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Are restaurants what make a city great? Some might say its businesses and activities while others would tout its opportunities and quality of life, but nearly every equation includes great places to eat distinctive foods in comfortable surroundings. Here at HelloVegas.com, you'll find just that ... and much more, including those places that local residents tend to keep to themselves.
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While its web site promises a mystical experience beyond any paroxysms the food or décor might inspire, Nu Sanctuary (a play on the word “nu” or “naked” in French) does give patrons plenty of conversation starters.
Mandalay Bay is the latest behemoth hotel to jump on the feed ‘em and seat ‘em bandwagon of all-you-can eat buffet deals in town. And deals they are, even if they have a buff-be-gone result.
The Beat Coffeehouse and Records is located just steps away from the Fremont Street Experience, but culturally speaking, it's miles away. Unlike that tourist corridor, the vibe at the Beat is serene and the clientele is primarily local.
For the best slice of Las Vegas pizza, Due Forni Pizza & Wine is making mouths melt, delivering hot Neapolitan and Roman pies from two clay ovens.
High dining has reached the level of high stakes fun in Las Vegas. Consider these top-of-the- (elevator) line spreads when divvying out your dining plans during your next trip to Las Vegas. Dining in the desert can be haute, indeed.
Hash House A Go Go Las Vegas, considered the epicenter of “twisted farm food” in the city, is a veritable treat for eaters of all sizes.
Las Vegas nightlife is just getting started on Wednesday evenings for women of a certain age if they go to Cougar Night at Tacos & Tequila, Las Vegas. Every week from 6-9 p.m. at this fashion-forward dining spot inside the Luxor Hotel and Casino, it's Cougar & Cuervo Wednesdays and all women are welcomed to party like they’re not a day older than 21.
American Fish Las Vegas has the typical Michael Mina twist: this time the focus is on freshness and seasoning, and these line catches are so fresh they are practically grilled at the table.
Mr. Lucky’s 24/7, a steadfast favorite dining haunt inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, features two new graveyard specials available from midnight to 6 a.m., daily: New York Steak & Eggs, complete with an 8 oz NY Steak, two eggs, hash browns and toast, all for $4.99. And then there is the classic old-school burger and French fries, now available as a Burger Basket Special for $3.99.
Las Vegas buffets run the gamut of pleasures and prices, from $10 mac n’ cheese delights to $85 champagne and caviar affairs.
The Omelet House serves dishes other than omelets, but it's possible that no one has ever ordered one. It's hard to get past those fluffy omelets stuffed with everything from bacon to spinach to artichokes to chorizo.
The tapas craze in Vegas is all ablaze at restaurants throughout the city. But no one brings in the authentic Spanish accents of small plate cuisine like Julian Serrano. The award-winning chef from Madrid is no stranger to the spotlight on star chefs along the Strip. He is one of the city’s three two-star Michelin winners, garnering this accolade through his masterpiece venue, Picasso, at Bellagio.
The 160-seat cruelty-free CUT steakhouse shows its stars through a menu of organically grown ingredients, coddled farm animals and a sustainable food approach from seed to feed to earth-friendly menus. Combining Puck’s kitchen wisdom and passion for culinary perfection, CUT earns its chops as possibly the finest steakhouse in Vegas, even if you don’t eat steak.
Burgers get a taste of Las Vegas style at BLT Burger, a fun uber-diner spot at The Mirage. The oeuvre by classic French food master Laurent Tourondel – known in a previous life as the genius in the kitchen of Caesar’s Palace Court -- steps up to the plate with competitive All-American comfort food that gives such super-chefs as Hubert Keller (Burger Bar at Mandalay Place) and Daniel Boulud a run for their money.
If heights turn your stomach do not read on. But adventurous gastronomes can have their filet and their flight fix, too, with a thrilling twist on Vegas dining with a view: Dinner in the Sky.
SushiSamba is one of the city’s favorite “it” spots for conversation piece fare under the swirl of heady design and it keeps the beat of the moment moving until the wee hours with Sugarcane, its scene-making club component.
Guests can now be “green” with ENVY as the popular Las Vegas steakhouse at the Renaissance Hotel breaks out a new menu with veggies and other sides on the plate instead of having to purchase them a la carte.
The award-winning ENVY The Steakhouse, located within the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel, offers fine dining but now with a whole new concept. According to Executive Chef Christopher Mihy, the menu now makes sense for everyone.
