Alon Shaya is opening a restaurant at the Wynn in Las Vegas

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In a full-circle moment, acclaimed chef Alon Shaya is returning to the city where he got his start — and this time he’s opening a restaurant of his own. More than 20 years after his time in Vegas, Shaya is returning to Las Vegas to open a restaurant at the Wynn Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip, slated to open in winter 2023. The chef behind acclaimed Israeli restaurants is taking over a former nightclub to serve his award-winning modern Mediterranean cuisine.

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The new Middle Eastern and Mediterranean restaurant will be the fourth for Pomegranate Hospitality, the restaurant consulting business founded by Shaya and his wife, restaurateur Emily Shaya. At their acclaimed restaurants, Saba in New Orleans and Safta in Denver —saba and safta are the Hebrew words for grandfather and grandmother, respectively — Shaya prepares the traditional home-cooking that he grew up eating. “I expect to bring my style of cooking out to Vegas and make something really, really special,” he says.

Details about the new restaurant — including its name — are few at the moment. He’s still thinking through what the menu at his Las Vegas restaurant will look like, as well as the design. His restaurant will take over the former Intrigue nightclub when it opens in winter 2023. The 14,000-square-foot nightclub featured intricate lighting, high ceilings, and an outdoor space that led to a cascading 90-foot-tall waterfall. “The restaurant is really going to have to live up to that space,” says Shaya.

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