89 Best Nightlife in Las Vegas, Nevada

Don't be surprised to see patrons break into impromptu bouts of step-dancing at this authentic Irish pub inside New York–New York. It's so authentic that the place was built in Ireland, shipped over, and reassembled in Vegas. Today, barkeeps pour Guinness, Harp Lager, Killian's Red, and all sorts of Irish whiskeys, while cooks crank out Irish food and traditional Irish breakfast all day long. Live Irish music rounds out the toe-tapping sing-along entertainment here. UFC closed-circuit live-viewing events are scheduled regularly. Live entertainment begins nightly at 9 pm; go before then if you want a table for dinner. Weekend brunch is served from 11 am to 2 pm.

Las Vegas club operators are always looking for that perfect party that will appeal to everyone and Omnia definitely goes the distance, with numerous experiences for club-goers—"Omnia" does, after all, translate to "all." This is a 75,000-square-foot behemoth of a club from nightlife heavyweight Tao Group, where the music comes from celebrity DJs like Steve Aoki and Alesso. There's a big emphasis on interactive technology, which extends to the 22,000-pound kinetic chandelier with eight rings that dance with light to the music. The lines to enter stretch through the casino floor with gaggles of trendy youth. The weekend brings Deseo Latin Sundays for that rare Latin experience at a Strip nightclub.

Lounges in Las Vegas have lots of varying vistas, but few can equal the Overlook Lounge, which, appropriately, overlooks the Wynn resort’s Lake of Dreams. The interior is elegant, with draping fabrics that seclude it from the adjacent casino, lots of wood grain, crystal lamps on the tables, and a ceiling with ornate moldings. It serves all the classic cocktails, plus a large list of innovative ones created by Wynn’s accomplished mixologist, Mariena Mercer Boarini, that are designed to appeal to all five senses. Try the Hudson, an amber-hued blend of blanco tequila, grapefruit liqueur, thyme, and pink grapefruit bubbles, finished with edible perfume.

"The Pal" is one of the oldest strip clubs in the area—it opened, appropriately, in '69 (1969 that is) and was a favorite spot for certain members of the Rat Pack. It also is one of Las Vegas's most notorious haunts; two separate owners have been accused of murders, and it was also owned briefly by a noted heart surgeon. Because the club was grandfathered into the North Las Vegas zoning codes, it's allowed to have both a full bar and full nudity (elsewhere in town, you can't have both). There's also a burlesque stage.

The hookah is an elaborate Middle Eastern water pipe used to smoke exotic tobacco, and it also happens to be a point of distinction (or perhaps gimmick) for this Mediterranean favorite overseen by local entrepreneur Paymon Raouf. Instead of the bare-bones set-up or kitschy Greek murals that occupy most gyro joints in the Valley, Paymon's conjures a sexy, chill-out experience, with a contemporary, red-velvet-laden, incense-filled environment that draws a diverse crowd. The lounge area is separate from casual indoor and patio dining. Prices are a bargain, and the extensive menu offers plenty of dinner options. (Those who remember the original, University-district location, which has closed, will find the new, larger location worth the drive. A second location is at 8380 W. Sahara Ave.)

A lot of people ask, "Where do Las Vegas entertainers hang out and perform for one another?" One of the best and most consistent answers is found in this appealing and easily accessed lounge at The Tuscany (an attractive, convention-oriented hotel that is otherwise unremarkable). Kenny Davidson's Celebrity Piano Bar is a 10-year, Friday-night fixture for local performers, and other nights feature singers on the level of America's Got Talent winner Michael Grimm.

Revelers pack this gorgeous spot every night of the week, and with good reason, given that it's the only true gay dance club in town (at least until the Gipsy returns next door). Each night of the week offers a different drag show or theme. Although the dance floor at Piranha is legendary, the best spot in this labyrinth of rooms is the spacious, fireplace-ringed open-air patio out back. The Piranha's owners are backing the new version of the fabled Gipsy club next door, so the new arrival might be more of an expansion than a competition.

The very swanky but very inviting indoor-outdoor Press features firepits with seating overlooking the private pool at the Four Seasons, cooled off by misters in the hotter months—and it's open until midnight (1 am on weekends). Like everything at the upscale resort, the libations and accompanying bites (mmm, s'mores over the firepit) are near perfection. Free high-speed Internet and access to digital newspapers and magazines from 100 countries highlight the complimentary services at this lobby bar that doubles as a coffee shop by day.

This lounge right off restaurant row at Mandalay Bay is the perfect place for people-watching, as a flood of humanity goes by to dine or to attend a concert or conference at the sprawling Mandalay Bay Convention Center. There’s even more energy thanks to the live music, which is performed from 10 pm to 2 am Thursday through Sunday. The lounge is open 24/7, serving a small selection of bar food, drafts, and classic cocktails like mojitos, Negronis, and the current darling of Las Vegas, the Aperol spritz.

