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.

The wood-fired pizza spot has graduated from a pop-up to its first brick-and-mortar. Located in the Huntridge area downtown, Yukon Pizza uses a 125-year-old sourdough starter to make classic pizzas and a rotating variety of specialty pies.

The 2022 Eater Award for Best Design, Lotus of Siam at Red Rock Resort is stunning. Enter through the 11-foot-door and you’re immediately greeted by hundreds of lanterns soaring overhead. After sitting at one of the teal and cream banquettes, beneath copper pendant lighting, enjoy Lotus’ reliably exceptional Thai dishes, like  drunken noodles and garlic prawns with shells.

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.

The Baja-style restaurant is serving coastal Mexican favorites inside a breezy and open restaurant space on the Las Vegas Strip. The dining room opens to a bar with lounge seating in shades of beige and black. Order the Vampiro chicken taco, with chicken and chiles encased in a quesadilla, rather than an individual tortilla. The Canarditas duck combines deep-fried duck leg confit with tequila-laced blackberry serrano salsa. And an appetizer of grilled street corn is presented tableside, where a server shaves sweet kernels off a cob, into a bowl of sauce and spices.

The James Beard Award-winning pastry chef, Dominique Ansel, is best known as the creator of the Cronut. At his first Las Vegas bakery, he serves the sweet, flaky treats, along with pillowy croissants, macarons, delicately decorated confections, and a selection of savory sandwiches and quiche—including the Perfect Little Egg Sandwich and Chef’s Croque Monsieur.

Chef Marc Vetri’s namesake restaurant is again open at the Palms Casino Resort. The Italian restaurant on the 56th floor of the off-Strip casino is reopened after closing along with the Palms in March of 2020. The seasonal menu offers pastas like chestnut fettuccine with boar ragu and cocoa, spinach gnocchi with ricotta and brown butter, an entree of roasted hen with prosciutto and foie gras, and desserts like the pistachio cake with orange curd gelato.

Martha Stewart’s first restaurant, the Bedford, is open at the Paris Las Vegas. Designed by Stewart, the 194-seat restaurant takes direct inspiration from her 1925 country farmhouse in Bedford, New York. Dishes include a whole roast chicken and a baked potato that is smashed tableside. It can all be washed down by a Martha-rita and Martha-tini.

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.

The high-energy Mexican steakhouse in the courtyard between the Aria Resort and Casino and the Shops at Crystals integrates fire at every turn. Cocktails like the Los Muertos are set aflame. So too are the numerous candles and torches that illuminate the bar, private room, and main dining room — not to mention the fire dancers and fire breathers who perform during dinner. Notable dishes here include the satisfyingly gooey queso fundido, the light and flavorful branzino, and the guacamole with pomegranate seeds.

Chef and owner Matthew Meyer’s new Henderson restaurant centers on a dry-aged program, in which proteins spanning beef, chicken, pork, and fish are dry-aged in-house. He sources his beef from Nevada ranches and other local beef producers and finishes them on a woodfire grill. Menu items include shrimp and Anson Mills grits with glazed Marcona almonds and fennel butter, a chilled lobster borscht with cultured cream, seed-crusted lamb loin with risotto, and the house burger with brie cheese and a house A1-style sauce. The menu also offers vegan options.

After launching a pop-up version of Bodega Bagel at Vegas Test Kitchen during the pandemic, Chef Sonia El-Nawal has opened a brick-and-mortar New York-style bagel eatery in Henderson. The breakfast and lunch restaurant offers bagel varieties like sesame, poppy seed, and plain and toppings like chive and scallion, smoked salmon, horseradish, and tofu “schmears.” Smoked fish add-ons include house-cured gravlax, sturgeon, housemade whitefish salad, and smoked salmon.

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.