Las Vegas What To Eat
There are 1,200 restaurants in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. You can make reservations or online searches at www.tasteofvegas.com or www.lasvegas.com.
Here are some selections from the city's vast array of eating options, taken from our Insight City Guide Las Vegas (buy now here):
Celebrity Chefs
Spécialité de la Maison
Themed Dining
Celebrity Chefs
Emeril Lagasse is at the Delmonico Steakhouse in the Venetian (tel: 414-3737), and at his own New Orleans Fish House at the MGM Grand (tel: 891-7374).
Wolfgang Puck, the first of Vegas' s brigade of star stirrers, now operates five establishments here, including the Wolfgang Puck Cafe at the MGM Grand (tel: 891-3019), and the Wolfgang Puck Trattoria del Lupo at Mandalay Bay (tel: 740-5522).
Charlie Palmer transplanted his super-chic Aureole from New York to his eponymous steakhouse at the Mandalay Bay (tel: 362-5000).
Jean-Marie Josselin offers a unique blend of Asian and European food at 808 in Caesars Palace (tel: 731-7604)
Nobuyuki Matsushia prepares world-famous sushi at Nobu in the Hard Rock (tel: 693-5090).
Steve Wynn lured Julian Serrano to serve food among the Cubist originals and preside over Picasso at Bellagio (tel: 693-7223).
Jean-Georges Vongerichten cooks beautifully at the Prime Steakhouse in Bellagio (tel: 877-234-6358).
The celebrity of celebrity chefs is André Rochat, whose André's French Restaurant, located Downtown, has been consistently voted the best in Las Vegas since 1980 (tel: 385-5016).
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Spécialité de la Maison
Here are some of the tastiest highlights from Vegas's wild and varied menus:
Piero Selvaggio at the Venetian's Valentino (tel: 414-3000) presents parmesan chips called frico, and three-coloured gnocchi.
Also at the Venetian, the Delmonico Steakhouse (tel: 414 3737) is famous for truffled potato chips dusted with parmesan cheese and rock shrimp salad.
In the Venetian Grand Canal Shoppes, Postrio's signature dish is baked loup de mer en croûte (tel: 796-1110).
Creamy scrambled eggs topped with caviar inside a covered ceramic egg delight visitors to Laurent Tourondel's Palace Court at Caesars Palace (tel: 737-9700).
Chef David Robins features mahogany roast duck accompanied by pomegranate and crêpes at Spago in Caesars' Forum Shops (tel: 737-9700).
Il Fornaio at New York-New York is known for fried calamari with spicy marinara sauce.
Popular at Bellagio's Picasso is quail escabèche, a dish chef Julian Serrano disarmingly claims is "easy to make."(yeah, sure, just find yourself a quail and a Peruvian-Spanish dictionary).
At Nobu in the Hard Rock, there's an ample variety of sushi, but don't miss the black cod marinated in white miso.
Off the main menu, but available to those in the know at Francesco's is chef Marco Porceddu's tagliolini, served with mullet roe, at Treasure Island.
At the MGM Grand, Michael Mina's Gilroy garlic soup filled with spinach and egg ravioli is a favorite at Nobhill.
Finish at the MGM Grand with satin-like bread pudding in whisky sauce, a yummy dessert at Emeril Lagasse's New Orleans Fish House.
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Themed Dining
Buccaneer Bay Club at Treasure Island presents diners a continental menu as a battle between Sirens and pirates takes place before your eyes.
ESPN Sports Bar in New York-New York offers diners 150 screens featuring nothing but sport.
Harley Davidson Café on the Strip has around 15 custom-made motorcycles including Elvis Presley's. As the latest Harleys pass by on a conveyor belt, eat tasty American road food.
House of Blues, Mandalay Bay is a Southern and blues-themed restaurant offering regional cuisine including Creole and Cajun staples. A Sunday gospel feature has live music and a country-style buffet brunch.
NASCAR Café at Sahara. This two-level restaurant features nascar stock cars, and huge screens showing the best races. Drag-race mechandise is on offer, along with American food.
Quark's Bar and Restaurant is part of Star Trek: the Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. The Trekkie-inspired environment features metallic furniture and costumed employees. Snack on gummy worms and other delicacies from Outer Space.
The Burger Bar in Mandalay Bay
They serve a (maybe literally) heart-stopping range of burgers here, to suit all tastes and pockets. From the $60 Kobe burger with foie gras and truffles, to the inexpensive dessert burgers with a donut base topped off with cheesecake, yummy chocolate or peanut butter and jelly (jam to Brit-speakers). One dessert burger comes with "lettuce" and "tomatoes" made entirely of sweet ingredients.
The Carnival World Buffet at the Rio
Acknowledged by most as the best of Vegas's famous serve-it-yourself feasts, here you can have a dozen different international meals for one price. Around 70 types of pastries are included in the buffet.
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