VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Mysterious Evan Funke Opening and Smashed Pig Closing, Broken Todd English

Evan Funke, the famous person chef slow LA’s Felix Trattoria and Mother Wolf, as substantially as the lately opened Funke inward Beverly Hills, has a Vegas radix of operations opening night soon, but all culinary lips are sealed.

A Craigslist station proclaimed only if that an executive director chef is sought for a Vegas contrive from Funke and Ten Five Hospitality. No other inside information are known.

“Evan Funke is a culinary storyteller, a keeper of Italian tradition and a captain of the old humankind techniques of handmade pasta,” reads a bio on the Felix Trattoria website. “Funke’s singular passion as a pasta shaper and chef was solidified inwards Bologna, under the mentorship of Alessandra Spisni at La Vecchia Scuola Bolognese.”

We’ll donjon you posted.

Todd English is not the to the highest degree popular chef in Las Vegas at the present tense time. (Image: totalfood.com)

Comings & Goings

A second Todd English restaurant is seemingly leaving Las Vegas inwards the blank of a week. According to Casino.org’s possess Vital Vegas blog, employees at The Beast at AREA 15 were notified on May 25, 2023 of its June 1 closure. This testament predate the shutdown of English’s Olives restaurant at Virgin Las Vegas on June 4, and testament lead English language with only if I remaining Vegas foothold: The Pepper Club at his English Hotel downtown, which the chef opened lowest year.

Both the Todd English people P.U.B. at Aria and Olives at the Bellagio shut followers sexual torment charges brought against the celebrity chef inwards 2017 — a state of affairs which may or may non get been coincidental.

Also closure is Smashed Pig Gastropub on downtown’s eastern United States Fremont Street. The darling bar and eatery posted on its Instagram business relationship only when that “the unfortunate clip has come.” Smashed Pig, which opened inwards 2015, has until May 30.

Though the Vegas Test Kitchen on East John Charles Fremont Street is closing, its beginner is bringing a similar construct to downtown’s historic Huntridge community. Paladare testament be Jolene Mannina‘s 2d brooder intentional to allow chefs evolve restaurants without the brick-and-mortar expense. a collaborationism with existent acres developer the Dapper Companies, it will debut inwards a 2,200 square-foot place at 608 S. Free State Parkway.

David Robins, longtime manager of culinary trading operations for Wolfgang Puck and a former Bay Area chef, is debuting a eating house and bakehouse inward the Arts District. 1228 Main, which is also its address, opens Monday, June 5, for breakfast and lunch. Dinner and bar service begins Friday, June 9.

After septet years inwards downtown Las Vegas, Donut Bar testament leave alone a hole out at 124 S. 6th St. a brand on Instagram said only when that Carl’s Donuts would be taking over the location. Donut Bar’s pilot San Diego location continues to operate.

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