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The Hottest New Restaurants in Las Vegas, December 2023

The Strip sees a new high-energy French restaurant, a beloved Hawaiian chain hits the mainland, and contest winners open a $1 million diner

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| Janna Karel

More often than not, tipsters, readers, friends, and family of Eater editors have one question: Where should I eat right now? Restaurant obsessives want to know what’s new, and what’s hot. And while the Eater 38 is a crucial resource covering old standbys and neighborhood essentials across the city, it is not a chronicle of the latest openings. The Eater Heatmap changes continually to always highlight where the food lovers are flocking to at the moment.

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La Mona Rosa

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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.

ZAI Restaurant & Bar

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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.

Winnie & Ethel's Downtown Diner

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The winners of a $1 million contest have opened their 1940s-style diner. The lace curtains, muted pastel walls, antique dishware, and actually vintage milkshake machines all come together to make a diner with a homegrown Americana feel. Go for breakfast and lunch dishes like malted waffles, eggs Benedicts, and French dip sandwiches.

The interior of Winnie & Ethel’s with booths.
Winnie & Ethel’s Downtown Diner.
Winnie & Ethel’s

1228 Main

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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.

Baked loaves of bread at 1228 Main.
1228 Main.
Janna Karel

Fine Company

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Located in Downtown Summerlin, this airy, modern neighborhood restaurant is quickly making its mark with refined interpretations on brunch and lunch — guests often line up before opening to order a loaf of their banana bread before it sells out. Other popular dishes include the salt and pepper shrimp and the crispy battered halibut sandwich.

Brown bun filled with a fried fish filet, red cabbage and melted cheese with seasoned crinkle fries and small cup of ketchup on the side.
Fileto fish sandwich at Fine Company.
Louiie Victa

Joel's Chophouse

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Tucked away in the Ahern Luxury Boutique Hotel, just off the Las Vegas Strip, this new restaurant has all the makings of a Las Vegas steakhouse. In addition to bone-in filet mignon and Tomahawk ribeye, Joel’s Chophouse has two seafood towers — a chilled option for $105 with whole Maine lobster, jumbo shrimp, oysters, clams, and mignonette. The hot platter ($115) has whole Maine lobster, sautéed Mexican white shrimp, mussels, and seared scallops sautéed with garlic, basil, sherry.

Double Zero Pie & Pub

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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.

HaSalon

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Chef Eyal Shani conjures words like “vibration” and “energy” when talking about his food, describing vegetables as “mysterious creatures” that need to “seduce” him. His Las Vegas outpost of New York clubstaurant HaSalon takes over the 11,000-square-foot space where customers are invited to dance on the tables, DJs blare high-tempo music, and the house lights give way to strobes and fire.

A spread of food at HaSalon.
HaSalon.
Teddy Wolff

Peter Luger Steak House at Caesars Palace Las Vegas

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The highly anticipated New York-based steakhouse now has a location on the Las Vegas Strip. Inside Caesars Palace, the restaurant — often credited with laying the blueprint for the American steakhouse — dry-ages its steaks on-site. Shareable platters of meat and sizzling hot butter are served with sides like mashed potatoes and sauteed mushrooms all inside a broody and industrial dining room.

Stanton Social Prime Restaurant

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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.

No Pants at Absinthe

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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.

La Popular

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A Mexican restaurant has moved into the long-empty restaurant space on the casino floor of the Palms Casino Resort. La Popular CDMX offers traditional Mexican favorites, cocktails served in fun barware, and updated decor inside the space that used to be Bobby Flay’s Shark. There’s an all-day breakfast menu, 80 labels of tequila, and a dedicated taco bar.

Cocktails from La Popular.
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Guy Fieri's Flavortown Sports Kitchen

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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.

Chicken sandwich at Guy Fieri’s Flavortown.
Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Sports Kitchen.
Janna Karel

LPM Restaurant & Bar

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The popular item inside this fresh new French restaurant at the Cosmopolitan is the escargots de Bourgogne ($30), six snails in pale, pretty shells and seasoned with garlic butter, parsley, Parmesan, and anchovy. It makes for a delightfully savory spread when scooped out onto a slice of thick-cut bread. And don’t forget the Tomatini ($17), a sweet and savory tomato cocktail that tastes like a liquid caprese salad. And while the Strip views and bold art may catch your eye, don’t look past the awesome chairs that have slide-out trays for your bag.

A plate of seasoned snails at LPM.
LPM Restaurant & Bar.
Janna Karel

Ocean Prime Las Vegas

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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.

Cathedrale

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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. 

