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"Here\u2019s the standard Vegas move: Hit a cheap buffet and blow the rest of your budget on a splashy show and a few blurry hands at the blackjack table. Fun? Well, yeah. Necessary? Not when the best odds are on the food. Top-quality culinary options number in the high hundreds, and the count continues to climb: more celebrity-chef restaurants, a newly transcendent Chinatown, and a burgeoning hipster dining scene downtown. You came here to party, so why not be extreme in your dining choices? On your next trip to Las Vegas, go with these sure bets.\r\n\r\n&amp;nbsp; &lt;p&gt;Imagine &lt;a href=\"http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/home/shows.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Cirque du Soleil&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=\"http://www.lecirque.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Le Cirque&lt;/a&gt; joining forces and you\u2019ve got the extravagant new &lt;a href=\"http://roserabbitlie.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Rose. Rabbit. Lie.&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0at the &lt;a href=\"http://www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Cosmopolitan&lt;/a&gt;. Acrobats strut overhead, performers tap-dance on tables, and you can blow five grand on a kilo of Russian osetra. Time your dinner right and stay for the vaudeville burlesque act in the ballroom (you\u2019ll need to buy a ticket). Curtain times for the\u2014ahem, topless\u2014show are at 8:30 p.m., &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;9:30 p.m., and midnight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;New Vegas steakhouses can upholster their booths in Naugahyde and put up as many pictures of Sinatra as they want, but they\u2019ll never have servers &lt;strong&gt;Fabian Ong&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Alex Casas&lt;/strong&gt;. The duo at the &lt;a href=\"http://goldensteersteakhouselasvegas.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Golden Steer&lt;/a&gt;\u2014one of the few places still around where the Rat Pack hung out\u2014have a combined 50-plus years of experience. Sit in the Shecky Greene booth for the best view of all: Ch\u00E2teaubriand and tableside desserts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Eating the 240-day-dry-aged &lt;i&gt;riserva\u00A0&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;steak at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.carnevino.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;CarneVino&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt; at the &lt;a href=\"https://www.palazzo.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Palazzo&lt;/a&gt; is one of those Vegas stories to tell back home. You\u2019ll brag about spending $162 per inch for a piece of meat that spent eight months in lockdown and came out with all the complex flavor of a\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;perfect porterhouse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You know how every big city has its cool, up-and-coming neighborhood where creative types toast their good taste with locally distilled spirits? Well, now Vegas does, too. It\u2019s all thanks to Zappos CEO &lt;strong&gt;Tony Hsieh&lt;/strong&gt; and his new &lt;a href=\"http://downtowncontainerpark.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Downtown\u00A0Container Park&lt;/a&gt;, where 40 shipping containers house a cocktail bar, a wine bar, a barbecue joint, &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;a barber shop, and even a flame-throwing grasshopper sculpture from Burning Man.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Recover from last night on the elliptical machine in your hotel gym. Or, for $40, get &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;a day pass to the biggest &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.canyonranch.com/lasvegas\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Canyon Ranch&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;spa in the country\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;at the &lt;a href=\"https://www.palazzo.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Venetian and the Palazzo&lt;/a&gt;. Steam &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;rooms and saunas ensure an insta-rally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;There\u2019s a burger &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;boom in town, but no one\u2019s comes close\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.joel-robuchon.net/fr/restaurants-las-vegas.php\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;L\u2019Atelier de Jo\u00EBl Robuchon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt; at &lt;a href=\"http://www.mgmgrand.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;MGM Grand&lt;/a&gt;: This burger\u2014actually two sliders\u2014is gloriously topped with an inch-thick slab of foie gras. How do you eat that towering thing? Like any too-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;tall burger: Squish it down and dive in.&lt;/span&gt;\u00A0&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;At midnight, pizza &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;and beer is all the trouble you should\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;be getting into, but\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;it should still feel\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;like &lt;i&gt;trouble.&lt;/i&gt; Get the truffle, Parmesan, &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;and b\u00E9chamel pie at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.aria.com/dining/restaurants/five50\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Five50 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.aria.com/dining/restaurants/five50\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;at ARIA&lt;/a&gt;, and wash down that decadence with a bottle of Evil Twin\u2019s Low Life Pils.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sit at one of the &lt;i&gt;teppanyaki&lt;/i&gt; tables at &lt;a href=\"http://www.caesarspalace.com/restaurants/nobu.html\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Nobu Caesars Palace&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;and watch as foie\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;gras, lobster, Wagyu beef, and other high-roller ingredients go\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;from raw to expertly cooked mere inches from your face. It\u2019s culinary performance art that\u2019s leagues apart from &lt;a href=\"http://www.benihana.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Benihana&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Even if you\u2019re vegetarian, don\u2019t think Vegas is going to deprive you of your God-given right to overindulge. At &lt;a href=\"http://michaelmina.net/restaurants/locations/mmlv.php\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Michael Mina&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href=\"http://www.bellagio.com\"&gt;Bellagio&lt;/a&gt;, the umami-laden hen of the woods mushrooms and cheddar-spiked tomato soup with brioche on the $85 vegetarian tasting menu are rich enough to satisfy any hard-core carnivore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You\u2019re in Vegas, so don\u2019t settle for one dessert. Head to &lt;a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sweetsraku\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Sweets Raku&lt;/a&gt;, the new off-Strip dessert-only counter where Japanese pastry chefs &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;dish up luscious, gold-flecked confections\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;in a sleek, laboratory-white space. The &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;sugar buzz will fuel the rest of your night.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Meet Vegas\u2019s greatest hangover cure: the fiery fish fillet in hot chile soup at &lt;a href=\"http://www.shaanxigourmet.com\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;Shaanxi Gourmet&lt;/a&gt; in Chinatown. It\u2019s spicy enough &lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;(and big enough) to heal the pain of\u00A0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"&gt;you and four of your partners in crime.&lt;/span&gt;\u00A0&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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