New happenings at Wolfgang Puck’s award-winning restaurant at the Venetian are celebrating just how hip it is to be Square. Besides changing its name, from Postrio to Postrio Bar & Grill, the eatery recently unveiled its innovative approachable dining concept combined with fun, taking advantage of its location within the festive St. Mark’s Square in the hotel’s Grand Canal Shoppes.
A well-known Las Vegas restaurateur and a successful real estate developer have gotten together to launch a new concept in burger eateries – kind of along the lines of “let them build it and they’ll come.”
To say that Treasure Island has added a new jewel to its multi-faceted restaurant lineup with the opening of Khotan is not an overstatement. Translated, Khotan means “City of Jade” and not only does the new establishment offer Pan Asian cuisine and a variety of Chinese dishes, but it is also home to the largest private collection of hand-carved jade and ivory antiquities in the United States.
Tourists will now be able to have a taste of what it’s like to be a true Las Vegas resident, thanks to the opening of the latest location of the city’s iconic Omelet House Diner.
Downbtown at the Plaza Hotel & Casino, the new venue provides guests with the full flavor of what the 30-year local Las Vegas mainstay serving breakfast and lunch has always been noted for -- large portions, more than 30 omelet selections plus other breakfast as well as lunch items, and being a place for power lun
A popular restaurant in Las Vegas has spread its wings and is now lighting up the Downtown Las Vegas scene at the Plaza Hotel & Casino. Located under the “Dome” of the hotel, the second location of Firefly offers a room with a view – of the famed Fremont Street Experience.
The word “lawyer” doesn’t generally conjure up images of people licking their lips with glee but when attorneys Rick Rosenfeld and Larry Flax traded in the courtroom for the dining room on March 27, 1985, their desire to serve the mouths of the public became an open-and-shut case.
One step off the street into the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood and visitors may easily find themselves “in the Pink.”
That’s because the legendary Pink’s Hot Dogs, one of Los Angeles’ most famous culinary hotspots, is now open at the front of the hotel on Las Vegas Boulevard and is offering dozens of different types of hotdogs and other gourmet fast-food fare.
If you’ve ever wondered what’s in a name, TENDER Steak & Seafood says it all when it comes to being a restaurant with “juice.”
The 9,400-square-foot venue at the Luxor lets its cuisine do all the talking. Every item on the menu is dedicated to ensuring that the natural flavors of the meat and seafood are at the fore, without covering them up or smothering them with heavy sauces or seasonings.
If a fiesta is more your style than a siesta, head on over to T&T (Tacos and Tequila) where a high-energy atmosphere and true Mexicana style are shaking things up nightly at the Luxor. Blending modern and traditional Mexican cuisine with a true south-of-the-border ambiance and a rock ‘n’ roll flair, the highly stylized 8,000-square-foot restaurant and bar from Drive This! Entertainment shouts “Ole!” from beginning to end.
Granted, with its famed history, there may be no more appropriate place than Las Vegas to experience some true “family”-style dining. Still it has taken the creativity of restaurateur Nico Santucci to turn his two locations of the mob-themed Capo’s restaurant into bonafide culinary “hits.”
Mobster-chic décor meets “to die for” Italian cuisine in venues that collectively speak to the fact that Santucci has gone to the wall with the bullet points, or details, that make for recreating an era.
With the opening of its new buffet, Fremont Street’s Plaza Hotel & Casino is out to prove that you ARE what you eat – in this case, that would be “Stuffed,” thank you very much.
“Stuffed: The Buffet at the Plaza” seeks to bring back the inexpensive buffet that was once upon a time the trademark of Las Vegas, most notably in the downtown area.
If you’re looking for a place in Las Vegas where you can get “high” on a food experience, the Eiffel Tower Restaurant at Paris Las Vegas is the spot. Located up on the 11th story of the hotel’s 50-story replica of Paris’ Eiffel Tower, the sky’s the limit where a glittering panoramic view of the city, ambiance, and gourmet French fare is concerned. And, yes, the prices are “up there” as well.
Recently opened inside The Shoppes at the Palazzo, First Food & Bar resurrects the character and authenticity of the neighborhood bar and diner right in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. The 200-seat restaurant featuring American cuisine is hip yet comfortable. Together with a contemporary 70-seat bar and lounge, it offers the vibe of a late-night spot with the casualness of a local eatery.