LPM’s Côte d’Azur Vibes Are Coming To The Cosmopolitan Of Las Vegas

LPM Restaurant & Bar, a festive French Riviera-inspired destination with locations in London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Miami, Hong Kong and beyond, will open its biggest venue yet at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas this fall.

“Las Vegas has the joie de vivre that we as a brand support in our ethos,” LPM CEO Nicolas Budzynski says.

The 250-seat Las Vegas location of LPM will serve Cote d’Azur-evoking food with Italian and French influences in a bright indoor-outdoor setting. Think fresh produce, good olive oil and simple presentations like an unadorned tomato salad. Warm prawns will be bathed in olive oil and lemon juice. Guests will rip and dip bread between sips of rosé or LPM’s beloved tomatini (a flavorful multi-layered cocktail with tomato, Ketel One vodka, white balsamic vinegar, sugar syrup, lemon juice, salt, pepper and a cherry-tomato garnish with more salt and pepper).

Heartier dishes like escargot and lamb cutlets (with kalamata olives, aubergine caviar and pine nuts), and desserts like vanilla crème brûlée, will also encourage long leisurely hangouts. Whether you want to eat toasted-brioche French toast with spiced ice cream as a main course or as a dessert is up to you.

All of LPM’s locations are designed for over-the-top daytime dining in light-filled, airy, art-adorned spaces. But this being Las Vegas, LPM’s dinner vibes at The Cosmopolitan could be transporting as well. There’s no reason to limit yourself when you’re on the Vegas Strip, and LPM (which debuted in London in 2007) offers multiple experiences all at once.

“We don’t want to be closed in one box as purely Italian or purely French,” Budzynski says. “So we are kind of in between. And we also get inspired by the whole Mediterranean in general. The whole concept is what we call family-driven. We want people to feel at home when they come to LPM. The food comes out like it does at home. It’s in the middle of the table, and everybody’s sharing and helping each other or helping themselves and trying everything. It gives all the guests the chance to try the maximum amount of dishes and flavors, unlike French cuisine in general where people have their individual plate.”

Fun is a big part of the LPM menu, so The Cosmopolitan (which has a wide-ranging restaurant collection that includes Momofuku, Jaleo, Blue Ribbon, Zuma, STK, Scarpetta, Beauty & Essex, Hattie B’s Hot Chicken and many more) seems like an ideal place for LPM to exist.

“The Cosmopolitan has this whimsical approach in everything they do,” Budzynski says. “They have the right audience. They have sophistication on one side, but they also have the trailblazers. People who go to the hotel want to discover something different, something new, something unexpected.”

This is a big bet for LPM, which has a 180-seat Dubai restaurant as its current largest location. But when you go into a Las Vegas property with 3,000 guestrooms, a 100,000-square-foot casino, all sorts of top-tier restaurant brands and the Marquee nightclub and dayclub, it’s obviously time to raise the stakes.