This jazz club next to the Smith Center for Performing Arts has a main dining room for watching live music and dining on Italian food. But beyond the main room is a bar and a sports lounge where you can order bites, sip classic cocktails, and turn your attention either to the show or the TVs.

Mezcla has a wide variety of ceviche options, with flavors ranging from sweet to spicy, and available with jumbo prawns, seabass, octopus, scallops, and even vegetarian. On Mondays and Tuesdays, the margaritas are $5.

Adjacent to Nightmare Toys in the Arts Disctrict, this restaurant and bar is Halloween year-round. Decorated with images from slashers and thrillers, even the drinks are themed, with vampire teeth and skull-tipped toothpicks securing skewered fruit in cocktails named after each of the seven deadly sins. The biscuits are shaped like skulls, too.

The historic Hard Hat Lounge changed ownership in October, with best friends Frank Sidoris and Robby Cunningham taking over one of Las Vegas’ oldest bars. Cunningham, who is behind Guerrilla Pizza, is still slinging Detroit-style pies while he and Sidoris revamp the bar’s interior and event planning.

Square Bar was conceived as a place to relive Las Vegas’ heyday. The vaguely 70s-themed bar in New Orleans Square pairs cocktails to your star sign. Pisces are encouraged to order the Kermit Martini with creme de menthe while scorpios may choose to try the Wai Sunrise with tequila and watermelon pucker.

Inside chef Nicole Brisson’s Bar Zazu, you can sit at a table and have a formal meal, though the restaurant and lounge is just as suited for stopping in for a drink and a bite to eat. Excellent sangrias are on the cocktail menu, plus a selection of signature cocktails all named after the custom digital art pieces on the walls. Try the Highlander, inspired by Spanish gin and tonics, with Botanist gin, green chartreuse, lime, tarragon, and tonic.

The sophisticated, club-like bar and lounge at Wakuda replicates the vibrant energy of the Shinjuku district of Tokyo with guest DJs every Friday and Saturday night. The lounge at the sushi restaurant pours cocktails like the Stone, Water, Plants with gin, shiso, cucumber, green tea, and tonic. You can also order sushi rolls and light bites. 

In the spirit of axe-throwing bars, this dart bar offers you and your party a private lane to throw darts. The board even does the scoring for you. While playing, nosh on finger foods like yuzu guacamole, mini beef barbacoa tacos, Bavarian pretzel sticks with pimento cheese spread, Buffalo chicken sandwiches. Inside, there’s also a bar that looks like a carousel at which you can order drinks.

The Cabinet of Curiosities is something between a bar and a scavenger hunt. Decorated with all manner of oddities, many of the items double as clues to the mystery you can uncover. The Lock is an intimate speakeasy within the Cabinet. To gain entry, find the Locksmith and solve one of two hidden puzzles.

The bar located inside the new Proper Eats Food Hall at Aria makes drinks fit to pair with each of the food hall’s vendors, meaning you can find a Sake To Me cocktail with sake, vodka, and strawberry syrup for sipping with sushi or one with gin, mint, agave, and lemon for pairing with your falafel. Getting a slice of Steve Aoki’s pizza? Go with the Tropic Thunder cocktail, with rum, orgeat, cola, and lime.

The newest speakeasy on the Strip is tucked away behind Easy Donuts at the Proper Eats Food Hall inside the Aria. You’ll want to make a reservation to get inside. Within the velvet-draped bar, discover live music, caviar service, and elaborate drinks dripping with dry ice fog.