Eugene Remm, Tilman Fertitta and Catch Hospitality Group will open their second location of The Nook Retailer at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas this fall. And the objective right here, as clear as a clear martini glass, is to not stray in any respect from the meals, vibe, essence and vitality that’s made SoHo’s The Nook Retailer a sensation.
As Observer beforehand reported, the Las Vegas restaurant may have twice the seating of the 75-seat New York restaurant. However the caviar-topped lobster rolls, five-cheese pizza rolls, wagyu French dip, steak frites, ice-cold martinis and Rockwell Group design are all about evoking what makes The Nook Retailer particular in New York.
“It’s the very same factor, and that was the intent from the start,” Remm tells Observer. “I wish to deliver the New York expertise to Vegas. Sure, it’s double the seats, however the kitchen is thrice the scale. I’ve acquired three bars as an alternative of a tiny little bar. Sure, it’ll do extra quantity, however I don’t need to struggle with visitors to go down these tiny little stairs in SoHo to get the dishwasher pit to work. So I don’t have any doubt that, at 150 seats, we’ll be capable to hold the integrity of the meals high quality, the martini high quality and every thing that we do.”
The Nook Retailer, Remm says, unapologetically focuses on “basic approachable American delicacies.” It’s acquainted. It’s nostalgic. It’s playful. It’s positively not fusion. There are nods to fast-casual and freezer-aisle meals, however every thing is made out of scratch at The Nook Retailer.
“I feel the Cosmo is the right epicenter for that kind of delicacies,” Remm says. “I really feel like that’s precisely the place The Nook Retailer belongs.”
The Nook Retailer will take over the Cosmopolitan area at the moment inhabited by Blue Ribbon American Grill & Oyster Bar, which can shut on February 16. The Nook Retailer is an enlargement of the partnership between Remm and MGM Resorts, which has had Catch at Aria since 2018.
“It’s about belief and having folks as companions which are going to have the ability to execute the imaginative and prescient that you just create,” Remm says. “MGM has completed an exquisite job in being the shepherd of the Catch model. They wish to be the very best. They’ve a aggressive nature that I like. They wish to win.”
MGM Resorts not too long ago expanded its eating portfolio with Carbone Riviera at Bellagio and Gymkhana at Aria, in a metropolis the place Cote on the Venetian and the forthcoming opening of Zero Bond and Sartiano’s at Wynn are additionally ushering in a brand new period of Vegas glamour.
“I feel everyone seems to be embracing that way of life eating and creating experiences are an important issues within the culinary facet of any on line casino,” Remm says. “You’ve acquired to create areas that make folks excited and likewise create areas which are, for my part, from someplace else and onerous to get into. Everybody needs to the touch what they see on social media. I feel Las Vegas was constructed for that.”
