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All Hail Gagnaire at Mandarin Oriental

Where: 4882 Frank Sinatra Drive [map], 89109
December 2, 2009 at 2:39 PM | by | Comments (0)

And finally, some non-Vdara CityCenter news....

Twist, you know, Pierre Gagnaire’s $7 million dollar restaurant at Mandarin Oriental inside CityCenter, got one heckuva write-up last week in the New York Times.

All eyes are on the Michelin-starred chef, who owns six other restaurants around the world, as he joins the Vegas ranks of culinary royalty with other French chefs, Alain Ducasse, Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon. The former grande dame of Gourmet magazine, Ruth Reichel hailed Gagnaire a “wizard” more than a decade ago, so he should fit in with Vegas' colorful cast of characters just fine.

Gagnaire has been working on the restaurant for the past three years, but s’il vous plaît, don’t call it a brasserie. Instead, he prefers to call Twist a “gastronomic restaurant.” Hello, serious foodies! According to the New York Times:

"When you’re going to Gagnaire," Patricia Wells, the author who runs a Paris cooking school, said of his previous restaurants, "you fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night."

His cooking has been noted for occasionally iconoclastic — and usually playful and unpredictable — experiments in taste, color, texture and ingredient selection.

Prices at the 72-seat restaurant will run around $135 per person (wine included) and remember, rooms are still rather do-able with the MOLV's "We Fan Vegas" offer which gets you one night free.

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