The Strip is all about culinary and boozy indulgence, but a new bar at the Forum Shops at Caesars is turning those “bad” habits right side up. True Bar is an extension of True Food Kitchen, a healthy chain that boasts Oprah as a board member and first expanded to Summerlin last October.
The bar menu, led by Director of Beverage Jon Augustin, is organized into two playful categories: Detox and Retox. For each, the syrups are made in-house and the juices are made fresh daily. The Detox side features nutrient-heavy, booze-free delights, including Dr. Weil’s Wellness Shot ($6), named after the restaurant founder/health guru Andrew Weil. It has sea buckthorn, pomegranate and ginger. Trendy health ingredients and superfoods—green tea, chia seeds, kale, black cherry prickly pear and hibiscus—dominate the menu.
On the Retox side, these same ingredients appear, but with alcohol. The Garden of Eden ($14) gin cocktail is a not-too-sweet concoction of cucumber, citrus and elderflower. The Juniper Rose ($13) features rose-infused gin, thyme and a grapefruit cordial.
Bar classics get reinvented with the True Food fingerprint, too. Organic tomato and house-made Tajin spice up the Michelada ($8). Organic aloe liqueur and pomegranate make up the Pom Collins ($13). A traditional Cosmo becomes a Causemo ($14), with prickly pear, lime and a percentage of sales going to charity. Not to be forgotten, the wines are organically, sustainably or biodynamically farmed.
“We want to follow the same philosophy as the kitchen in the bar,” Augustin says in a promotional video. “We are a scratch bar."
TRUE FOOD KITCHEN Forum Shops at Caesars, 702-340-2600. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m.-midnight; Saturday, 10 a.m.-midnight; Sunday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
