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Vegas - 2015 - Issue 2 - Late Spring

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Sustainably sourced True North salmon done paella-style, with mussels, littleneck clams, Pacific prawns, red quinoa, crispy chorizo, and lemon butter. What a CatCh The sTeampunk-Themed upsTairs aT rm seafood, Rx BoileR Room, is as playful as iT is responsible. by al mancini photography by sabin orr Sitting down with Rick Moonen in his Rx Boiler Room, I find it hard to believe it's been 10 years since he and I first met in this space. The lush, funky room, decorated in Victorian sci-fi chic—a style known as steampunk—bears little resemblance to the formal, yachtlike dining space it was at the time. The menu today is packed with playfully creative shareable dishes, a far cry from the haute cuisine offered at what was then called RM Upstairs. And the corseted waitresses would have been scandalous to some of that restaurant's stuffier patrons. While Moonen is known for his fine-dining chops and his steadfast dedication to preserving the world's oceans, Rx Boiler Room shows off his sense of fun. Moonen is the most visible face of the sustainable- seafood movement. Both Rx Boiler Room and his downstairs flagship, RM Seafood, use only species 60  vegasmagazine.com TasTe This Issue: sustainable Desert Dining

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