The Best New Restaurants in Las Vegas, August 2026

And while the Eater 38, which marks the best restaurants on the Strip, and the Eater Off-Strip 18 remain crucial resources covering old standbys and neighborhood essentials across the city, they are not a chronicle of the city’s latest openings. The Eater heatmap changes continually to highlight where food lovers are flocking to at the moment.

New this update: Emeril Lagasse starts serving his New Orleans classics in Henderson, Metro Pizza opens a slice shop, and Taiwanese bubble tea favorite Chatime arrives in Las Vegas. Also, In-N-Out Burger ditches the drive-thru and opens on a rooftop, while Buddy Valastro’s secret is out — he has a speakeasy inside his Venetian restaurant.

For the Win and Tacos 1986, Copper Sun, Braseria by Edo, and Hayworth leave the list. Something missing? Hit up the tipline.

More often than not, tipsters, readers, friends, and family of Eater editors have one question: Where should I eat right now? Restaurant obsessives want to know what’s new, and what’s hot.

And while the Eater 38, which marks the best restaurants on the Strip, and the Eater Off-Strip 18 remain crucial resources covering old standbys and neighborhood essentials across the city, they are not a chronicle of the city’s latest openings. The Eater heatmap changes continually to highlight where food lovers are flocking to at the moment.

New this update: Emeril Lagasse starts serving his New Orleans classics in Henderson, Metro Pizza opens a slice shop, and Taiwanese bubble tea favorite Chatime arrives in Las Vegas. Also, In-N-Out Burger ditches the drive-thru and opens on a rooftop, while Buddy Valastro’s secret is out — he has a speakeasy inside his Venetian restaurant. For the Win and Tacos 1986, Copper Sun, Braseria by Edo, and Hayworth leave the list.

Something missing? Hit up the tipline.

Able Baker Brewing Bomb Shelter

Able Baker leans heavily into its atomic theme with its latest restaurant and taproom located in Centennial Hills. Called the Bomb Shelter, the large space displays photos and artwork on loan from the Atomic Museum and has two patios with a ping pong table, corn hole, and other games.

The Bomb Shelter features 26 taps with everything from stouts and barleywine to a mango wheat beer and pineapple cider. Able’s food menu includes a stacked hot pastrami sandwich, spicy pork belly street tacos, and a variety of pizzas — vegetarians might go for the vegetable-laden version topped with artichoke, spinach, roasted bell peppers, and roasted garlic.

NADC Burger

A popular wagyu burger joint has its first brick-and-mortar home in downtown Las Vegas. The menu at NADC Burger, which began in Austin and has since expanded to Los Angeles and other West Coast destinations, reads as slim as its thin-pressed wagyu patties.

The shop slings one burger served on a potato roll and topped with American cheese, secret sauce, onions, pickles, and slightly tamed jalapeños to ease the heat; beef tallow fries; and homemade brown butter chocolate chip cookies. Fortunately, that’s really all you need at a burger joint.

Red Rock Resort Food Court

With the addition of Brooklyn-style pizzeria Good Pie, L.A.’s Randy’s Donuts, and local smash burger joint, With Love, Always, Red Rock Resort has completed its food court makeover. While nothing new came to market, the move brings some popular brands under one roof, close to the Summerlin community.

Good Pie, which just landed on Food Network’s top 10 pizza list, gained its following serving Sicilian, Detroit, and Grandma-style pies in the city’s Arts District. Since its debut in Las Vegas in 2022, Randy’s Donuts has been steadily expanding. The Red Rock shop is Randy’s fifth location with more on the way.

And just months after opening at the Bend, With Love, Always brings its simple menu of smash burgers, shoestring fries — loaded with cheddar, grilled onions, chopped pickles, and Love sauce — and soft serve to the high desert.

Lotus of Siam

A full five years after heavy rains collapsed the restaurant’s roof, Lotus of Siam’s original Commercial Center location has reopened.

