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Next Week, 'Garden of the Gods' Will Open and Aria Will Pour Some 'Liquid'
We cannot promise that when you play swim-up blackjack at Caesars that good-looking folk like these will be there.
Better hit the gym and book your spray tan appointments as the Vegas Pool Scene starts to heat up again next week.
Caesars Palace will open its Garden of the Gods pool "oasis" on March 19. If you plan on hitting up this scene, plan to spend a lot of time here, i.e. pace yourself with those bloody marys.
There are now eight pools to frolick in, spaced over three levels and remembering their names will require some careful memory tricks.
There is Fortuna (known for its 18-foot waterfall and swim-up blackjack); Apollo which has maximum sun exposure; Bacchus which is available only to invited guests; Neptune considered the social hub, best for singletons; Jupiter which is the one place people might be able to relax and enjoy spa services from Qua Spa; Temple which is considered to be the family spot and lastly, Venus which will open on April 1 and is a part of the PURE nightclub. Venus will also be the best place to avoid children as only guests 21 and older are welcome.
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Aria's Pool Scene Will Be Blessfully Stripper Pole-Free
It’s almost here: bikini season. That time of year when we find out how many people renewed that gym membership after the 7-day free trial.
The pool scene has exploded in Las Vegas where it seems a new pool party opens every week and sometimes closes shortly after (ahem…Sapphire). While not quite sunbathing weather yet on our visit, we sucked it up (and sucked it in) to get an early peek at the newest party crasher on the 2010 scene at Aria.
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It's Not Just the Pickles at Todd English's P.U.B. That Disappoints
We were quite taken with the long-awaited Todd English P.U.B inside Aria, even if the upscale beer chugging contest could lend itself to becoming a fratty place to hang out.
Yet it was a different story for a reader who wrote in to us saying:
I visited the Todd English pub on Friday of the opening week. Reception and hosts were warm and inviting. We ordered Caesar salad, oysters, stone crab, sliders, and the roast turkey platter. Shellfish and stone crab were fresh although the TE signature cocktail sauce tasted like glorified common ketchup.
The Caesar salad was fresh but anchovy and the sharp tang of Parmesan was lacking and strangely included tomatoes. The sliders were perfectly cooked and tasty. The turkey platter was unacceptably dry...Bone dry.
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Todd English's P.U.B: Hold the Pickles and It Could Be Great
Hurrah! So Todd English’s P.U.B is finally open in the Crystals. We’ve shown you what it looks like, we’ve told you about the eggtimer trick (down your pint in seven seconds and you don’t have to pay for it). Now let’s get onto the heavy stuff – what the food is like. Our tipster told us that prices would be very cheap for the Strip, and the menu would be based on a "huge English pub style menu". Here’s what we found.
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Best Thing About Viva Elvis? The VE Shop
Spend your money with these nice people, not at the Box Office
As you might have gathered yesterday, we weren’t the biggest fans of Viva Elvis. But one thing we forgot to put on the “what we liked” list yesterday, is the VE shop.
We checked it out back in January, and it was fantastic. Of course, it has every Elvis CD, t-shirt and bit of kitsch you could possibly want, like the Memphis-made cashew crunch Elvis used to eat at Graceland:
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The Only Reason We'd See Viva Elvis Again Is If We Were Playing Cirque Bingo
Sorry, Elvis
So. Viva Elvis. If you were reading our tweets on Friday night, you’d have seen that we went to the officlal premiere (along with Gene Simmons, Priscilla Presley, Justin Long and oodles of other celebs – apart from Paul ‘The Flake’ McCartney who was a no show (probs for the best - scroll down). You’d also have seen that we really weren’t taken with it.
Before we carry on, it’s only fair to say that we don’t count ourselves as big Cirque fans. In fact, we haven’t seen any of the other Cirque shows in Vegas, though we have elsewhere. While we love the signature acrobatics, we aren’t mad on spurious plotlines (like in Varekai).
We have, though, seen enough of Cirque to know what to expect, we are big Elvis fans, and we know what we like in a show. And, yeah, we just didn’t like this – and from where we were sitting*, we weren’t the only ones. Let’s take it from the top - we’ll tell you what we liked, and then what we didn’t.
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Todd English's P.U.B. Is Finally Open, Here's A Peek
What’s this? Could it be an open door? No, surely not. Really? It is? Yes! Todd English’s P.U.B is finally open in the Crystals. Hallelujah!
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Todd English's P.U.B. Still Not Open, Try Again on Sunday
Guess what? P.U.B from Todd English has missed yet another opening date. A tipster told us to expect the restaurant opening last night but then emailed us to say that we should try Sunday instead.
Okey doke. But this is the last time. Then we officially start to lose interest.
We'll update you on Monday morning. In the meantime, got any tips about the delay or what's going on behind the scene? Let us know
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Shaboo Inside Bar Masa 'Beautiful But Empty' and Other Thoughts
We were able to try out a few of the apps at the new Bar Masarestaurant inside Aria during the hotel's grand opening festivities but we were only able to get a peek into Shaboo, the fancy restaurant-within-a-restaurant that boasts a $500 Omakase menu. So we asked you readers to drop in your thoughts on the restaurant if you were able to try it out on one of your recent trips to VegasChatter. And KVegas has heeded our call by dropping in a review of Shaboo in comments.
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Food Critics Dish on Sage and TWIST at CityCenter
Every week, we get our cyber foodie news from around the world fix via
We were especially tickled this Valentine’s Day to find Las Vegas food critic, John A. Curtas weighing in on two of our top new "wish list" restaurants at CityCenter, TWIST by Pierre Gagnaire at Mandarin Oriental and Sage at ARIA Hotel & Casino. We paraded through the former on a recent media trip, and partook in an absinthe tasting at the latter, but have yet to dine at either. Soon, our pretties, very soon. You can read a teaser of John’s reviews here, or click here for the real, mouth-watering deal.
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Keep It On the D.L. But P.U.B Set To Soft-Open on Thursday
We've been eagerly wondering when Todd English's Public Urban Bar (aka P.U.B.) would be opening and now we might have an answer. A secret tipster let us know that the restaurant would be soft-opening on Thursday! Yippee!
That's all that we know at this point so we'll have to pop over there on Thursday to check it out. We did check out Todd's website (which is in need of a design tune-up) but there is no mention of P.U.B. yet. And we're still left wondering what's going to be on the menu here.
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Todd English's P.U.B. Not Quite O.F.B.
UPDATE 2.12.10:: PUB not open. "Hopefully" next week.
UPDATE: According to The Crystals, P.U.B. will open on February 11.
OFB: Open for Business.
Todd English's Public Urban Bar or PUB was supposed to open yesterday, judging from the signage in front of the restaurant but when we strolled by last night, the lights were on but the windows were papered up.
The space, wedged between Julian Serrano at Aria and the entrance to The Crystals, has exterior signage and it looks like the interior is almost finished.
Meanwhile, according to the Boston Globe, English is a busy man and perhaps this is the reason for the PUB delay.
He is taping a pilot of a new TV show, and helping launch a men’s fashion collection at Club Monaco. He also has plans to open a cupcake shop on Beacon Hill with his daughter, Isabelle, start a line of children’s food products named after the character Eloise, and open restaurants in Las Vegas and at New York’s Plaza Hotel.
Hopefully, it's just a matter of training the staff before P.U.B is ready to open. As always, we'll keep you posted but if you've got any scoop, send it to us.
