Las Vegas City Guide
Plus a Google Map
Las Vegas City Guide
My meticulously curated travel guide for Las Vegas includes local hotspots, under-the-radar restaurants, sportsbooks, coffee shops, and hip places to stay.
I created an insider’s Google map that reflects all my recommendations, so you can easily access them throughout your travels. You can save the map with your Google account. This isn’t your typical list of see-and-be-seen spots.
Click here for a complete list of all my recommendations.
Where to Drink Coffee
Vesta Coffee: Vesta is my favorite coffee shop featuring homemade nut milk.
Where to Eat
Joel Rubuchon (French)
Guy Savoy (French)
Picasso (French)
Le Cirque (French)
Nobu (sushi)
Wing Lei (Chinese)
Hugo’s Cellar (steak)
Steakhouse at Circus Circus (steak)
Ferraro’s (Italian)
Esther’s Kitchen (Italian)
Italian American Club (Italian)
Fin and Feathers
Casa Di Amore (Italian)
Bouchon (Brunch)
Lotus of Siam (Thai)
Winnie and Ethels Diner (breakfast)
1228 Main (brunch)
Where to Eat Gluten-Free
Guilt-Free Glutton: 100% gluten-free establishment is located near the airport.
Main Street Provisions: downtown
Where to Eat Sweets
1228 Main (bakery)
Where to Drink Something Stronger
What to Do
Donny Osmond Show (Harrah’s)
O Cirque du Soleil (Bellagio)
Real Bodies (Horseshoe)
Art & Fountains (Horseshoe)
Watching the Bellagio fountains dance to “Luck be a Lady.”
Driving down the Strip at night
Maverick Helicopters Wind Dancer Sunset Tour
Where to Take Photos
Effiel Tower in Paris overlooking the Bellagio fountains
Area15: An arts complex home to interactive, often-psychedelic spaces like Omega Mart, Illuminarium, and Lost Spirits, a circus-inspired rum distillery.
Best Sportsbooks
Cigar Lounges
Where to Shop
The Writer’s Block (bookstore downtown)
For the Love (gifts downtown Arts District)
Charleston Antique Mall (downtown)
All For Our Country at Fergusons Downtown
Where to Stay
Budget Hotels
Golden Nugget (skip Carson Tower rooms)
Horseshoe (new rooms)
Westgate (off-strip)
*Don’t book Circus Circus or Luxor.
Air BNB
Hendersonville, Summerlin, Winchester (mid-century homes)
Day Trips
Events
How to Get Around
Downtown Loop (free)
Las Vegas Monorail ($5 each way) connects most significant casinos on the Strip; three independently operated trams (free) provide direct links between select casinos.
The Duece: The Deuce runs 24 hours a day from the South Strip Transit Terminal to the Vegas Strip with many stops up and down the resort corridor and continuing to the Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas and Las Vegas Premium Outlets South.
Download the rideRTC app to pay for a single ride with your phone.
I created an insider’s Google map that reflects all my recommendations, so you can easily access them throughout your travels. You can save the map with your Google account. This isn’t your typical list of see-and-be-seen spots (though, to be fair, they’re on there).
Reddit List of Restaurant Recommendations
What are some of your favorite places in Las Vegas? Leave your responses in the comment section.
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