Las Vegas Weekly

October 29, 2008 · 2:08 PM

Temptress Tila Tequila adds another T – topless – to repertoire at new restaurant

By Robin Leach

Tila Tequila enjoys the signage.

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabikphoto.com

Tiny Tila Tequila is a petite powerhouse -– and the MTV reality star didn’t shy away from showing her admiration for a 25-foot-tall temptress! The self-confessed, bisexual starlet was at the gala opening of the Luxor’s new T&T restaurant when she met tequila servers, Bridget Peters and Carly Dunlap. The silver sombrero-covered Tacos & Tequila eatery is decorated with 12 painted photo-panels stretched out over 65 feet, showing a giant topless sexy bullfighter draped in revealing red fabrics to bait a bull. Tila was speechless as she looked at the unique artwork -– and even more so when she was told that Bridget was the seminude model!

Tila Tequila and Criss Angel

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As our video shows Tila promptly admitted that despite being in a lady live-in relationship back in Hollywood, she could easily be tempted by the Vegas tequila temptresses!! Believe magician Criss Angel, Luxor headline comic Carrot Top, magician Nathan Burton, rock-apella group Mosaic, the gorgeous glamour girls from Fantasy and the handsome hunks from Thunder from Down Under also attended the opening ceremony. Criss and Tila posed with owners Michael Frey and Craig Gilbert, along with Luxor President Felix Rappaport.

T&T is an edgy rock ’n’ roll-flaired restaurant with a fun, high-energy vibe and the flavor-filled menu embodies traditional and modern elements of Mexican goodies created by world-renowned chef Richard Sandoval.

Owner Michael Frey told me: “Our space was actually an old LaSalsa restaurant but nobody noticed it -– so when we took it over we really made it stand out with the abstract cut-out silver sombrero overhang and that’s turned out to be wonderfully weird. With thousands of laser cut geometric shapes the sombrero over the bar is still open from wherever you stand inside the Luxor pyramid. It had to be an excellent feature outside of the box to stand out in this unique building. Now we’re right alongside the new Bodies and Titanic exhibits and the about to open Sports memorabilia exhibit with an escalator opening next month right from the check in level to our mezzanine level atrium.”

He admitted there were shades of his previous success with Coyote Ugly at the neighboring New York-New York. “Our waitresses are totally different than any other Mod-Mex restaurant with cowboy boots and denim mini skirts -– and nobody else has the tequila temptresses.” Bridget and Carly have roll-about carts with the world’s most expensive and legendary tequilas –- and believe me they know all the subtle smoky differences and throat tastes.

Famed photographer William Vasquez shot Bridget’s gigantic photomurals in New York. She also appears in three matador scenes in the El Salon area of T&T. “It was a great experience but even I was overwhelmed by the size of it when it was finished on the walls. I’m sure lots of our customers will be asking me if that’s really me up there on the wall as a supersized model.”

Rappaport added: “We wanted a great team and we wanted a wow factor. Michael secured the best Mexican chef in America Richard Sandoval and had designer Adam Tihany put together an all-star design team. The tequila temptresses top it off.”

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