Lakeside Las Vegas restaurant changes hands after 17 years

Marché Bacchus, the longtime Las Vegas restaurant known for its traditional and contemporary French food, its wine shop and popular wine dinners, and its perch on Lake Jacqueline in Desert Shores, has new owners after 17 years.

Rhonda and Jeff Wyatt have sold Marché Bacchus to HUKL Hospitality, a spokesperson for the restaurant said in a statement for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. An executive with the hospitality group confirmed the sale closed Sept. 10. A Sept. 12 wine dinner held at the restaurant, the spokesperson said, introduced the new owners and chef.

HUKL Hospitality, in the portfolio of Vegas-based HUKL Investments, plans to spend almost $55 million on four restaurant projects across west and southwest Las Vegas over the next couple of years, as first reported by the Review-Journal. One of those projects, Ciao Vino, opened in early September in Boca Park.

The Wyatts bought the restaurant in 2007 from Gregoire and Agathe Verge, a couple from Burgundy who started Marché Bacchus as a wine store in 2000. In June, Marché Bacchus was named among the top 100 restaurants in Vegas by the Review-Journal.

The restaurant is at 2620 Regatta Drive. Visit marchebacchus.com.

This story has been updated from the original version.

Contact Johnathan L. Wright at jwright@reviewjournal.com. Follow @JLWTaste on Instagram.