Heather Locklear and Lorenzo Lamas: the same spot, again

Heather Locklear and Lorenzo Lamas spent another weekend in Las Vegas, and TMZ has photos from dinner. The two were back at Barry's Prime, the restaurant inside Circa Resort & Casino where the outlet photographed them together earlier this year.

**Reported:** Lamas was in town for the Las Vegas Bikefest Renegade Reunion and Locklear joined him for the weekend, TMZ reports. The pair flew in on JSX and stayed in a suite on Circa's 51st floor, looking out over the Strip.

Dinner was with friends, and the order made it into the story: Philly cheesesteak egg rolls, then a New York strip and asparagus split between them. Chef Barry Dakake ushered the two into the kitchen for a lesson in cooking steak over hot coals, then sent out cookies made from his mother's recipe. They posed in their booth, and again with Dakake in the wine room.

Later came drinks and a crowd. TMZ reports the couple caught up with Circa owner Derek Stevens and COO David Rosborough at the Vegas Vickie bar, where fans began to recognize them, and that Circa executive Richard Wilk eventually walked them back to their suite once the room got busy.

The history is short. TMZ reported the relationship in April after photos from a New Year's Eve visit to that same restaurant. Locklear has since met his family. **Confirmed:** she told TMZ in August that it "came along at exactly the right time."

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Two people photographed at the same restaurant twice in one year are doing something besides eating. A repeat venue carries less risk than a new one: the room knows them, the photos read as habit rather than announcement, and nobody has to say anything out loud.

The rest of the weekend follows the same logic. A trip built around someone else's event, a bike festival in this case, gives a couple a reason to be in the same city that has nothing to do with the relationship. Dinner with friends is easier to leave unremarked than dinner for two. None of that says anything about how either of them feels. It says a fair amount about how the trip was set up.

The venue has a side in this too. Barry's Prime got a chef, a kitchen and a family recipe into the copy. Circa got its name, one of its bars and two of its executives in there as well. That is roughly what a friendly placement looks like from the inside.

What the weekend actually establishes is thin: a trip, a meal, a set of photos, a relationship that has been public since spring. Everything past that, down to the cookies, rests on TMZ's reporting. The thing to watch next is whether they book somewhere new.

• Circa Resort & Casino
• Heather Locklear
• Las Vegas
• Lorenzo Lamas
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