NYC's Star Chef Esther Choi Brings Mokbar to Las Vegas' Forum Food Hall

NYC's Star Chef Esther Choi Brings Mokbar to Las Vegas' Forum Food Hall

Get ready for a taste of New York City right on the Las Vegas Strip! Acclaimed chef Esther Choi is bringing her popular Korean restaurant Mokbar to the Forum Food Hall at Caesars Palace this fall.

This will be the fifth Mokbar location, and the first outside of New York City. Mokbar will join other celebrity chef restaurants like Bobby's Burgers by Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri's Chicken Guy!, Tortazo by Rick Bayless, and Buddy V's Pizzeria by Buddy Valastro at the food hall.

Expect a fast-casual menu featuring Mokbar's signature dishes:

• Pan-fried dumplings
• Buns
• Korean fried chicken
• Dumplings in broth
• Ramen
• Rice bowls (including a marinated and seared salmon bowl with avocado and crisp tofu and a ribeye bulgogi bowl with kimchi and a poached egg)

Mokbar will take over the former Tiger Wok & Ramen space.

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