Spiegelworld pairs Superfrico restaurant with ‘Opium’ relaunch

As Rick James would say, it’s Superfrico, now.

Well, astatine slightest successful September. But that is the sanction of Spiegelworld’s caller eating and cocktail conception being paired with the signifier amusement “Opium.” The edifice opens Sept. 24, same day the amusement is acceptable to return.

“People travel to Vegas expecting the extraordinary,” Spiegelworld laminitis and Impresario Extraordinaire Ross Mollison said Tuesday. “They privation to beryllium wowed; to see, bash and sensation things they’ve ne'er seen, done oregon tasted earlier — and erstwhile they sojourn Superfrico, that’s precisely what they’ll get. Superfrico was calved successful Las Vegas, for Las Vegas, by radical who genuinely emotion Vegas.”

Superfrico takes implicit the erstwhile Rose. Rabbit. Lie. abstraction adjacent to the Opium Theater. Fittingly, Mollison helped plan that edifice concept, primitively paired with Spiegelworld’s “Vegas Nocturne.”

The amusement ran from January done June 2014. Rose. Rabbit. Lie. continued cognition until it unopen down officially successful January.

Superfrico volition present pizza concepts with the antheral dubbed “international pizza czar” Anthony Falco; Cosmopolitan Executive Chef Mitch Emge; and General Manager Greisy Pacton, precocious of Gordon Ramsay Steak, helming the culinary program.

The fancy pizza and related paper items are called “Italian American Psychedelic,” which, the institution says “honors the recipes and traditions passed down by generations of Sicilian household cooks portion taking fearless detours with ingredients and techniques.”

The statement continues, “The result? An open-minded, all-senses-overloaded instrumentality connected grandma’s favorites, definite to fulfill immoderate craving, each nighttime agelong — including Falco’s showcase enactment of pizza perfection, caller pasta dishes, steaks, seafood, tiny plates, signature desserts and late-night finales.”

The restaurant’s hours of cognition person not been announced.

The “principal pourer” and mixologist Leo Robitschek of Eleven Madison Park volition specialize successful blended and bottled cocktail flasks with small-batch beverages to devour successful the restaurant, oregon for acquisition astatine Superfrico’s Bottle-O retail store.

Spiegelworld plans a companion creation program, too. “Curatorialpresario” Heather Harmon, astir precocious manager of the Nevada Museum of Art’s Las Vegas location, leads this inaugural (Harmon’s household is for whom Harmon Avenue is named).

The postulation volition wage homage to Spiegelworld’s circus underpinnings with handcrafted, repurposed and one-of-a-kind pieces.

According to the company’s release, the archetypal to beryllium commissioned is New York-based creator Adehla Lee’s Psycho Pop Party, a chaotic candy-colored acrylic painting. More than 20 archetypal works successful a assortment of media, from illustration to neon, person been commissioned oregon acquired for the venue. The show is to correspond “internationally important artists whose enactment has peculiar resonance with the tone of Superfrico.”

As Mollison proclaims, “Like the metropolis itself, we’ve opened our doors to the world’s finest artists — each a maestro of their craft. It’s our ultimate, be-all, end-all, taste-all location enactment with questioning creatives everyplace you look — successful the kitchen, down the bars, wrong the walls, nether the furniture — and you’re each invited.”

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