Drive out through the guard gate on Canyon Run Drive and turn toward Rampart Boulevard, and the building on your right doesn't look like it used to. New signage. New landscaping. A lobby that used to feel like a casino attached to a hotel now reads the other way around. If you've lived in Canyon Fairways for a while, you probably know this property as Rampart Casino, or maybe as the JW Marriott. Both names are technically wrong now, and have been since January 1, 2026.
That's the least interesting part of the story. The more useful thing to know, if you actually plan to walk in for dinner sometime this fall, is that most of what you'd find listed as "nearby dining" for this neighborhood on other sites is describing a property that no longer exists in that form.
The rebrand is a footnote. The renovation is the story.
The property at 221 North Rampart Boulevard opened in 1999 as the first casino resort built specifically for Summerlin. For 26 years it operated as two connected identities, Rampart Casino and the JW Marriott Las Vegas, under one roof but two names. As of January 1, 2026, they became one thing: The Resort at Summerlin. The rename came at the end of an 18-month, $75 million renovation covering the casino floor, the hotel rooms, the spa, the conference center, and, most relevant if you live a few hundred yards away, the entire restaurant lineup.
That renovation was led by FRANK Architecture and Interiors with Las Vegas-based Trident handling construction, and it shows up in details a resident would actually notice: all 549 guest rooms redone with residential-style furniture and 65-inch smart TVs, a new high-limit gaming room, and a Caesars Sportsbook that replaced the old race and sports book on the casino floor. None of that changes your daily life much. The dining does.
The restaurant list you've read is out of date
Search for Canyon Fairways online and you'll find several older write-ups still naming the Carmel Room, Spiedini Italian Ristorante, the Rampart Buffet, and CJ's Irish Pub as the dining options just outside the gate. Those descriptions were accurate for years. They aren't anymore.
| What older guides still list | What's actually there now |
|---|---|
| Carmel Room | ai Pazzi and ai Pazzi Pizza |
| Spiedini Italian Ristorante | Pearls Oyster & Crudo Bar (Fabio Viviani) |
| Rampart Buffet | Market Place Buffet |
| Shizen Japanese steak house | Wineaux (Shawn McClain and Nick Hetzel) |
| CJ's Irish Pub | Nom Wah (West Coast debut) |
The 2025 additions came from names with real track records. Pearls Oyster & Crudo Bar is chef Fabio Viviani's project. Wineaux is a Summerlin outpost from James Beard Award winner Shawn McClain, built with master sommelier Nick Hetzel. Nom Wah is the first West Coast location for a dim sum brand with roots in New York City. That's a different tier of dining ambition than a hotel steakhouse from the late 1990s, and it's happening inside a five-minute walk of your front gate.
What opened this year, specifically
If you haven't been inside since before the rename, here's the current state as of this fall. The high-limit gaming room opened July 3, 2026, alongside a "Must Hit By Jackpot" promotion with a progressive jackpot starting at $5,000. The Caesars Sportsbook partnership was announced in late 2025 with an early-2026 target, bringing 20 self-service betting kiosks and a 360-degree LED display at the sportsbook bar. A Neighborhood Food Hall concept, described as two additional dining outlets joining the property's existing lineup, was slated for early 2026 as part of the same announcement.
The resort's own language around the renovation leans on words like mindful luxury and elevated guest experience, and whatever you make of the marketing copy, the practical effect for a Canyon Fairways resident is straightforward: what used to be a place you'd visit mainly to gamble is now a place with enough restaurant variety that gambling is almost beside the point.
The same reshuffle is happening two exits over
This isn't isolated to one property. Tivoli Village, a few minutes down Rampart, has spent 2026 trading fine-casual restaurant seats for wellness and home-design tenants, but the one restaurant addition that did land is worth knowing about. Al Solito Posto, chef James Trees's Italian spot inside Tivoli, picked up a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence in 2026. A second Chinese-fusion concept, Yu By Sijie, sister restaurant to the Chinatown favorite Special Noodle, was confirmed via city permit in June with a summer opening targeted for the same Rampart Boulevard address.
Boca Park, further south on Rampart, has its own churn. A City of Las Vegas permit filed this summer points to Dancing Dumplings taking over the space long occupied by Yo! Mochi, with an opening expected later this year. Wagyu Factory, an all-you-can-eat hot pot and barbecue concept from the operators behind Chubby Cattle and The X Pot, was confirmed for a Boca Park location earlier this year, though no firm opening date had been set as of the spring report.
None of these three properties talk to each other. But taken together, they describe a specific pattern: the retail and restaurant strip along Rampart Boulevard, the stretch every Canyon Fairways resident already drives for groceries and dinner, has turned over more in the past twelve months than in the five years before that.
What hasn't changed, and why that matters too
The golf hasn't moved. TPC Las Vegas still borders the neighborhood directly, still carries its Golf Digest recognition as one of the "Best Places to Play," and Angel Park Golf Club, with two courses designed by Arnold Palmer, still sits just to the east. The guard gate on Canyon Run Drive still leads to the same six-acre private park with tennis and basketball courts that residents have used for years. None of the renovation two minutes away touched any of that.
That's worth sitting with for a second. The identity of Canyon Fairways as a quiet, tree-lined golf enclave hasn't shifted at all. What's shifted is the range of things you can do without getting back on Summerlin Parkway. A year ago, a nice dinner outside the gate meant a hotel steakhouse or a drive to Downtown Summerlin. Now it means choosing between a James Beard winner's wine list at Tivoli, a Fabio Viviani oyster bar at what used to be Rampart Casino, and a dumpling spot in Boca Park that hasn't opened yet but already has a permit on file.
If you've been putting off trying the place next door because you remember it as a casino you'd rather skip, this is the year that assumption stopped being true. And if you're the kind of neighbor who keeps a running list of what's good nearby, it's worth an update.
For those thinking further down the road about what any of this means for values in Canyon Fairways or for timing a move within Summerlin, the team at Fine Home Specialist has been tracking this stretch of Rampart Boulevard as closely as the neighborhood itself. Reach out any time you'd like a conversation about the market, not just the menu.
