Bobby Flay’s Amalfi Restaurant Starts Its Las Vegas Operations

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Gambling, music, discreet misbehavior and shopping are among the reasons why people visit Las Vegas. That said, seafood and fish markets have not been among the reasons, at least so far.

Bobby Flay, a restaurateur cum popular chef, has fully redesigned his Caesars Palace-based Mesa Grill location into a space that honors Italy’s Amalfi coast cliffs. Flay’s flagship restaurant in Vegas was closed down in the epidemic period, but it has been transformed into an elegant, casual, and more intimate location. Almost all of the Mesa Grill kitchen staff and waitstaff have come back and been trained again.

Flay and Olivia Jane worked together to make many spaces there, including a lounge area with 40 seats and a bar with 30 seats. A floor made of limestone mosaic tiles and beams made of teak wood, frame the lounge area. The restaurant’s main dining space has antique brass and textured walls with good views of the kitchen.

The restaurant now serves Calabrian chilis in place of jalapenos, and it has a seafood and fish display with a fishmonger on hand to serve the items as its staff member. As a concept, the display of the products at Amalfi is inspired by Italy’s coastal markets. Amalfi offers fish in a made-to-order form and as filleted or whole, roasted in an oven or grilled above charcoal. At the same time, it serves the fish items with the options of Meyer’s lemons and capers, Calabrian Chile Pesto and salsa verde or red pepper. Golden snappers, red snappers, branzino, black bass, and Carabinero shrimp are among the selections here.

Seafood is at the center of Amalfi’s menu, which makes the menu not just casual but also accessible. The antipasto with pistachio pesto and Meyer lemon aioli as well as salmon carpaccio containing pistachio bread fragments are good starter options, followed by an Amalfi pasta menu. Scialatelli with scampi sauce as well as orecchiette with basil, ricotta and eggplant Bolognese are also regarded as very good options. For the sweet course at the end of your meal, one option is the Amalfi Pistachio Sundae with chocolate sauce, pistachio gelato, Amarena cherries, chopped pistachios, and vanilla cream. Another delightful dessert option is the Amalfi blueberry panna cotta with cherries on top.

Flay actively participates in the Amalfi operations as he goes through the restaurant’s kitchen space inspecting all dishes for customers in its dining room. Flay told LA Weekly that he expects to move to Italy someday as he has been quite obsessed with the nation for the past 20 years. Flay loves the so-called Mediterranean diet, which contains olive oil and many vegetables. Flay finds Italian food to be full-flavored and casual, which is what he loves more than anything else about it.

One wonders how much Giada De Laurentiis advised Flay on the restaurant project as Laurentiis stars with him in an Italian TV series named after them. Flay said that Laurentiis did not say anything about it. As for Flay, Laurentiis is an Italian who loves the reality that he loves Italy to a great extent. Laurentiis accused Flay of being Italian to a greater extent than herself, and she always makes his pronunciation right. Flay does not find anything wrong with it, as he wants to know how to pronounce things properly.

Flay may be more comfortable being around in the restaurant kitchen than elsewhere, but he has an undying passion for reality competition shows. That is why Flay hosts BBQ Brawl with Eddie Jackson and Michael Symon. Filmed from April to March 2021 in Austin, BBQ Brawl’s new season was premiered on Food Network in June this year. As far as turnaround time is concerned, many people would find that to be quite remarkable.

It was nice for Flay to return to the show after not doing it for a whole year. He found it helpful that the entire show was filmed outdoors as well as great to return to competition-based cooking. Flay also said that numerous people came out in Vegas, and that he would not be surprised in the event it became the busiest-ever summer in the city’s history.