Miami-Based Clubstaurant at the Venetian Calls It Quits After Two Years
Villa Azur. | Miranda Alam The bass-thumping late-night restaurant with $155 pasta has closed at the Grand Canal Shoppes Villa Azur opened at the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian Resort in November 2022 with saturated purple lighting, triple-digit-priced pasta, and ear-splittingly loud music. The South Beach, Florida-based restaurant was making a bid for the tourist who might have aged out of the Las Vegas club scene but wanted something sexier and more energized than a traditional sit-down dinner. Two years later, Danko Hospitality’s Villa Azur has closed for good. “There’s nothing like that in between,” Danko Hospitality’s CEO Jacobo Jafif had said prior to the restaurant’s opening. “It’s for people who want an amazing dinner and, like myself, don’t want to go to a nightclub.” A spokesperson for the Venetian Resort confirmed that the restaurant on the second floor of the Shoppes closed in December 2024. Villa Azur opened with a color-changing ceiling above a chandelier of 3,000 crystals, spotlight lighting for tables ordering bottle service, roving saxophonists, and a $155 bowl of fettuccini with lemon sauce and a heaping spoonful of golden ossetra caviar pasta. Salt-baked branzino was flambeed tableside, and syrupy cocktails came served in swan-shaped glasses with herbs and flowers. While Villa Azur is out, the clubstaurant as a concept is still alive and well at the Venetian Resort. In summer of 2023, HaSalon opened just downstairs from Villa Azur with tabletop dancing, spinning napkins, and trays of braided string beans. Party brunch at Lavo is a mind-boggling morning of one-pound meatballs, fog machines, and banana costume-clad waitresses. And Cote Korean Steakhouse, with its stadium-style seating, is on deck to open this year. The Venetian Resort did not comment on what is planned to go into the Villa Azur space — though it would likely accommodate José Andrés’s Bazaar Meat rather nicely.
Tomas Kauer - Las Vegas Syndicated News 
The bass-thumping late-night restaurant with $155 pasta has closed at the Grand Canal Shoppes
Villa Azur opened at the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian Resort in November 2022 with saturated purple lighting, triple-digit-priced pasta, and ear-splittingly loud music. The South Beach, Florida-based restaurant was making a bid for the tourist who might have aged out of the Las Vegas club scene but wanted something sexier and more energized than a traditional sit-down dinner. Two years later, Danko Hospitality’s Villa Azur has closed for good.
“There’s nothing like that in between,” Danko Hospitality’s CEO Jacobo Jafif had said prior to the restaurant’s opening. “It’s for people who want an amazing dinner and, like myself, don’t want to go to a nightclub.” A spokesperson for the Venetian Resort confirmed that the restaurant on the second floor of the Shoppes closed in December 2024.
Villa Azur opened with a color-changing ceiling above a chandelier of 3,000 crystals, spotlight lighting for tables ordering bottle service, roving saxophonists, and a $155 bowl of fettuccini with lemon sauce and a heaping spoonful of golden ossetra caviar pasta. Salt-baked branzino was flambeed tableside, and syrupy cocktails came served in swan-shaped glasses with herbs and flowers.
While Villa Azur is out, the clubstaurant as a concept is still alive and well at the Venetian Resort. In summer of 2023, HaSalon opened just downstairs from Villa Azur with tabletop dancing, spinning napkins, and trays of braided string beans. Party brunch at Lavo is a mind-boggling morning of one-pound meatballs, fog machines, and banana costume-clad waitresses. And Cote Korean Steakhouse, with its stadium-style seating, is on deck to open this year. The Venetian Resort did not comment on what is planned to go into the Villa Azur space — though it would likely accommodate José Andrés’s Bazaar Meat rather nicely.
