Center bars are the fulcrums of casino floors, thoughtfully designed to tie rooms together and serve as staging areas for a night on the town. For decades, Planet Hollywood’s Heart Bar beat with a rhythm energized by the action at the gaming tables, its location a go-to landmark for meeting up before dinner or a show. The heart still beats, but this past winter the scene crystallized into new form as the shimmering, gleaming Glass Bar.
Partitions of prisms now create the nerve center of Planet Hollywood’s nightlife. Where Heart Bar was cozy, Glass Bar is elegant and dramatic. Designed by international firm Rockwell Group, whose next-level hospitality visions have helped shaped the look of contemporary Las Vegas nightlife and restaurants, Glass Bar resembles an oversized, overturned chandelier refashioned for 4,000 square feet of sipping space.
Thousands of amber and gray crystal prisms form a contoured sweep around the bar and lounge and create an ombré glow within the interior, enhanced by polished chrome brass framing and mirrored columns. Dark woods dominate hard surfaces while a black-and-white pattern used in the design palette makes seating upholstery pop.
A redesigned bar calls for a complementary new menu. Glass Bar’s signature drinks include the Fruit & Pebble, a Bacardi Superior rum libation flavored with Fruity Pebbles syrup and lime juice, garnished with Fruity Pebbles dust. The Light Show delivers a Ketel One cucumber and mint vodka and Lagoon Bay aperitif topped with Fever-Tree cucumber tonic water in a glowing blue vessel.
Grey Goose strawberry and lemongrass vodka, passion fruit purée, lime juice, sparkling wine and cotton candy are combined to create the Casino Carnival. Other intriguingly named drinks include tequila tasters Pink Diablo and Ransom Note, cognac-and-Campari cocktail Italian Stallion and bourbon-based Brown Butter Derby.
Glass Bar feels like more of a destination than a staging area while retaining a seamlessness with nearby blackjack tables. It’s still a go-to place to meet up before taking the adjacent escalator to the mezzanine level to see Criss Angel MINDFREAK or after a concert steps away at PH Live. It’s easy to find. Follow the glow.
Planet Hollywood, 702.785.5555. caesars.com
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