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In-N-Out Burger
At California’s famous In-N-Out, where the beef patties are never frozen and the potatoes are hand-diced daily, there’s a secret menu. Ask for your burger ‘animal style’ (with mustard, an onion-grilled bun and extra-special sauce).
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Mesa Grill
While the star New York chef doesn’t cook on the premises, his bold signature menu of Southwestern fusion fare lives up to the hype, whether it’s a sweet potato tamale with crushed pecan butter, blue-corn pancakes or spice-rubbed pork tenderloin.
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Firefly
Firefly is always packed with a fashionable local crowd, not just for the singles’ scene on the late-night patio, but also for the food. Tapas-style dishes are often fusion-spiced, but still shake hands with Spanish tradition, from patatas bravas to chorizo clams and vegetarian delights. A backlit bar dispenses the house specialty sangria and infused mojitos. On some nights, hot Latin turntablists spin. Reservations strongly recommended.
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Roxy’s Diner
Every place in Vegas has a gimmick. At this ’50s-style rock ‘n’ roll diner, servers drop everything to perform song-and-dance numbers straight out of Grease. It’s hilarious fun, but it sure does slow service down. Copious comfort food tastes just about right for the prices. Blue-plate specials won’t leave you hungry, and super-thick milkshakes come with silver sidecars, just like when you were a kid.
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Aureole
Chef Charlie Palmer’s seasonally inspired tasting menus (from $95), which show off dishes like saffron seafood chowder and maple-nut baklava, are not always artfully executed. But it’s worth ordering wine just to watch catsuit-clad ‘wine angels’ ascend the four-story tower. Extensive wine list, upscale dress. Reservations essential.
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Il Fornaio
Feast on wood-fired pizzas, salads and pastas, or make a meal of the antipasti platter with scallops wrapped in pancetta, baked eggplant, truffled cheeses and more. Delectable, fresh-baked breakfast goodies such as lemon-pecan scones are also available at ll Fornaio Paneterria, near the hotel lobby.
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Carnival World & Village Seafood Buffets
Some say Carnival World is Vegas’ best all-around buffet, with wok-fried dishes, taco bars, fresh seafood and handmade gelato. Pricier Village Seafood is for those who can’t get enough snow crab legs, lobster tails and fresh-shucked oysters, plus salads and house-made breads.
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Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill
California flair pervades this ultra-contemporary bistro just off the casino floor. The truffled potato chips with blue cheese, skirt steak skewers with celery salad, wood-fired pizzas and ricotta gnocchi with sweet fennel sausage thrill, just like the New World wine list.
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Metro Pizza
If you don’t make it out here to taste Vegas’ best thin-crust pie, you can devour a cheesy slice at Metro’s outpost in the 24-hour Ellis Island Casino & Brewery, east of the Strip.
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Chinois
Wolfgang Puck scores again, this time with signature Cal-Asian fusion served in a chic Far East–meets–West Coast setting. Pair the firecracker shrimp with a sugared tower of mochi (pounded rice cakes) or a premium glass of cold sake. It’s only a deal at lunch. Also recommended: 808 Chef Jean-Marie Josselin dials Hawaii on the coconut wireless daily to procure the raw goods that fuel this Pacific Rim delight. Don’t neglect the ‘deconstructed’ ahi roll. Cypress Street Marketplace Charge made-to-order salads and pizza, Asian stir-fries and healthy wraps to your ‘smart’ card, then pay as you exit the food court. Tables overlook the casino floor. Trevi Fountain…
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Eldorado's Chef's Buffet
- Reno, USA
- Restaurants › Buffet
The all-you-can-eat buffets at the casinos are popular fueling-up options and can be a good bargain if you like to stuff yourself silly. Some open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Prices tend to be higher on Friday and Saturday nights when most casinos put out especially lavish spreads. Some serve Sunday brunch. Other local favorites include the Silver Legacy's Victorian Buffet (775 325 7401; 407 N Virginia St), Atlantis' Toucan Charlie's Buffet & Grille (775 825 4700; 3800 S Virginia St) and nearby Peppermill's Island Buffet (775 826 2121; 2707 S Virginia St).
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Company American Bistro
The Pure nightclub group’s foray into fashion-plate dining is backed by none other than Nicky Hilton, and its ski-chalet design and fireside lounge successfully evade the Luxor’s kitsch factor. Fawning service relentlessly pushes the half-bottle wine pairing concept for each course, but stick to your guns and order more modestly. Chef Adam Sobel’s meaty mains, such as soul-food buttermilk fried chicken with waffles or pork schnitzel with fried egg and brown-butter sauce, are worth the wait. Appetizers are laughably tiny.
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Andre’s
Chef André Rochat’s Provençal-decorated 1930s bungalow shows that casino hotels don’t have a monopoly on haute cuisine. Interior dining rooms may feel claustrophobic and look awfully dated, but loyal patrons appreciate the Michelin-starred traditions. Seasonal highlights on the provincial French menu might include pan-seared duck foie gras with baked apples and five-spice crème anglaise. Sommelier-led wine flights from the world-class cellar are pricey. Reservations essential; dress well.
