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Star Watch tracks where celebs are dining in Vegas. See someone notable about town? Email vegas@eater.com.
New York Knicks point guard Mike Bibby dined at N9NE Steakhouse at the Palms with a party of 20 while in town to catch all the college basketball madness on Saturday. As part of his annual N9NE Steakhouse tradition, Bibby special ordered almond cakes, his mother's favorite, for the group. Bibby posed for a photo with executive chef Barry Dakake. On Sunday evening, Adrien Broner, undefeated American professional boxer currently rated as the No. 1 lightweight in the world, dined at N9NE Steakhouse with a group of friends and enjoyed a bone-in filet and lobster mashed potatoes. [EaterWire]
International pop music sensation Rita Ora dined with a group at Tao Asian Bistro at the Venetian on Saturday night. Also spotted at Tao was 90210's Jessica Lowndes, who stopped by Ora's table in the dining room to say hello to the singer, who once guest starred on the TV show. Lowndes and friends, including new boyfriend model and former rugby player Thom Evans, ordered favorites including satay bass, crispy rice, Kung Pao chicken and more before heading up to the nightclub. They did celebratory shots in honor of Evans' upcoming 28th birthday on Tuesday. [EaterWire]
Actor AJ Buckley shared appetizers and entrees with fiancé Abigail Ochse, who was celebrating a birthday, at Lavo at the Palazzo on Saturday. Jessica Lowndes of 90210 dined at Lavo on Friday night. She ordered a Kobe meatball, tuna tartare, chicken marsala and more. Ice-T and Coco Austin were spotted at Lavo Italian Restaurant on Wednesday night with friends. The group sipped on cocktails and ordered a jumbo shrimp cocktail, chopped Louie salad, 12-ounce filet, Kobe meatball with ricotta and garlic mashed potatoes. [EaterWire]
Jenny McCarthy dined with her sister JoJo McCarthy at Andrea's at Encore Las Vegas on Friday night. McCarthy ordered "smoked" salmon sashimi that, to her delight, released a waft of smoke when she lifted a dome covering the plate. While sipping on an Asian Pear specialty cocktail, she and her sis shared a dozen raw oysters, a shrimp tempura and fried burdock specialty sushi roll, shrimp pad Thai and asparagus. [EaterWire]
Singer Kendrick Lamar dined at Stack Restaurant & Bar at the Mirage on Friday night. He ordered the seabass. [EaterWire]
Football players Mikel Leshoure, Martez Wilson and Terry Hawthorne were spotted at Heraea at the Palms on Saturday night celebrating Leshoure's birthday. Leshoure, a running back for the Detroit Lions, Wilson, linebacker for the New Orleans Saints, and Hawthorne, cornerback for the University of Illinois, all ordered tuna tartare tacos, paquillo pepper poppers, filet mignon, brick chicken and a birthday cheesecake. The world's most decorated Olympian Michael Phelps returned to Heraea for the second weekend in a row on Friday night. The swimmer and a group of 12 gathered for a friend's bachelor party, watching the Michigan Wolverines NCAA game and were thrilled when the team beat the Kansas Jayhawks by two points on Friday night. The group ordered piquillo pepper poppers filled with short ribs and mascarpone, Sriracha and brown butter wings and crab and spinach sip, along with buckets of beer and cocktails. NBA star Mike Bibby was spotted at Heraea on Wednesday night. The New York Nicks player ordered a Belvedere cocktail at the bar with a friend. [EaterWire]
Singer Engelbert Humperdinck dined at the Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris Las Vegas on Thursday night with a group of six, including his son Scott Dorsey. Dining at a table upstairs, he began his dinner with two-dozen Kusshi oysters to share along with 2010 Fisticuffs Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley. Humperdinck dined on a New York Strip. Dorsey ordered a bone-in rib-eye steak for his main entrée and the table split sticky toffee pudding for dessert. [EaterWire]
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