SOL Mexican Cocina

"Sol Mexican Cocina is now open inside the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. The Baja-style restaurant is serving coastal Mexican favorites like duck tacos, ceviche, and grilled elote corn inside a breezy and open restaurant space. The dining room opens to a bar with lounge seating in shades of beige and black. Inside, the ceiling is draped in cool tan sheets, swaying over the restaurant’s centerpiece, a boulder with a sculpture made of tree boughs and fabric. The menu spans more traditional Mexican favorites to modern takes, like the Vampiro chicken taco, with chicken and chiles encased in a quesadilla, rather than an individual tortilla. The Canarditas duck combines deep-fried duck leg confit with tequila-laced blackberry serrano salsa. An appetizer of grilled street corn is presented tableside, where a server shaves sweet kernels off a cob, into a bowl of sauce and spices, ready to be scooped up with crispy seasoned tortilla rounds. And the Spanish octopus is impossibly tender, combined with spicy sauce and fingerling potatoes. For dessert, there’s a warm and surprisingly fluffy churro served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The beverage menu highlights the restaurant’s hand-crafted margaritas along with over 100 mezcal and tequila-focused cocktails. Some cocktails are made with Bruno Mars’ SelvaRey line of rum, like the Cold Bruno espresso martini that Mars helped develop. Other drinks are made with Cardi B’s Whipshots booze-infused whipped cream. A cocktail called the Chainsmoker uses the DJ duo’s tequila brand to create a cocktail that overflows with smoke. Sol, from the Southern California-based Xperience Restaurant Group is located inside the space previously occupied by Border Grill, near RPM Italian. It’s open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday." - Janna Karel

"SOL Mexican Cocina is gearing up to open around Thanksgiving. The new restaurant at the Forum Shops will seat 305 guests in a space of over 11,000 square feet." - Janna Karel

"Sol Mexican Cocina is taking over the space previously occupied by Border Grill at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. California-based Xperience Restaurant Group is opening the 11,000-square-foot restaurant which serves Baja-inspired handcrafted bites and drinks. Menu options include grilled sweet corn, spicy ‘popcorn’ cauliflower tacos with deep-fried cauliflower in spicy beer batter, Spanish octopus, and over 100 cocktails. Sol Mexican Cocina will open this fall." - Janna Karel

"Frida Mexican Cuisine, also set to open in the Forum Shops at Caesars, is currently hiring and expects a winter 2020 arrival." - Bradley Martin

"Frida Mexican Cuisine, created by the Frimex Hospitality Group, is set to take over the ground-floor space at the Forum Shops at Caesars. Promoting itself as an 'ambassador to authentic, artisanal, and traditional Mexican cuisine,' Frida promises a 'gastronomic journey through Mexico' with a focus on its tequila menu and a Sunday mariachi brunch at some locations." - Bradley Martin