Lotus opened in 1999 and, in its infancy, won praise and attention from food critic Jonathan Gold, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, who at the time wrote it was the best Thai meal he had ever eaten, mainly because it included “a wonderland of dishes from all over Thailand,” and not just Americanized versions. While the reawakened space has been modernized and its menu updated, diners can expect Lotus favorites like shredded mango salad, crispy garlic prawns, and duck curry with egg noodles.

Maroon

Kwame Onwuachi’s arrival in Las Vegas has been a spectacle.

Fire dancers, showgirls, a performance from Busta Rhymes, and a poolside drone show helped kick off the highly anticipated opening of Maroon, his Caribbean steakhouse inside Sahara Las Vegas. Maroon is the first West Coast restaurant from the James Beard Foundation Award–winning chef following his acclaimed Tatiana in New York City and Dōgon in Washington, D.C.

At Maroon, steaks are rum-aged, the fried rice has chunks of oxtail and curry-spiced shrimp, and a jerk pit in the middle of the restaurant turns out jerk chicken, tender lamb chops, and pork tomahawks. Other signatures include wood-fired lobster, crawfish mashed potatoes, and creamed coconut collards.

Cantina Contramar

Specializing in mariscos, chef Gabriela Cámara’s Cantina Contramar at Fontainebleau showcases the best of her Mexico City restaurant and also expands on her oeuvre to reflect the taste of Vegas visitors.

And while that means more wagyu, including a delightful, thin-slice ceviche and a dry-aged tomahawk, her Vegas restaurant’s focus centers the lens on seafood. Dishes like pescado a la talla, a whole fish butterflied and grilled, then dressed in red and green salsas, along with Contramar’s tuna tostada, remain favorites.

As for cocktails, the agave collection is top notch with more than 50 tequilas and 15 mezcals to choose from — ideal for creating the perfect carajillo or margarita.

Sartiano’s Italian Steakhouse

Nightlife aficionado Scott Sartiano has brought two of his famous New York City celebrity hangouts to Wynn Las Vegas. Overlooking the resort’s golf course, his namesake restaurant, Sartiano’s Italian Steakhouse, opened March 4, along with its companion members-only club Zero Bond.

Under the direction of three-time James Beard Award–winning chef Alfred Portale, executive chef Michael Rubinstein follows the philosophy that has made Sartiano’s at the Mercer hotel a success. That starts with the wet- and dry-aged bistecca, including a 40-ounce dry-aged bistecca Fiorentina ($235) that gets carved tableside, and American wagyu sourced from Idaho and Texas.

The menu, full of upscale takes on Italian American classics, includes caviar cannoli with whipped mascarpone ($39), fluke crudo with jalapeño and cucumber ($32), and pastas such as fettuccine Alfredo alla Romana, served tableside for two ($75).

Dolce Notte

Buddy Valastro has opened a tapas-style speakeasy inside his Italian restaurant at the Venetian.

Hidden in the back of the restaurant behind a family portrait, Dolce Notte, which means “sweet night,” has been designed to offer a more casual cocktail experience with small plates and desserts. Guests slipping in through a movable wall find an intimate room with green banquettes, cafe tables, and walls full of photos.

The menu contains about a dozen dishes that include a charcuterie board, mini ribeye panini, and lobster fritto misto. For dessert, diners can find a lemon mousse, a vanilla sponge cake with strawberry rhubarb jam, and a plate of assorted sweet treats.

Redhead Burger

A Miami smash burger spot has opened its first Vegas location inside the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian.

In addition to burgers, which can be buried under caramelized onions and smothered in pepper jack cheese, jalapeños, and applewood-smoked bacon, Redhead Burger serves a spicy, crispy chicken sandwich; Tater Tots; and a variety of milkshakes that includes dulce de leche, Nutella, and Oreo. Expect its signature fire engine red interior with some tables that spill outside the front of the shop.

