Red Square (restaurant)

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Headless statue of Lenin outside Red Square Restaurant, Las Vegas
Headless statue of Lenin outside Red Square Restaurant, Las Vegas

Red Square is a restaurant-bar, located in the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Red Square a homage to the lost grandiosity and opulence of the collapsed Soviet era. Red Square currently stands as one one the only depictions of Soviet Culture in the United States.[citation needed] A beheaded, pigeon dropping-covered statue of Lenin stands at the entrance to the restaurant. The inside of the restaurant consists of creaky, wooden walkways connecting a multitude of dining rooms. The main room bears resemblance to a dilapidated Czarist palace that had been annexed by the Soviet power bloc.

[edit] Bar and restaurant

The trademark of the bar is its vodka menu with over 150 brands from over two dozen countries. The bar prides itself on having what the restaurant believes is the largest availability of vodka in the world.[citation needed] The restaurant carries a standard Russian menu complete with Chicken Kiev and Beef Stroganoff.

[edit] Red Square in Atlantic City

A second Red Square is open in the Quarter at Tropicana, which is an expansion of Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The statue that stands outside the restaurant is one of few American statues of premier Vladimir Lenin that is neither collapsed nor headless.[1]

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