Variety and quality have both become synonymous with Las Vegas as the destination has spent years growing its experiential offerings beyond vibrant casinos and world-class entertainment. Las Vegas dining is well past the all-you-can-eat-shrimp stereotype. While you’re at the CAESARS FORUM in Las Vegas for MPI’s WEC Vegas this summer—or any time, for that matter—take a bite out of these five tempting recommendations that showcase some of the wonderful mixture of cuisines available throughout the city. Fair warning: There are countless food options in Las Vegas.
1. Following a multimillion-dollar makeover of the space formerly occupied by the Mesa Grill, Bobby Flay’s Amalfi is scheduled to debut at Caesars Palace in late spring. The Southern Italian-style restaurant will have a bar/lounge and a market room (near the live seafood display), as well as private dining spaces and a main dining area that looks onto an open kitchen.
2. Din Tai Fung, a new Taiwanese dinner spot located at the ARIA Resort & Casino, specializes in xiao long bao (a type of steamed bun), but has much more to offer on the menu. Fried pork chops as an appetizer? Yup. Opened in the fall, Din Tai Fung currently has a perfect score on Tripadvisor.
3. It’s been a long day of meetings and the organizers are offering up healthy desserts. That’s wonderful—unless you need some sugary goodness. Enter the infamous automated cake-dispensing machine (yes, a cake ATM) thanks to Buddy “Cake Boss” Valastro’s Pizza Cake at Harrah’s Las Vegas. Of course, you’re not limited to the ATM delivery method, there’s also an actual restaurant setting—oh, and great pizza.
4. Named one of the “21 New Restaurants to Try in Las Vegas Right Now” by Eater Las Vegas, Osteria Fiorella dishes up fancy-yet-rustic Italian cuisine at the Red Rock Resort—a mere 2,400 miles from the restaurant’s namesake venue in Philadelphia.
5. There’s a place for all types of food in Las Vegas—and, for many, down-home, greasy American fare is a lifesaver. For that manner of hunger, Freedom Beat offers a $25 all-you-can-eat weekend brunch (endless bloody Marys or mimosas are $10 extra). If thinking about trying “the Elvis”—a waffle topped with bacon jam, banana slices and peanut butter mousse—doesn’t get your stomach growling, perhaps opt for the simpler-yet-spicier New Mexico hatch chilaquiles.
Pictured: Seafood Tower, GIADA
