Iconic Chinese Restaurant Closes on the Las Vegas Strip
With its Champagne lounge, tableside-prepared Mr. Chow noodles, and 3,800-pound kinetic sculpture based on the moon, Mr. Chow at Caesars Palace was the kind of dining experience one could only find in Las Vegas. After a nine-year run as one of the best Chinese restaurants in Las Vegas, Mr. Chow closed permanently on Saturday, May 17, as Caesars Entertainment confirmed to Eater Vegas.
Mr. Chow Las Vegas debuted in 2016, bringing high-end Beijing-style cuisine to a dramatic two-story space above the casino floor. Guests arrived via private elevators to a sleek white dining room overlooking the Garden of the Gods pool, anchored by The Moon — a massive kinetic sculpture designed by Michael Chow himself. Michael Chow, the restaurateur, designer, and artist behind Mr. Chow has personally overseen the design of every restaurant location since launching the original in London in 1968, including outposts in New York, Beverly Hills, Miami, and Saudi Arabia.
'Each space tells me what to do, and the Las Vegas one offered me a 60-foot-diameter, 35-foot-high dome,' Chow told Architectural Digest of the Caesars Palace outpost in 2016. He designed a giant 3,800-pound, 26-foot-diameter kinetic sculpture that loomed over the dining room and sprang to life every 35 minutes. 'It's basically this romantic idea of dining under the moon, but with a Close Encounters of the Third Kind twist,' Chow told AD .
Dishes in the glossy white restaurant were served family-style, with the Beijing duck as the signature offering — its dramatic tableside carving verging on performance art, even without the lunar theatrics overhead. The hand-pulled Mr. Chow noodles provided a similar spectacle, with chefs expertly stretching and spinning dough into long, delicate ribbons before diners' eyes. Other standouts included glazed prawns with walnuts, delicately seasoned green prawns, and a house-specialty Dungeness crab — rich crabmeat folded into pillowy egg whites and served in the shell.
Caesars Entertainment did not offer a reason for the closure or comment on future plans for the space. Meanwhile, another celebrity chef has made a recent debut at the resort: José Andrés opened a Las Vegas outpost of Zaytinya in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace on May 13.
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