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"Major Food Group — the hospitality group behind Carbone, led by Mario Carbone, Jeff Zalaznick, and Rich Torrisi — debuted Carbone Riviera, its first seafood concept, to much fanfare in November. Inside the elaborate restaurant at the Bellagio, guests dine surrounded by Picasso and Renoir originals, or outside on a lakeside terrace overlooking the Bellagio fountains, dotted with olive trees. The menu spans a whole fish program that includes salt-baked branzino and Dover sole grilled over Japanese charcoal, a two-pound lobster fettuccine, and Carbone’s famed spicy rigatoni vodka." - Ryan Slattery