Top 10 best restaurants in Las Vegas
For tourists, Las Vegas is the best dining city in the United States, with an abundance
of choices for every taste and budget, from stunning Michelin-starred fine dining to mind
boggling buffets, and it boasts the greatest number of eateries by standout world-class
chefs. As a result, choosing where to eat when visiting can be overwhelming. So we have
created a list of top picks for different styles and types of food to help narrow the
field and make easy decisions. Before Beginning make sure you subscribe to the channel and
hit the bell icon. Let's start with our top 10 restaurants in Las Vegas.
Number 1 Joel Robuchon:
This jewel in the MGM Grand isn’t only the best fine dining meal in Vegas, it’s the
best in the U.S. and maybe the world. None of other famed Michelin 3-Star eateries in
Paris and Europe and touch this. Nicknamed the Chef of the Century and the amasser of
way more Michelin stars than anyone else, ever, Robuchon is simply the greatest living
chef, and this – not Paris or Hong Kong or Dubai – is his flagship. Who has eaten
here has ever disagreed that the meal is absolutely best here. “Best meal in Vegas,” says
Hiller without hesitation – and he covers Vegas dining for a living. It’s confusing,
but the chef also has a more casual eatery nearby, Atelier Robuchon, that some visitors
mistake for the stunning gem.
Number 2 Golden Steer:
This steakhouse is the oldest in Vegas, and while so many top spots of its era have vanished,
the Golden Steer is busier and hotter than ever. Waiters in white uniforms do tableside
Caesar salad, debone dover sole and create extravagant flaming art with fiery Bananas
Foster, while the top starter is a multi-tiered cold seafood platter. Anyone and everyone
who has visited Vegas in the past half century has eaten here, from race car drivers and
top athletes to models, singers and actors, an incredibly diverse of the city. But the
most frequent guests were the Rat Pack, and both Sinatra and Dean Martin ate here so often
they had their own booths – you can still get the Chairman of the Board’s custom,
off the menu dinner, which he enjoyed here countless times. Eating here is a trip back
in time to old Vegas but the food is very great.
Number 3 Sterling Brunch, Bally’s: Vegas is a brunch-mad
weekend town, but this is hands down the king of them all. First, it is one of the tiny
handful of bottomless champagne brunches in America actually serving real champagne Perrier
Jouet Grand Brut and lots of it. The similarly deluxe all you can eat slate also includes
a caviar station, raw bar, sushi, whole lobster tails, lamb chops and made to order stunning
desserts. It’s opulent and fun, and if you prefer screwdrivers or mimosas with fresh
OJ to straight French bubbly, it’s also on the house. For a non-all you can eat option,
Hiller recommends Bardot, James Beard winner Michael Mina’s French brasserie in Aria.
Number 4 Sparrow & Wolf is in Chinatown, but it’s
not Chinese and both Hiller and Quezada love this place. Creative and very eclectic chef
driven small plates are designed for sharing and sampling, and the menu is all over the
map and includes things you won’t see elsewhere in town, like wood roasted lamb neck with
chanterelles, crispy shallots and sherry or an Asian flavored take on Middle Eastern kafta
meatballs made with grass fed beef or skate wing with Alabama white BBQ sauce. Chada Thai
& Wine is another excellent non-Chinese Chinatown spot, specializing in Thai small plates.
Number 5 RM Seafood in Mandalay Bay: The initials belong
to Rick Moonen, widely considered the top seafood specialized chef and cookbook author
in America. Moonen graduated first in his class at the prestigious Culinary Institute
of America, got 3-stars from the New York Times for Oceana, then moved to Las Vegas
and opened a new flagship, RM Seafood. He also wrote the definitive seafood cookbook,
Fish Without a Doubt, works with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and is on the cutting edge of
sustainability, and gets amazing fish. Another often overlooked spot with impeccable sourcing
of ultra-fresh product from around the world is Estiatorio Milos, the Greek fine dining
spot originally from Montreal that has a wonderful outpost in the Cosmopolitan.
