First it was the Coyotes at Coyote Ugly and now comes two new restaurants in the Miracle Mile at Planet Hollywood to add more glamour-girls to the battle for headlines in the restaurant world.

The new Hawaiian Tropic restaurant, copying its big sister in New York’s Times Square, will feature the red bikini beauties with modeling and beauty contest challenges nightly.

Now meet the Trader Vixens, who will glamorize their open-air patio with its own palm trees in a thatched-shingled beach hut look looking right across at the Bellagio fountains. Inside is a regular 120-seat dining room complete with a live Polynesian drummer. Owner Doc Wiener, who helped open Coyote at NYNY back in 2001, says the new Trader Vic’s will have far more of a party atmosphere than the other 30 restaurants in the chain in 22 cities around the world.

Yes- the mai-tais will still come with the tiki fan-folded paper miniature umbrella and the same Asian-Polynesian fare the chain is noted for, but the Vegas out-post is far more contemporary than any-other. Doc spent $13.5 million on the new restaurant that comes complete with a winding staircase to provide a Tiki Club ultra lounge with DJ’s and reasonably priced bottle service. He’s set September 21 for the grand opening – exactly one week before the official star-studded Grand Openings of both the Planet Hollywood resort and the Miracle Mile shopping zone.

On September 15, almost opposite on the Strip, the LIGHT Group opens its newest restaurant concept, Diablo’s Cantina at the archway Strip front entrance to the Monte Carlo resort casino.

This is a 13,000 square foot multi-level entertainment complex serving up Old World Mexican cuisine – and of course some very sexy sultry senoritas! Diablo’s Dolls Executive chef Noe Alcala from the Pink Taco at the Hard Rock offers south of the border favorites, including spiced skirt-steak nachos, three layer club quesadillas and the Diablo Death Wings - spicy chicken wings in a smoked jalapeno blue cheese sauce!. No wonder he has 75 different types of tequila to cool you down! But don’t miss out on the Platinum Cadillac, which is the big-bucks upscale version of a classic margarita using Gran Patron Platinum,150th anniversary Grand Marnier, Cointreau and fresh-pressed lemon and lime juices.

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