Gjelina’s roasted chicken, artichokes and date cake. TRIP DAVIS
Los Angeles mainstay Gjelina, the sustainably minded produce-forward restaurant that’s powered Venice’s Abbot Kinney Boulevard since 2008, will open its Las Vegas location at the Venetian on December 26.
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See all of our newslettersGjelina, led by founder Fran Camaj, is a unicorn of an L.A. destination that’s influenced its city’s scenester-chic culinary scene more than any food truck, Erewhon smoothie or Gwyneth Paltrow-approved pasta. With its unfussy top-tier cooking, crowd-pleasing pizzas and seasonal vegetable dishes that might change daily, Gjelina has always defied trends while creating its own. For example, all the reclaimed wood at Gjelina’s L.A. location has clearly influenced countless restaurants, to the point that Camaj mostly avoided reclaimed wood for his Vegas buildout.
The Venetian outpost will be the third Gjelina. (Earlier this month, Camaj reopened New York’s Gjelina, which originally debuted in 2023, became wildly popular during the daytime and then shuttered after a fire that occurred before the restaurant had even offered dinner service.) The Vegas Gjelina is also part of a $1.5 billion makeover at the Venetian, which the resort has said is the biggest and priciest hotel renovation in history. But as usual, Camaj and chef Juan Hernandez will focus on maintaining the Gjelina ethos. That means constantly going to L.A. farmers markets, including the unrivaled........