A Famous New York Luxury Boutique Hits the Strip with NoMad Las Vegas
Photos by Benoit Linero, courtesy of NoMad Las Vegas
One word stuck out during our recent tour of NoMad Las Vegas: Inclusive.
The new Vegas outpost brings the New York original to the Strip. It’s a boutique adjunct to Park MGM, turning the top four floors of the resort into a luxury hotel with its own restaurant, bar and high limit room. Despite a tony Jacques Garcia design, a restaurant that looks like a Gilded Age tycoon’s library, and unique artwork in every room, the NoMad’s general manager Brian Dragovich stressed during our tour that the new boutique would welcome the tank-topped tourist with sleeve tattoos as graciously as a three piece suit wearing high roller. If you have money to spend, the NoMad will take it, regardless of your pedigree or fashion sense.
And the NoMad might be worth your money. It’s a Strip hotel that feels far removed from the Strip, with rooms that resemble apartments more than hotel suites. Despite being a part of Park MGM, the NoMad remains aloof, with a semi-private elevator suite with dark burgundy carpet and darker lighting preserving its sense of style. Suites with hardwood floors feature clawfoot tubs in the living room, with spacious bathrooms and walk-in showers in their own separate chambers. Rooms are outfitted with old-fashioned steamer trunks instead of chests or dressers, and decorated with artsy tchotchkes that breath prefab personality into each one. As Andrew Zobler, the CEO of the Sydell Group, the company that owns the NoMad, told us, the NoMad is full of “things that are not typical of a normal hotel.” It’s a warmer and more inviting aesthetic than many of the hotels on the Strip, including Park MGM itself.
The NoMad’s pièce de résistance is its restaurant, which is styled after the library in New York’s original NoMad. If it makes you feel like a Rockefeller, well, that’s the goal: this large, open room is lined with two stories of old books from David Rockefeller’s personal collection, which the NoMad encourages you to take off the shelf and peruse at your leisure. Massive chandeliers hang above a phalanx of rich leather booths, and a bar on one side serves classic martinis and other upscale cocktails. There are smaller dining rooms adjoining the library for VIPs and guests who need some degree of privacy, adorned with art pieces based on Vegas and gambling history. We didn’t have a meal there, so we can’t speak to the menu, but chef Daniel Humm’s roast chicken for two, the most celebrated dish from the New York original, is available. We did enjoy a few drinks at the bar, and can heartily recommend the Old Fashioned.