Le Cirque reopens with new chef, new modern French dishes

Tonight, the landmark Bellagio edifice Le Cirque volition yet invited guests backmost into its lakeside eating country aft a 19-month closure.

Executive Chef Dameon Evers couples Le Cirque’s signature dishes with bold, modern influences.

Dishes connected the ten-course paper ($388) see highlights similar a foie gras with savory almond barroom and layers of foie gras, duck confit, roseate celery and aged balsamic and the turbot en ecailes de pommes de terre food course.

“The turbot is taking a classical from Le Cirque, a oversea bass wrapped successful potato, and redoing it with antithetic techniques and layers of mousse and potato,” says Evers.

Evers has antecedently helped unfastened immoderate of California’s astir acclaimed restaurants, including Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Beverly Hills, Gordon Ramsay’s eponymous constitution successful West Hollywood, and Michael Mina’s Bourbon Steak.

While Evers is caller to Le Cirque, galore of the front-of-house unit person been moving successful the charmingly draped edifice since it opened successful 1998.

During a preview lawsuit connected Wednesday, galore of the servers commented connected the alleviation and excitement of welcoming guests back.

“It’s breathtaking for maine to beryllium from California and travel to Las Vegas to this beautiful, iconic edifice and bring guests thing new,” says Evers.

Other inclusions connected the paper see standouts similar gougere pastry with achromatic wintertime truffle fondue, crackers with chickenhearted liver mousse and a decadent and affluent ricotta gnudi topped with hand-shaven achromatic truffles.

Guests volition witnesser the instrumentality of tableside moments specified arsenic a delicate caviar presentation, truffle shavings and meticulous tableside condiment pours.

The edifice is unveiling a caller cocktail paper and vino database highlighting much than 900 planetary selections from France’s champion vino regions.

Le Cirque is unfastened Thursday done Saturday from 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. To marque a preservation oregon for much information, sojourn bellagio.mgmresorts.com.

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