Las Vegas Restaurants
Payard Patisserie
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3570 Las Vegas Blvd. S
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Tel. (702) 731-7292
Waddle over to Caesars Palace for a whiff of two new venues guaranteed to bring chocoholics to their knees. Payard Patisserie opened last fall, the latest outlet for the French confection connection. The Caesars brand comes with an open-counter design in gold, coffee and wood tones followed by a secret adjunct in the back with white-clothed tables.
You can order the Tout Chocolate dinner and savor a three-course meal that includes warm chocolate tarts with cocoa nibs tuile (caramel mixed with candied nuts and chocolate custard cream) and gianduia ice cream (smooth hazelnut-flavored Swiss chocolate).
A fixed-price menu for $45 a person includes a cheese and fruit course, a coffee, caramel and nut course, an orchard course and a chocolate course. The Tout Chocolate option costs the same.
Lark Ellen Gould, Special to L.A. Times (Feb. 5, 2008)
I have found the best bargain in Vegas: Continental breakfast at the tiny Payard Pâtisserie & Bistro in Caesars Palace. François Payard is a brilliant French pastry chef who's well known in New York, where he has his first restaurant. But I doubt his name rings much of a bell with people outside Manhattan. I'm ringing it loud and clear.
Breakfast here is sheer poetry. For a mere $16, you get good, strong coffee, fresh-squeezed orange juice and as many of Payard's exquisite morning pastries as you can devour in one sitting. That means a croissant so buttery and flaky, you and the table are covered in crumbs at the first bite. You'd be hard-pressed to find one anywhere in Paris (I mean the real Paris) of this caliber.
–S. Irene Virbila, L.A. Times Restaurant Critic (Apr. 4, 2008)
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