The Arts District's award-winning wine room sets its Burgundy aside this Thursday for a five-course dinner built entirely around rum, a rare detour for a list that has spent years collecting the wine world's attention.
A great meal should end with a smooth drive home. For the rare evening it doesn't, here's the trusted Vegas crew we recommend.
Great French cooking is restraint, technique, and respect for the ingredient. We found a local facial studio that lives by the same creed.
Bar Boheme, the Arts District bistro built by chef James Trees, is turning one summer evening into a full culinary collaboration. On July 16, four kitchens and a California vineyard share the same menu, a small reminder that Las Vegas wine dinners keep getting more ambitious.
A five course showdown between craft beer and fine wine at a Strip-adjacent kitchen this month is a small, telling sign of how Las Vegas is rethinking the pairing menu in 2026.
From coq au vin to crème brûlée, the essential French dishes and what makes each one special.
Inside The Collective, EDO Hospitality's newest concept pairs French technique with Spanish bravado, and tableside theater with an eleven pound wheel of Echire butter.
Chef Gabriela Camara brought her celebrated Mexico City seafood house to the Fontainebleau this spring, and the reception says something bigger about where Las Vegas dining is headed.
Major Food Group's new Italian seafood room has taken over the old Picasso space on the Bellagio patio, and Wine Spectator has already named its cellar among the year's most impressive new wine programs on the Strip.
Savory herb-forward drinks, high-craft zero-proof options, and low-waste pouring programs are reshaping the beverage experience at serious restaurants. Here is what the shift means for guests and why the aperitif still matters.
A James Beard semifinalist chef known for heirloom tortillas is opening a Japanese-inspired cocktail bar in the Arts District this month, the latest sign that Downtown's most ambitious talent is thinking in hospitality groups, not single restaurants.
A new hospitality festival spanning four Strip resorts will bring dozens of celebrated chefs, sommeliers and mixologists together this September, another sign of how seriously Las Vegas now takes its place on the global dining map.
After a year of rotating pop-ups, chef Dan Krohmer has settled Durango Social Club into a permanent Vietnamese kitchen led by Crystina 'Mama' Nguyen. It is a reminder that Las Vegas's most exciting tables are not always the loudest ones.
The James Beard Award-winning chef has finally taken his New Orleans-born concept off the Strip, planting Meril inside M Resort this week. For a dining scene that keeps pushing south, it is another sign that Henderson has arrived.
Tasting menus are getting shorter, sourcing stories are moving to center stage, and sustainability is reshaping what the best restaurants choose to put on the plate. The James Beard Foundation's 2026 trend report documents where serious cooking is heading.
The Sixth Street space that housed André Rochat's Michelin-starred André's for nearly thirty years has sat quiet since 2008. This week, French Riviera Tropézienne Bakery brought French pastry back through its doors, with a full bistro to follow in September.
What to expect at a traditional French restaurant — courses, etiquette and how to order with confidence.
The Mayfair institution that helped redefine Indian fine dining globally has opened its first US location at ARIA, making it the first Indian restaurant ever to open inside a Las Vegas Strip casino.
French dining is about craft and patience. We found a downtown bar that shares the same soul.
Las Vegas earned 14 James Beard Award semifinalist nominations across nine categories in 2026, its strongest showing to date and a signal that the city's culinary reputation has crossed into new territory. From chef-driven neighborhood restaurants to a French institution holding a Forbes Five-Star for 14 consecutive years, here is what the Las Vegas dining scene looks like at its best right now.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal's 2026 Top 100 list is more than a guide to where to eat. It is a document of a city that has quietly assembled one of the most ambitious dining landscapes in North America.
One of the Strip's most enduring fine-dining institutions will serve its last dinner on August 23, 2026, closing a chapter that shaped how the world understood Las Vegas cuisine. The closure is both a loss and a reminder of how dramatically the city's culinary landscape has evolved since Le Cirque first opened its doors at Bellagio.
A new corporate pastry chef and a $65 monthly tasting called Soiree are turning a Strip champagne lounge into one of the city's most approachable little indulgences.
After a sold-out weekend residency at Durango Social Club, chef Tyler Vorce has given his French-Mediterranean tasting menu a permanent address on Spring Mountain Road, and Las Vegas is better for it.
A James Beard Award-winning chef has opened his first restaurant in the western United States at Sahara Las Vegas, and it is part of a much bigger story about where this city's culinary moment is heading in 2026.
For the first time in over a decade, the Michelin Guide will officially award stars to Las Vegas restaurants at a ceremony on August 26 at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Here is what the guide's return means for the city's fine-dining scene and why this summer is a defining moment for every serious table in town.
With the inaugural Michelin Guide Southwest ceremony just weeks away at Fontainebleau, local chefs and critics are naming their favorites, and the list stretches far past the Strip's usual suspects. Here is who is being talked about and why it matters for anyone planning a special night out this summer.
The most consequential change in fine dining right now is not about what is on the plate. It is about the ideas behind it, and Las Vegas is one of the most interesting places to watch this transformation unfold.
From Kwame Onwuachi's Caribbean steakhouse at Sahara to Gabriela Camara's Mexican seafood debut in the Fontainebleau, a remarkable wave of acclaimed chefs is remaking the Strip's dining identity this summer.
A quiet corner of Henderson has traded biscuits and mimosas for Burgundy and bone broth. Chef Antonio Nuñez's new Parlour Wine Bar pairs unhurried small plates with a fast-growing cellar, and its grand opening lands July 23 through 26.
Wynn's Sarah Thompson just closed out a fifteen-year drought at the James Beard Awards, and the timing lines up with something the Strip has waited even longer for: a Michelin ceremony this August.
A three-time James Beard Award winner's Italian-American vision has arrived on the Strip, and the result is one of the most anticipated fine-dining debuts of 2026.
At Pamplemousse we believe a room should feel as composed as a plate. Here is the Las Vegas design-build firm that shares that philosophy.
Hospitality, to us, means looking after people fully. In that spirit, we'd like to introduce a Las Vegas firm that looks after our neighbors when the road home goes wrong.
Michelin's own inspectors just named tableside service one of the defining trends of 2026, a full-circle moment for a French tradition that never really left restaurants like ours. Here's why the theater of gueridon service is suddenly the thing every ambitious kitchen wants back.
A multi-concept Japanese dining destination anchored by one of Tokyo's most celebrated bars is set to open at BLVD Las Vegas before summer ends, adding an entirely new chapter to the city's already remarkable fine-dining story.
Chef Jeffrey Weiss is bringing his celebrated paella and tapas concept back to Las Vegas after a three year hiatus, this time in a larger downtown home. It is a welcome reminder that great regional cooking, whether from Valencia or the French countryside, always finds its way back to the table.
Fine dining sommeliers are updating how they match wine to food in 2026, moving away from rigid rules toward regional harmony, lighter pairings, and an entirely new category of non-alcoholic accompaniments. Here is what those changes mean for guests who take their dining experience seriously.
Two Southern Nevada dining rooms just picked up fresh recognition from one of the wine world's most closely watched award programs, a nice reminder that a great bottle deserves a great table.
Wynn Las Vegas and Chef's Table have revealed the full lineup for their third annual September culinary weekend, built around dinners, brunches, and masterclasses led by more than twenty chefs from around the world, headlined by French Laundry founder Thomas Keller. Here is what this year's lineup means for a city already mid-renaissance in fine dining.