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.

Located on Fremont Street, across the street from Downtown Container Park, the Mexico-based restaurant has appetizers like corn ribs topped with cotija cheese, Tajin, cilantro, and Pop Rocks candy. A sushi bunker piles shrimp, crab, cucumber, and avocado into a stack with eel sauce. Enchiladas come filled with duck confit, and Chinese-style pancakes are topped with smoky chilhuacle sauce. For dessert, maiz ice cream comes with berries and cinnamon popcorn.

A managing partner with Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group opened 1228 as a bakery, bar, and restaurant. The bakery bakes crunchy sourdough and lattice-scored dark bread. The lunch menu highlights sandwiches like grilled cheese on sourdough with tomato soup, a prosciutto sandwich on a baguette, and a croissant egg salad sandwich. Dinner is a more formal affair and the bar is open late.

Ever since Daeho Kalbijjim first opened in Japantown in San Francisco in 2019, it has consistently attracted hours-long waits for its namesake kalbijjim — a huge shareable bowl of spicy-sweet short rib stew that is covered in melting cheese and flambéed tableside. Its hot stone bibimbap bowls sizzle when brought to the table, with layers of rice and vegetables, and generous banchan vegetable dishes on the side. Its kalbi tang soups marry a savory broth with tender meat and satisfyingly chewy glass noodles. 

Inspired by the pizzas that are made within pizza shops in Tokyo,this new pizzeria in Chinatown serves up Neapolitan-style pizza in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant with great drinks. Try the speck pizza, which combines the cured pork with white sauce, mozzarella, fig jam, and candied pecans on a bubbly and crisp crust. Or go for the diavola pie with red sauce and spicy sausage.

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.

The new burger joint inside Absinthe’s Green Fairy Garden opens an hour before showtime to serve a tight menu of burgers, vegan burgers, and tots.

A new poolside restaurant at the Palms Place condo hotel, adjacent to the Palms Casino Resort is now open. The menu has pizzas, sandwiches, and appetizers. But the largest section on the menu is reserved for large servings, meant to be shared with groups of four to six. There’s 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.

Guy Fieri’s new restaurant celebrates all things sports under the deep-fried sheen of the type of food Food Network star has become known for. There’s the trash can nachos also found at El Burro Barracho, though the Flavortown version is cheeseburger-inspired with pickles and burger sauce. Also on the menu are pretzel bites loaded with cheese and bacon. And the doughnut burger is tempura-battered, deep-fried, and glazed.

With rooftop views, smoking seafood towers, and three bars, the city’s newest steakhouse is the anchor tenant in the new 63 building, located near the Cosmopolitan at Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue. The 14,500-square-foot restaurant cost $20 million to develop. Inside the stylish dining room or on the wrap-around terrace, indulge in steak, smoking seafood towers, and sushi.

Imported from NYC’s East Village, the Las Vegas location of Cathedrale is dark and sultry, with low lighting, shining metal accents, and a menu that draws on the flavors of France, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Its style is consistent with other Tao Group Hospitality venues — like Beauty & Essex, Lavo Italian Restaurant, and Stanton Social Prime — that favor low lighting, luxe details, and a vibe that poises diners to migrate to nightclubs after dinner. The signature Omelette ($37) is creamy and warm, plated with potato chips, kaluga caviar, and crème fraîche. 

The innovative Italian restaurant at Evora, a new retail and residential area in southwest Las Vegas, is helmed by Italian chef, Francesco Di Caudo, who most recently opened Anima by EDO. The James Beard Award nominee has dishes like uovo ravioli with chantarelle and truffle-parmigiano and a dish of tarragon fazzoletti with lobster.

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.

The massive, 18,000-square-foot modern food hall at the Uncommons in the southwest valley features an international selection of more than a dozen restaurants. They include local favorites such as SoulBelly BBQ and Saint Honoré next to celebrated California-based chefs such as Oakland’s chef Matt Horn and LA’s chef Ria Dolly Barbosa.

The artfully designed treats at this Henderson doughnut and coffee shop are filled with scratch-made cream fillings and fruit compotes. The menu offers photo-ready Korean-style milk creams — yeasted doughnuts filled with sweet mascarpone cream and chocolate or strawberry compote. Croffles are prepared with croissant dough rolled in raw sugar and cooked in a waffle maker, so the outside caramelizes. And the doughnut sandwiches are savory, filled with eggs, bacon, and sausage with panko breading, arugula, and sauce.