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Social House Now Affordable with Daily 'Social Hour'

While we're happy that Social House is once again open on the Strip inside The Crystals, our wallets are not so happy about the restaurant's hefty prices with specialty rolls ranging from $10 to $20. However, there's a way around that.

From 5 to 7pm, Social House serves up $8 cocktails and specials and $4 domestic beer. Another way to go cheap at Social House? Bring a local with you as they get 20 percent off the bill Sundays-Thursdays so long as they show their Nevada ID.

Poor locals, they must always be getting strung along by visitors just for the deals. Treat 'em nice will ya?

[Photo: Social House/Facebook]

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Sushi and Versace: Social House Is Officially Open Again

It's not all about sushi. You can socialize while picking the watermelon off your BBQ "Tocino" Baby Back Ribs.

Yesterday was the day that Social House re-opened its doors again almost a year to the day after it de-socialized from Treasure Island.

We’d hoped the chefs hadn’t completely lost their mind over the past year as we expected the taste to be fab again. And initial buzz is that the food is just as we remembered. Only now instead of watching pirates jumping ship, “patio” seating here overlooks Versace in the Crystals mall, while inside you will be greeted by an oversized bird’s nest. Whatev - as long as the food is great.

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One More Week Until Social House Socializes Again

Garlic-Oil Seared Kobe with tomato, ginger, green onion, garlic dust, and calimansi soy.

Good news! There's just one more week until you can sink your teeth into a juicy yellowtail roll from Social House, the sushi restaurant that used to be over at Treasure Island but will now re-open on June 30 in a new space at The Crystals.

Over on its Facebook page, Social House has been getting all kinds of social with its fans (or is that Like-ers?) by dropping sneak peeks of the restaurant and its newly redone menu. So far all we've seen is a couple of interior renderings and the menus for hot dishes and cocktails.

But we're not going to lie, the garlic-oil seared kobe dish they posted today has us nearly ready to camp out in a lawnchair in front. (Don't think that would go over so well at The Crystals.) Sigh. We'll just have to wait until June 30. The countdown is on.

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Social House To Reopen Inside The Crystals on June 30

Nearly a year after Social House was forced to walk the Ruffian plank at Treasure Island, the sushi restaurant from PURE Management Group is about to rise from the depths and resurface inside The Crystals inside CityCenter.

According to this tweet, Social House will open its doors again on June 30.

The menu will be overseen by executive chef Joseph Elevado who has trained under Chef Nobu Matsuhisa. Elevado promises a lot of the old Social House specialties but also some new dishes inspired by recent travels to Southeast Asia.

The look and feel of the restaurant will also be very much the same, according to the Social House website. So we're guessing we can expect a lot of wicker bird cages at the bar again. But seeing that it's inside The Crystals, near Mastro's, we wonder what will the view be like? Maybe overlooking The Sirens show wasn't so bad after all?

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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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Real Men Eat Their Steak in a Treehouse

Yes, that's a treehouse and yes, you can eat there!

This "treehouse" designed by architect David Rockwell is a part of Mastro's Ocean Club inside The Crystals and it's kind of one of our new favorite things in Vegas right now. It's hard to believe that just outside The Crystals cardsnappers and drunk frat boys carrying yards of frozen margaritas are wandering around. We just hope the ladies at Mastro's aren't like the ladies at the Mastro's in Beverly Hills. Ah, who are we kidding? Ladies of the night love Vegas!

Mastro's is open for lunch and dinner from 11am to 11pm Sunday through Thursday and until midnight Friday and Saturdays. The restaurant's piano bar is open until 2am daily.

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Social House To Socialize Once More This Summer at The Crystals

Strolling around The Crystals on Sunday we were taking notice of the changes to the place since we were last there in December, and we were tickled to see that Social House has put up its signage on the second floor of the luxury mall, next to Mastro's Ocean Club.

It looks like those rumors were true. The Pure Management Group may try and play things close to their chest but our experience has been where there's smoke, there's fire.

Social House will re-emerge from hiding this Summer. We have to say, from a space overlooking the cheestatic pirates and sirens show at Treasure Island to the swanky Crystals is quite a social climb. Congrats!

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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.

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Sniffing Tuscan Leather and Tobacco Vanilla at Tom Ford

There's an interesting anecdote about fashion designer/film director Tom Ford that when he set out to create his first men's cologne, Black Orchid, he wanted it to smell like a man's crotch.

Well, now that Tom Ford has opened his first West Coast location in The Crystals you can do all the crotch-sniffing that you want. Sorry, we couldn't resist.

Yet dirty jokes aside, the men's clothing store has a cool jewel-box sort of set-up in the back room where all of Tom Ford's scents are on display.

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Inside The Crystals, A Work In Progress

The grand opening of the Aria Resort and Casino took up most of our time and attention but we can't forget about CityCenter's luxury shopping mall, The Crystals. Designed by Daniel Libeskind and with interiors by the Rockwell Group, The Crystals will be the new home for luxury designers in Las Vegas.

Not all the space is filled yet (more stores will open later this year) but you can currently shop at the massive Louis Vuitton store (the largest in North America), Tom Ford (his first West Coast shop), Mikimoto and Tiffany, amongst a few others.

Word is, each store will sell something that can only be found in the Las Vegas store, not elsewhere. (We didn't find out what that is at LV but that's the word on the Strip.) We actually spent the most time inside the Tom Ford store which has a little room at the back for cologne testing. Seriously. We recommend the Tobacco Vanilla scent. It's unisex too.

Right now, there's not much else happening in here. Instead, the action is happening at the Beso restaurant from Eva Longoria Parker and its upstairs nightclub, Eve, which has a giant disco ball on the dance floor.

While The Crystals is not one of the most shocking malls out there, it is pretty spectacular for America even if it does end up being a just a giant mall for window shopping.

UPDATED PHOTOS: THE CRYSTALS FEBRUARY 2010

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While Folks Are Perusing The Luxury Goods at The Crystals...

...we found this charming aisle of suitcases and souvenir t-shirts in the CVS located next to The Crystals and the Mandarin Oriental. Hmmm...not quite the luxury neighbor CityCenter probably would have liked to have.

Still, it's convenient for folks to have a drugstore right here. There's also a Walgreen's across the street which has way better offerings. But you have to walk up to the next light to cross the street as jaywalking will either get you in trouble with the police or run-over.

Oh and don't forget about CVS's selection of travel pillows!

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Window Shopping The Crystals, Live from The Strip

Tomorrow, The Crystals luxury shopping mall will open and if your budget is anything like our budget is these days, you'll be window shopping at best. So let us make it easier for you. Here's a drive-by video of The Crystals, taken last night. No need to thank us.