Retro by Voltaggio

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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. 

Kase Sake & Sushi

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This casual omakase restaurant on the corner of Jones Boulevard and Russell Road offers sushi and temaki and other traditional Japanese dishes grouped in four, six, seven, or nine course tasting menus, including an all-vegan option. For lighter appetites, sushi and sashimi is also available a la carte, and the specialty nigiri selections with caviar, truffles and foie gras are not to be missed. Guests can also indulge in the extensive list of sake, wine, and beer.

Basilico Ristorante Italiano

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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.

Lemon Tree Cafe and Market

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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.

Located within the 40-acre-wide Uncommons complex in the Southwest, Amari is quickly becoming a culinary hotspot for lunch and dinner daily. The expansive, indoor-outdoor space serves salads, pizzas, and pastas alongside their twist on classic Italian entrees such as chicken parmigiana and veal piccata. The wine list includes hard-to-find but easy-to-enjoy bottles sourced from Italy and beyond, and their signature cocktails alone make the restaurant worth the visit.

Round white bowl filled with flat pasta strips with wavy edges topped with red sauce, shrimp and green basil leaves.
Malfadine scampi pasta at Amari.
Chris Wessling

The Sundry Food Hall Las Vegas

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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.

Zippy's

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The Hawaiian casual dining legend, Zippy’s, opened its first location outside of Hawaii. Known for its Zip Pac bento boxes, Korean fried chicken, and famous chili, Zippy’s only location on the mainland is now open in southwest Las Vegas. The chain serves comfort food favorites like Korean fried chicken, teriyaki beef, chili, hamburger steak, chicken katsu, and more.

Cantina Tequila

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The interior here is dripping with flowers, beads, and ambiance. Marc Marrone’s Henderson restaurant serves quesabirria tacos, oxtail enchiladas, steak fajitas, and nachos. But the real draw here is the vibes — with tables adorned with disco balls, metallic curtains, and all things pink and floral.

Pine Bistro

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Located in Southern Highlands, Pine Bistro’s menu draws inspiration from Lebanese cuisine. The 3,500-square foot restaurant delivers a lively dining experience with family-style dishes (think glistening kafta, prawn, and vegetable kebabs; deeply spiced beef and lamb shawarma; and shareables like mint-flecked labneh and grape leaves), a craft cocktail program, and Las Vegas’s first upscale hookah program. The restaurant is open for dinner and late-night until 1 a.m. Monday to Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday to Sunday.

Rectangular white plate with five different kabobs laid diagonally across.
Mixed grill platter at Pine Bistro.
Key Lime Photography

La Mona Rosa

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.

ZAI Restaurant & Bar

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.

Winnie & Ethel's Downtown Diner

The winners of a $1 million contest have opened their 1940s-style diner. The lace curtains, muted pastel walls, antique dishware, and actually vintage milkshake machines all come together to make a diner with a homegrown Americana feel. Go for breakfast and lunch dishes like malted waffles, eggs Benedicts, and French dip sandwiches.

The interior of Winnie & Ethel’s with booths.
Winnie & Ethel’s Downtown Diner.
Winnie & Ethel’s

1228 Main

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.

Baked loaves of bread at 1228 Main.
1228 Main.
Janna Karel

Fine Company

Located in Downtown Summerlin, this airy, modern neighborhood restaurant is quickly making its mark with refined interpretations on brunch and lunch — guests often line up before opening to order a loaf of their banana bread before it sells out. Other popular dishes include the salt and pepper shrimp and the crispy battered halibut sandwich.

Brown bun filled with a fried fish filet, red cabbage and melted cheese with seasoned crinkle fries and small cup of ketchup on the side.
Fileto fish sandwich at Fine Company.
Louiie Victa

Joel's Chophouse

Tucked away in the Ahern Luxury Boutique Hotel, just off the Las Vegas Strip, this new restaurant has all the makings of a Las Vegas steakhouse. In addition to bone-in filet mignon and Tomahawk ribeye, Joel’s Chophouse has two seafood towers — a chilled option for $105 with whole Maine lobster, jumbo shrimp, oysters, clams, and mignonette. The hot platter ($115) has whole Maine lobster, sautéed Mexican white shrimp, mussels, and seared scallops sautéed with garlic, basil, sherry.

Double Zero Pie & Pub

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.

HaSalon

Chef Eyal Shani conjures words like “vibration” and “energy” when talking about his food, describing vegetables as “mysterious creatures” that need to “seduce” him. His Las Vegas outpost of New York clubstaurant HaSalon takes over the 11,000-square-foot space where customers are invited to dance on the tables, DJs blare high-tempo music, and the house lights give way to strobes and fire.

