Trevi Italian Restaurant Is Getting Replaced By a Retailer

Trevi Restaurant on March 26, 2024. | Janna Karel Overnight, the Las Vegas Strip restaurant shut down the kitchen and cleared out the furniture Anyone who has ever stepped foot in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace should be familiar with the Trevi Italian Restaurant. It was not acclaimed for its pasta nor for its gelato — but made popular by its central location and ancient Roman theming. On Monday, March 25, it abruptly closed. Scott Marshall, the senior vice president and COO for Landry’s, Inc., the restaurant group that operated Trevi, issued a statement saying that the restaurant closed because the lease expired. “Although we wanted to remain open, it simply was not an option as our location was leased out to a retailer. While we continue to work with the Forum Shops with hopes to relocate to another site, we are temporarily relocating our employees to one of our many sister properties nearby,” said Marshall. The Trevi restaurant was located just inside the Forum Shops when entering from the casino floor of Caesars Palace. The restaurant’s tables were strewn across the mall’s faux cobblestone walkway, surrounded by the fallen column ruins that double as benches, beneath the mall’s painted sky, and in the shadow of the Fountain of the Gods — hilariously, not the Trevi fountain replica, which is located outside. The restaurant offered the most immersive of the property’s ancient Roman theme, with statues in the distance overhead. Within the ropes and stanchions of Trevi’s footprint were a few dozen simple chairs and tables at which diners could order Italian food. Janna Karel Trevi Restaurant, by the Fountain of the Gods. The menu had appetizers like crispy arancini and breaded mozzarella, pasta like pappardelle bolognese and penne puttanesca, brick oven pizza, and entrees of eggplant parmesan, crispy skin salmon, and mushroom risotto. Gelato was made in-house and served both in the restaurant and at a walk-up counter. Trevi had stiff competition for Italian food, with both Carmine’s and RPM Italian within the same mall. A sign posted outside of the former Trevi space said that a new luxury would be coming soon. Janna Karel The former Trevi Restaurant. UPDATE: This story was updated to include a comment from Scott Marshall.

Apr 1, 2024 - 06:26

Trevi Italian Restaurant Is Getting Replaced By a Retailer

Trevi Restaurant in front of the fountain at Caesars Palace. — Trevi Restaurant on March 26, 2024. | Janna Karel

Overnight, the Las Vegas Strip restaurant shut down the kitchen and cleared out the furniture

Anyone who has ever stepped foot in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace should be familiar with the Trevi Italian Restaurant. It was not acclaimed for its pasta nor for its gelato — but made popular by its central location and ancient Roman theming. On Monday, March 25, it abruptly closed.

Scott Marshall, the senior vice president and COO for Landry’s, Inc., the restaurant group that operated Trevi, issued a statement saying that the restaurant closed because the lease expired. “Although we wanted to remain open, it simply was not an option as our location was leased out to a retailer. While we continue to work with the Forum Shops with hopes to relocate to another site, we are temporarily relocating our employees to one of our many sister properties nearby,” said Marshall.

The Trevi restaurant was located just inside the Forum Shops when entering from the casino floor of Caesars Palace. The restaurant’s tables were strewn across the mall’s faux cobblestone walkway, surrounded by the fallen column ruins that double as benches, beneath the mall’s painted sky, and in the shadow of the Fountain of the Gods — hilariously, not the Trevi fountain replica, which is located outside. The restaurant offered the most immersive of the property’s ancient Roman theme, with statues in the distance overhead. Within the ropes and stanchions of Trevi’s footprint were a few dozen simple chairs and tables at which diners could order Italian food.

Trevi Restaurant with stacked chairs and tables, by the Fountain of the Gods. — Trevi Restaurant, by the Fountain of the Gods.

The menu had appetizers like crispy arancini and breaded mozzarella, pasta like pappardelle bolognese and penne puttanesca, brick oven pizza, and entrees of eggplant parmesan, crispy skin salmon, and mushroom risotto. Gelato was made in-house and served both in the restaurant and at a walk-up counter.

Trevi had stiff competition for Italian food, with both Carmine’s and RPM Italian within the same mall. A sign posted outside of the former Trevi space said that a new luxury would be coming soon.