M Resort Announces New Tower Opening Date, Restaurant by Emeril Lagasse

By Scott Roeben, on September 04 2025
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Las Vegas

M Resort will open its new hotel tower on Dec. 1, 2025. It’s adorable.

M Resort is also getting a new restaurant, Meril, from Chef Emeril Lagasse.

If you’ve never been to M Resort, you’re missing out, and not just because we got $6,000 in handpays there last week, probably.

Yes, it’s a fugly neighborhood, but you’ll only see it if you leave the casino, which is weird.

M Resort sits about eight minutes south of the Las Vegas Strip.

The resort’s owner, Penn Entertainment, invested about $206 million in the new hotel tower.

It sort of needs a name. We’re going with “Lower Case M.”

The new tower doubles the room inventory of M Resort. It will now have 765 rooms and suites. Request a room facing The Strip, otherwise your view will be of dirt.

Sorry, your room will offer panoramic vistas of the legendary Mojave Desert, a living canvas of golden sands and timeless horizons.

Yeah, brown dirt.

Anyway, the new M tower is an architectural wonder, basically what’s known in the industry as “a filing cabinet with windows.” Remember, squares are cheaper than curves, every builder knows that.

Not to be indelicate, but sometimes, it’s a good thing Steve Wynn has lost his eyesight.

As for the new restaurant, Meril, it’s named after Chef Emeril Lagasse. The original is in New Orleans, or as it’s sometimes called, “Stinkier Las Vegas.”

Meril is expected to open in Q1 of 2026. “Q” stands for “quarter,” or about how much of your Las Vegas vacation you’ll remember if you did it correctly.

Meril will be located in the former M Vue space, which was Hash House a Go Go at one point (that restaurant closed in Dec. 2013).

No, this wasn’t announced, we journalismed.

One thing we know for sure is the Meril logo is triggering to our fellow OCD sufferers.

Emeril calls his daughter “Mookie,” just one of the reasons she hasn’t followed him into the culinary field.

Here’s a peek at the menu for the restaurant in New Orleans. We trust a good number of these items will make their way to M Resort.

Crowd-pleasing fare at a reasonable price. You know, Las Vegas circa 1978.

No additional details were provided about the restaurant.

M Resort already has a collection of mostly good-not-great dining options, and anything new is welcome.

Mostly, we enjoy reading news releases because they often highlight the disconnect between how casinos view themselves and, you know, reality.

Example, from Todd George, Executive Vice President, Operations for Penn: “We can’t wait to begin welcoming more visitors to our market-leading resort. Coupled with our extensive, expanded array of amenities and our highly successful partnership with the Las Vegas Raiders, M Resort is becoming the premier destination for visitors and convention attendees from across the country.”

There’s an art to claiming things that can’t be easily verified. How is “market-leading resort” measured? Is M Resort really “becoming the premier destination for visitors and convention attendees from across the country”?

We love M Resort, but it’s unclear if Todd George has actually been there, or if he knows about any other Las Vegas casinos.

Still, M Resort is making new things, and that’s awesome. We will always have a special place in our heart for M Resort because it hosts the Joy Prom every year. We attended as a volunteer, not a guest. We know how you are.

We’re excited to check out the rooms in M’s new hotel tower and by that we mean the intimacy kits.