Las Vegas Sun NewsBeso at CityCenter closed; making way for restaurant with feminine appeal
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Beso restaurant and Eve Nightclub at CityCenter on Dec. 3, 2009.
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30 August 2012
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Eva Longoria celebrated her birthday with a red carpet full of celebrities at Eve and Beso inside Crystals at CityCenter on March 18, 2011.
Restaurant and casino investor Tilman Fertitta has closed Beso Steakhouse at CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip and is transforming it into a new concept appealing to women.
Fertitta owns the Golden Nugget casinos in Las Vegas, Laughlin and Atlantic City and restaurants including the Landry’s Seafood House and Morton’s the Steakhouse chains.
Last year, he bought the assets of Beso Las Vegas out of bankruptcy under a deal in which actress Eva Longoria kept a minority interest.
The closure last weekend of Beso Las Vegas will clear the way for conversion of the space by Fertitta and Longoria into a restaurant and nightclub concept appealing to women called She by Morton’s.
"She restaurant integrates fine dining with fashion and music to create a female-friendly experience," She restaurant said in a statement Wednesday.
It’s set to open New Year’s Eve at Crystals mall in CityCenter.
Crystals, Longoria and another restaurant figure involved in She, Jonas Lowrance, in the meantime remain tied up in litigation with Ronen and Mali Nachum over the Nachums’ removal from the original Beso Las Vegas Steakhouse company.
In another Las Vegas Strip restaurant development reported earlier by Eater.com, the Yard House chain plans to open a location next year near the High Roller observation wheel in the Linq retail and entertainment center under construction behind the Flamingo and the Imperial Palace. The Linq is owned by Caesars Entertainment Corp.
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Good luck with the new venture. I'm always impressed with entrepreneurs who will risk their money on a new concept.
She failed in one venture and is being sought out for the next? I'm a big proponent of "staying within your expertise". Eva should stick to acting and modeling.
i hope they succeed but that is a difficult location in my opinion.
you know someone has a lot of disposable funds to try a concept like that.
tillman needs to worry about that dump golden nugget he bought too.
nothing but trash in there playing, scarebears
"appealing to women" what the hell does that mean?????
what a stupid loser idea if i ever heard one---over under 6 months to closure---im taking the under.
another overpriced--WWWAAAYYYYY overpriced, small portioned, fancy---pretentious pain in the a$$ attitude waiter kind of place that very few "normal" people will ever venture.
one of the many reasons this whole city center project will never make any of the original 8.5 billion dollars back.
lets open a restaurant that 100 people would go to if they are lucky, and on a good night only 90 will flake out and ten will actually show up and 8 will be with comps.
he needs worry about that dump the golden nugget.
Perhaps Eva should have asked Osama Obama for a bail-out. She's living proof "you didn't build that," and another in a long line of "celebrities" who think name "recoginition" is a sure-fire way to success in the restaurant business. As a twenty-year-plus veteran of working in and owning restaurants, I know better. Now, perhaps, the lady does, too. Like being president, it takes knowledge and experience, both of which she and her hero, Osama Obama, lacked plenty of. At least Ferttita has an inkling of what it takes to succeed and he probably will.