Las Vegas Restaurants

Las Vegas is one of America's hottest restaurant markets. Nearly every big Strip property has at least one and often two or more celebrity-chef restaurants. Away from the Strip, the unprecedented population growth in the city's suburbs has brought with it a separate and continuous wave of new eateries, both familiar chains and increasing numbers of legitimate destination restaurants.

Casino-resort dining basically falls into one of three categories. In the top echelon are the properties that have a half dozen or more bona fide star-status restaurants: Aria, Bellagio, Caesars, The Cosmopolitan, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, Venetian/Palazzo, and Wynn/Encore. At the next level are those resorts with one or two stellar restaurants and a smaller range of worthwhile but not quite top-of-the-line options. On the Strip, these include The Cromwell, Mandarin Oriental, Mirage, Monte Carlo, New York–New York, Paris, Planet Hollywood, SLS Las Vegas, and Treasure Island. Off the Strip, you can add the Lucky Dragon, Palms, the Hard Rock, M Resort, The Rio All-Suite Hotel, Green Valley Ranch, the JW Marriott, and Red Rock Resort. Then there's everybody else: casino-resorts with maybe a decent eatery or two but that simply aren't known for great food.

Downtown Las Vegas has seen a big revitalization in the past several years, and that extends to restaurants. Although Downtown still lacks a destination restaurant, notable spots are Carson Kitchen, Therapy, Turmeric, Le Thai, and La Comida in Fremont East; and Pizza Rock and the older Triple George Grill in the Downtown 3rd District. There also are a number of good restaurants in the Downtown Container Park.

Outside the tourism corridor, Las Vegas has a number of marquee restaurants with increasing cachet among foodies from out of town—places such as Todd’s Unique Dining, Marché Bacchus, Nora's Italian Cuisine, and Lotus of Siam. There's great food to be had off the beaten path in Las Vegas, and you'll pay a lot less in these areas, too.

If you haven't been to Vegas in a few years, you'll notice some major changes. Names like Wolfgang Puck, Michael Mina, and Emeril Lagasse still have plenty of pull in this town, but the Vegas chefs commanding the most attention are French imports such as Pierre Gagnaire, Joël Robuchon, and Guy Savoy, along with vaunted U.S. chefs like Giada De Laurentiis, Charlie Palmer, and Mario Batali.

There's also a trend toward high-minded restaurants with exclusive-nightclub vibes. Note the success of see-and-be-seen Pan-Asian hot spot Hakkasan and Tao Asian Bistro & Nightclub, the youthful late-night haunts LAVO and FIX, and bordello-chic establishments such as Strip House—to name just a few. Elsewhere in town, Las Vegas's growing international—and especially Asian—population has created a market for some of the best Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and Pan-Asian restaurants in the country.

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  • 1. Picasso

    $$$$

    Adorned with some original works by Picasso, this restaurant raised the city's dining scene a notch when it opened in Bellagio in 1998. Although some say executive chef Julian Serrano doesn't change his menu often enough, the artful, innovative cuisine—based on French classics with strong Spanish influences—is consistently outstanding. Appetizers on the seasonal menu might include warm quail salad with sautéed artichokes and pine nuts, or poached oysters with osetra caviar and vermouth sauce. Roasted milk-fed veal or sautéed medallions of fallow deer with romanesco are other potential entrée choices. Sometimes a seasonal specialty menu may feature Alba white truffles. Dinners are prix-fixe, with four or five-course options; a vegan menu also is available.

    3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-693–8105
    bellagio.mgmresorts.com

    Known For

    • Artworks by the master
    • Julian Serrano's award-winning food
    • Overlooking Lake Bellagio

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: Closed Mon. and Tues. No lunch, Reservations essential, No children 5 or younger permitted

  • 2. Tea Lounge at the Waldorf Astoria

    $$$$

    The Tea Lounge may be right off the main lobby, but it’s still a sea of serenity (with the addition of fabulous 23rd-floor views)—this is the Waldorf Astoria, after all. Service is formal but not stuffy, and the afternoon tea is done in the classic English style. There's also a children's tea, with a hot-chocolate option and dishes designed to appeal to the younger set. There are three seatings on Wednesdays through Sundays, and reservations are usually necessary.

    3752 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89158, USA
    702-590–8888
    www.waldorfastorialasvegas.com

    Known For

    • Variety of fresh fruit Bellinis
    • Wide selection of teas and tisanes
    • Reservations necessary most days

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: Closed Mon. and Tues.

  • 3. Bacchanal Buffet

    $$$$ | Center Strip

    Caesars Palace completely revamped its buffet experience with the Bacchanal Buffet. It's a culinary extravaganza of more than 250 menu items daily, plus nine chef-attended action stations and the support of 10 kitchens, with an emphasis on seasonality. Made-to-order sushi, baked-to-order soufflés, pizza made in a wood-burning oven, and individual portions of dishes that are served in steam tables elsewhere are consumed in three distinct dining areas with glass, wood, and steel decor themes.

