Monday is National Eat Outside Day, which comes at a time when Las Vegas may (we can pray to the weather gods) be within a week of breaking the string of triple-digit high temperatures that has cloaked it like an oversized hair dryer. “With the rock formations, and the water fountain’s right there, it’s such a magical, almost zen place to sit.” “I wake up early, head over to the restaurant, make my espresso and sit outside and look at the mountains,” he said. It’s given Vetri a new place for his morning routine.

“Now” refers to Osteria Fiorella, the James Beard Award-winning chef’s Red Rock Resort restaurant that, after a two-month life as a popup, is officially becoming a permanent fixture. Executive chef of Vetri Cucina at the Palms - neither of which has reopened since the pandemic shutdown - he used to go up to the 56th-floor restaurant, have a cup of espresso and watch the sun rise. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Vetri is an early riser. Patricia Cuervo of Las Vegas has dinner with friends on the patio at Osteria Fiorella in Red Rock Casino on Saturday, Aug.

Restaurant across from red rock