A spread of food at HaSalon.
HaSalon.
Teddy Wolff

Peter Luger Steak House at Caesars Palace Las Vegas

The highly anticipated New York-based steakhouse now has a location on the Las Vegas Strip. Inside Caesars Palace, the restaurant — often credited with laying the blueprint for the American steakhouse — dry-ages its steaks on-site. Shareable platters of meat and sizzling hot butter are served with sides like mashed potatoes and sauteed mushrooms all inside a broody and industrial dining room.

Stanton Social Prime Restaurant

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.

No Pants at Absinthe

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.

La Popular

A Mexican restaurant has moved into the long-empty restaurant space on the casino floor of the Palms Casino Resort. La Popular CDMX offers traditional Mexican favorites, cocktails served in fun barware, and updated decor inside the space that used to be Bobby Flay’s Shark. There’s an all-day breakfast menu, 80 labels of tequila, and a dedicated taco bar.

Cocktails from La Popular.
La Popular
STUDIO 1208

Guy Fieri's Flavortown Sports Kitchen

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.

Chicken sandwich at Guy Fieri’s Flavortown.
Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Sports Kitchen.
Janna Karel

LPM Restaurant & Bar

The popular item inside this fresh new French restaurant at the Cosmopolitan is the escargots de Bourgogne ($30), six snails in pale, pretty shells and seasoned with garlic butter, parsley, Parmesan, and anchovy. It makes for a delightfully savory spread when scooped out onto a slice of thick-cut bread. And don’t forget the Tomatini ($17), a sweet and savory tomato cocktail that tastes like a liquid caprese salad. And while the Strip views and bold art may catch your eye, don’t look past the awesome chairs that have slide-out trays for your bag.

A plate of seasoned snails at LPM.
LPM Restaurant & Bar.
Janna Karel

Ocean Prime Las Vegas

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.

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Cathedrale

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. 

Retro by Voltaggio

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. 

Kase Sake & Sushi

This casual omakase restaurant on the corner of Jones Boulevard and Russell Road offers sushi and temaki and other traditional Japanese dishes grouped in four, six, seven, or nine course tasting menus, including an all-vegan option. For lighter appetites, sushi and sashimi is also available a la carte, and the specialty nigiri selections with caviar, truffles and foie gras are not to be missed. Guests can also indulge in the extensive list of sake, wine, and beer.

Basilico Ristorante Italiano

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.

Lemon Tree Cafe and Market

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.

Amari

Located within the 40-acre-wide Uncommons complex in the Southwest, Amari is quickly becoming a culinary hotspot for lunch and dinner daily. The expansive, indoor-outdoor space serves salads, pizzas, and pastas alongside their twist on classic Italian entrees such as chicken parmigiana and veal piccata. The wine list includes hard-to-find but easy-to-enjoy bottles sourced from Italy and beyond, and their signature cocktails alone make the restaurant worth the visit.

Round white bowl filled with flat pasta strips with wavy edges topped with red sauce, shrimp and green basil leaves.
Malfadine scampi pasta at Amari.
Chris Wessling

The Sundry Food Hall Las Vegas

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.

Zippy's

The Hawaiian casual dining legend, Zippy’s, opened its first location outside of Hawaii. Known for its Zip Pac bento boxes, Korean fried chicken, and famous chili, Zippy’s only location on the mainland is now open in southwest Las Vegas. The chain serves comfort food favorites like Korean fried chicken, teriyaki beef, chili, hamburger steak, chicken katsu, and more.

Cantina Tequila

The interior here is dripping with flowers, beads, and ambiance. Marc Marrone’s Henderson restaurant serves quesabirria tacos, oxtail enchiladas, steak fajitas, and nachos. But the real draw here is the vibes — with tables adorned with disco balls, metallic curtains, and all things pink and floral.

Pine Bistro

Located in Southern Highlands, Pine Bistro’s menu draws inspiration from Lebanese cuisine. The 3,500-square foot restaurant delivers a lively dining experience with family-style dishes (think glistening kafta, prawn, and vegetable kebabs; deeply spiced beef and lamb shawarma; and shareables like mint-flecked labneh and grape leaves), a craft cocktail program, and Las Vegas’s first upscale hookah program. The restaurant is open for dinner and late-night until 1 a.m. Monday to Thursday and 2 a.m. Friday to Sunday.

Rectangular white plate with five different kabobs laid diagonally across.
Mixed grill platter at Pine Bistro.
Key Lime Photography

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