Number 6 barMasa, Morimoto and Nobu:
The vast majority of sushi in this country is simply not good and uses very poor-quality
fish, and Las Vegas has a lot of options from superlative to terrible. But these three eponymous
eateries, all by legendary sushi chefs do it right. At barMASA in Aria, every day, Chef
Masa Takayama receives a new seafood shipment straight from Japanese coastal waters, and
also has top quality rare Japanese beef and a great Japanese craft beer, sake and whisky
program. Morimoto in MGM Grand, for which the eponymous superstar chef owner and original
Iron Chef, Morimoto, impeccably sources amazing fish. While the world’s largest Nobu is
another namesake eatery of a world class chef with world class sourcing, in Caesar’s Palace.
The key to great sushi is great suppliers, and these have that down to a science.
Number 7 Best Buffet: The Buffet at Wynn.
To be a fair, these behemoths are constantly upgrading and adding new bells and whistles,
and Wynn benefits from having one of the most recent major top to bottom revamps. The space
is stylish – it’s Steve Wynn after all – and the seating is broken into lots of
smaller dining, creating a fancy restaurant feel sense of intimacy that is the opposite
of the usual cavernous all-you-can-eat aesthetic. The food selection is huge, with distinct
stations for meat carving, made to order tortillas and street tacos, and the only Argentinean
wood burning parilla grill on a Strip buffet. Especially impressive is the Asian section,
with lots of dim sum options, cooked-to-order ramen, and made-to-order Peking duck buns,
and the seafood zone, which solves the perennial buffet problem of picked-over crab legs and
shrimp with a giant two-sided rotating ice display, so while guests are serving themselves,
chefs are always rebuilding and restocking one side. The entire menu is revamped quarterly,
and best of all for folks really doing it Vegas-style, Wynn offers an “Endless Pour”
option for an extra $18 that includes a decent slate of all-you-can-drink adult beverages.
Number 8 If you are a burger fan this one's for you!
Two great picks of perfectly made middle of the road burgers are Holstein’s in the Cosmopolitan
and Gordon Ramsay Burger in Planet Hollywood, which lives up to the star chef’s name,
using really first rate fresh ingredients. Ramsay’s meat is a mixture of ground brisket,
chuck and short rib, and patties are brushed with imported English Devonshire butter on
the wood fired grill, which burns a mix of apple and alderwood. Brioche buns are exceptional,
dotted with white and black sesame seeds and baked fresh daily. The burgers are juicy,
meaty, flavorful, and perfectly cooked but it’s the novel combinations that push it
over the edge. Of course, Vegas has an outpost of just about every fast food burger joint
in America, and especially for late night revelry, you can never beat White Castle.
Number 9 Best Steakhouse: SW and CUT: The signature
steakhouse at Wynn uses Steve Wynn’s initials and was the first spot in Vegas and one of
the first three in the U.S. to serve real Kobe beef when importation from Japan resumed.
Most “kobe” and much “wagyu” in Sin City and elsewhere is still bogus, but SW
has the finest slate of both. CUT in the Palazzo hits all the key steakhouse elements out of
the park: great meat, fantastic sides and starters, first rate service and a great wine
and cocktail program. It’s flawless.
Number 10 Pizza Rock is an outpost of San Francisco’s
acclaimed Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, Tony’s concept is to perfectly and authentically
replicate numerous regional pizza styles, from New Haven to Detroit to Neapolitan, and
to do this right, the west coast restaurant has seven different ovens burning wood, coal,
gas and using electricity at different temperatures up to a blistering 1000°, each perfectly
suited to the particular style of pizza cooked in it. Pizza Rock “only” has four ovens,
which is still three more than just about every other pizzeria on earth. Pizza Rock
is in the heart of downtown just off Fremont Street, and was voted Best Pizza in Las Vegas
by readers of the city’s Journal Review newspaper.
That brings us to the end of today's video. Do let us know in the comments what's your
favorite restaurants from all of them? Thanks for watching!