    3580 Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-731–7928
    www.caesars.com/caesars-palace/restaurants

    Known For

    • Many made-to-order specialties
    • Huge selection of more than 250 dishes
    • Dining-room atmosphere

  • 4. Carversteak

    $$$$

    Dine on the fairyland patio or inside, behind a wall of windows, in view of gardens in and out. The menu does, as you might expect, lean heavily to steaks, including domestic and imported Wagyu, but there’s also a good variety of seafood, including a raw bar. Start with the caviar poppers or bacon-onion bread. The prix-fixe bachelorette menu begins with a caviar amuse bouche and ends with the Spark Plug espresso shot, and there also are early evening prix-fixe, Katy Perry Show Night. and vegan menus, but kids under 18 are not allowed after 7 pm on weekends.

    3000 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-550–2333
    rwlasvegas.com

    Known For

    • Broad range of beef cuts
    • Good variety of seafood
    • A number of special menus

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: No lunch

  • 5. Cipriani

    $$$$

    It has a famous forebear known for a cocktail—Harry’s Bar in Venice, where the Bellini was created by Giuseppe Cipriani Sr. in 1948—but this intimate spot tucked away among the Wynn Plaza Shops, near the main gate, is worth seeking out for the food, too. Try a signature dish like beef tartare or carpaccio “alla Cipriani,” seafood or lamb chops from the Josper grill, or calves’ liver with fried polenta. Or splurge on the 28-ounce grilled wagyu tomahawk. There’s a daily menu at lunch, as well as à la carte selections.

    3131 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-342–9600
    wynnlasvegas.com

    Known For

    • Original birthplace of the Bellini
    • Full menu of Italian classics
    • Daily menu at lunch

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  • 6. Crossroads Kitchen Las Vegas

    $$$$

    The first (and so far only) fully plant-based fine-dining restaurant on the Strip, from ground-breaker Tal Ronnen, is a haven for vegans and vegetarians as well as those who want to eat well, as well as healthfully. The "foie gras" served here is made from chestnuts and accompanied by cabernet demi, grapes, and grilled sourdough, while ravioli is stuffed with porcini and cauliflower. In addition to the à la carte menu, there’s a seven-course tasting menu (hmm . . . truffles are vegan) as well as a five-course version. At brunch, from 10 to 2 on weekends, you’ll find a bagel tower, stuffed French toast, and "chicken" and waffles.

    3000 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    800-266–7237
    www.crossroadslasvegas.com

    Known For

    • Five- and seven-course tasting menus
    • Only vegetarian restaurant on Strip
    • Tal Ronnen's plant-based food

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: No lunch weekdays

  • 7. Genting Palace

    $$$

    You’ll know you’ve arrived at Genting Palace, Resorts World’s premier restaurant, simply from the elegant, elaborate entry of dark wood with green accents. Inside, there’s a decidedly contemporary feel and a wide-ranging menu of such traditional delicacies as bird’s nest soup and Peking duck but also plenty of vegetarian options, including crispy vegan spring rolls. The extensive menu includes dim sum, barbecue (including pork belly and duck), and live seafood in various preparations, plus poultry, pork, and beef. The six-course tasting menu has such dishes as crispy Peking duck skin filled with foie gras and chilled drunken chicken.

    3000 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-676–8888
    rwlasvegas.com

    Known For

    • Classics like bird's nest soup
    • Sophisticated Asian decor
    • Live seafood

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: Closed Mon. and Tues. No lunch

  • 8. Gordon Ramsay Steak

    $$$$

    Gordon Ramsay's heavily British-themed Las Vegas flagship bridges the geographic gap with a Chunnel-like entrance connecting it to Paris Las Vegas. It bridges the culinary gap with a wide variety of beef, including Japanese A5 strip loin and numerous cuts of American Wagyu and prime beef. On the menu, shellfish, caviar, and luxe entrées like roasted beef Wellington are joined by pork belly porchetta and other more earthy fares. The five-course tasting menu is a tour of Ramsay's signature items.

    3655 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-946–4663
    www.parislasvegas.com

    Known For

    • Classic steak-house favorites with Ramsay flourish
    • Meat displayed on carts
    • Entryway that bridges Paris to London

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: No lunch

  • 9. Le Cirque

    $$$$

    This sumptuous restaurant, a branch of the now closed New York City landmark, remains one of the city's true temples of haute cuisine, despite increased heavy-hitting competition. The mahogany-lined room is all the more opulent for its small size: in a city of mega-everything, Le Cirque seats only 80 under its draped silk-tent ceiling. Even with a view of the hotel's lake and its mesmerizing fountain show, you'll only have eyes for your plate when your server presents dishes like sauteéd foie gras with pain d’epices streusel, candied orange and poached pear, or diver scallop with aromatic yogurt emulsion and crispy garlic root. Eight-course, vegetarian, or five-course tasting menus are available.

