7 Responses to “ This Just In….CHINOIS Closes ”

1. # 1 atdleft Says:
   July 28th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

   Crap. I didn’t even have a chance to try it. I hope it wasn’t over the rumors I’ve been hearing.

   http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/28/wolfgang-puck-restaurant-poetry-nightclub-close-fo/

   http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/mar/12/poetry-nightclub-discrimination-lawsuit-moves-forw/

   If this was really over the Poetry nightclub and its “black clientele”, then Simon & Harrah’s should be ashamed of themselves.

2. # 2 Will Says:
   July 28th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

   It’s not because of any clientele – it’s because the restaurant was empty and the food was boring. Not to say the chef wasn’t good, Scott Irestone is a good cook, but the recipes from 1989 just don’t cut it any longer. Wolfgang’s “fusion” cuisine is tired and a thing of the past. Good thing he has $60 steaks at CUT and mediocre, but expensive, cafeteria food at Springs Preserve to keep him out of the red!

3. # 3 jsmeeker Says:
   July 29th, 2009 at 5:44 am

   I hear Poerty is going to move over to Planet Hollywood, in the upstairs area where Prive very recently was forced to close after they lost their liquor license (and where P-Ho was socked with a hefty fine of the activities going on at the night club)

   As far as Wolfgang is concerned, does he open another restaurant someplace else on the strip? He already has a bunch. Maybe a chance to extend a more recently created brand? Does Las Vegas even need it?

4. # 4 John Says:
   July 29th, 2009 at 8:53 am

   More Celebrity. Less Chef.

   Indeed.

5. # 5 atdleft Says:
   July 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

   jsmeeker-

   I hope that’s true! I hope PH does consider taking in Poetry.

   Will-

   I know the food wasn’t all that. Wolfgang Puck revolutionized fine dining in LA during the ’80s and changed the way Vegas thought about fine dining in the ’90s. However, his “big ideas” today often seem like retreads of the past. We don’t need any more 1989 food.

   I was just saddened about Chinois closing because of Poetry. And sorry, but these rumors have been swirling for quite a while about Harrah’s and Simon not being pleased with the “black clientele” at Poetry. It didn’t help that they’d close the main entrance to Caesar’s at 11:00 PM and force all the Poetry guests to use a dark and dirty back door to get out. That just reminds me too much of the bad old days of Vegas Segregation.

6. # 6 WOW! Says:
   July 30th, 2009 at 10:37 am

   if a restaurant closes and no one notices(or cares), was it ever really open?

7. # 7 atdleft Says:
   July 30th, 2009 at 3:52 pm

   Wow-

   Heh. How very true. In retrospect, it’s a little funny how I and others have cared more about what will happen to Poetry than about the actual restaurant. It just shows how forgettable the food at Chinois really was.