Las Vegas - Sinatra Restaurant to Open in Encore




kingalien
Nov 25, 08, 2:40 pm
Ol' blue eyes will have his own restaurant courtesy of Steve Wynn at Encore. Sinatra memorabilia will be on display at the restaurant.

One of the new restaurants at Steve Wynn's Encore hotel will pay homage to Frank Sinatra and another will feature walls that lift up and down, transforming the room throughout the evening.

In a recent interview, Wynn revealed the Sinatra family has loaned him their father's lone Academy Award, for best actor in a supporting role in 1953's "From Here to Eternity," and his Grammy awards.

The priceless memorabilia will be prominently featured in the Italian restaurant which will be named Sinatra. The family has so fiercely guarded the name that Wynn, a family friend, is the only person who was granted permission to use it. Among Wynn's biggest coups was wooing Sinatra to the revitalized Golden Nugget as an exclusive headliner in the 1980s.

Wynn added that Paul Anka has promised the gold record he won for writing the English lyrics for "My Way." Anka wrote the hit song soon after Sinatra told him he was leaving show business.

"It won't be a museum. It will be the most stunning restaurant in the country," promised Wynn.

When Wynn recently unveiled his restaurant lineup for Encore, his $2.2 billion all-suites sister hotel to Wynn Las Vegas, the restaurant name was listed as Theo's, after Theo Schoenegger, executive chef of Patina, a Los Angeles legend founded by Joachim Splichal.

Things change fast in Wynn's world.

Switch, the other restaurant Wynn brought up in the interview, is so named because of the transformation diners will experience, from the changing walls and ceiling to the staff switching clothes.

Wynn's national ad campaign, which has him standing atop Encore, is being launched today.

Article link (http://www.lvrj.com/news/34953524.html)


Cathy in Boston
Dec 4, 08, 2:09 pm
I absolutely, positively love Wynn. And not just because I won $1850 there on Saturday, either. :D

dapastaguy
Jan 12, 09, 1:15 pm
Any idea when it will open? I am headed to Vegas in February.


MikeE
Jan 12, 09, 2:33 pm
Any idea when it will open? I am headed to Vegas in February.

It's been open for about 3 weeks now. Dined there opening night. Superb.

Kagehitokiri
Jan 12, 09, 2:33 pm
its been open since late december, there are reports here and elsewhere

MikeE's is on ratevegas

edit - :D @ timing

FrAAmer
Feb 7, 09, 12:45 pm
Overhyped and overpriced. Very few entrées less than $49-50 and the food was really not worthy. Wine list is quite good (very few bottles less than $100 though), but I ordered a $110 bottle of Paraduxx and at the conclusion of the meal a waiter dumped the remaining contents into my partially filled glass and dumped a mouthful of sediment into my glass which I discovered the hard way. A very unpleasant experience. Service was spotty, either there were a gaggle of servers hovering over you or they were not to be seen.

There are many places in Las Vegas to get a better meal. If there weren't pictures of Sinatra on the walls, and his music playing there would be nothing to indicate the restaurant had anything to do with Sinatra.



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