    3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-693–8865
    bellagio.mgmresorts.com

    Known For

    • Tiny, jewel-box room
    • Food not often found elsewhere
    • Fine, attentive service

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: Closed Tues.–Wed. No lunch, Reservations essential

  • 10. Marrakech Mediterranean Restaurant

    $$$$ | Paradise Road

    Sprawl out on soft floor cushions and feel like a pampered pasha as belly dancers shake it up in a cozy Middle Eastern–style "tent" with a fabric-covered ceiling and eye-catching mosaics. The prix-fixe feast is a six-course affair that includes Moroccan-spiced shrimp scampi, a vegetable sampler, lentil soup, beef brochette, chicken with couscous and vegetables, and the tasty dessert b'stilla, which is baked phyllo dough layered with fruit. Moroccan and Lebanese wines flow freely in this upbeat spot where servers wear Moroccan robes and generations of visitors have been invited to join the belly dancers if they feel the urge. Factor in the short walking distance to convention facilities, and it's no mystery why this has become one of Las Vegas' longest-tenured restaurants (though, in a young city, that means 1979). Marrakesh was closed for a significant remodel in early 2023 but planned to be gyrating again in the second half of the year.

    3900 Paradise Rd., Las Vegas, Nevada, 89169, USA
    702-737–5611
    www.marrakechvegas.com

    Known For

    • Belly dancers
    • Fun atmosphere
    • Great for groups

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: No lunch

  • 11. Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano

    $$$$

    A sister to The Factory Kitchen in Los Angeles, Matteo's has a relaxed, casual atmosphere, but there’s a serious emphasis on the northern Italian cuisine. Starters of a plancha-grilled cuttlefish salad with Calabrian crema, or a duo of seared and rolled foie gras, might be followed by handkerchief pasta with almond-basil pesto, slow-roasted pork belly with vegetables, or sea scallops with creamed sunchokes. Brunch from 10 to 2 Friday through Sunday features such dishes as eggs Benedict with olive toast and mortadella, or ricotta pancakes with blueberries and mascarpone crema, and there are lunch and children’s menus, plus a pre-theater three-course prix-fixe.

    3355 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-414--1222
    venetianlasvegas.com

    Known For

    • California-style Italian cuisine
    • Less-familiar things like cuttlefish
    • Weekend brunch, pretheater menu

  • 12. The Bedford by Martha Stewart

    $$$$

    The doyenne of domesticity and queen of all things culinary opened her first restaurant in late 2022 at Paris Las Vegas, and the raves just keep on coming. It’s named for her beloved New York farmhouse and designed to evoke a farmhouse-to-table ethos, with clean-lined rustic furniture and a plethora of plants along the boulevard that winds through the resort. Some carp about the high price of the roasted chicken for two (a half-chicken for one also is available), but in the next breath proclaim it the best extant. Big Martha’s Pierogis are here among many of Martha’s favorites, and in an only-in-Vegas touch, you can get them topped with golden osetra caviar. There’s also a four-course prix-fixe menu of the classics, and a selection of specialty cocktails (along with beers and wines) that include the Martha-tini and two Martha-ritas. 

    3655 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-946–4361
    www.caesars.com/paris-las-vegas/restaurants

    Known For

    • Good cocktails
    • Pierogis with caviar on top
    • Expensive (albeit delicious) roast chicken for two

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: No lunch

  • 13. Wakuda

    $$$$

    The high-end, modern-Japanese Wakuda offers six- and nine-course omakase tasting menus, as well as a 9-course vegetarian version. If you’d rather control your own destiny, the myriad options include various types of sushi priced by the piece, as well as rolls and sashimi platters. Or choose a hot or cold small plates, tempura, lamb, chicken, seasonal fish, and meats including Japanese A5 wagyu.  

    3355 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-665--8592
    venetianlasvegas.com

    Known For

    • Six- and nine-course tasting menus
    • Vegetarian tasting menu
    • Broad variety of à la carte choices

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: No lunch Mon.–Thurs.

  • 14. Wicked Spoon

    $$$$ | Center Strip

    Unlike other buffets, which serve all of their items in large buffet pans, many of the foods here are presented as individual portions—an improvement on a number of levels. Wicked Spoon quickly became a cult favorite for desserts including gelato and homemade macarons, and dishes such as "angry mac 'n' cheese" (traditional mac and cheese with a touch of spice). Breakfast and lunch are served on weekdays, with brunch on weekends. There's also a bottomless-beverage option. The decor and music selection are modern and fun.

    3708 Las Vegas Blvd. S, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89109, USA
    702-698–7870
    www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com

    Known For

    • Individualized servings
    • Exotic options like frog legs and bone marrow
    • Outstanding desserts

    Restaurant Details

    Rate Includes: No dinner, Reservations not accepted

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