Inside Wynn Revelry

What happens when you hand the Las Vegas buffet over to Thomas Keller? There is caviar, naturally. A lot of it.

That was pretty much the tone of Wynn Revelry by Chef’s Table, which brought 35 acclaimed chefs from five continents to Wynn Las Vegas for three days of dinners, parties, master classes, and the kind of culinary excess that makes perfect sense on the Strip.

The weekend kicked off by transforming one of Vegas’ most familiar institutions into a $1,000-a-head Icons Buffet. Keller served panna cotta with caviar. Phillip Frankland Lee piled toro, uni, caviar, and truffle onto a wildly over-the-top hand roll. Doug Psaltis topped Spanish tortilla with Ibérico ham and, yes, more caviar. Nok Suntaranon of Philadelphia’s Kalaya brought the heat with Thai-spiced lamb, while new Wing Lei culinary director Tam Kwok Fung showed why his cooking at Chef Tam’s Seasons in Macau earned two Michelin stars.

Marcus Samuelsson served lamb. Michael Rubinstein served Wagyu. Michael White served pasta. Sarah Thompson rolled out tacos from Casa Playa. And Lucali founder Mark Iacono took things perhaps even more seriously: He brought his pizza dough from New York in his luggage. There was barely room left for dessert, much less the raclette-topped hot dogs waiting at the afterparty inside Zero Bond.

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But the biggest surprise at Revelry wasn’t the excess. It was how close you could get to the chefs. The next afternoon, just 10 guests sat down for a collaborative lunch by Boragó’s Rodolfo Guzmán and Casa Playa’s Sarah Thompson. Thompson served an uni infladita with bone marrow, while Guzmán paired tuna with deeply concentrated preparations of blue Chilean algae. It was inventive, a little wild, and about as far removed from a cavernous convention-center tasting as you could get.

That intimacy extended throughout Revelry Revealed, a collection of small-format experiences scattered across Wynn and Encore. Guests could make pizza, learn to grill, or join Serigne Mbaye of Dakar NOLA for a tea ceremony inside one of Wynn’s ultra-exclusive Villas. For a festival built around some very big names, some of its best moments were deliberately small.

Then Vegas turned the volume back up. Saturday night’s The Feast spread chefs across the Wynn Event Pavilion and Lawn in sections themed around Water, Air, Earth and Fire. Nina Compton served octopus, Mbaye baked bread, Sarah Glover cooked over an open flame, and Guzmán worked with lobster. Somewhere amid all of it, Massimo Bottura ended up behind the DJ booth.

By Sunday morning, subtlety was officially over

The Grand Revelry Brunch took over Mizumi with roving carts and pop-up stations serving the sort of things people normally cross oceans — or at least stand in very long lines — to eat. Kate Reid of Melbourne’s cult-favorite Lune Croissanterie was there with her croissants. Mason Hereford brought the much-hyped pancakes from Max and Helen’s. Phillip Frankland Lee squeezed a miniature omakase into brunch, while Henry “Fatboy” Zhang of Drunken Fish at Wynn Macau sent around a dim sum trolley loaded with creations including mapo-tofu Wagyu tartlets and kung pao lobster cups. It was ridiculous in exactly the right way.

For all the Michelin stars, James Beard Awards, caviar, and truffles involved, the real luxury of Revelry may have been access. Chefs who usually command months-long reservations were suddenly cooking a few feet away, collaborating with one another, chatting with guests and, in at least one case, DJing.

Las Vegas has no shortage of celebrity-chef restaurants. For one weekend, Revelry put the chefs themselves on the menu. And after a sold-out run at Wynn, there’s already another course coming in 2027.