Like the Statue of Liberty, this pub was constructed in Europe, then shipped over piecemeal and reassembled in The Shoppes at Mandalay Place (yes, Lady Liberty is in New York; you know what we mean). Highlights include the music—which regularly comprises Irish sessions—and the menu, which boasts enough sausage rolls and fish-and-chips to make you feel like you've flown to Dublin. Another authentic touch: most of the wait staff are from Ireland. Happy hour is from 3 to 6 pm daily, with drink specials and half-off appetizers.

This venue became famous hosting Zowie Bowie, a guy-and-gal, too-blond-for-words act with music that sounds like Eminem and Frank Sinatra getting together to groove. The intimate venue now welcomes a variety of other entertainers, mainly tribute bands. Not exactly worth a trip from the Strip in and of itself, but if you're already at the Red Rock Resort, it's a fun place to hang out.

Sapphire is billed as "the world's largest gentlemen's club," and until willing volunteers comb the globe to verify the claim, there's no disputing it here. After all, Sapphire was once a gym, which explains the 70,000-square-foot sprawl and the adjacent swimming pool, which operates seasonally as Sapphire Day Club (it's not topless, but there's plenty of indoor-outdoor commerce if you find a dancer you like outside working on her tan). There are no bargains here beyond the usual free-transportation and VIP-upgrade promotions, but the sheer spectacle when you first walk in may well justify the inflated drink prices and $50 cover. The adjacent El Dorado Cantina shares an owner and many customers but is a worthy enough 24-hour Mexican restaurant in its own right. Resorts World is now across the street and has brought a crosswalk and traffic light to the intersection just across from the club at Industrial Road—an addition only more likely to keep Sapphire at the top of the jiggle-joint heap.

Few views of the Strip are as breathtaking as the one you'll get from this uber-chic lounge on the 23rd floor of the Waldorf Astoria. The room is wrapped with floor-to-ceiling windows, meaning just about every one of the plush banquettes is a winning seat. Mixologists have concocted cocktails themed to southern Nevada (The Spanish Trail, The Boulder Dam), and it's easy to pay a dollar for every floor of that view in a single cocktail. There's also a small menu of bite-size appetizers, such as shrimp tacos, duck-fat french fries, and sushi, and "luxurious experiences" that include Whistle Pig and Remy Martin Louis XIII tastings. Business-casual dress is recommended.

Head up to the 64th floor of Delano for the 180-degree views of the city inside Skyfall Lounge. Everything up here is higher, including the prices for craft cocktails. Around sunset the crowds can become unbearable, but later in the evening, when live DJs play tunes (on Friday and Saturday), the vibe is chill. Be sure to step into the bathrooms for a different view of the city while you relieve yourself.

What do you get when you fill a country-theme Texas saloon with slick dance-music-crazed nightclubbers? Madness—10-gallon-hat madness. Behind the Texas-shape neon sign, Stoney's Rockin' Country has all the glam hot-spot fixings: one of the largest dance floors in Nevada, private tables, a VIP lounge, bottle service, and music that can segue from Merle Haggard to Jay-Z. You can't beat the prices either. The location in Town Square makes the club convenient to visit from casinos on the Strip. A smaller Stoney's has reopened at Santa Fe Station in the northern 'burbs.

This out-of-the-way "secret" lounge is a sort of upscale version of the Peppermill. The vibe is relatively chill even on weekends, so it can serve as a tonic to the usual Vegas lunacy. The interior is filled with gilt-framed paintings (and sometimes frames without the paintings), which are even on the ceiling. Ordinarily, a crazy ceiling stunt like this one would seem silly, but the muted romantic ambience here (candlelight, soft music, dark wood, comfy leather couches) makes it work. Host hotel The Lexi, reopened in 2023, is billed as the first "cannabis-friendly" hotel in Las Vegas.

Don’t be deterred if you walk through the door and see a few guys in barber chairs getting haircuts. Just head to the “janitor” door in the back of the room and pass through. The next room—gorgeous and high-ceilinged with crystal chandeliers—reflects Las Vegas’s current fascination with speakeasies, though they were seldom this opulent. There’s bottle service, shooters, and “spiked juices” such as the Bonnie & Clyde, which is Rittenhouse rye, Cointreau, Aperol, and lemon juice and serves two in a souvenir flask. And if you want to, you really can get a haircut, shave, or facial.

As good as Vegas Bohemia gets, this Downtown bar, close to the Beauty Bar and the Downtown Cocktail Room, is an instant winner. Some wags have likened it to a Peppermill for the younger, looser set, but this description fails to account for the beauty of its hipster crowd as well as its decor, from the kitschy neon sign outside to the fire grills, the barrel-vaulted brick ceiling, the semicircular banquettes, and the griffin insignias on the bathroom walls. The best feature, though, is the back room, which resembles a study owned by King Henry VIII—had he lived in the 1950s.

