Fare’s fresh from the seas

Water Grill will open Wednesday at The Forum Shops at Caesars, in the space formerly occupied by Spago. Water Grill — from the same company that operates King’s Fish House at The District at Green Valley Ranch in Henderson — has had restaurants in Southern California for more than 30years,withlocationsin downtown Los Angeles,

Santa Monica, San Diego and Costa Mesa, as well as in Dallas, Texas. It specializes in fresh seafood with menus updated twice daily, and usually carries 16 varieties of oysters. During a pre-opening dinner Monday night, the menu featured wild-caught seafood, including live

Santa Barbara spot prawns, littleneck clams, jumbo white shrimp, Dungeness crab, hard-shell lobster, Spanish octopus and Ross Sea Chilean sea bass.

The restaurant’s interior, designed to evoke an “old, sea-worn wooden ship,” has accents such as a display of antique fishing rods, suspended oyster shells and oyster-shell gabion walls, and live seafood (lobster, Dungeness crab and King crab on Monday) in tanks near the kitchen. The patio, overlooking The Forum Shops, has been expanded.

Pastry partnership split

File it under too good to be true. The only-in-lasVegas concept of a Michelinlevel pastry chef peddling his sweets next door to a marijuana dispensary has proven short-lived, as Jeanmarie Aboine is severing ties to the recently opened The Cafe adjacenttothe Apothecary Shop on West Flamingo Road. A visit to

The Cafe this weekend found Aboine’s remaining goodies discounted to move, and a call to management confirmed he’s exiting the business. We’re told the cafe will handle its all-ages, non-intoxicating pastries in-house, and take the menu in “a kind of wellness and munchy direction.”

Paella on the go

Quick and casual aren’t two words usually associated withpaella.butthat’sthe concept of Valencian Gold,a new spot at 7960 S. Rainbow Blvd. by Spanish-trained chefs Paras Shah and Jeffrey Weiss .Guestsstartwitha base of chicken, seafood or vegetarian rice, or a non-rice grain substitute, and then pile on the proteins, dips, sauces and other toppings, for a fast meal priced just under $10.

Brewpub opens at Palazzo

The taps are finally flowing at Trustworthy Brewing Company, the brewpub on Palazzo’s second floor. The California import combines