"In Vegas, there’s winners and losers. And God knows I’ve been both."
The Bootlegger Italian Bistro
Italian restaurant · Trails at Warme Springs
“The Bootlegger has the reputation for being a locals joint, and it is, but there’s a lot of out-of-towners, too, sentimental fools like me who, if they don’t miss Sinatra, definitely miss Dino and Louis Prima and Keely Smith,” Bourdain said. Bourdain suggests: Veal parm, fettuccini Alfredo, steak, shrimps, iceberg wedge with bleu cheese.
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Lotus of Siam - Flamingo Road
Thai restaurant · Paradise North
Las Vegas is a U.S. Asian cuisine hub, says chef Jet Tila. “What I love about Vegas Asian food is on one street you have the best Szechuan food, the best Cantonese food, you drive down the street and you get the best Thai food,” Tila told Bourdain over Northern Thai classics at Lotus of Siam. What Bourdain ate: Puffed crispy rice salad with preserved pork sausage, jackfruit salad, pork curry braised down with garlic and ginger.
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Raku
Authentic Japanese restaurant · The Asian District
What Bourdain ate: sea urchin, tuna, Japanese river crab, hasaki sashimi, hasaki belly, juicy deep-fried chicken, hamachi belly, and fish collar
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Las Vegas
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"In Vegas, there’s winners and losers. And God knows I’ve been both."
The Bootlegger Italian Bistro
Italian restaurant
“The Bootlegger has the reputation for being a locals joint, and it is, but there’s a lot of out-of-towners, too, sentimental fools like me who, if they don’t miss Sinatra, definitely miss Dino and Louis Prima and Keely Smith,” Bourdain said. Bourdain suggests: Veal parm, fettuccini Alfredo, steak, shrimps, iceberg wedge with bleu cheese.
Lotus of Siam - Flamingo Road
Thai restaurant
Las Vegas is a U.S. Asian cuisine hub, says chef Jet Tila. “What I love about Vegas Asian food is on one street you have the best Szechuan food, the best Cantonese food, you drive down the street and you get the best Thai food,” Tila told Bourdain over Northern Thai classics at Lotus of Siam. What Bourdain ate: Puffed crispy rice salad with preserved pork sausage, jackfruit salad, pork curry braised down with garlic and ginger.
é by José Andrés
Fine dining restaurant
What Bourdain ate: Iberico ham and bean soup with roasted garlic; nitro almond cup, a frozen shell made from a puree of Marcona almonds, filled with almond milk espuma and finished with Andalusian caviar; mussels, olives with an escabeche “air;” truffle egg, a gelee of truffles formed into an egg shape with an actual yolk suspended in the center; crispy chicken skin escabeche; salt-roasted foie gras and clementine sauce; secreto de cerdo en papillote.
Raku
Authentic Japanese restaurant
What Bourdain ate: sea urchin, tuna, Japanese river crab, hasaki sashimi, hasaki belly, juicy deep-fried chicken, hamachi belly, and fish collar
Marquee Nightclub & Dayclub
Night club
Tony met with EDM DJ Jason Lima to talk about Vegas nightlife, which he admitted he is too old to understand.
