Sneak Peek: Fontainebleau Las Vegas’ Dining & Nightlife Offerings

A trio of high-end restaurant and nightclub offerings will open along with the Fontainebleau in December 2023, according to Casino.org’s own Vital Vegas blog,

The Fontainebleau, located on the site of the demolished El Rancho Hotel and Casino, was initially announced back in May 2005 with a projected opening of 2008. Those plans fell victim both to the Great Recession and to COVID-19. (Image: Fontainebleau)

The 67-story tower, the tallest building in Nevada, will be the first new casino resort on the Las Vegas strip since Resorts World debuted in June 2021.

Per Vital Vegas, the restaurant menu will likely be headed up by Komodo and Papi Steak, with LIV setting the bar for Fontainebleau’s nightlife. All three brands are Miami Beach success stories founded by hospitality guru David Grutman, whose Groot Hospitality is exporting the brands to Vegas.

LIV at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, which opened in 2008, was reportedly the fifth highest-grossing nightclub in the US in 2014. The club recently gifted itself a $10 million facelift. (Image: Fontainebleau)

Komodo serves Southeast Asian food, while Papi Steak’s website advertises “Golden Era Hollywood swagger with modern-day Miami energy.” Both Komodo and the LIV nightclub operate at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel.

Shortly before its Vegas debut, LIV is expected to announce two superstar DJ residencies. According to Vital Vegas, a small army of executive talent poached by Fontainebleau from Resorts World has helped lure both Tiesto and Zedd away from Resorts World’s Zouk Group,

Vital Vegas also reports these brands may also be joined by a Mexican restaurant concept from celebrity chef Gabriela Cámara, the subject of a 2019 Netflix documentary and one of Time magazine’s “Most Influential People” of 2020.

Chef Evan Funke poses inside his trendy Mother Wolf Italian restaurant in Los Angeles. Will the brand make the journey to Vegas? (Image: Los Angeles Times)

One Restaurant You Might Not See There

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, LA’s popular Mother Wolf restaurant is also hoping to open at Fontainebleau. However, the end result of a legal battle between two Hollywood hospitality firms could thwart those plans.

On July 18, the Relevant Group reportedly sued Ten Five Hospitality and Dan Daley in Nevada District Court to prevent Daley and his firm from taking the Italian eatery, opened by Chef Evan Funke in 2021, to the Fontainebleau.

The particulars involve an alleged conspiracy by Daley to “steal corporate opportunities” through “sham” operating agreements made by Daley while he was still the COO of Relevant, according to court documents obtained by the R-J. In a separate lawsuit, Daley and Ten Five sued Relevant and its affiliates for breach of contract and defamation.

A rep for Ten Five told the newspaper that Relevant’s lawsuit wasn’t relevant enough to affect the Vegas restaurant’s planned opening.

Stay tuned.

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.

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  • YH
    Your name here August 13, 2023
    To Please correct your reporting, they never said Komodo was at Fontainebleau. They said Miami success stories.
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  • JG
    Jay Garza August 12, 2023
    Hope it's it worth the wait that's fosure!!
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  • MF
    Michael Farley August 12, 2023
    Was not delayed due to covid. And it shut down, not delayed due to the 2008 financial collapse. I was a construction worker at Fountainbleau… Was not delayed due to covid. And it shut down, not delayed due to the 2008 financial collapse. I was a construction worker at Fountainbleau when it was shut down in 2008, and I am there right now. Then it went to bankruptcy court, and Carl Icahn bought it from bankruptcy court for about 15 cents on the dollar. This property has switched owners several times.
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  • PR
    Please correct your reporting August 12, 2023
    Komodo is not located at the Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach.
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  • JC
    Jason Collins August 11, 2023
    Are you hiring for seasons professional cooks.
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