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All The Vegas Podcast: Restaurateur and culinary pioneer Elizabeth Blau

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Elizabeth Blau at her Downtown Summerlin restaurant Andiron Steak & Sea.
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She’s the founder and CEO of prolific restaurant development company Blau + Associates and a James Beard Award nominee, but we love Elizabeth Blau because Vegas wouldn’t be quite as Vegas without her. After graduating from the Cornell School of Hotel Management, Elizabeth began her hospitality career with the legendary Maccioni family and found her way to Las Vegas when Le Cirque made a deal to expand to Bellagio.

Steve Wynn hired her to develop Bellagio’s game-changing restaurant and chef lineup but that was just the first project that allowed her to make a major impact on Las Vegas. She went on to collaborate with the late Kerry Simon to create his hip, comfort food-focused restaurants, developed another stellar dining portfolio at Wynn Las Vegas and teamed with her husband chef Kim Canteenwalla on their first independent venture, Honey Salt—one of the city’s favorite neighborhood restaurants.

We talk with Elizabeth about her new Honey Salt Culinary Scrapbook; the experience of working on the massive Parq Vancouver project over much of the last year; collaborating with “the Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro for a homey Italian restaurant on the Strip; and her love of the ever-expanding, dynamic off-Strip dining scene.

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