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Two Las Vegas Restaurants Win Mobil 5 Stars for Second Year

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Two Las Vegas restaurants have won the Mobil Travel Guide's coveted five-star ratings for the second year.

Picasso at Bellagio and Renoir at the Mirage last year became the first Las Vegas restaurants to win the highest honor by the company's long-published guide for tourists.

The announcement of their repeat in the guide was announced today on Mobil's website, mobile-oil.com. The former Mirage Resorts properties became MGM resorts last year when the two companies merged to form MGM MIRAGE.

"It's wonderful -- I knew the news was coming, and I was a little nervous," said Julian Serrano, chef at Picasso.

"Last year was one thing to win a five-star. This year we had to make sure we kept it. I'm happy, but now the next year is coming too -- but I like this kind of pressure."

Serrano, who won a Mobile four-star rating for a San Francisco restaurant where he worked before coming to the Bellagio, said it is not just good-tasting food that wins such an honor.

"Everything has to be good -- the food, the service. I don't really know what the judges like -- and I never know when they are coming because it's top secret -- but obviously they liked everything."

The Bellagio also won a four-star award in the hotel category, as did Caesars Palace, the Four Seasons and Harrah's Lake Tahoe at Stateline.

Mobil four-star Las Vegas restaurants for this year are Aqua and Le Cirque in the Bellagio and Napa at the Rio, the oil company said.

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