At Bellagio, Michael Mina's $295 tasting menu follows the Conservatory's seasons

Bellagio's flower displays have a dining counterpart. Michael Mina's seasonal tasting program takes its cues from the Conservatory, with the autumn menu moving from cauliflower and persimmon to squash, pear and pomegranate. MGM calls the concept Conservatory Dining.

UPDATE — Tuesday, November 10, 2026: A related video has been added to this article — an archival 2025 interview with Michael Mina, recorded before the Autumn Harvest menu existed.

The ingredient names understate what arrives with them. The current Autumn Harvest 2026 menu pairs cauliflower with day-boat scallop and lobster with persimmon. There is caviar, too. This is an expensive seafood-led tasting organized around seasonal produce, not a vegetable tasting with a luxury label attached.

The full progression, per MGM's announcement, runs wider than the headline ingredients: Petrossian caviar, Maine lobster with shaved fuyu persimmon, Monterey Bay abalone with pickled butternut squash, ahi tuna with a sunny-side-up quail egg, duck confit with seared Hudson Valley foie gras, and a Prime Brandt New York strip with celery root purée and black truffle sauce. The cauliflower course pairs the vegetable with a day-boat scallop. Fruit closes the menu — pear, then pomegranate.

The ten-course version costs $295 per person before tax and gratuity. A $150 wine pairing brings the menu-and-pairing subtotal to $445; the $300 premium pairing takes it to $595. The seasonal zero-proof pairing is $95, for a $390 subtotal. The pairings are priced per person too, so two diners taking the premium pairing reach $1,190 before tax and tip — at the top end, the pairing costs as much as the food. Those are calculated subtotals, not final bills.

There is a second option worth distinguishing. The restaurant group's current Conservatory Tasting menu is listed at $210 per person, with its own pairing prices. Do not confuse that shorter menu with the ten-course $295 experience, or with a guaranteed seat inside the Conservatory itself.

MGM announced the program on October 6 and said it would change five times a year. That makes the seasonal boundary important: a visitor planning a later trip should check the menu again rather than book expecting every autumn dish. MGM's announcement puts the next transformation in mid-November, when the Holiday display arrives — which makes the autumn menu a matter of weeks, not months.

The live Bellagio page currently lists regular restaurant hours as Tuesday through Saturday, 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., alongside upcoming closure dates. MGM's launch announcement gave the tasting a narrower window of its own — Wednesday through Saturday at the same hours, reserved through the Bellagio concierge. The two listings describe different things, the room and the experience. Confirm the chosen experience and date when booking.

Prices are US dollars per person, checked on November 10, 2026. Pairings are optional; tax, gratuity and supplements are additional. The Autumn Harvest menu was still linked by the restaurant group at this check. An exact last day for the autumn menu has not been published; MGM points to a mid-November changeover.