La Cave offers fine dining with ‘hideaway feel’
For all of the culinary riches they offer, one thing most fine dining restaurants along the Strip are not is cozy.
La Cave Wine & Food Hideaway, which opened about two months ago at Wynn Las Vegas, is. And that, managing member Michael Morton says, is wholly by design.
La Cave offers a selection of small plate dishes in surroundings that Morton describes as cozy, intimate and, even, "sexy."
In designing La Cave, the goal was both to create a "hideaway feel" for guests and, Morton says, make La Cave a "complement to everything else in the hotel, and I think we’ve really done that."
La Cave is made up of three roughly 1,000-square-foot rooms that convey the ambience of environments ranging from an intimate wine cellar to a garden lounge.
Its menu offers a variety of small plates, almost all of which are less than $20.
Among the menu items: Flatbreads; seafood; grilled items; a selection of meats that includes artisan salami, hot sopressata, salumi salami, coppa and jamon serrano (for $5 each); and a selection of cheeses that includes Chimay grand cru, St. Andre and petit basque (for $5 each).
La Cave’s wine list includes about 250 bottles, and about 30 wines are available by the glass in 2-, 4- and 6-ounce portions. That, Morton notes, inspires some guests to order a different wine with each round of food.
Also available is a selection of about 12 draft beers and more than a dozen bottled beers.
La Cave Wine & Food Hideaway is open Sundays through Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to midnight, and Fridays and Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to, Morton says, "late."
Reservations are accepted, but not required, and a DJ plays in the lounge Friday and Saturday evenings.
Starters: Bacon-wrapped dates with blue cheese fondue, $10; artichoke and roasted pepper flatbread, $12; ham, quail egg and fontina cheese flatbread, $10
Salads and vegetables: Salt-roasted beets with whipped goat cheese and pistachio, $8; Gorgonzola salad with bibb lettuce, pickled onions and crispy prosciutto, $10
Small plates: Diver sea scallops with polenta cake and shrimp sauce, $15; beef fillet with crostini and blue cheese, $16; jumbo lump crab lettuce cups with blood orange segments, $13
Extras: A charcuterie board of three meats and three cheeses, $27
Desserts: Beignets with strawberry jam and creme Anglaise, and coffee lollipop with hazelnut crunch, $8 each
Information: 770-7375