las vegas restaurant is key to having a great time in vegas - by Mike

Las Vegas Restaurant

Las Vegas restaurant is your answer to a great time in the city of lights, with over 2,000 restaurants to choose from in the valley, and more 5-star award winning restaurants than any other city. Your only problem will be choosing the right one and getting the reservation you want. Guy Savoy Restaurant in Caesar's Palace is holding top honors. This Parisian import emphasizes fresh ingredients flown in daily from France. Hardly alone, top honors go to Renoir at Mirage and Le Cirque at Bellagio, Joel Robuchon's L'Atelier and Alex at Wynn Casino to name but a few top winners.

Las Vegas is now home to the top chefs in the world, like Guy Savoy pictured here handing out his famous black truffle soup from his restaurant in Caesar's. With restaurants all over the world, Guy leaves it to his young son Frank to run day to day operations at his award winning restaurant at Caesar's.

Robuchon is the first chef to win three consecutive Michelin stars with his Las Vegas restaurant. Recommended dishes are quail stuffed with foie gras, truffled mashed potatoes and chartreuse soufflé. But, one need not break the bank to have a great time, as these top restaurants are expensive before you ever order your wine. Tasting menu's easily run to $300 at dinner time. You will always find lunch a much better deal, and a good time to try a fancy restaurant you have been thinking about.

Probably the best buffet restaurant of them all is at "Bellagio" Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, where they have an unlimited supply of huge, Alaskan King crab legs like the one pictured here. Diners pile their plates high with the bright legs as Bellagio watches and smiles. For under $30, you will eat like a king and queen. Look for discounts using your players card. Gamblers often get their buffet comped.

Vegas use to be a town of buffets. The buffet was invented, so it goes, to keep people at casinos gambling. Lunch, dinner, breakfast was basically on them. Buffets are still a great way to eat in Vegas. Running neck and neck with Las Vegas best restaurant is the Bellagio Buffet, universally recognized as the pinnacle place to chow down gourmet style. Bellagio is not the most expensive buffet, that honor goes to the Village Seafood Buffet at the Rio. When considering buffets, also consider Sunday afternoon brunch for your Las Vegas restaurant. There are more than 30 major ones to choose from, some include entertainers like Kiki Kalor.

Rio has more than 16 places to dine inside the casino, not including room service. In fact today every casino has a smorgasbord of dining options that is more than the ordinary mortal can comprehend. Casinos are serious about keeping you on premise. The average stay per visitor is 2 days and 2 nights. With about 8 dining options per casino, it's a sure bet you will be spending a lot of time in your casino eating at their restaurants. Casinos are well aware of how competitive it is out there, so they are constantly improving their restaurants and adding new ones. That is a great benefit to you as a diner.

I try not to have dessert when I eat out at a restaurant on the Strip in Las Vegas, so I can go to the authentic French pastry shops like Payard pictured here in Caesar's or Jean-Philippe at Bellagio. That black dome in the back of this photo is called the Louvre, and it's filled with hazelnut mousse, and hazelnuts. Wow!

I have so many favorite eating places, from Wolfgang Puck at MGM to the Earl of Sandwich in Planet Hollywood, named for the owner Robert Earl. Wolfgang Puck makes great drinks and it also has gourmet food in every price range. You can go light with a truly delicious gourmet, wood-fired pizza and salad to full on steak, fish and chops. I wish more restaurants would adopt this fare, so we don't have to eat like we have two stomachs at our Las Vegas restaurant.