Lavo is awash with great food and reveling
Dining, dancing and dazzling displays of cascading water: Lavo at the Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino makes it easy to glide from one to the other. It's your one-stop destination for a special evening out.
The same team that created the sensual and Asian-inspired Tao nighbclub at the Venetian, AvroKo, designed Lavo, turning the focus this time to the Mediterranean. Meaning “to bathe or cleanse” in Latin.
Inspired by the bathhouses of the ancient Mediterranean, Lavo also boasts a menu that highlighs the best of Mediterranean cuisine. Design elements from bathhouses in Spain, France, Italy, Morocco and Turkey combine to make Lavo a visual pleasure, according to Jason Strauss, one of Lavo's owners.
The culinary journey is courtesy of Chef Ralph Scamardella and his team of chefs, who treat guests to classic dishes mostly from Italy. The menu is designed to encourage sampling and sharing among friends. Menu highlights include Baked Clams Oreganato, Bufala mozzarella, Kobe meatballs and roasted Chilean sea bass.
True to its Italian inspiration, Lavo features pasta selections and a wood-burning brick oven for its gourmet pizzas. Guests can also select from a variety of cuts of USDA prime steak, aged 21 days, served with an assortment of toppings and sauces.
Lavo offers a 180-seat main dining room, a 20-seat private dining room and another 100 seats on an outdoor terrace overlooking the famed Las Vegas Strip.
At the lounge entrance, worn-tile walls and water-stained plaster bring the ambience of a Mediterranean bathhouse to the lounge. Over the curved bar, leather seating and Moroccan tables are 20-foot ceilings made of old wood with low chandeliers from Moracco. The restaurant's highlight is a glass-and-wood-refreshing water. Besides accommodating those who gather and watch the action below, the bridge leads to the second-floor nightclub.
With vaulted glazed tile arches opening to a domed ceiling above the dance floor, the 5,000-square-foot nightclub provides an intimate, elevated VIP area. The venue features 40 bottle service tables, state-of-the-art audio-visual systems and the sounds of resident DJs Vice, Crooked and Galeano.
The restaurant opens at 5 p.m. daily, closing at midnight Sunday through Thursday and at 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights. The nightclub closes at 5 a.m. seven days a week; it opens at 11 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and on Sunday and at 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
- by Bobbie Katz, Las Vegas Reporter for HelloMetro
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