Bazaar Mar From Jose Andres Gets Opening Date at Shops at Crystals

By Scott Roeben, on August 05 2024
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A highly-anticipated restaurant from acclaimed chef Jose Andres, Bazaar Mar, opens August 7, 2024.

Bazaar Mar, located at the Shops at Crystals, is a seafood restaurant. Hey, nobody’s perfect.

Seafood is to food as Corey Feldman is to dancing.

The decor is as delicious as “a cluster of oyster mushrooms meticulously arranged with pickled mushroom cups and citrus leaves in an anchovy aioli.” Or something.

We gave everyone a heads up the restaurant would be opening soon.

As we are not a seafood person, we’ll wait until Bazaar Meat officially announces it’s moving to Venetian. You can read more about Bazaar Mar at Eater Vegas.

According to Eater Vegas, “Manuel Echeverri, the concept chef and partner for Jose Andres Group, leads the sprawling menu with dishes that are rooted in Spanish flavors with playful elements.”

Eater continues, “Visitors will have the option of selecting a whole fish from a market section, with seasonal choices like branzino, snapper, or sea bream, that can then be grilled in a wood-burning oven, baked in salt, fried, or prepared as sashimi, and then served tableside. The menu has more than 50 items, including small bites like a take on crispy rice sushi but with a filling of ricotta spicy tuna, and fresh sashimi in a puffy hollow bread. Another dish is a play on popcorn shrimp but with baby squid. A plate of delicately sliced ora king salmon carpaccio comes with crackers in the shape of salmon.”

So many delectable offerings we would never, ever try unless our torture would result in saving the lives of a sloth of baby pandas. Yes, a group of bears is called a “sloth.” We take a lot of pride in forcing you to learn things without your permission.

Despite our aversion to seafood, we will no doubt stop by the bar at Bazaar Mar, just to support the place because Jose Andres is a badass, and we sort of feel guilty for never using the accent mark in Andrés. Or José for that matter.

Chef Jose Andres also has Zaytinya coming to Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, which we first told you about back in 2021.

Learn more about Jose Andres and Bazaar Mar on the official site.