Rivea Restaurant at W Las Vegas to Close

By Scott Roeben, on May 23 2025
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Rivea at W Las Vegas (previously Delano) will close on June 22, 2025, according to MGM Resorts.

The restaurant’s adjoining lounge, Skyfall, will remain open.

Prior to becoming Rivea, the space was home to Mix Restaurant and Mix Lounge (technically, miX Restaurant and miX Lounge, but we hate that stylistic crap). No plans for the Rivea space have been announced yet.

The bubbles have popped at Rivea.

Rivea is presumably on W’s 64th floor, but you never know if that’s legit because of the wonky numbering of hotel floors.

Rivea’s views, though.

Delano (part of Mandalay Bay) was rebranded to W Las Vegas (part of the Marriott family) on December 18, 2024.

Yes, we broke the story the W rebranding would happen, but please stop with all the praise, it’s embarrassing and not everything has to be about us, probably.

W is its own brand, so it was expected there would be some changes following its takeover of the hotel, to bring Delano more in line with W’s brand standards.

Yes, W was a “hotel within a hotel” at SLS for a minute. Don’t make it awkward.

We hope to relay news soon that Rivea is being replaced by an Italian restaurant, because that’s the cuisine we want everything to be replaced with, including a lot of existing Italian restaurants. Looking at you, Caramella.

Rivea has operated since Oct. 1, 2015, conceived by chef Alain Ducasse. He is one of the most famous chefs of his generation that you have never heard of, at least not since he was voted out as the Mayor of Flavortown.

We took a photo of this logo a decade ago for just such an occasion.

Yes, Rivea was Italianish. Lobster with purple artichokes is not the kind of Italian we’re talking about. The Italian we’re talking about has lots of bread, not striped bass with minestrone reduction, freaks.

Rivea was “influenced by the delectable food markets of Provence and Italy.” Also, “Chef Alain Ducasse and Executive Chef Bruno Riou’s menu focused on simple, fresh Mediterranean flavors made with the best West Coast-sourced seasonal ingredients.” Or as we like to say, “no chicken parm.”

Anyway, Rivea never got much buzz, but it had great views. The views are likely to stay, no matter what restaurant replaces Rivea.