Topless club veterans could be a little confused here: the location of one mainstay, Cheetah's, has (thanks to a new owner of three Southern California clubs) assumed the whimsical name of a bygone East-Side institution (advertised by a highway billboard slogan every school kid could recite: "Dozens of gorgeous librarians"). Cheetah's was featured in that pinnacle of late-20th-century cinematic excellence Showgirls, and The Library preserves its competitive policy of cover charges lower than the bigger, fancier clubs in the same area.

Whatever the name—and past incarnations include Hyde and Fontana Bar—this posh ultralounge is prime real estate inside the Bellagio, famous for its front-and-center view overlooking the Bellagio fountains. As the name suggests, the latest incarnation hearkens back to an earlier era, with dinner and live entertainment offered in the same room, which drips with the chic atmosphere of a black-and-white movie from the 1930s.

This comfortable venue is versatile enough to be closed off for ticketed concerts or opened up to host free lounge acts and casino promotional events. Sight lines are great, and it's really the only game on this side of town for a diverse range of local and mid-level concerts that range from rock to country and just about everything in between.

Located inside the Plaza Hotel & Casino, this dive bar is renowned for stiff drinks and hard living. While the original Sand Dollar near Chinatown is renowned for live music (it opened in 1976 and has a long history of being a great place for live blues), the Downtown outpost is more of a watering hole. A modest menu from Pop Up Pizza is available all night long; just be prepared to wait a while for food.

For decades the home of off-Strip rock and blues, this Las Vegas institution lies tucked away in an office park so bland as to be invisible by day. Its fortunes have risen and fallen over the years, but the place is riding high enough now that a second location opened Downtown, inside the Plaza. Once a pitch-black joint where you could choke on cigarette smoke, The Sand Dollar is lighter and brighter these days, with a friendly center bar separating the “pool table side” from the “music side.” The bands vary by genre, but the larger umbrella is the “Austin sound” of rootsy blues and rock. Good pizza helps soak up the beer.

The concert hall long known as The Joint is now just The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. During the makeover, the 4,000-plus capacity venue was entrusted to concert promoter AEG Presents, and the room was spruced up with new seating and some changes, like moving a VIP area to the ground-floor level. Upgrades were welcome, as the venue was always better known for the big names it hosted than for the room itself, a big box, which jammed seated fans into folding chairs and put the versatility of its seating configurations ahead of comfort, aesthetics, or design. While leaving the biggest names (and highest ticket prices) to the Strip, The Theater has booked a steady flow of acts, including Widespread Panic, Sabrina Carpenter, and Mastodon.

Since it's part of The Mob Museum, you may wish to think of The Underground as an immersive and interactive exhibit on Prohibition-era speakeasies. Memorabilia from the 1920s abounds. Period music plays all night long. But it also functions as a working bar, with hand-crafted cocktails, drink specials, and serious bartender sass. There’s even a distillery in a back room—The Underground distills and serves its own special-edition moonshine, and visitors can take guided tours. Admission to the museum gets you in for free, but if you aren’t visiting the museum, check the bar’s Instagram account for the nightly password to give the bouncer at the back door. And be sure to check out some of the secret meeting rooms; one is hidden behind a big painting.

You get two kinds of retro-hip nostalgia at Casa Di Amore, a durable Italian restaurant. Inside, vintage photos of Las Vegas line the walls where a live pianist often entertains diners. Except for the limited bar seating, the indoor area is primarily for those with dinner reservations. Out back, however, the open-air Tiki Di Amore is more for the walk-up crowd of those in shorts and flip-flops, with a separate menu of bar food, cocktails such as The Pain Killer or Dark & Stormy, and often live bands amid the kitschy bamboo and thatched-roof surroundings.

The Chandelier Bar may be The Cosmopolitan's bar of the moment, but you shouldn't overlook the sleek Vesper Bar, the true mixologist space at the hotel. Name an ingredient, any ingredient, and the talented staff behind the bar can come up with a drink for you. Long-forgotten cocktail recipes are a specialty at this very modern square bar sitting alongside hotel registration.

Different cityscapes ranging from sunset in Hong Kong to night in Dubai to evening in New York City change on huge screens (so you can order a Manhattan while you're looking at Manhattan) that make up the background at this lounge, which offers specialty drinks like a pineapple mule.

Zouk is, as you would expect from Las Vegas’s newest resort, a pulsating, throbbing bazaar of more than 2,000 dancing bodies, bright big-city lights, strobes, and lasers in what the operators say is the most technologically advanced club in town. Kaskade is the resident artist, and the club also books superstars such as Tiesto, Ludacris, Zedd, and Slander.