While running oft-overlooked Renoir at the Mirage, Alessandro Stratta earned a reputation among many locals as the city's finest chef. At Alex, he's getting...
Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Check out the expense-account crowd at this Downtown institution, with patio dining that's oh-so-New York. Chef and owner André Rochat (also of Alizé), a...
401 S 6th Street
The prevalence of so many excellent seafood restaurants in this desert resort town remains baffling to outsiders, and understandably so, but Aquaknox stands...
Venetian, 3555 Las Vegas Boulevard SouthIf you're lucky, you'll land a table with a view of the water outside at this posh, but by no means flashy, eaterie within the Wynn resort, all the better...
Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South
The selection of meats (grass-fed veal, lamb shank, filet mignon, braised short ribs) is impressive, but the sides and the quiet invention shown in the...
MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South
New York superstar Boulud received a special exemption from Steve Wynn's edict that every head chef in his hotel must work there full-time. But his absence...
Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Boulevard SouthThe food - lamb, foie gras, steaks, which is to say high-class French dishes with subtle twists - doesn't live up to the location, but then how could it?...
Paris Las Vegas, 3655 Las Vegas Boulevard SouthThe menu isn't anything out of the ordinary; certainly, there's nothing on here to frighten the horses. But Chi Choi's renditions of Chinese classics, some...
Mirage, 3400 Las Vegas Boulevard SouthThe enormous (and, yes, golden) steer that signposts this old-school steak place on Sahara Avenue also advertises its decor. Discreet it certainly is not:...
308 W Sahara Avenue
The only US fine dining restaurant by the so-called 'Chef of the Century' has a lot to live up to. But what goes on in the kitchen, from Robuchon's famous...
MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South
This Vegas version of the New York institution is overseen by Mario Maccioni, who grew up playing and working in his father Sirio's original. Chefs come and...
Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Michael Mina's flagship restaurant in Vegas may have changed its name (it was formerly Aqua), but it still delivers what is, next to Mina's SeaBlue...
Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Boulevard SouthThe food isn't cheap, but it appears that culinary legend Alain Ducasse might not be taking his Vegas eaterie as seriously as his more expensive restaurants...
Thehotel at Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard SouthSuperb steak and seafood? Absolutely. A quiet spot for a date? Absolutely not. A busy bar scene, a DJ, busy lighting and acoustics seemingly designed to...
Palms, 4321 W Flamingo Road
A classy San Franciscan treat on the Strip, Michael Mina's Nobhill serves such Bay Area classics as chicken tetrazzini, lobster pot pie and North Beach...
MGM Grand, 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South