Le Café Central, part of the Le Café du Vegas group along with Le Café du Val and Le Cafe du Sud, has closed in Chinatown Vegas after about a year.
Co-owner Carmen Barbur announced the closing in a Wednesday Instagram post. The restaurant, at 3616 Spring Mountain Road, Suite 101, debuted in April 2025 and appears to have shuttered sometime in the past three weeks. The expansion of the neighborhood French bakery and café to Chinatown followed the debuts of Le Café du Val in Henderson in spring 2020 and Le Café du Sud in Southern Highlands in early 2022. The du Val and du Sud locations remain open.
The café names indicate their geographic location within the Las Vegas Valley. Chef David Gazzano, who hails from southern France, and his wife, Carmen Barbur, originally from Romania, own the cafés. At Café Central, executive chef Claude Escamilla joined the couple as a partner and director of operations.
Gazzano and Barbur opened their first valley café, Le Café du Lac, at Lake Las Vegas in 2017; the shop closed in 2022. Visit lecafeduvegas.com.
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