When you come to Aureole, come thirsty. The 42-foot steel and glass wine tower that greets you at the door holds 10,000 bottles of wine and comes complete with “Wine Angel Stewards,” servers who float on wires to snag your bottle of choice from the towers. Throw in one of the foremost chefs in American contemporary cuisine and a soaring modern interior, and you’ve got Aureole. But this restaurant isn’t all big names and acrobatic wait staff; there’s soul in the cooking, too. Charlie Palmer’s menu treats fresh-off-the-farm ingredients with elegance and sophistication, evidenced in dishes such as the scallop sandwiches in a crisp potato crust and roasted rack of lamb with summer squash and stuffed piquillo pepper olive. A handheld computer gives you access to the expansive wine list, which is directly sent to the aerialists in the tower. It’s worth ordering a bottle just to watch the show, which is part Cirque du Soleil, part Mission: Impossible.

Aureole at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas Information:

• American menu. Dinner.