To enter Netflix Bites, the restaurant collaboration between the streaming giant and the MGM Grand that opens Tuesday, you pass through glistening red lips, opening wide just off the casino floor, then proceed up a gentle incline.
As you crest the summit, a large image of Beth Harmon, Anya Taylor-Joy’s character from “The Queen’s Gambit,” hangs to the right. Harmon nestles in a giant martini glass, a chess piece held aloft, chess boards above and below.
Other images from the titles that inspired Netflix Bites hang throughout: a surfer riding a slice of pepperoni ’za that nods to the Surfer Boy Pizza chain in “Stranger Things,” Queen Charlotte from “Bridgerton” literally spilling all the tea as she reads Lady Whistledown gossip, the “One Piece” pirate ship asail with a cargo of musubi, and several more artworks.
