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Burger Bar, Hubert Keller’s hamburger joint located inside Lumière Place Casino, is closing. As reported today by George Mahe of St. Louis Magazine, Burger Bar – which also has locations in Las Vegas and San Francisco – will shutter permanently after service ends this evening at 11 p.m.
“It was very popular; it’s just [that] the five-year lease was up,” explained Lumière Place spokesperson Candice Coleman about the restaurant’s closure. “It was a mutual, amicable parting,” she said, noting that all Burger Bar team members have been relocated. “No one lost their job,” she said. As for the future use of the space, Coleman stated that a few different concepts are being considered but no decision has been made yet. Keller’s other St. Louis restaurant, Sleek, also located inside the Lumière Place property, closed in January 2011.
This article appears in December 2012.