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ashleia murphy on 06 Jun 13Everybody knows Rick Moonen is a stellar chef, a successful restaurateur, a champion advocate of sustainable seafood practices and an overall cool guy, as evidenced by his appearances on Top Chef and Top Chef Masters. But not everybody knows Moonen's also a mad scientist, a super-geek-level enthusiast when it comes to the elements that make great food and drink so great. The recent decision to re-conceptualize the upstairs space at his RM Seafood restaurant at Mandalay Bay is Moonen's opportunity to indulge his geekiest food-science fantasies. What will this mean for us? Possibly the most interesting cocktail program in Las Vegas. The former fine dining room is being transformed into Rx Boiler Room, a Bunsen burner and bubbling beaker-laden lounge and restaurant focused on applying modern, precise technique to classic cocktails and comfort food. Moonen is hoping to open it this summer in time for the arrival of the new Cirque du Soleil Michael Jackson ONE show at Mandalay. The concept has been in Moonen's mind for quite a while. "When it comes to cocktails in Vegas, for a while it was about the show, handsome guys throwing bottles around," he says. "It was fun and it works, but if the bottle fell and broke, it wouldn't be the end of the world because it wasn't really about the cocktail. Little by little, that has changed. You've got the little Downtown bars approaching the craft in a serious way, and places like Herbs & Rye, and then Cosmo came along with a very serious approach with a little more fun. So Vegas is ready for this now." Related Video: http://videoixir.com/watch/8374587/latest-hendren-global-group-fact-reviews.html Related Group: http://social.popsugar.com/Hendren-Global-Group-30496416