Le Cirque: A Table In Heaven

Tiger Woods hits golf balls, Yo-Yo Ma plays the cello and Sirio Maccioni develops restaurants. Developing and running what many considered to be the greatest restaurant in the world, Le Cirque, the Maccioni family is the highlight of HBO Films latest documentary, Le Cirque: A Table In Heaven.

Sirio Maccioni

This fun, yet poignant film documents the December 31, 2004 closing of the second incarnation of Maccioni's masterpiece, Le Cirque 2000 in the Palace Hotel in New York City, and the development and opening of the new home for Le Cirque across town in the Bloomberg Building. In addition to that, we get some insight as to how Sirio rose from being a bus boy to one of the most respected restaurateurs in the world.

At the heart of the documentary is the ongoing struggle every businessperson faces; how many traditional methods should be sacrificed for progressive evolution. Deeply rooted in the traditional ways, Sirio wanted the food and the service that made Le Cirque the respected name that it is in the first place to continue to be the main attraction. His sons, Mario, Marco and Mauro, however, want to get the restaurant back on the cutting edge which means offering more progressive menu items and relaxing the dress code a bit. The dilemma of sacrificing service to improve the bottom line comes up in several aspects of developing the restaurant concept, just as it does for any trade that any businessperson pursues. Being able to see the inner workings of these decisions was both educational and entertaining at the same time, and I highly recommend you watch the documentary to see what happens.

Le Cirque Logo

Luckily for us living in the Las Vegas / Henderson area, the Maccioni family has extended its brand and brought out both their Le Cirque and Osteria del Circo (both found in the Bellagio resort) concepts which continually receive rave reviews and are certainly in the upper echelon of restaurant offerings Las Vegas has. Considering how many extraordinary restaurants we have in Las Vegas, that is saying a lot!

With the great success the Maccioni family has seen in Las Vegas, a new restaurant is being developed to open in the new ARIA Resort and Casino that is scheduled to open in late 2009. Currently slated to offer traditional Tuscan cuisine, Maccioni's new restaurant will surely be a huge hit on The Las Vegas Strip!

Mike Dobranski, REALTOR®
Keller Williams Realty - The Marketplace
Las Vegas / Henderson, NV

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