Splurge Worthy Las Vegas Restaurants
Splurge Worthy Las Vegas Restaurants – Las Vegas offers no shortage of ways to part you from your money: It can feel impossible to even go outside without losing $100
In a city where every restaurant has a seafood tower, every bar offers bottle service, and an excellent steak can be found with the same frequency as a poker table, it can be hard to parse when it’s worth it to live a little.
So on the rare occasion that you do want to splurge and live life from the whale’s point of view for a change, here the best bars and restaurants that will happily take your money — and actually offer you a memorable experience in exchange.
Palatial Italian den Mother Wolf, Miami transplant Stubborn Seed, high-end izakaya Wakuda, and Chinese destination restaurant Wing Lei are all new.
Restaurants and bars leaving this round include the Vault, Beauty & Essex, Scotch 80 Prime, and Bazaar Meat, which closed its original location in the Sahara but has plans to reopen elsewhere.
Mother Wold
When star chef Evan Funke opened the second outlet of his popular Hollywood Italian restaurant at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, it made sense.
In Tinseltown, the restaurant’s grand ceilings, boisterous dining room, and pitch-perfect pastas felt more like Vegas than Los Angeles. In its new home, regal reds give way to mellow orange and olive hues.
A massive open kitchen radiates energy into the dining room — where golden brown focaccia rounds, sky-high radicchio salads, and blistered wood-fired thin-crust pizzas are served.
Here, Funke’s recipes feel bolder, more generous, and more celebratory.
Instead of carb-fearing Angelenos, you get a nice mix of travelers, locals, and conventioneers digging into ample bowls of linguine al limone, rigatoncini alla vaccinara (short rib ragu), and tonnarelli cacio e pepe.
His dry pastas are among the best in Vegas, with a substantial al dente bite that complements savory, well-seasoned sauces.
Shareable entrees like branzino alla brace, seared and flaky, come with sides of paper-thin fennel or sautéed spinach.
A huge 60-ounce costata di manzo (bone-in rib-eye) may not be necessary given the number of steakhouses in Vegas, but it’s there for meat lovers, grilled over wood fire.
Desserts are essential — homemade gelato bursts with fresh fruit flavors or rich pistachio, and intense chocolate tarts are laced with red wine cherries.
2777 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Splurge Worthy Las Vegas Restaurants Deliah
It’s dinner and a show at this supper club inside the Wynn, but the dining room alone is gorgeous enough to be worth a visit. Inspired by the showrooms of the 1950s, the space is an Art Deco dream.
Golden palm trees soar up to the ceiling of the two-story restaurant, flanking the two stages where singers and dancers perform throughout dinner.
Splurge on caviar service ($230), grilled branzino ($59), or an 18-ounce ribeye ($98). End the night with a sundae ($30) big enough for two.
3131 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Wing Lei
Many Michelin chasers know Wing Lei as the first Chinese restaurant in North America to earn a Michelin star, but its legend goes beyond that recognition.
Opened in 2005, the legendary two-decade-old restaurant is still slinging some of the finest Chinese food on the Strip, with dishes like Alaska king crab salad, bouncy soy-marinated jellyfish, and grilled prawns with candied walnuts.
On the splurgey side, find the Imperial Beijing duck, priced at $137.88, which is carved tableside and served with a choice of steamed buns or Mandarin crêpes, duck consommé, sliced cucumber and scallions, and a trio of hoisin sauces.
The Chef Ming’s tasting menu runs for $227.88 per person (whole table participation required) with wine pairings to add on as needed.
Courses include truffle soup dumplings with shaved foie gras, grilled sea bass, the whole Imperial Beijing duck shebang, and caviar brioche toast with earthy sesame hoisin sauce, as well as a chef’s selection of desserts that’s worth leaving room for.
3131 Las Vegas Boulevard S., Las Vegas, NV 89109
Splurge Worthy Las Vegas Restaurants Stubborn Seed
Top Chef winner Jeremy Ford brought his Michelin-starred vision to Las Vegas with the early 2025 opening of Stubborn Seed inside Resorts World — marking the arrival of one of Miami’s most lauded restaurants on the Strip.
Ford’s produce-driven seasonal menu took months to figure out in the desert, where sourcing ingredients was more difficult than in South Florida, but he seems to have accomplished the impossible.
While à la carte options like butter-poached Maine lobster with spring peas and fava beans or truffle organic chicken with pomme puree and baby turnips are available, most first-timers will want to spring for the $145 tasting menu.
The six-course menu displays the range of this tightly woven restaurant.
Ford’s signature dishes of spiced barramundi with galangal curry or a sake and citrus-cured yellowtail showcase his ability to employ the global pantry to great effect.
Set in a bright, airy dining room with colorful mural art and attentive service, Stubborn Seed is one of the most compelling fine dining restaurants to land on the Strip, at a time when Italian, French, and steak menus reign.
3000 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Wakuda
Celebrated Australia-based chef Tetsuya Wakuda opened his first-ever Vegas restaurant a few years ago at the Venetian Resort, where he serves striking modern Japanese lounge dishes in an exuberantly-designed space.
Think sushi and rolls with top-notch fish and seasonal offerings from around the world, like fatty tuna and scallion rolls or Canadian lobster ceviche.
Larger items like sakura pork cutlet katsu and king crab tempura served with a yuzu kosho vinaigrette work as more substantial mains while a Patagonian toothfish (also known as Chilean seabass) miso comes right out of the Nobu playbook. Wakuda has a six-course and nine-course tastings in case its expansive menu has too many options.
3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Splurge Worthy Las Vegas Restaurants Joël Robuchon
Robuchon’s eponymous restaurant has a private entrance just for whales staying at MGM’s Mansions.
But if that’s not the tax bracket for you, you can enter through the main entrance like the rest of us.
Select your tasting menu at the time of making your reservation and Joël Robuchon’s attentive staff will be waiting for you when you arrive.
The main tasting menu is $525 per person, though abridged versions start at around $235.
Expect courses that offer impeccable precision, like one of Ossetra caviar served atop lobster in a crustacean gelee dotted with cauliflower puree.
3799 Las Vegas Blvd S (in MGM Grand Hotel), Las Vegas, NV 89109
Partage
The signature tasting menu here is $175 and means you can sit back and leave the rest in chef Yuri Szarzewski’s capable hands.
Partage serves exceptional French fare in a way that is playful and sophisticated.
The menu varies often, but expect courses like a scallop sashimi appetizer with a vibrant green yuzu watercress dressing.
An asparagus tart with goat cheese and a quenelle of wasabi ice cream blurs the lines between dinner and dessert.
And the beets that come with bites of octopus enrobed in A5 Japanese Wagyu are saturated to look like candy.
3839 Spring Mountain Rd (Valley View), Las Vegas, NV 89102
Splurge Worthy Las Vegas Restaurants Kabuto
This small sushi stall in Chinatown specializes in sushi that is both food and art.
Inside the 22-seat restaurant, chef Gen Mizoguchi makes traditional Edomae sushi, a style that highlights high-quality seafood served by the piece over vinegar-seasoned rice.
Reserve a seat for the omakase experience for thoughtfully prepared bites of fish, flown in daily from Tokyo Bay, still lightly warmed by your chef’s hands.
It will run you $175 per person.
5040 Spring Mountain Road, Las Vegas, NV 89146
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