Fire The restaurant from chef Khai Vu remodeled District One Kitchen & Bar | After nearly 14 months, Chinatown’s District One Kitchen & Bar reopens after a fire in the kitchen that started just after Nevada shut down nonessential businesses last year in March to slow the spread of COVID-19. The restaurant switched to takeout and delivery before a fire broke out in the kitchen, shutting down the restaurant. Now more than a year later, chef and co-owner Khai Vu’s Vietnamese restaurant reopens for lunch...

Caesars Entertainment [Official site] Bacchanal Buffet, the massive at buffet Caesars Palace, reopens on Thursday, May 20, with a $2.4 million makeover. The buffet, the largest in Las Vegas, closed last year in March when the state ordered nonessential businesses to close to slow the spread of COVID-19. Clark County allowed self-serve buffets to reopen on May 1, with restaurants permitted to offer 80 percent capacity and three feet of social distancing. The 25,000-square-foot, 600-seat Bacchanal Buffet remodeled a section of the food line, focusing on a 2,120-square-foot area. The changes rep...

Ellis Island [Official Site] A pop-up bar opening in June promises a tiki bar filled with island-themed cocktails and kitschy decor. The Front Yard at Ellis Island transforms the restaurant’s second floor into a tiki bar dubbed The Island at Ellis, running for one month only, from June 3 to July 4. The temporary bar features a 15-foot swordfish, staff wearing tropical-themed attire, and tiki-style vignettes. On the menu, dishes such as a teriyaki chicken burger, tiki quesadilla, and coconut shrimp, only available on the second level of the restaurant. The menu includes 10 drinks will also b...

Natalie Young is a giver. Her fried chicken dinners raise money to buy computers for at-risk youth, the same kids she employs at her Downtown Las Vegas breakfast and lunch restaurant Eat. When she opened in 2012, Young borrowed $225,000 from the Downtown Project to get her started, and paid the loan back within a year, a testament to the popularity of the restaurant that helped Fremont East turn into a magnet for scrappy chefs who wanted to open their own place. Her story of losing her family, partner, and job to addiction before she opened Eat even lead to a starring role in a commercial for...

When Lorena Garcia was maybe six or seven, she decided to make breakfast for her mother in Caracas, Venezuela. She recalls getting flour and corn all over the kitchen as she made arepas with scrambled eggs and cheese. “When my mother woke up, she had a full picnic in the middle of the living room,” says Garcia, the chef behind Chica at the Venetian. “It really has been since I was very little, my passion to nurture and feed my family. I’ve always been very drawn to cooking.” Later for her mother’s 60th birthday, she wanted to prove she could be a chef by preparing a dinner for 50....