From the city that once trotted out atomic pin-up girls in mushroom-cloud swimsuits for cheesy publicity stills comes a one-of-a-kind insight into the...
755 E Flamingo Road
Other restaurants in town have their fans, but, at least for our money, this spartan place on a slightly sketchy stretch of Bonanza Road is the best...
2230 W Bonanza RoadAlso known as Big Spring, this is where legendary Old West explorers Kit Carson and John Fremont parked their horses in the mid 1800s. Huge cottonwoods and...
333 S Valley View BoulevardEveryone on the Vegas scene has a story about how they went into the seemingly nondescript Las Vegas Lounge and suddenly realised that they were at a tranny...
900 E Karen Avenue
This little shack doesn't look like much, but it dispenses the most moreishly delicious desserts in the city. Frozen custard looks like ice-cream and even...
505 E Oakey Boulevard
Speaking of comfort food, it doesn't get much heartier than the soul food dished up here. It's a pretty basic room; indeed, it feels a tad dreary after...
3923 W Charleston Boulevard
A $1-billion expansion of the Fashion Show Mall included the addition of the Cloud, an amazing image projection screen/sunshade that hovers over the front...
3200 Las Vegas Boulevard South
'Twisted farm food', advertises the menu, an altogether less appetising prospect than the excellent comfort cooking that's actually served at this capacious...
6800 W Sahara Avenue
After MGM Mirage purchased additional plots of land bordering Circus Circus in recent years, many in town muttered that it must be just a matter of time...
2880 Las Vegas Boulevard South
After two years in the hands of young duo Tim Poster and Tom Breitling, the venerable Nugget was taken over in 2005 by Landry's Restaurants. Many Downtown...
129 E Fremont Street
Vegas is full of dramatic restaurants, but where else can you dine within sight of a four-storey, 4,500-bottle wine tower, up and down which float harnessed...
Mandalay Bay
Suspended 51 floors above the city (check the see-through patio looking all the way to the ground), decked out in blues and space-age silvers, Ghostbar is a...
Palms, 4321 W Flamingo Road
It's been surpassed in the extravagance stakes by Kà, but this is still the best Cirque du Soleil production in town, and maybe the best show on the Strip....
Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Boulevard South
The Stratosphere strives to be a destination resort out of necessity: it's between the Strip and Fremont Street, essentially no-man's land. Its lure starts...
2000 Las Vegas Boulevard SouthBefore he'd even finished building his namesake hotel, Steve Wynn was, true to form, already planning an addition to it. However, Encore has since morphed...
3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South