Our list of Las Vegas's best restaurants supports this great mix: high, low, old, new, innovative, and iconic. Pick a type of cuisine-odds are, you’ll find it within walking distance. The city's best restaurants aren’t just importing rare snow beef from Hokkaido, they’re also trucking in plump tomatoes from Pahrump, Nevada.

But in the last few years, growing up has also meant importing extraordinary talent with no television ties, and looking in its own backyard. and the best access to the rarest ingredients in the world. It now has more celebrity chefs than you can shake a stick at the most master sommeliers of any city in the U.S. As Vegas has grown up, so has the culinary scene. Marcus Samuelsson is a James Beard Award honoree.Las Vegas restaurants have evolved from the steakhouses, red sauce joints, and buffets that once powered the city’s vacationers (though we fully endorse that some of those early icons are worth the trip down Memory Lane). Oversize pictures of cherry blossoms trim the lobby, while mixed media artist Margaret Boozer's relief map of the region, constructed from several tons of clay excavated from the construction site, hangs behind the check-in desk. In addition to celebrity restaurants, boutique retail and a 3,000-seat theater that's already hosted marquee performers like Bruno Mars and Sting, a bright, sunlit conservatory and a French-style bakery nod to Bellagio, for example, and a 20-foot-tall water wall flanking the casino entrance recalls a similar one at Aria Resort & Casino.ĭozens of paintings, photographs and sculptures created by local artists tie the resort to the community. The resort wasn't shy about borrowing heavily from MGM's Vegas properties. Jose Andres, another famous chef who, like the Voltaggios, has ties to the area, has opened a seafood-focused restaurant that celebrates the Chesapeake. Around the corner, Top Chef contestants (and brothers) Michael and Bryan Voltaggio operate a prime steakhouse.

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