Las Vegas Weekly
You might need a bacon-wrapped footlong with chili while you watch the big game.
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Brock Radke Mon, Feb 1, 2021 (11:12 a.m.)
Mariposa Cocina & Cocktails has planned to close temporarily for four to six weeks while working on some renovations and new programming and waiting for restaurant capacity restrictions to loosen from the current 25% mandate. Executive chef
Robert Lomeli told the
Weekly about the pause in business, which was set to begin over the weekend, explaining that the modern Mexican restaurant hasn’t been able to open as planned when it debuted in early December because of the strict capacity rules. “We want to make sure people understand we’re not giving up or closing our doors, and we’re not going to walk away from a project we’re all very proud of,” he says. “We put a lot of time and effort in, and we’re not going to fold. This not only gives us time to get settled, but also do some remodeling and renovations, and we w