New restaurant brings Mexican coastal cuisine to Wynn Las Vegas

Casa Playa, specializing successful Mexican coastal cuisine, has opened astatine Wynn Las Vegas.

Adjacent to the Encore Beach Club, Casa Playa is designed to evoke Mexico’s tiny seaside spots serving caller grilled seafood. The decor celebrates the culture, with lively colors and patterns and specified accents arsenic 2 lighting fixtures representing cascading marigolds.

The paper by enforcement cook Sarah Thompson includes specified dishes arsenic a squash-blossom quesadilla, Mexican bluish shrimp ceviche, achromatic truffle tostada, Yucatan Chicken Pibil made with orangish annato adobo and potato, and branzino topped with guajillo adobo, herbs and salsa cruda.

Cocktails by edifice mixologist Mariena Mercer Boarini see the Temple of Doom, made with Mal Bien Espadin Mezcal, grilled pineapple, chipotle and lime, and the Ojo de Tigre, with Uncle Nearest Bourbon, Patron Roca Anejo Tequila, salted peanut marzipan and plantain.

The edifice besides has an expansive mezcal and tequila collection, including immoderate selections made from batches of 200 bottles oregon fewer.

Casa Playa is lone the 2nd Mexican edifice successful the past of Wynn Las Vegas, pursuing the short-lived Elio.

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