The new restaurant is a partnership between a Chicago outfit and a group with five restaurants in Vegas.
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Rika Arepa Express, a family-owned spot on East Flamingo Road, offers other Venezuelan dishes like fried cheese sticks, corn pancakes with pork and alfajores shortbread cookies.
The brand’s original founders have secured three locations in the local area and are looking to open the first in early 2024 in North Las Vegas.
The restaurant, with updates of classic frites, a dramatic raw bar and a 140-seat dining room, is planned for a late 2023 debut.
“To deprive anyone of saying ‘Taco Tuesday’ — be it Taco Bell or anyone who provides tacos to the world — is like depriving the world of sunshine itself,” the Taco Bell filing reads.
Up in Scoops features blend-ins inspired by songs and movies, Han Solo encased in carbonite and a “Potty like it’s 1999” bathroom.
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