DW Bistro. | Amelinda B Lee DW Bistro will close in April of 2025 One of Las Vegas’s most popular off-Strip brunch restaurants will close its doors next year. For nearly 15 years, DW Bistro has hosted brunches of jerk chicken and waffles, chilaquiles, and red chile pork bowls. The restaurant is scheduling a series of events before it closes in April of 2025. DW Bistro opened in southwest Las Vegas in 2009 and relocated to its current home at the Gramercy shopping and dining area on West Russell Road in 2016. In the expanded space with broad windows and decorative pops of orange, chef Dalton Wi ..read more

Diner Ross is Eater Vegas’s best new restaurant. | RHC The best new restaurant, best late-night hang, and best bar of the year It’s time again for the Eater Awards, the annual occasion when Eater Vegas recognizes excellence in Las Vegas restaurants over the past 12 months. It’s been an action-packed year for Las Vegas: The city hosted the Super Bowl, the World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards centered its event on the Strip, and two casinos earned spectacular send-offs. But beneath the spectacle, Las Vegas locals and even sharp-eyed travelers know it was another banner year for Las Vegas’s culinar ..read more

Braised pork shank at Ortikia Mediterranean Grill. | Jeff Green Lean on this list of restaurants with special holiday menus for Christmas dining Christmas is coming! That means relatives to visit, gifts to give, houses to decorate, and events to attend. So instead of deciding on what to cook, why not pivot to deciding on where to eat instead? After all, plenty of Las Vegas restaurants will be open, and many are hosting delicious Christmas Eve dinners and Christmas Day feasts. Take the stress—and the mess—off your plate and consider appeasing everyone with a hassle-free, holiday prix fixe menu ..read more

Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar. | Mikayla Whitmore The “Try That in a Small Town” singer is the latest to join the Nashvillification of Las Vegas Country music is having a moment in pop culture, and nowhere is that more apparent than in Las Vegas. For years, all things honky tonk were relegated to just a couple of bars — but now, the Las Vegas Strip is getting its own slice of the Nashville music scene. (The NashVegas jokes finally run both ways.) This latest entrant comes from country singer Jason Aldean, who opens his new honky tonk Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar next week. Aldean’s live-music v ..read more

Gordon Ramsey Look-Alike Competition. | HexClad Also: Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Gordon Ramsay Armed with chefs’ coats and scowls, aspiring Gordon Ramsays gathered in front of the Hell’s Kitchen restaurant on Formula One weekend to compete for the honor of closest resemblance to the celebrity chef. On the heels of the fan-run contest to find doppelgangers of Timothée Chalamet, other celebrities are getting in on imitation competitions. This one was hosted by the HexClad cookware brand that Ramsay partners with — so not exactly the grassroots gathering that was the Chalamet spectacle. The cont ..read more

Eat, drink, and celebrate local Las Vegas. | Illustration by Lille Allen Gifts for food lovers made with love in Las Vegas ’Tis the season for gathering around holiday tables with plates full of food and arms full of presents. Las Vegas’s vibrant dining scene means there is no shortage of ways to keep loved one well-fed with food and drink that can only be found in Southern Nevada. And whether your intended gift recipient is hosting or indulging, it’s easy to find a local goodie just right for them. Home cooks will love kitchen equipment or a new bottle to stock their bar cart. Snack obsessive ..read more

Rendering of the Guest House Las Vegas. | Guest House Las Vegas One year and $9 million later, the Guest House will transform the old Tommy Bahama retail space into a sceney dining destination When it comes to world-class entertainment, luxury brand shopping, and famous chefs, Las Vegas locals have it all. But sometimes the thought of navigating traffic on the Strip, paying for parking, and dodging tourists on a frenetic trek through a bustling casino floor is enough to keep residents closer to home. This is where the Guest House, a new restaurant projected to open in mid-December at Town Squa ..read more

Workers go on strike at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas | Culinary Union Hundreds of hospitality workers walked off the job and onto the picket line Friday, November 15 in Las Vegas One year after the Las Vegas Strip’s casinos narrowly avoided tens of thousands of hospitality workers going on strike days before the city was set to host its first Formula One race, workers at an off-Strip casino walked off the job following a contentious fight for a new contract. Hospitality staff at the off-Strip Virgin Hotels Las Vegas went on strike on Friday, November 15, marking the first open-ended strike in 22 ye ..read more

Workers go on strike at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas | Culinary Union Hundreds of hospitality workers walked off the job and onto the picket line Friday in Las Vegas One year after the Las Vegas Strip’s casinos narrowly avoided tens of thousands of hospitality workers going on strike days before the city was set to host its first Formula One race, workers at an off-Strip casino walked off the job following a contentious fight for a new contract. Hospitality staff at the off-Strip Virgin Hotels Las Vegas went on strike on Friday, November 15, marking the first open-ended strike in 22 years for the C ..read more

Ocean One Bar & Grill. | Janna Karel The home of the $6 lunch closed and reopened in September. But a sign on the door says it’s out for good The $6 seafood lunch on the Las Vegas Strip is no more. Two months after suddenly shuttering — and then reopening just one day later, Ocean One Bar & Grille in the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood has put a sign on the door indicating that the lease has expired and the restaurant is closed. On most evenings, Ocean One Bar & Grille had a line of tourists waiting to get in — not because the food was exceptionally good, but because its pri ..read more