That’s right. I’m saying it.
Tear out Primrose.
Not renovate it.
Not rebrand it.
Not bring in some stupid celebrity chef.
Tear it out and build a food court.
Primrose is the biggest disappointment inside Park MGM. I don’t even think that’s controversial anymore. I’ve said it before. Three visits. Three strikes. Baseball rules apply. You’re out.
It’s trying to be an upscale Denny’s with 10x the cost and about half the flavor. The bacon is hard as a rock. I could stop there. Once the bacon is a hockey puck, the rest of the plate is already on notice.
It isn’t The Henry.
It isn’t Salt & Ivy.
And sitting that close to T-Mobile, with a garden not far from the pool, it could be so much more than a pretty room serving breakfast until 2 p.m.
Park MGM Doesn’t Have a Food Problem
That’s the part people are going to miss.
Park MGM has a stellar list of dining options… for dinner.
Best Friend.
Bavette’s.
La La Noodle
Eataly.
Side Betty when you want a burger, wings, or something after midnight.
Chef food truck…… When it decides to open.
I actually like Eataly. I wrote about Toscana. I finally ate at La Pizza e La Pasta and had a good time. The market is fun, a different take on the other Eataly concepts I have been to. If you want to wander around and turn dinner into a little Italian vacation, it’s one of the better versions of that idea on the Strip.
But let’s talk about what people mean when they say, “Oh Jason, they have Eataly.”
A sandwich and chips.
A piece of pizza.
A quick lunch that somehow turns into a $25+ decision.
That’s not a food court.
That’s a dining destination.
I’m not saying Eataly is bad. I’m saying it’s not solving the lunch problem. Inside Park MGM, Eataly is an experience. Side Betty is attached to a sports bar that happens to feed you. What’s missing is the middle.
The place you go when it’s 105 outside, you’ve been at the pool all afternoon, and you want something good, fast, and reasonably priced without turning lunch into a $60 event.
They Almost Built the Answer
Park MGM already flirted with this.
The Chef Truck is sitting on the casino floor. Roy Choi. Jon Favreau. The whole Chef movie bit. Cubanos. Puff pies. Taquitos. It’s a cool idea.
And that’s exactly the kind of thinking I’m talking about. Local-ish food. Casual. Fast. Different.
Then you look at the hours.
Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Most other days it doesn’t even open until 4 p.m.
That’s not lunch… It’s late-night drunk food, and I’m also ok with that.
One branded truck is not a food court. It’s a photo op with a short menu.
Tear Out Primrose
Primrose is the room I’d give up to fix it.
This isn’t a tiny café. That space is huge. Indoor dining. Drawing room. Garden. Terrace toward the pool. You can put a couple hundred people in there. Then they use it as a brunch set until early afternoon and call it a day.
Think about what that space could do if it wasn’t tied to one menu and one dining experience.
Breakfast at 8.
Lunch at 11.
Pool crowd at 2.
Knights crowd at 5.
Concert crowd at 7.
Late-night crowd at 11.
Same room.
Different customer every few hours.
That’s a lot more useful than a beautiful restaurant that essentially disappears after lunch-especially one with lackluster taste.
I’d take that room, keep the garden, and turn it into an upscale food court. Not Aria’s food hall. That place is fine, but it’s still priced like you’re in a casino. Not exactly NYNY’s food court either. That one is limited, but at least it understands the assignment: get in, get food, get back to your day.
Park MGM should live in the middle of those two.
The Park MGM Food Court
Pizza window. $8–$12.
Taco window. $10–$14.
Asian / noodle window. $12–$16.
Sandwich window. $10–$15.
Burger / chicken window. $12–$16.
BBQ window. Rotating local operator…. Call me!!!
Dessert / ice cream. $5–$8.
Coffee. Actual coffee, not casino coffee, not another Starbucks either.
Beer. Cold. Cheap-ish. No dissertation required.
No damn celebrity chefs……. 🖕Caesars
Hell, Call Earl of Sandwich…
I need six to eight places that understand I’m hungry.
Counters. Garden tables. Pool access, if they can figure out the door. They have one job there. Figure it out.
Partner with the local truck scene and rotate a couple windows. Or go full dream-sequence and put a pit outside. Actual BBQ. Smoke in the garden. That would get people’s attention faster than another Eggslut model…… Again… Call me!
If Station casinos can drag local favorites into their buildings, I don’t know why Park MGM thinks it has to keep serving the same garden-brunch fantasy in the one room that should be feeding arena traffic, pool people, and anyone who just doesn’t want dinner theater at noon.
The Point
I no longer call anything in Vegas affordable. Let’s not get cute.
But what I like about Park MGM is it’s a mix. Nice enough. Useful enough. The Reserve. Dolby Live. A short walk to T-Mobile. Smoke-free. You can have a real night there without needing a second mortgage.
Now imagine that same hotel had a place where lunch didn’t feel like a decision.
That’s the hole.
Park MGM doesn’t need another restaurant.
It needs places to eat.
That’s the difference.
Eataly can keep being Eataly.
Side Betty can keep being Side Betty.
Let Primrose ride off into the sunset with its hockey-puck bacon.
Give me six to eight counters, a cold beer, a $12 lunch, and somewhere to sit without a reservation.
Someone tell me where to sign that petition.
Would you eat there, or is Primrose secretly somebody’s favorite?
-Jason
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