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What Happened to Bartolotta After Best Thing I Ever Ate? (Las Vegas, NV)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3 Las Vegas, Nevada

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Bartolotta has closed — confirmed via wynnlasvegas.com, September 14, 2026.

What the source shows: Wynn Las Vegas's own current dining directory (accessed September 14, 2026, and showing live 2026 content such as a 2026 James Beard Award mention) lists all 31 current restaurants, bars, and lounges at the resort and does not include Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare. The restaurant, chef Paul Bartolotta's namesake Italian seafood concept, served its final meal on October 18, 2015 after Bartolotta's departure from Wynn was announced in July 2015, and it has never reappeared on the property's roster since. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

"The Best Thing I Ever Ate" (episode "Appetizers") featured a seafood antipasto from Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare, chef Paul Bartolotta's upscale Italian seafood restaurant inside Wynn Las Vegas, known for whole fish flown in daily from Mediterranean and other overseas markets and prepared tableside. The restaurant opened inside the Wynn resort in 2005 and won recognition including a 2012 Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star rating. AFAR magazine featured the restaurant in an October 2012 dining guide, describing its antipasto and whole-fish presentations. Sources disagree on the restaurant's current status: Urban Dining Guide, checked 2026-09, lists it as closed but gives no closure date, while other listing pages referenced during research showed 2026-dated content without directly addressing current operating status. Frommer's travel guide also listed the restaurant among recommended Wynn dining options in an undated write-up found during the same search.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 3

Episode 6
Air date not confirmed
Title: Appetizers · What was featured: a whole-fish seafood antipasto at chef Paul Bartolotta's Italian restaurant inside Wynn Las Vegas

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. urbandiningguide.com https://urbandiningguide.com/city/bartolotta-ristorante-di-mare-wynn-las-vegas/
  2. afar.com https://www.afar.com/places/bartolotta-ristorante-di-mare-las-vegas
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