Old Las Vegas steakhouse, open since 1958 · $$$$
Red leather booths named for Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe, the corner the Rat Pack used to take after their shows, tuxedoed waiters and dishes finished at the table, a few minutes west along Sahara Avenue. Order the Caesar salad, made at the table for two or more at $23 a head, the 14 oz English-cut prime rib at $84, and bananas Foster or cherries jubilee, flamed beside you, at $25. It opens at 4.30pm every day, with the last seating at 9.45pm, and closes on Christmas Day and the day after. Book, dress smart casual, and note that children under five are not admitted.
Reserve ahead308 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89102
Bagel counter for breakfast · $
The breakfast stop in Fontainebleau's Promenade Food Hall, on Level 2, one floor above the casino, for a morning that does not start with a buffet. The bagels are hand-rolled, boiled and baked, chewy inside and crisp outside, and filled with thick-cut bacon, cold-smoked lox, sliced turkey or smashed avocado, with caviar for a celebration. It serves from 7am to 1pm every day, at the counter, to eat at the food hall's tables or take away.
Walk inFontainebleau Las Vegas, 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Los Angeles taco counter in a food hall · $
The cheap meal at Fontainebleau, in the same Promenade Food Hall as El Bagel, one floor above the casino, cooking the tacos of Los Angeles roadside stands. Order carne asada tacos, or beef birria tacos with a side of consommé, a breakfast burrito, which it serves all day, and a frozen margarita. It opens at 11am and closes at 10pm from Sunday to Thursday and at 2am on Friday and Saturday, so it doubles as the late meal after a show. Capon's Burgers and Miami Slice pizza are in the same hall.
Walk inFontainebleau Las Vegas, 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Evan Funke's Roman trattoria · $$$
Evan Funke, the Los Angeles chef known above all for his pasta, cooking Rome and nothing else. Start with the sfincione, his signature focaccia, then the Roman pastas: rigatoni alla carbonara, rigatoni all'amatriciana or tonnarelli cacio e pepe, or a wafer-thin pizza from the wood-fired oven. Dinner runs from 5pm to 9.30pm from Sunday to Thursday and from 4pm to 10.30pm on Friday and Saturday. Book, above all for a weekend.
Reserve aheadFontainebleau Las Vegas, 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Gabriela Cámara's Mexican seafood cantina · $$$
Gabriela Cámara opened Contramar in Mexico City in 1998, and this is its cantina on the Strip: seafood first, simply done. Order the tuna tostada with chipotle mayonnaise, fried leeks and avocado, a ceviche or an aguachile, and, for two, the pescado a la talla, a whole grilled fish with red adobo and a parsley rub, served with refried black beans and corn tortillas made on the comal. Dinner is from 5pm to 10.30pm every day; book, dress upscale casual, and note that children must be five or older.
Reserve aheadFontainebleau Las Vegas, 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
24-hour bar under a chandelier of crystal bowties · $$$
The bar in the middle of Fontainebleau, under a chandelier made of thousands of crystal bowties, open 24 hours a day, where a classic cocktail is the order. It is the place for a drink before Mother Wolf or Cantina Contramar, or for the last one of the night. For a calmer seat, Collins, the lobby bar, opens at noon and closes at midnight, or 2am on Friday and Saturday.
Walk inFontainebleau Las Vegas, 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Revolving dining room 800 feet up the STRAT Tower · $$$$
The dinner only Las Vegas does: a dining room on level 106 of the STRAT Tower, more than 800 feet above the city, that turns a full circle every 80 minutes. The menu is steaks and seafood, and the wine list has held a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 27 years running. Every guest must order an entrée or spend at least $55, and the upscale dress code is enforced: no sportswear, caps or flip-flops. Dinner is from 4pm every day. Book, and allow time for the lifts from the tower's base, by the STRAT's south entrance.
Reserve aheadThe STRAT, 2000 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89104
Breakfast is not in the standard room rate, so check what yours includes. The hotel's breakfast room is Zeffer's Cafe, open every day from 6am to 2pm, with Grand Marnier French toast, chilaquiles, and steak and eggs with a 12 oz ribeye. For something quicker, Starbucks opens at 4am and Prendi sells Randy's Donuts from 6am until they run out. At weekends Chickie's & Pete's opens at 9.30am, and on Saturdays Balla serves its Ciao Bella brunch from 10.30am to 2pm, endless family-style plates from $55 a head.
Outside, El Bagel in Fontainebleau's food hall opens at 7am, ten minutes away, and the STRAT Café, ten minutes north, lays out a $26.99 buffet from 6.30am to 10.30am. The Peppermill, 16 minutes down the Boulevard and known for eggs and pancakes in the small hours, is open around the clock from Thursday to Sunday and from 7am on other days.
