Taste of Wynn Sells Hotel Chefs' Favorite Food and Gadgets
If you came to Vegas to dine at the restaurants of Wynn chefs such as Daniel Boulud or Alessandro Strata, you'll also want to make a stop at the hotel's Taste of Wynn. The new boutique is stocked with gourmet ingredients, cooking tools and other food-related items that were hand-picked by the top toques in the Wynn and Encore.
When you enter the shop, which opened Oct. 1, you'll see photos of each chef accompanied by their names on the top of each shelf, which holds that particular chef's choice items. Under the mug of SW Steakhouse chef David Walzog, you'll find Shun steak knives. "They are without question the sharpest, sexiest-designed steak knives I've seen," Walzog says. If you go to Stratta's cases, you can check out the gnocchi paddle the two-star Michelin Award-winning chef uses at his Alex and Stratta restaurants.
Among James Beard Award-winning chef Paul Bartolotta's cooking items is Botegga Del Vino glassware that he uses at home and for reserve wine pours at his restaurant, Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare. The Lario slicer that Sinatra chef Theo Schoenegger uses to get perfect hand-cranked slices of prosciutto, salami and other charcuterie is also featured.
If you'd rather buy items you can sip or sample, SWITCH chef Rene Lenger's Switch Private Label Bourbon is for sale at the store and James Beard Award-winning executive pastry chef Frederic Robert offers Wynn's truffles and bonbon-shaped caramels. If you kept dipping into the signature ketchup at Botero, you can get a bottle of chef Mark LoRusso's secret-recipe condiment at Taste of Wynn.
Although gourmet goodies and gadgets like these can get pricey, you can find some good deals. A sleek glass sake pitcher with a hole for ice costs $40. And a ceramic sake holder, which we were told could double as a tea pot, costs $24 and the small matching cups go for $8 apiece.
Foodies will want to set aside a chunk of time to scope out all of the chef-recommended items. You can walk away with some kitchen upgrades and even your own Wynn-approved white chef's jacket.
[Photo: Jennifer Kester]
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