Dominique Ansel Las Vegas formally opened its doorways on Friday, Oct. 21, to excited friends, together with the first 4 prospects who drove to Las Vegas in a single day from Southern California and lined up at 6 a.m. The first 100 individuals acquired a particular reward to have fun the event. Chef Dominique Ansel and Caesars Entertainment executives had been joined by a conventional Caesars Palace Royal Court procession to unveil the bakery. The group ceremonially toasted with Chef’s signature Cookie Shots to commemorate the opening.
“Chef Dominique Ansel is one of the most esteemed pastry chefs in the world,” mentioned Caesars Entertainment Regional President Sean McBurney. “The opening of his bakery has been a long time coming. His creations are the perfect addition to our extraordinary culinary offerings at Caesars Palace.”
Chef Dominique Ansel has created signature pastries solely for Caesars Palace, together with a Cronut® taste that modifications every month and by no means repeats. The first featured Cronut® taste is Lucky Cherry Chambord and Caramelia. Available by Nov. 30, the pastry is stuffed with cherry Chambord jam and Valrhona Caramelia (caramelized milk chocolate) ganache.
“I’m so thrilled to finally bring Dominique Ansel Las Vegas to life and have a home here at Caesars Palace,” mentioned Chef Dominique Ansel. “We’ve been so honored and humbled to welcome guests from all around the world. For each of our shops, we strive to make each menu unique, and we hope our ‘Lucky 7’ pastry collection will bring some good fortune to everyone here. I can’t wait to share what we have planned for our future menu creations.”
Exclusively obtainable at Dominique Ansel Las Vegas, the “Lucky 7” assortment symbolizes success and contains:
- Lucky Penny Pig – Milk chocolate crémeux, home made raspberry jam and salted peanut feuilletine are sandwiched between vanilla sablé cookies to create a pig, which is topped with a fortunate gilded chocolate penny.
- Ladybug – Elderflower mascarpone mousse, recent strawberry compote, strawberry gelée, fluffy chiffon cake and a lychee meringue make up a mini backyard watering can, which is completed with a tiny chocolate ladybug.
- Goldfish – Tropical flavors of calamansi coconut mousse, recent diced mango, mango passionfruit gelée and coconut dacquoise make up a goldfish, full with hand-painted white chocolate fins.
- Four-Leaf Clover – Coffee mousse topped with hazelnut dacquoise, darkish chocolate crémeux and crispy feuilletine create a four-leaf clover.
- Fortune Cookie – A sablé Breton base is topped with jasmine tea crémeux and lemon curd. A white chocolate “fortune” stands out of the cookie, wishing luck in Las Vegas.
- Feather – A vanilla sablé cookie is topped with chestnut mousse, banana jam, orange marmalade and banana cake and is garnished with a white chocolate feather.
- Evil Eye Éclair – A traditional French éclair is stuffed with cassis jam and Valrhona Caramelia whipped ganache.
Guests may take pleasure in a number of of Chef Dominique’s signature creations, from the best-selling DKA (Dominique’s Kouign Amann) to Cookie Shots, Frozen S’mores and baked-to-order Mini Madeleines. In addition, a variety of traditional French croissants and viennoiserie will likely be baked recent every day, made with Beurre d’Isigny butter and Les Grands Moulins des Paris flour imported from France.
Dominique Ansel Las Vegas at Caesars Palace spans greater than 1,100 sq. toes and options cafe-style seating for 20 individuals. Open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day; the bakery is subsequent to Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill. For extra info, go to caesars.com/caesars-palace/restaurants/dominique-ansel.
Notes for Editors:
Cronut® is all the time capitalized and needs to be written with a trademark image.
Cronut® is singular. For the plural model, please use Cronut® pastries.
About Caesars Palace
World-renowned Las Vegas resort and a Top 10 “Best U.S. Casino” by USA TODAY 10BEST Readers’ Choice, Caesars Palace options 3,980 lodge visitor rooms and suites, together with the renovated Palace Tower that includes 10 luxurious villas, the newly redesigned 182-room Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace and Forbes Star Award-winning The Laurel Collection by Caesars Palace. The 85-acre resort affords numerous eating choices from the award-winning Bacchanal Buffet to superstar chef-branded eating places, together with Gordon Ramsay HELL’S KITCHEN, Pronto by Giada, Amalfi by Bobby Flay, Vanderpump Cocktail Garden by restauranteur and tv star Lisa Vanderpump, one of Nobu Matsuhisa’s largest Nobu Restaurant and Lounge, Restaurant Guy Savoy, Old Homestead Steakhouse, MR CHOW, award-winning pastry chef Dominique Ansel’s first Las Vegas bakery, legendary New York Steak House Peter Luger (set to open in 2022), Stanton Social Prime (set to open this winter) and extra. For the greatest in cocktails, vacation spot lounges embrace Montecristo Cigar Bar, Alto Bar, VISTA Cocktail Lounge and Stadia Bar. The resort additionally options practically 130,000 sq. toes of on line casino house, the Caesars Race & Sportsbook at Caesars Palace with a 143-foot HD LED display screen and state-of-the-art sound, a five-acre Garden of the Gods Pool Oasis, the luxurious Qua Baths & Spa, Hairdreams by Michael Boychuck, 5 wedding ceremony chapels and gardens, and the 75,000-square-foot OMNIA Nightclub with the prime DJs reminiscent of Steve Aoki. The 4,300-seat Colosseum, Billboard Magazine’s “Venue of the Decade: 2000 – 2009″ and the prime venue of its dimension 2010 – 2019,” spotlights world-class entertainers including Sting, Keith Urban, Rod Stewart and Jerry Seinfeld. The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace showcases more than 160 boutiques and restaurants. Caesars Palace is operated by a subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: CZR). For extra info, please go to caesarspalace.com or the Caesars Entertainment Las Vegas media room. Find Caesars Palace on Facebook and observe on Twitter and Instagram. Know When To Stop Before You Start.® If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-522-4700 ©2021, Caesars License Company, LLC.
About Chef Dominique Ansel
James Beard Award-winning Pastry Chef, Dominique Ansel has shaken up the pastry world with innovation and creativity at the heart of his work. Chef Dominique has been responsible for creating some of the most fêted pastries in the world, including: the Cronut® (named one of TIME Magazine’s “25 Best innovations of 2013”), The Cookie Shot, Frozen S’more, Blossoming Hot Chocolate, and many more. For his prolific creativity, he was named the World’s Best Pastry Chef in 2017 by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. Food & Wine has called him a “Culinary Van Gogh” while the New York Post coined him “the Willy Wonka of New York.” He has also been bestowed the prestigious l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole, France’s second highest honor.
Prior to opening his own shop, Dominique served as the Executive Pastry Chef for Chef Daniel Boulud’s celebrated restaurant Daniel, when the team earned its coveted third Michelin star and a four-star review from The New York Times. In 2011, Dominique opened his first shop, the eponymous Dominique Ansel Bakery in NYC’s Soho neighborhood, with just four employees. In January 2020, he launched Dang Wen Li by Dominique Ansel in Hong Kong, and most recently in July 2021, he opened Dominique Ansel Workshop, a croissant counter inside of his pastry kitchens in NYC’s Flatiron neighborhood. 2022 brought the debut of Chef’s first-ever Las Vegas location, Dominique Ansel Las Vegas at Caesars Palace, which opened in October. Dominique is also the author of two cookbooks: Dominique Ansel: The Secret Recipes (October 2014), and Everyone Can Bake: Simple Recipes to Master & Mix (April 2020).
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