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Mama Rabbit Mezcal + Tequila opened Aug. 28, 2019, in a 4,400-square-foot space next to Best Friend, another place we keep meaning to go, but Eataly is just a few feet away and we are an Italian food person, all due respect to Roy Choi.<\/p>\n
Mama Rabbit was created in collaboration with Bricia Lopez, a restaurateur and “mezcal evangelist” whose family operates the acclaimed Guelaguetza restaurant in L.A., which features Oaxacan cuisine. If you don’t know where Oaxaca is, you are an unsophisticated rube.<\/p>\n
Oaxaca is a state in southern Mexico. Today we learned Mexico has states. We also learned Oaxacan cuisine features moles. Why isn’t this more controversial?<\/p>\n
Mama Rabbit boasted more than 500 tequila and mezcal labels and claimed the largest collection of the spirits in the country.<\/p>\n
The name “Mama Rabbit” refers to the legend of Mayahuel, the Aztec goddess associated with agave and fertility. Mayahuel was the mother of 400 rabbits, each representing a different state of intoxication.<\/p>\n
We personally have only experienced three states of intoxication: 1) tipsy, 2) oddly aroused by folded deli meat and 3) how did we end up in the Golden Nugget shark tank?<\/p>\n
Anyway, when it opened, Mama Rabbit made a splash for its interior design. Which undermines our whole “forgettable” narrative, but it’s unlikely anyone has read this far, so we aren’t rewriting anything.<\/p>\n
DesignAgency created the space after Lopez and designer Anwar Mekhayech traveled through Oaxaca for inspiration. Spanish pop-surrealist artist Okuda San Miguel created the colorful “Mother Natura” installation, including a Mayahuel-inspired mural and three oversized animal sculptures, two deer and a rabbit, incorporating slot machines.<\/p>\n
There was a double-sided bar, fireplace, Oaxacan artifacts, hidden rabbits and a flower-cart DJ booth.<\/p>\n
Mama Rabbit got increasingly desperate as time went by, leaning into live entertainment, particularly on weekends and Dolby Live concert nights.<\/p>\n
No replacement has been announced for Mama Rabbit.<\/p>\n
We can only hope its replacement does not serve moles.<\/p>\n
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The forgettable Mama Rabbit Mezcal + Tequila Bar at the personality-free Park MGM will close on a nondescript day, Sep. 14, 2026. Seriously, Sep. 14 is aggressively just a date. It’s not fall yet, but it doesn’t really feel like summer. It’s after Labor Day. There’s no federal holiday or widely observed cultural event attached […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegas","category-las-vegas-bars"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n