{"id":108049,"date":"2026-01-22T02:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108049\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T02:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:20:14","slug":"teyana-taylor-brooklyn-beckham-party-at-gymkhana-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108049\/","title":{"rendered":"Teyana Taylor, Brooklyn Beckham Party at Gymkhana, Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA hot party calls for a great guest list, good food and a little gossip. Friday night\u2019s opening of Gymkhana in Las Vegas<\/a> had all three.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOne Battle After Another\u2019s Teyana Taylor<\/a> was in Vegas to welcome Gymkhana<\/a>, the first U.S. outpost of the celebrated Indian restaurant, which has two Michelin stars in London and one unlikely claim to fame. \u201cKendrick Lamar ate Indian food for the first time at Gymkhana,\u201d reports co-founder Karam Sethi on the eve of another milestone. His family\u2019s restaurant? It just became the first Indian spot to open inside a Vegas casino. Tikka what?<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s an interesting time to launch a fine dining restaurant anywhere, let alone an untested category on The Strip, ten feet from a Wheel of Fortune slot machine on Aria\u2019s floor. With tariffs and inflation running high, tourism to the gaming capital is down nearly eight percent from 2024. In a dark sign of the times, local strip club owners are now reporting an influx of auditions <\/a>from hospitality workers who\u2019d been laid off.<\/p>\n

\n\tGymkhana \u2014 whose fans include Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus \u2014 isn\u2019t the only big name betting large in Vegas right now despite the headwinds. One of Mexico City\u2019s hottest chefs, Contramar\u2019s Gabriela C\u00e1mara, is opening at the Fontainebleau this spring. Mario Carbone just birthed his seafood spin-off, Carbone Riviera, at The Bellagio. And the Corner Store announced it\u2019s coming<\/a> to The Cosmopolitan, presumably bringing fans like Sabrina Carpenter and Blake Lively along with it.<\/p>\n

\n\tCorner Store\u2019s opening makes perfect sense; the restaurant\u2019s menu already includes Wagyu French Dip and a Sour Cream & Onion Martini (both very Vegas). For what it\u2019s worth, the guys from Semma \u2014 the only Indian restaurant in New York with a Michelin star \u2014 once told me they could have done a \u201cbig ticket blockbuster\u201d<\/a> in Vegas but chose to open a fried chicken shop instead. For Gymkhana\u2019s owners, the bright-lights ambition is certainly there. But can a restaurant specializing in Northern Indian regional cuisine succeed in a town where a popular steakhouse serves a $1,000-dollar, 55-ounce Tomahawk inside a briefcase<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tGymkhana mercifully doesn\u2019t need stunts. The restaurant was a game-changer when it opened in Mayfair in 2013. And all of the London favorites are on the menu here, including the Chicken Butter Masala, the Tandoori Lamb Chops, and the Goat Methi Keema \u2014 each executed perfectly. The dimly-lit dining room, meanwhile, invokes the clubby feel of the Polo Bar.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the key to any expansion is meeting your audience where they live, and management certainly gets that. A Maharaja Margarita punchbowl \u2014 theatrically wheeled out on a trolley cart \u2014 plays like a nod to the bachelorette party crowd ($240; serves up to eight people). While Gymkhana\u2019s original location doesn\u2019t sell beef, per Hindu custom, the Vegas kitchen is cooking up Wagyu naan. When asked about the introduction, Gymkhana\u2019s Global CEO, Pavan Pardasani, says the idea was theirs. Of red meat\u2019s appeal in America, he says: \u201cWe didn\u2019t need the hotel to tell us that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPardasani spent years as the CMO of Tao, and his celebrity credentials run deep. At the opening night party, Teyana Taylor (in a crimson Tom Ford trench) held court with Winnie Harlow while Tristan Thompson, Momofuku\u2019s David Chang, The Diplomat\u2019s Rufus Sewell, B.J. Novak, Million Dollar Listing\u2019s James Harris and Chef\u2019s Table founder David Gelb all milled about. Aaron Paul, the actor and Mezcal entrepreneur<\/a>, was en route to toast Gymkhana when a mechanical issue forced his flight to divert to Iceland.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Breaking Bad star didn\u2019t just miss the Tiger prawns, he missed a pretty juicy rumor making the rounds. There\u2019d been a lot of online chatter recently about a Spice Girls reunion<\/a> allegedly coming to The Sphere, in honor of the girl group\u2019s 30th anniversary. The Spice Girls<\/a> last performed together at Victoria Beckham\u2019s 50th birthday party in 2024, but rumors of an official reunion have long remained just that: rumors.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the din of the party \u2014 as the rapper Gunna walked by \u2014 one London source (who possibly had too much to drink, and was maybe full of more than naan) hinted: \u201cIf you\u2019re a fan, you might be back in Vegas.\u201d (A source close to the Sphere denies this.)<\/p>\n

\n\tFittingly or not, Brooklyn Beckham<\/a> was on hand for Gymkhana\u2019s opening night (wearing a backwards baseball hat), and we\u2019d almost asked him to weigh in on the reunion but thought better of it in light of his rumored family feud, which he would detail days later in a lengthy Instagram post<\/a>. Karam Sethi \u2014 who co-owns Gymkhana with his siblings, Jyotin and Sunaina \u2014 acknowledged he\u2019d seen the same tabloid headlines we\u2019d all read, explaining the Beckhams have been frequent guests at the original London restaurant in happier times. \u201cThe family celebrated all of their special occasions there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tPerhaps the only constant in life is change. That\u2019s certainly true for Gymkhana superfan Ed Sheeran, who\u2019d ordered the butter chicken and a house Lager in his early visits but later graduated to the testing menu, Sethi said, adding: \u201cHe likes very fine wine.\u201d And with that, it was time for a nightcap. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tGymkhana Rolls-Royce and Peacocks.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJennifer Johnson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hot party calls for a great guest list, good food and a little gossip. Friday night\u2019s opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,3247,100,99,6966,9,24,63,48722,31446],"class_list":["post-108049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-beckham","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-las-vegas","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-spice-girls","tag-teyana-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}