New steakhouse Harlo to bring chef’s talents to Downtown Summerlin

Gina Marinelli’s absorption whitethorn beryllium connected Harlo, her caller Downtown Summerlin steakhouse, but that doesn’t mean she’s turning distant from her roots.

“I deliberation it’s a large departure from La Strega to bash a steakhouse,” Marinelli said, referring to her flagship edifice connected Town Center Drive. “Pivoting from that coastal Italian consciousness to thing that’s successful different spectrum to amusement a antithetic broadside to me.”

There decidedly volition beryllium immoderate Italian flourishes, represented successful dishes specified arsenic the 40-ounce Bistecca alla Fiorentina and sides of spinach sformato and spicy rigatoni puttanesca.

“The imaginativeness is to seizure old-school Vegas a small bit,” Marinelli said. “Celebrating a large beef program, arsenic well. We’re utilizing Flannery’s for our dry-aged program, and Allen Brothers of Chicago; the lone edifice successful municipality that’s utilizing them is Bavette’s” astatine Park MGM. “And seasonality, and immoderate seafood options. We’re taking that classical steakhouse and having immoderate amusive with it.”

Other Harlo signatures volition see a 24-ounce bone-in ribeye, roasted bony marrow, bay scallops Rockefeller and a pastrami wedge. She besides plans a caviar program, with caviar from Nina Manchev, chef/owner of Forte Tapas.

“It’s benignant of a caviar experience,” Marinelli said, “kind of make your ain experience, alternatively of conscionable similar toast points.” Indeed, latkes, scallion pancakes and gnocco fritto volition beryllium among the vessels disposable with the caviar.

There besides volition beryllium a robust cocktail program, with mint juleps among the specialties.

“That’s going to beryllium a batch of fun,” Marinelli said. “Kind of classical cocktails, but a small much whimsical. The barroom is truthful beautiful. It’s 1 of the striking points erstwhile you locomotion in.”

Harlo is successful the abstraction antecedently occupied by Andiron Steak & Sea. It’s been wholly renovated, and Marinelli’s suitably enthused.

“It’s disconnected the Strip, but it looks similar the country could beryllium connected the Strip,” she said. “It’s got a batch of gold, a batch of navy. Big, beauteous barroom stools. So elegant — truthful swanky — a spot wherever you tin locomotion in, person a martini, ticker a crippled and truly person a large cocktail experience.”

It besides has a batch of Las Vegas Raiders. Marinelli’s father, Rod, is the team’s antiaircraft enactment coach. And though it’s inactive uncertain erstwhile Harlo volition unfastened to the public, immoderate of the players person travel successful for the invitation-only brushed opening.

“They’re truthful comfortable,” she said. “They’ve already been coming to La Strega truthful much. It’s a spot wherever they tin bent retired and person a amusive acquisition without each the riffraff down it.”

She hopes to unfastened to the nationalist successful a week oregon two.

“We’re inactive benignant of up successful the aerial with that,” she said. “We privation to get everything up and running, dialed perfectly truthful we tin spell full-throttle.”

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