The Gold Strike casino, located on I-15 about 30 miles west of Las Vegas, has been sold by MGM Resorts International to the former owners of Las Vegas’ Terrible’s Casino (now Silver Sevens). It’s the second such sale by MRI, which unloaded the Railroad Pass casino last month.

The Gold Strike is a stopping-off place for travelers to and from California that has a 300-room hotel and a casino with 400 slots and 10 table games. MRI took control of the resort in 2005 in its acquisition of Mandalay Resort Group.

On the other side of Las Vegas, the Indian Springs Casino, about 45 miles north on Highway 95, has closed. The small casino was bought by the Air Force, which plans to convert it to an "anti-terrorist security buffer overseeing drone-combat operations."

New nightclub: A new nightclub from the Hakkasan Group is coming to Caesars Palace in the spring. The 75,000-square-foot multilevel club, called Omnia, will take over the space that used to house Pure.

Fulton Street: A "food hall concept" called Fulton Street has opened at Harrah’s. The 24/7 grocerylike operation gets its name from Fulton Street in New Orleans.

Grasshoppers: Grasshoppers, anyone? You can get ’em at the El Dorado Cantina, a 24-hour Mexican restaurant recently opened in the same building as the Sapphire topless club. The grasshoppers, called Chapulinas, are sauteed with garlic, lime or habanero for $7.50.

QUESTION: I read in this column that the great El Sombrero restaurant was closed, but I drove past it last week and the sign said "Open." What’s the story?

ANSWER: The venerable downtown hole-in-the-wall, which had been operating longer than any other Las Vegas eatery (64 years) until it closed earlier this year, has returned, but it’s not the El Sombrero of yore. It’s been remodeled under new ownership and is serving a higher-end (and more expensive) menu.

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