Downtown Vegas museum to debut open-air cocktail lounge, event space
The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas has a new outfit.
It’s the Starlight Plaza — a permanent, walled-in addition just east of the museum that will be part seasonal alfresco cocktail lounge, part entertainment and event venue.
The plaza, opening Oct. 10, encompasses 7,700 square feet, with a design that features breezeblocks; shades of pink, green and gold (a nod to desert modernism and classic Strip resorts); and mixed-media murals across interior walls depicting Vegas icons like Tom Jones, Liberace, Lena Horne and members of the Rat Pack.
A Starlight sign designed by the museum and fashioned by Yesco, the 105-year-old Vegas sign maker, crowns the plaza.
Clint Thoman, the museum’s senior director of food and beverage, leads the beverage program offering seasonal cocktails, seasonal mocktails and, for a limited time, a Golden Age menu of $5 drinks that recalls the days when Vegas poured big for a few bucks. Starlight joins The Underground Speakeasy & Distillery as a cocktail stop at the museum.
Starlight Plaza will present a calendar of live music and public programming while also being available for private event and group bookings. The museum is at 300 Stewart Ave.; visit themobmuseum.org.
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This story has been updated from its original version.
