What are five things to know about Sage?
Las Vegas has become quite the culinary destination with many great restaurants like Sage, Shawn McClain’s temple to new American cooking. Here are five things you should know about the restaurant inside ARIA Resort & Casino:
1. The menu’s always changing. You’ll encounter an ever-evolving seasonal menu of New American cuisine that incorporates the best of the season’s fruit and vegetables. While many restaurants in Las Vegas are meat and potatoes all year round, Sage stands out for its farm-fresh fare.
2. Try some absinthe. The green fairy makes a night in Vegas all the more alluring, so why not have a glass after dinner? The restaurant features 11 absinthes from around the world, prepared using traditional fountains and balanciers or drippers.
3. There’s also a tasting menu. If you can’t make up your mind about what to order, opt for the restaurant’s tasting menu, which offers up some of the classics, like foie gras custard brûlée and scallops.
4. That art on the wall may seem familiar. They’re hand-painted murals by Paulin Pâris that offer reinterpretations of famous early modernist paintings such as Manet’s The Lunch on the Grass, located in the bar area and Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party in the main dining room.
5. The chef is well known in Chicago. Sage is actually Shawn McClain’s first venture outside of Chicago, where he helms Green Zebra. The James Beard Award-wining chef opened Sage in 2009 and the Las Vegas restaurant mirrors many of the sustainable principles that govern Green Zebra.
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5 days agoLaura Janelle Downey answered the question:
What are some of the specialty cocktails available at Sage?
Every Vegas experience has to include a cocktail (or two). But not just any old beverage will do. Head to the Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star Sage restaurant at ARIA Resort & Casino for its unique drinks list, which guests can read up on via an iPad brought to your table by a sommelier. It’s all in the presentation, right? Start the night off with a complimentary amuse-bouche such as the Pink Lemonade. The beverage is poured into an ice-filled absinthe balancier and then moves slowly through a see-saw device in an effort to create the perfect libation. Other drink favorites include The Cat Walk (Belvedere Lemon tea vodka, aperol, St. Germain liqueur, orange cream, rooibos tea, passion fruit, egg white and prosecco) and the Last Word (Plymouth Gin, green chartreuse, Luxardo maraschino cherries and fresh lime). If you don’t know what to order, just ask for general manager Robert Nikodem or any of the other mixologists — they’ll explain the subtleties of the beverages and craft choice concoctions worth checking out.
