{"id":44753,"date":"2025-09-04T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=44753"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:53:01","slug":"m-resort-announces-new-tower-opening-date-restaurant-by-emeril-lagasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/m-resort-announces-new-tower-opening-date-restaurant-by-emeril-lagasse\/","title":{"rendered":"M Resort Announces New Tower Opening Date, Restaurant by Emeril Lagasse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

M Resort will open its new hotel tower on Dec. 1, 2025. It’s adorable.<\/p>\n

M Resort is also getting a new restaurant, Meril, from Chef Emeril Lagasse.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s a fugly neighborhood, but you’ll only see it if you leave the casino, which is weird.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

M Resort sits about eight minutes south of the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n

The resort’s owner, Penn Entertainment, invested about $206 million in the new hotel tower.<\/p>\n

It sort of needs a name. We’re going with “Lower Case M.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Sorry, your room will offer panoramic vistas of the legendary Mojave Desert, a living canvas of golden sands and timeless horizons.<\/p>\n

Yeah, brown dirt.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Not to be indelicate, but sometimes, it’s a good thing Steve Wynn has lost his eyesight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

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No, this wasn’t announced, we journalismed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One thing we know for sure is the Meril logo is triggering to our fellow OCD sufferers.<\/p>\n

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Emeril calls his daughter “Mookie,” just one of the reasons she hasn’t followed him into the culinary field.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Crowd-pleasing fare at a reasonable price. You know, Las Vegas circa 1978.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No additional details were provided about the restaurant.<\/p>\n

M Resort already has a collection of mostly good-not-great dining options, and anything new is welcome.<\/p>\n

Mostly, we enjoy reading news releases<\/a> because they often highlight the disconnect between how casinos view themselves and, you know, reality.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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”?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> every year. We attended as a volunteer, not a guest. We know how you are.<\/p>\n

We’re excited to check out the rooms in M’s new hotel tower and by that we mean the intimacy kits.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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