La Popular is open Monday through Thursday, from 4 p.m. Small updates to the space include a disco ball at the restaurant’s center, a taco station with a dedicated taco bar, and neon signage. The sleek space with a large center bar, cool-toned furnishings, and direct access to the pool sat unoccupied, sometimes used as a space for enrolling members in the Club Serrano Rewards program. When the Palms reopened last year, after having been purchased by the San Manuel tribe, Shark did not reopen with it. STUDIO 1208įlay’s Shark opened in 2019, only to close in 2020 due to the pandemic. And for cocktails, there are more than 80 labels of tequila and mezcal for margaritas and palomas, plus drinks like the Oaxacan Jellyfish with rum, pineapple, lime, blue lemongrass, and coconut cream served with a smoke bubble.

The all-day breakfast menu offers molletes open sandwiches with crispy cheese toast, eggs, and bacon and a platter of breakfast tacos with carnitas, guacamole, and housemade corn tortillas. With locations in Texas and California, executive chef Cesar de la Parra is introducing signature dishes just for the Las Vegas outpost, including quesabirria tacos with braised brisket and beef shank, al pastor enchiladas with melted cheese, and ribeye and prawn fajitas. Three years since closing, the Shark space is finally a restaurant again, this time as La Popular, an upscale Mexican restaurant with an agave-centric cocktail menu. La Popular CDMX is open now and offering traditional Mexican favorites, cocktails served in fun barware, and updated decor inside the space that used to be Bobby Flay’s Shark. 6 second quarter earnings announcement, the company said $11.3 million of start-up costs and higher-than-anticipated operating expenses associated with the Palms renovation drove down quarterly cash flow.A Mexican restaurant is moving into the long-empty restaurant space on the casino floor of the Palms Casino Resort. However, gaming analysts have questioned the cost of the Palms renovations and the return on investment. The casino company spent much of the past 18 months remodeling and renovating the resort, including hotel and suite renovations, several new restaurants featuring celebrity chefs, entertainment lounges, high-priced artwork, new outdoor signage – including a 272-foot tall LED mesh wall that fills the whole Strip-facing side of one of the towers – and a complete redesign of the casino. “I love Las Vegas, and there are some cool opportunities out there.” “I’m evaluating right now, and there are a few things out there in the world of hospitality and outside of that world,” Gray said.

Gray told columnist John Katsilometes of the Las Vegas Review-Journal he was exploring his options.

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