No matter how much time you spend in Las Vegas, there are always new flavors to experience each time you return. The city’s dining scene is constantly expanding, not only with new restaurant concepts all across the valley, but also when local chefs and restaurateurs shift gears and create new offerings at established eateries.
The buzz is building for the brand-new Boom Bang Fine Foods & Cocktails (702.478.6200), located in Henderson’s cozy Green Valley neighborhood. This indoor-outdoor American brasserie comes from Top Chef alum Elia Aboumrad-Page, her chef and restaurateur husband Christian Page, and beverage specialist Tony Angotti—and this team’s passion for creative cuisine is evident in its opening menu. Be one of the first to taste the Farmers Market tomato tart with marinara jam, lobster bisque with puff pastry crouton, Wagyu steak frites with Kennebec fries, and 20-hour duck confit with lentils, poached pear and sun-dried apricots. Vegetarian options and desserts are also garnering attention at Boom Bang Fine Foods, as well as its fresh cocktail creations.
On the opposite side of the valley near Summerlin, beloved Italian restaurant Al Solito Posto (702.463.6781) at Tivoli Village recently unveiled new seasonal dishes from celebrated chef Steve Young, including roasted beet salad with whipped ricotta figs, casarecce pasta with fennel sausage and broccoli rabe, butternut squash risotto, a tender veal chop done Milanese style, and seafood cioppino with Maine lobster and other oceanic treasures. Al Solito Posto’s incredible bar, where you might luckily find yourself for dinner if you skipped a reservation, also has new seasonal cocktails ready for sampling, such as the Hocus Pocus with vodka and chai tea flavors, and the Il Capo, made with cocoa nib mezcal, brandy and amaro. And don’t skip dessert; the hot new bite is pumpkin cheesecake with spiced caramel white chocolate anglaise. How could you resist?
Back on the boulevard, celebrity chef David Chang is introducing something fun at his meat and seafood eatery at The Palazzo, the fantastic Majordomo Meat & Fish (702.607.3060). The Early Doors Menu is designed for guests who are ready for a quicker, earlier supper, perhaps because there are many more stops ahead on your night out on the Las Vegas Strip. The three-course meal is available Sunday through Thursday and includes options such as an iceberg wedge with thick-cut bacon and marinated tomatoes, a wood-grilled prime New York strip steak with beef fat butter, miso-marinated Chilean seabass with bok choy and daikon, and a selection of sorbets to complete the experience.
At Sahara Las Vegas, a historic Strip casino that has been steadily updating its dining portfolio in recent months, the newest entry is Philadelphia import Chickie’s & Pete’s (702.761.8070), one of the most well-regarded sports bars in the country. Your favorite game-day foods are here, from burgers and wings to pizza and cheesesteaks. But seafood is the specialty of the house here, running the gamut from fried Sicilian-style calamari to New England clam chowder, warm or chilled lobster rolls to steamed mussels, clams and oysters. This is one of the few restaurants on the Strip where you can order whole Dungeness crabs and go to town at your table. It’s a fun-filled culinary experience whose time has come in Vegas.
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