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Panacea to Change the Vegan Dining Scene in Las Vegas

  • April 4, 2016
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Shane Stuart continues Vegas vegan revolution with his latest dream

— By Diana Edelman —

Updated April 8, 2017: For the latest on Panacea’s opening, check out Diana’s story in Vegas Seven. 

Panacea:ˌpanəˈsēə/

noun

  1. a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases.

And, this summer when Las Vegas native and raw mixologist expert Shane Stuart and partner Dillon Berkabile of Summerlin’s Acai to the T, open the part-restaurant-part-bar-part-healing center, Panacea — the business — is set to elevate Las Vegas in the health and wellness world.

Meet Shane Stuart

Coming to Las Vegas summer of 2016, Panacea. This new concept merges vegan dining, a health-focused nightlife, wellness classes, essential oil vaping and more from Shane Stuart. For more on the vegan dining scene and vegan lifestyle in Las Vegas, visit www.vegansbaby.com/vegansbaby2018
Shane Stuart, pictured with local students, regularly visits schools and the prison to educate them on the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle.

Located in Boca Park, Panacea is the culmination of Stuart’s decades-long love affair with health and wellness in the form of raw food. The owner of  the now defunct Downtown Las Vegas gem, GrassRoots, Stuart has become a regular in the juice bar scene. But, his career in this realm started in 2003 when he signed on with VitaMix, the maker of the high-powered (don’t call it a blender) mixing machine.

For almost 10 years, he traveled around the world learning and educating others about the benefits of a plant-powered lifestyle, creating healthy and tasty juices, soups and ice creams along the way. Then, in 2011, Stuart signed on with Greens and Proteins, one of the first health-based restaurants in town, and leant his talents to create their comprehensive juice menu.

“When I first came back to Las Vegas to open Greens and Proteins, there were only a few juice bars in town — Jamba Juice and Tropical Smoothie,” he said.

Times have changed a lot since then.

The Vegan Evolution in Las Vegas

GrassRoots Las Vegas creator, Shane Stuart, brings his latest concept to Boca Park in Las Vegas. Coming to Las Vegas summer of 2016, Panacea. This new concept merges vegan dining, a health-focused nightlife, wellness classes, essential oil vaping and more from Shane Stuart. For more on the vegan dining scene and vegan lifestyle in Las Vegas, visit www.vegansbaby.com/vegansbaby2018

With the opening of GrassRoots and other juice bars in town, “the cold press juice craze has flooded into the Vegas area, opening up all kinds of healthy vegan options and juice cleansing programs in all corners of our community.”

And, that’s a good thing.

“Panacea is the next step in the health and wellness world here,” said Stuart. “I hope it can be influential in the progression of awareness within our community, and to create dialog about our habits and lifestyles we choose to live.”

The Panacea Concept

Designed to make a healthier lifestyle more approachable, Stuart also wants to infuse a little flair and creativity, making it a game-changer in the juice bar/health and wellness industry in Vegas and beyond. And, if all goes according to plan, Panacea isn’t simply going to be a restaurant. It’s going to become the main artery of the health and wellness community in Vegas.

The concept itself is simple: Las Vegas is a nightlife town, but not everyone is involved in the nightlife scene.

Enter Panacea.

 Coming to Las Vegas summer of 2016, Panacea. This new concept merges vegan dining, a health-focused nightlife, wellness classes, essential oil vaping and more from Shane Stuart. For more on the vegan dining scene and vegan lifestyle in Las Vegas, visit www.vegansbaby.com/vegansbaby2018

But, instead of alcohol, it’s super food-infused non-alcoholic cocktails.  Instead of the normal grub, it’s all vegan. Instead of your average hookah bar, it’s all about vaping the world’s most potent (and healthiest) essential oils. And, it’s far from your normal restaurant.

Unlike Stuart’s tiny GrassRoots, Panacea spans an impressive 2,200-square-feet and comes complete with a mezzanine where patrons can use laptops and work. Downstairs, it’s all about being in the moment and being healthy. Cell phone use in the establishment will be discouraged.

“The goal of Panacea is to be a community atmosphere,” said Stuart. “It’s designed for facilitating conversations, learning and sharing. Vegas needs a place like this … it’s an alternative to the nightlife scene. We want to give people a place to hang out and be social, and be healthy at the same time.”

Health & Wellness in Las Vegas

Based on herbology, vegan dining and learning, current plans for the location even include a Himalayan salt room for classes like Qigong, raw mixology, yoga, meditational tea ceremonies, and, according to Stuart, “anything else that fits with health, wellness and achieving a higher consciousness.”

Panacea services include using a biofeedback, which measures the micronutrient deficiencies through the condensation in your skin, similar to lie detector tests, to create personalized cleanse programs for individuals. The plans also call for health coaches to assist people on their journeys to a healthier life.

Nightlife, With a Twist

 Coming to Las Vegas summer of 2016, Panacea. This new concept merges vegan dining, a health-focused nightlife, wellness classes, essential oil vaping and more from Shane Stuart. For more on the vegan dining scene and vegan lifestyle in Las Vegas, visit www.vegansbaby.com/vegansbaby2018

Forget the booze-y cocktails. Panacea serves up superfood ones instead.

Sourcing organic fair trade tea from the world over, Panacea will offer private tea ceremonies and meditational tea ceremonies, which was a part of Stuart’s original plan when creating Tea Bar. However, Tea Bar outgrew Stuart’s plans, and now continues as a part of Panacea.

It’s also the first bar in Las Vegas to serve kombucha on tap in frosted beer mugs. To complete the bar feel, tea pumps will be pumped with nitrogen so drinks are dispersed like beer.

By night, Panacea morphs from a being all about the food to being all about the social atmosphere, pumping out healthy cocktails, essential oil vapes and tapas.

The Food

 Coming to Las Vegas summer of 2016, Panacea. This new concept merges vegan dining, a health-focused nightlife, wellness classes, essential oil vaping and more from Shane Stuart. For more on the vegan dining scene and vegan lifestyle in Las Vegas, visit www.vegansbaby.com/vegansbaby2018
Stuart and Ashley Diana serving smoothies to the Las Vegas community.

Bringing in his own nutritional background, Stuart, who is certified as an holistic health coach from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, aims to offer a raw food element to the mix, making it easier for those who are interested in trying a holistic, raw food lifestyle to jump in here.

All employees must take a one-week course that immerses them in the world of herbology, the study of superfoods, world medicines, and the mixing of various plants and essential oils, ultimately becoming certified raw mixologists.

Panacea opens spring 2017 in Boca Park.

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