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VEGAS DINING NEWS: Bellagio’s New Dinnertainment, Rio’s Hash House a Gone-Gone

Posted on: January 6, 2026, 04:44h. 

Last updated on: January 6, 2026, 04:45h.

The Mayfair Supper Club reopened at Bellagio on New Year’s Eve with a fully reworked production and expanded menu, marking the venue’s first major creative overhaul since opening in 2019. The relaunch introduced a new nightly show produced by Outside The Box Amusements, the entertainment company known for staging Usher’s Las Vegas productions at Caesars Palace and Park MGM.

The dress code at the Mayfair Supper Club is formal, the laws of physics are casual. (Image: Bellagio)

The new Mayfair production is built as a continuous, dinner‑integrated performance featuring a cast of 16 aerialists, dancers, musicians, and specialty artists. The show unfolds in segments throughout the evening, blending live music, choreography, and acrobatics around the dining room’s existing layout and its view of the Bellagio fountains. This production replaces a previous show staged by No Ceilings Entertainment, which ran for six years.

Alongside the entertainment overhaul, Mayfair’s culinary team has introduced more than a dozen new dishes. The updated menu keeps long‑running staples such as Prime Rib and Roasted Half Chicken but adds a series of visually driven, high‑end plates.

New items include Wagyu Wonton Soup, Caviar Frites, a King Crab California Roll, a Surf & Turf Roll, and General K’s Hot & Sour Lobster, a large‑format dish served family‑style.

Chinatown Update

Pho So 1 beat Chinatown to Chinatown. (Image: Trip Advisor)

Pho So 1 at 4745 Spring Mountain Road, which actually predated Las Vegas’ Chinatown, has officially closed after 31 years. As Chinatownvegas.com reported, the beloved Vietnamese eatery — known for its beef noodle soup — shut its doors for “intense repairs” back in November. But that temporary closure turned permanent, as relayed by a statement from the owners on January 2. However, the restaurant’s farewell included a promise that “we will be back.”

The Cheongdam Food Hall is not Las Vegas’ first Asian food hall — that was the one Lucky Dragon Hotel & Casino ran while it briefly operated from December 2016 to January 2018 — but it’s definitely the first Las Vegas restaurant to take over a former drugstore. The food hall opened last month at 8610 Spring Mountain Road in Chinatown, in one of the 1,000 stores closed by Rite Aid in 2025. It features Korean cuisine from Star Kisa House, Namsan Tonkatsu and the sandwich shop Downtowner; all-you-can-eat sushi by Smile Shota; poke from GT Poke; and spicier Japanese fare from Curry-Ya.

Dining Ins & Outs

The Kitchen Table, a breakfast and lunch spot, has replaced Hash House A Go Go at the Rio. (Image: riolasvegas.com)

Hash House A Go Go, the breakfast chain famous for truck wheel-sized pancakes, has closed at the Rio, where it opened in 2007. The casino has filled the space with a breakfast and lunch spot called The Kitchen Table, which opened December 29. (See Vital Vegas’ story here.) Hash House locations are still open at the Linq, the Plaza Hotel downtown and at 6800 W. Sahara Ave.

Also opening at the Rio will be “@Pizza” this spring. Unlike most pizzerias, this one will exclusively serve up oval-shaped stuffed-crust pies. And, unlike most businesses introduced by East Coast-based Latitude Food Group, the location will be owned and operated directly by the casino.

Seoul Bird has flown the Aria coup. It was replaced at the Proper Eats Food Hall earlier this month with Lucky Bird, another chicken tender food station from Clique Hospitality that only had to change half its former sign.

Finney’s Crafthouse, a gastropub based in Southern California, is opening in both Downtown Summerlin and Town Square, according to Clark County permit records.


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