Rendering of Lexie’s Bistro. | Lexie’s Bistro Veterans of Vegas powerhouse restaurants are serving Italian food in the new bistro Two Las Vegas chefs and veterans of powerhouse restaurants are turning their talents to Henderson, with an Italian restaurant located right inside a new apartment complex near the M Resort. Lexie’s Bistro opens this May inside the Ilumina on Raiders Way (3610 Sunridge Heights Parkway) complex. Lexie’s kitchen is helmed by executive chef David Jones, who has previously cooked at Jean Georges Steakhouse at ARIA Resort & Casino and Prime Steakhouse at Bellagio Hote ..read more

Dazed! Consumption Lounge. | Dazed! Consumption Lounge With bong chandeliers and canna-cocktails, Planet 13 introduces another way to light up in Las Vegas With bong chandeliers and cannabis-infused cocktails, one more option for legally consuming cannabis is now open in Las Vegas. Under Nevada’s current laws, you can visit Las Vegas and purchase marijuana at any dispensary — but up until a few weeks ago, there weren’t many places to legally smoke it. Now, Planet 13, the neon-glowing mega-dispensary near the Las Vegas Strip, has a lounge in which tourists can buy their preferred product and th ..read more

Passover | Shutterstock Nosh on brisket, charoset, matzoh ball soup, and tzimmes this Passover in Las Vegas Passover, known in Hebrew as Pesach, is the Jewish holiday that observes the story of the exodus from Egypt. This year, Passover runs from the evening of Monday, April 22 through April 30. Restaurants across Las Vegas carry menu items that are just right for supplementing seder or for noshing in celebration of the eight-day holiday. While traditional Passover dishes can be found in this guide, check whether they meet your needs as kosher for Passover. See something missing? Hit up the ti ..read more

Safta 1964. | Wynn Las Vegas Plus, the Southwest gets a new brunch spot and another coffee shop debuts downtown Las Vegas is seeing plenty of fresh new restaurant action this spring. Here’s the latest batch of newcomers. Safta 1964 Chef Alon Shaya’s groovy new pop-up is now serving at the Wynn las Vegas. Taking over Jardin in the evenings, Shaya imagines his grandma’s fictional heydey, landing in Vegas via a Thunderbird convertible, armed with her recipes of Israeli and Mediterranean food. Expect spreads and dips served on cake stands, hummus with a sprinkle of shaved black truffle, herby fala ..read more

A sushi platter from Mizumi. | Sabin Orr Here are some of the ways you can eat the World’s Best Food This summer, some of the most lauded chefs in the world are descending on Las Vegas for the World’s 50 Best Restaurants event. The annual awards ceremony crowns 50 winners from around the world and has selected Las Vegas as its host city for 2024. There is no criteria that a restaurant has to meet and the voting panel is assigned no pre-determined checklist of criteria or definition for what makes a restaurant the “best” — they just... go off of vibes. But the U.S. rarely appears on the list so ..read more

Application for the Doberman. | Doberman The Artifice Bar is no more — replaced by a private club for ‘the sharp and curious’ A new bar is opening in downtown Las Vegas — you’ll just need committee approval if you want to be a member. The Doberman is a new venture from Ryan Doherty, the founder of Corner Bar Management — the group behind Fremont Street hot spots like the Laundry Room, Commonwealth, Lucky Day, and Cheapshot. The private social room that Doherty says is tailored for “the sharp and curious” will open early this fall in the Las Vegas Arts District. Doherty says the appeal of a mem ..read more

Popstroke. | Popstroke Fore! Four new spots to drink and golf swing into Vegas this year Golf is indisputably having a big moment in Las Vegas. This year, the city will get four new golf entertainment venues that range from driving ranges to virtual golf to putting greens. They join the likes of Topgolf and the expanding category of bars where you can eat, drink, and play. Two high-tech spots for golfing and drinking are already in full swing and two more are on the way — one taking over a massive Vegas nightclub space and the other designed by Tiger Woods. PopStroke PopStroke will blend mini ..read more

Superior Grocers. | Superior Grocers Plus, Esther’s Kitchen gets a Key to the City and Las Vegas gets a new dessert bar A grocery store based in California opened a Las Vegas location on Wednesday, March 28. Superior Grocers at 1955 North Nellis Boulevard, near the intersection of East Lake Mead and North Nellis Boulevards, is the company’s first store outside of California. It sells the expected grocery store products, plus a large section of Mexican snacks and ingredients, a bakery that makes pan dulce and tres leches cake, and a prepared foods section that sells six different varieties of t ..read more

Haunted Brunch at Nightmare Cafe. | Janna Karel Nightmare Cafe closes after just two Halloweens downtown A horror-themed bar and restaurant that served cocktails in skull-shaped glasses, hosted Haunted Brunch events, and featured walls covered in homages to slasher films, has called it quits. Nightmare Cafe, which opened in the Las Vegas Arts District in October of 2022, hosted a send-off on Saturday, March 27, its last day of service. Fox5 reported that the downtown cafe on Commerce Street closed due to mental and physical setbacks, with the stress of running the business leading to its two c ..read more

Pizza at Amari Italian Kitchen. | Chris Wessling Check out a few of our favorite spots for discounted dishes and bargain booze   The Las Vegas Strip isn’t exactly known for its bargains. (Dollar shrimp cocktails aren’t coming back anytime soon.) There are, however, places on the Strip where you can grab a quick discounted bite and find a cheaper drink. In Vegas, restaurants with happy hour menus are often located inside shopping malls, although a few resort restaurants participate as well. Here, Eater highlights some of the most compelling happy hours in Las Vegas right now. Remember ..read more