VEGAS DINING NEWS: Only $28 Thousand to Eat at F1 Popup, Food Hub Closes for Fear of ICE Raids
Posted on: June 24, 2025, 09:55h.
Last updated on: June 24, 2025, 10:17h.
- Pricey F1 popup aims to fill wealthy patrons’ bellies while lightening their wallets
- Fear of ICE raids puts a chill on popular North Las Vegas food market
- “Somebody Feed Phil” star dines out around Vegas, but mostly avoids the Strip
Papi Steak, the Fontainebleau steakhouse that charges $1,000 for a tomahawk steak served in a rhinestone briefcase, is charging 28 times that amount to sit trackside at its popup inside the official F1 garage during this year’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The package, which debuted along with the race in 2023, includes a three-day trackside ticket, unlimited dining and drinking, and a VIP pass to the paddock area behind the pit lane, where race teams set up their garages, hospitality suites, and operational bases.
For the first time this year, Papi popup customers also get access to the Poodle Room, a private club 67 stories atop the Fontainebleau.
Tickets can be purchased by emailing sales@F1lasvegasgp.com. This year’s Las Vegas Grand Prix will take place November 22, following two days of preliminary races and events.
Marketplace on ICE
A popular locals’ destination for Latin American street food closed indefinitely on June 21, citing “fear and uncertainty at its highest level ever among the immigrant community in Las Vegas” over potential US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
Since 1977, Broadacres Marketplace and its more than 1,000 vendors have served Las Vegas from the neighboring city of North Las Vegas, home to 41% of Las Vegas’ Latino residents, according to 2024 census data.
“We don’t want any of our customers, vendors, or employees to be detained at our business or for us to be a beacon of shopping and entertainment while our federal government is raiding businesses and detaining its people,” Broadacres announced on its Instagram account.
Broadacres called the closure temporary, yet gave no estimated reopening date.
Getting His Off-Strip Phil
It only took eight seasons, but “Somebody Feed Phil” — the Netflix culinary series starring “Everybody Loves Raymond” creator Phil Rosenthal — finally dropped its first Las Vegas episode. But, other than for one restaurant, Phil skips the Strip entirely.
Phil eats at Esther’s Kitchen and Good Pie in the Arts District, Fergusons Downtown, Big Dan Shanxi Taste in Chinatown, Milpa Mexican restaurant in Spring Valley, and Gritz Café in West Las Vegas, where he grabbed a bite with Harrah’s star Donny Osmond
His singular Strip dalliance was a dinner with his old comic friends and sitcom collaborators, Ray Romano and Brad Garrett, at Don’s Prime steakhouse at Fontainebleau.
By the way, thanks to Vital Vegas for his detailed play-by-play. (We still have episodes of “The Pitt” to catch up on!)
Dining Ins & Outs
Salt & Straw, the expanding Portland, Ore. ice creamery known for its kooky flavors, is opening at Paris Las Vegas sometime early next year. As we reported last month, another location is opening this fall at the Flamingo between Gordon Ramsay Burger and the retail space formerly used by Margaritaville.
Ricardo Romo, a former chef at STK at the Cosmopolitan, has opened his second Las Vegas restaurant. Tuscan Cove Bar & Patio, at 12656 Southern Highlands Parkway. The opening follows Roma Kitchen, which debuted last September in the same off-Strip suburb.
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