Where to Eat and Drink in Las Vegas, Nevada

Here are the best bars, restaurants and hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada
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Alex Casas shows how to end a meal at Golden Steer Steak House: bananas Foster.Jessica Sample

Here’s the standard Vegas move: Hit a cheap buffet and blow the rest of your budget on a splashy show and a few blurry hands at the blackjack table. Fun? Well, yeah. Necessary? Not when the best odds are on the food. Top-quality culinary options number in the high hundreds, and the count continues to climb: more celebrity-chef restaurants, a newly transcendent Chinatown, and a burgeoning hipster dining scene downtown. You came here to party, so why not be extreme in your dining choices? On your next trip to Las Vegas, go with these sure bets.

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    Dine in a Nightclub

    Imagine Cirque du Soleil and Le Cirque joining forces and you’ve got the extravagant new Rose. Rabbit. Lie. at the Cosmopolitan. Acrobats strut overhead, performers tap-dance on tables, and you can blow five grand on a kilo of Russian osetra. Time your dinner right and stay for the vaudeville burlesque act in the ballroom (you’ll need to buy a ticket). Curtain times for the—ahem, topless—show are at 8:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m., and midnight.

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    Get (Old-) Schooled by a Waiter

    New Vegas steakhouses can upholster their booths in Naugahyde and put up as many pictures of Sinatra as they want, but they’ll never have servers Fabian Ong and Alex Casas. The duo at the Golden Steer—one of the few places still around where the Rat Pack hung out—have a combined 50-plus years of experience. Sit in the Shecky Greene booth for the best view of all: Châteaubriand and tableside desserts.

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    Slice into a Seriously Aged Steak

    Eating the 240-day-dry-aged riserva steak atCarneVinoat the Palazzo is one of those Vegas stories to tell back home. You’ll brag about spending $162 per inch for a piece of meat that spent eight months in lockdown and came out with all the complex flavor of aperfect porterhouse.

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    Hang out Downtown

    You know how every big city has its cool, up-and-coming neighborhood where creative types toast their good taste with locally distilled spirits? Well, now Vegas does, too. It’s all thanks to Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and his new Downtown Container Park, where 40 shipping containers house a cocktail bar, a wine bar, a barbecue joint, a barber shop, and even a flame-throwing grasshopper sculpture from Burning Man.

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    Sweat a (Little) Bit

    Recover from last night on the elliptical machine in your hotel gym. Or, for $40, get a day pass to the biggestCanyon Ranch spa in the countryat the Venetian and the Palazzo. Steam rooms and saunas ensure an insta-rally.

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    Order Vegas’s Best Burger

    There’s a burger boom in town, but no one’s comes closetoL’Atelier de Joël Robuchonat MGM Grand: This burger—actually two sliders—is gloriously topped with an inch-thick slab of foie gras. How do you eat that towering thing? Like any too-tall burger: Squish it down and dive in.

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    Have a Pizza and a Beer

    At midnight, pizza and beer is all the trouble you shouldbe getting into, butit should still feellike trouble. Get the truffle, Parmesan, and béchamel pie atFive50 at ARIA, and wash down that decadence with a bottle of Evil Twin’s Low Life Pils.

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    Hire a Personal Chef

    Sit at one of the teppanyaki tables at Nobu Caesars Palace and watch as foiegras, lobster, Wagyu beef, and other high-roller ingredients gofrom raw to expertly cooked mere inches from your face. It’s culinary performance art that’s leagues apart from Benihana.

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    Gorge Yourself on...Veggies?

    Even if you’re vegetarian, don’t think Vegas is going to deprive you of your God-given right to overindulge. At Michael Mina in the Bellagio, the umami-laden hen of the woods mushrooms and cheddar-spiked tomato soup with brioche on the $85 vegetarian tasting menu are rich enough to satisfy any hard-core carnivore.

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    Save Room for Many Desserts

    You’re in Vegas, so don’t settle for one dessert. Head to Sweets Raku, the new off-Strip dessert-only counter where Japanese pastry chefs dish up luscious, gold-flecked confectionsin a sleek, laboratory-white space. The sugar buzz will fuel the rest of your night.

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    Bonus: Spice It Up

    Meet Vegas’s greatest hangover cure: the fiery fish fillet in hot chile soup at Shaanxi Gourmet in Chinatown. It’s spicy enough (and big enough) to heal the pain ofyou and four of your partners in crime.

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