Celebrity chefs fold in Las Vegas

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In what some are calling the beginning of the end of the reign of celebrity chefs in Las Vegas, both David Burke and Charlie Trotter have stepped away from the restaurants that bear their names.

Elsewhere on this city's glittering Strip, however, chefs like Rick Moonen of rm seafood at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino have reinvented their concepts to create a more distinct upscale experience, and high-end venues such as Joel Robuchon are planning to raise prices in light of a more optimistic outlook for 2010.

Burke last week announced the end of a joint venture with E Brands Restaurants, based in Orlando, which opened the restaurant David Burke at The Venetian more than two years ago.

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I went to The Well in Waldo last night. Mainly to meet with some friends.
Quick up / down?
Snarky server, crude attempts at upselling, marginal appetizers.
That said, it was pretty clean, dug the deck upstairs, but with no shade, it will get crazy hot this summer.