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Hawaiian Tropic Zone
Watch your ‘dining concierge’ hostess strut the catwalk in nightly beauty pageants or be hypnotized by the two-story waterfall inside this multi-tiered dining bar with a tropical fusion menu designed by modern American chef David Burke. Knock back a mango martini with the Hawaiian-style pupus (appetizers), BBQ chicken spring rolls and ‘petite island’ seafood platters for two, then polish off a banana split.
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SushiSamba
With the flouncy colors of Rio and martial-arts flicks digitally projected onto the walls, SushiSamba presents a chic, sleek integration of Peruvian, Brazilian and Japanese cuisine, such as flawlessly grilled robata and churrasco meats, marinated sashimi seviche spiked with citrus and chilies, or delicately done tempura boxes with dipping sauces. And whoa, the sake list is encyclopedic. Reservations strongly recommended.
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Dos Caminos
Whether you’ve got a boisterous party or an intimate date, this sexily reinvented Mexican restaurant is the ideal place for lounging, with its low-slung tables and sofas and a long list of specialty cocktails and tequila flights. Linger over queso fondues, spicy seafood seviche and chili-rubbed meats a la parilla (from the grill). Weekend brunch brings tacos, huevos (eggs) and blueberry-corn pancakes.
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Emeril’s
Emeril Lagasse cranks the creativity up a notch at his New Orleans–style fish house with barbecued shrimp, rosemary biscuits and lobster cheesecake. The wine list is an award-winner, and the banana cream pie drizzled with caramel is sumptin’ else. Service and execution are not flawless, but you can’t help but smile at the spouting fish sculptures. Reservations strongly recommended for the dining room.
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BLT Burger
Here, French-trained NYC chef Laurent Tourondel grills up haute Black Angus beef, lamb and veggie burgers with all the trimmings, plus there are almost three dozen microbrews, liqueur-spiked ‘adult’ milkshakes, crisp sweet-potato fries and peanut-buttery s’mores for dessert. Beautiful mod diner-style furnishings have a background of enormous black-and-white photo murals that show off Nevada’s desert and snowy mountains.
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M&M Soul Food
An unlikely find in a strip mall far from the Strip (look for the landmark 1960s lettering on the sign), this southern-style soul food café is a magnet for those craving fried chicken smothered in gravy, barbecue short ribs, spicy catfish and chitterlings with savory sides like yams, black-eyed peas, collard greens, mac-and-cheese, cornbread and red beans and rice. It’s the real deal, straight from south LA.
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Village Eateries
The cobblestone streets of NY–NY’s imitation Greenwich Village are bursting with tasty, wallet-saving options: Greenberg’s Deli, authentic down to the egg-cream sodas; Fulton’s Original Fish Frye for hot fish and chips; Gonzalez Y Gonzalez, a tequila-soaked Tex-Mex cantina; Jody Maroni’s Sausage Kingdom grilling haute dogs; and Chin Chin Café, serving dim sum appetizers and other quick-fix Chinese-American dishes.
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Cut
Peripatetic Wolfgang Puck strikes again, and this time he’s on fire –it’s 1200°F in the broiler, to be exact. Modern earth-toned furnishings with stainless-steel accents and dried-flower arrangements complement a surprisingly smart menu, which dares to infuse Indian spices into Kobe beef, and accompanies Nebraska corn-fed steaks with Argentinean chimichurri sauce or Point Reyes blue cheese. Reservations essential.
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Raku
On the outskirts of Chinatown, this Japanese robata -style charcoal grill is a tasty journey. Take flight on an imported sake sampler, then dig into creative hot and cold appetizers, salty yakitori skewers, steaming bowls of udon noodle soup or oden snacks boiled in broth. There are only a handful of tables at this sleek spot, so make reservations or expect to wait outside for an hour or more.
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Joël Robuchon
The acclaimed ‘Chef of the Century’ leads the pack in the French invasion of Las Vegas. Adjacent to the Mansion, a high-rollers’ gaming area, plush dining rooms done up in leather and velvet imitate 1930s Paris. There are complex seasonal tasting menus ($85 to $385). Reservations essential but difficult to get. At less-expensive L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon ($$$) next door, bar seats front an exhibition kitchen.
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Pullman Grille
A well-kept secret, the clubby Pullman features the finest Black Angus beef and Pacific Rim seafood specialties, plus a solid wine list served amid gorgeous carved wood paneling and a fortune’s worth of antiques, such as a fireplace taken from a Scottish castle. The centerpiece is a 1926 Pullman train car, now a cigar lounge for quaffing after-dinner brandy. Enter through the impressive mansion doors.
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Original Pancake House
This nationwide chain has been flippin’ griddlecakes since 1953. A kid-friendly menu includes at least a half dozen types of waffles and pancakes, from blueberries a’-poppin to southern-style Georgia pecan. Danish cherry crepes and Scandinavian pancakes with lingonberry sauce are among the more unusual treats, while signature flapjacks are honestly made from an old-fashioned sourdough starter.
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