“We want to treat ingredients with respect, to use our collective knowledge and best possible technique and execution to honor the ingredients. “That’s our ethos, our culinary direction, our North Star: to get the best ingredients,” said Daniel Ye, executive chef of Durango, who joined with Frankie Gorriceta, executive chef of Nicco’s, to source the menu. Sourcing is essential at the restaurant, as much a philosophy as a practice. The Station Casinos property, like Nicco’s, is launching Nov. These globally sourced products - and many other products uniting history and husbandry - are set to make their menu debut at Nicco’s Prime Cuts & Fresh Fish, the flagship restaurant at the $780 million Durango resort. In Chicago, a center of American meat since the Civil War, Nebraska prime rib is aged for 21 days, South Dakota porterhouse for 30 days, Nebraska bone-in ribeye for 45. In the Mediterranean, off the Spanish coast, branzino are caught, then swiftly killed and bled and iced, for later dry aging on hooks in temperature-controlled refrigerators, a process that yields better texture, cleaner flavor and less fishiness.
In Japan, wagyu cattle are raised on a certain farm in the snows of Hokkaido Island, the cold producing marbling nearly as fine as the veins of a snowflake. Daniel Ye, property executive chef at the $780 million Durango Casino & Resort, set to open Nov.
