Hotel with Todd English restaurant to open in Arts District

After Todd English moved to Las Vegas a twelvemonth and a fractional ago, the personage cook says helium kept going to a peculiar country of town: the Arts District.

He went determination for meetings, for coffee, to locomotion his dog, oregon conscionable to bent out, including erstwhile determination wasn’t overmuch going connected aft the pandemic hit, helium said past week.

Now he’s acceptable to unfastened a edifice successful the neighborhood, successful a edifice named for him.

The English Hotel, a recently built four-story spot astatine 921 S. Main St., astatine Coolidge Avenue, is scheduled to unfastened this year, General Manager Steve Dennis told the Review-Journal.

His squad volition person a amended thought successful precocious autumn of erstwhile precisely the $30 million-plus task volition debut, helium added.

Developed by Z Life Co., The English Hotel isn’t the lone tiny edifice successful Las Vegas. But it’s a uncommon boutique spot successful a marketplace dominated by concatenation resorts that often person thousands of rooms, sprawling casino floors, and lengthy lists of restaurants, bars, and entertainment.

Dennis said the 74-room edifice is adjacent to the Strip and downtown and would pull guests who, among different things, don’t privation a lengthy locomotion to their rooms.

English, a spouse successful the business, said that Las Vegas needs a spot with much of a locals’ consciousness arsenic the metropolis keeps changing, and that radical don’t ever privation a large casino experience.

“I deliberation Vegas is acceptable for it, I truly do,” English said.

According to English, his edifice astatine the edifice volition beryllium a “spicy, jazzy, loungey” spot with oysters, sushi and the like, and is called The Pepper Club.

English, who said helium lives successful Turnberry Towers and is gathering a location successful Southern Highlands, said he’s been progressive with the Arts District task for astir a year, possibly a small less. He had been looking to get progressive successful a edifice project, helium said, adding that a fewer erstwhile efforts didn’t enactment out.

As outlined successful a June quality release, developers of the Arts District task utilized a “pre-engineered modular partition strategy that provides the building’s full structural support,” describing this arsenic a “cost-effective, sustainable, and time-efficient” operation process.

It besides said the edifice offers much than 70 “sexy guestrooms” and provides visitors a unsocial enactment that is “in stark contrast” to the megaresorts and “grandeur” of the Strip.

English, who boasts restaurants successful New York, Manila, Dubai, the Bahamas and elsewhere, is nary alien to Las Vegas’ eating scene. His edifice Olives had a two-decade tally astatine Bellagio and recently debuted astatine Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. He besides has a nutrient hall-style eatery, The Beast, astatine amusement analyzable Area15.

Contact Eli Segall astatine esegall@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0342. Follow @eli_segall connected Twitter.