Ojos Locos, a breastaurant chain that has been described as “Mexican Hooters” is now open in North Las Vegas, with an adjacent hotel and casino. The restaurant was founded by restaurateurs including Randy DeWitt, the owner of the parent company that previously founded fellow breastaurant, Twin Peaks. It offers Mexican and Latin American fare like ceviche, elote, and tacos, as well as buffalo chicken sandwiches, chicken tenders, and boneless wings.

The latest food hall to open in the Las Vegas Valley is located downtown, inside the Fremont Hotel and Casino. It has a combination of national and local restaurant brands including Steak ‘n Shake, Huey Magoo’s, Roli Roti, Craftkitchen, Tomo Noodles, and Dunkin’. The biggest get for the food hall may be that of Craftkitchen. It has been a popular brunch spot since it opened in Henderson seven years ago. While one can fill up on dishes like chilaquiles, chicken Caprese sandwiches, and breakfast burritos, the primary appeal is Blinn’s pastries. 

Executive Chefs Isidro Marquez-Castillo’s and Daniel Arias introduce a refined vision of regional Mexican cuisines through small plates, tostadas, tacos, and entrees. The cocktail menu leams toward tequilas, with food and drink available into late night. Look up to see the pink monkey dangling from an oversized disco ball in the rafters.

The all-day breakfast and brunch spot opened its first Las Vegas location in Summerlin. Starting at 6:30 a.m. every day, Snooze offers all-day brunch, with fun takes on morning classics like pancakes, omelets, and sandwiches. Order coffee, or make it a boozy brunch with morning cocktails.

Red Rock Resorts debuted two new restaurants, Naxos Taverna and Kallisto Oyster Bar at Naxos. Naxos Taverna boasts an open kitchen where guests can watch the preparation of whole fish, like that of lavraki and skorpina. The adjacent oyster bar has 25 types of fish and several varieties of oysters, other seafood specialties, and a pan roast at an intimate 13-seat bar.

Villa Azur at the Grand Canal Shoppes is something between a nightclub and a glitzy restaurant with, a color-changing dining room that will carry you through a five-hour dinner party. Customers are visited throughout the evening by roving singers, musicians, and burlesque performers. And that’s not even to mention the superhero-themed bottle service. Come for the fettuccini golden ossetra caviar pasta and salt-baked whole branzino — stay for the five-hour dinner party.

The first of chef and restaurateur Eyal Shani’s two Las Vegas restaurants is open at the Venetian Resort with a menu of dishes served both in and out of a pita. The quick service restaurant offers pitas like the “best bolognese spaghetti in town” with beef ragu and spaghetti or a minute steak pita with tahini, tomato salsa, and spicy green peppers. Other menu options include the bag of green beans, served cold and crunchy with olive oil, lemon, salt, and garlic.

Chef Chris Santos’s spin-off of his famed New York steakhouse Stanton Social is now open at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. The velvety and gem-toned restaurant boasts made-for-Instagram plates of microgreen-sprinkled bone marrow, heaping bowls of lobster macaroni and cheese, and tomahawk steaks suspended by fairy lights and set aflame were paraded through the chandelier-lit dining room.

Helmed by chef Luke Palladino, Laguna Pool House & Kitchen has pizzas, sandwiches, and appetizers that can be enjoyed inside or outside at the pool. The largest section on the menu is reserved for large servings, meant to be shared with groups of four to six. Continental breakfast comes with muffins, pastries, butter, sliced fruits, and yogurt dip and goes for $69. There’s also a fruit platter of melon, pineapple, mango, dragon fruit, and berries for $75. A platter of pizza, chicken wings, chicken tenders, and garlic knots is available for $115 and another option is the $350 sushi boat with assorted rolls and nigiri.

Mark Wahlberg’s second location of his burger joint, Wahlburgers, in Las Vegas serves burgers and menu items like a chicken salad, a salmon street corn salad, crispy fish, and crispy chicken sandwiches.

James Beard Award winner and public television star Martin Yan debuted his first Las Vegas restaurant, M.Y. Asia, on the Las Vegas Strip. Yan’s restaurant reflects his decades-long career and his extensive travels in a casual restaurant with a Pan-Asian menu that offers Thai yellow coconut curry with chicken, mu shu pork tacos with hoisin sauce, a sizzling black pepper steak with mushrooms, and pan-seared Chilean sea bass in jasmine tea with a miso ginger honey glaze.

With nine restaurant stalls, and another two on the way, this new on-Strip food hall is now open. Start with breakfast sandwiches from Egghead, try Steve Aoki’s pizza, or indulge in diner fare from Lola’s Burgers, Israeli bites from Shalom Y’all, and Korean street food from Seoul Bird.

Retro by Voltaggio is open for a one-year residency at Mandalay Bay in the multi-level space that opened as Aureole in 1999. The Top Chef stars, Bryan and Michael Voltaggio, are pulling on references from their childhoods — with elements of both technique and whimsy — in creating Retro. To build the menu, the celebrity chef brothers are revisiting aesthetics from days gone by, plating pot roast inside of Corningware dishes with blue flowers and serving octopus in a cafeteria-style lunch tray. 

The new restaurant and store are the work of Patrick Littlejohn, the 15-year general manager of Il Mulino, and Le Petit Café & Bakery’s Emily Palmer. The restaurant offers coffee and pastries, quiche, crepes, and cold-pressed juices. Its lunch menu has paninis, salads, and Neopolitan-style pizza. The market sells products such as fresh bread, eggs, and fruit as well as imported mozzarella, Tomahawk steaks, foie gras, and truffles.

Henderson’s newest dining option, Azzurra Cucina Italiana, introduces familiar Italian fare to Water Street in Downtown Henderson. Reviving some of the dishes from the now-shuttered Bratalian Neapolitan Cantina, where Alessandra Madeira was chef de cuisine and her husband, Walter Ciccone, was general manager, the husband-wife duo are working together again in a new restaurant that serves penne alla vodka, grilled octopus, caprese salad, and gnocchi bolognese.

Chef Sam Marvin opened Henderson a location of Echo & Rig with a sleek new interior and menu. Eleven years after opening at Tivoli Village near Summerlin, the chef and owner introduced his steakhouse and butcher shop at the District at Green Valley Ranch. It features a glass meat locker, dry-aged cases, and an exhibition and demonstration area and offers familiar menu items like portobello fires, steak tartare, and drunker goat sandwiches.