Le Cirque is closed, and The List has moved on
Our weekly hours check found the Bellagio dining room dark on two separate runs, which is the bar a closure has to clear before we call it. The board seat did not stay empty.
Le Cirque, the French dining room at Bellagio, is closed. Our weekly hours check found it dark on one run, then dark again days later, and that second sighting is the bar a closure has to clear before we print it. One bad night never counts.
Le Cirque held a seat on The List, so the closure opened a slot on the board. It did not stay empty: Eggscellent, the highest-scoring published sit-down room off the board, enters at No. 9 this week.
The room comes off our guides and the board with this note. When a closure this established happens, we record it the same way we record every other one: from the schedule, on the second confirmation, without speculation about why.