OMNIA Dayclub and Skybar

With the debut of Omnia Dayclub and Skybar in front of Caesars Palace, Tao Group has brought a new Strip-side dining destination to the upper level of the pool complex.

Open for dinner nightly, the Skybar patio has a large menu featuring everything from sushi and oysters to chicken wing lollipops, Cuban sandwiches, and a Wagyu French dip. Diners can also choose from a handful of more formidable entrees that include a 12-ounce ribeye, grilled branzino in a lemon-caper sauce, or a 32-ounce ancho-rubbed tomahawk taco platter with all the fixing for larger groups.

Gigolo

A tribute to Lisa Vanderpump’s late Pomeranian, Gigolo follows the playbook the reality television star codified in Los Angeles: dark and moody, playful and mysterious. Set in the restaurant mogul’s new Vanderpump Hotel (a rebranding of the Cromwell), the lounge, dressed in black and red, features a five-foot-tall resin statue of her beloved pooch Giggy and a series of signature cocktails — all served with a twist.

Talk Dirty to Me arrives a martini for two served with more than a dozen skewered olives, while the Pump & Bump comes with caviar (do as the name says). Hush Hush asks customers to seal a secret into a tiny envelope and deposit it in a vault. The vibe of the place makes it versatile for both a pre-dinner drink or post-dinner nightcap.

Soulbelly BBQ

Soulbelly BBQ has debuted in the food court at Miracle Mile Shops. For chef and James Beard Foundation Award nominee Bruce Kalman, who opened the original Soulbelly downtown in 2021, it’s an opportunity to share his smoked brisket and ribs with a larger audience.

Soulbelly’s Miracle Mile menu consists of the same behemoth sandwiches and sides as its Arts District location — like the half-pound smoked brisket burger; the Boss Hog, made with Carolina-style pulled pork; and a brisket burnt-end grilled cheese. Exclusive to the Strip: a banana pudding-style soft serve.

In-N-Out Burger

Normally, the opening of an In-N-Out Burger wouldn’t make this list, but the new outpost isn’t like the others. It’s located on the BLVD rooftop — a shopping destination three stories above the Strip.

That means the 8,000-square-foot restaurant (the chain’s second largest) swaps the drive-thru for an outdoor terrace. The menu and prices are the same as other In-N-Out locations; it’s also home to one of the largest In-N-Out company stores selling branded clothing, hats, stickers, and charms.

Order a classic Double-Double, the love-them-or-hate-them french fries (well-done and animal-style, if you want a reason to love them), and a Neapolitan shake before or after a night out on the town.

Chatime

A Taiwanese bubble tea chain with thousands of locations worldwide has landed in Las Vegas, opening its first shop near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus.

Chatime allows guests to customize their milk teas, fruit teas, and signature brown sugar pearl drinks by adjusting sweetness levels, selecting dairy-free alternatives, or adding popping pearls in flavors like mango, grape, and green apple, or jellies — like coconut and lychee — to their drink. A second location has already been planned for the Arts District.

The Irish Spot

One of the city’s oldest British pubs is flying a new flag. The Irish Spot has opened in the University District on East Tropicana Avenue where the Crown and Anchor operated for more than 30 years.

New owner Ryan Whelan has focused the menu on Irish pub fare and, like his predecessor, caters to soccer fans and college students with dart boards and a pool table in a memorabilia-filled UNLV Rebel Room. The kitchen slings classic sausage rolls, fish and chips — using Kennebec potatoes — and a traditional shepherd’s pie made with minced lamb.

Whelan is planning to launch a members-only whiskey club in a second-story space.

The Hat

For Vegas fans of Southern California pastrami icon the Hat, the wait is finally over. Six long years after the restaurant announced plans to open in Las Vegas, the popular deli has started slinging sandwiches from its restaurant and drive-thru on Rainbow Boulevard.

A California institution since 1951, this marks the chain’s first restaurant outside the state. While most customers gravitate toward the Hat’s famous pastrami dips or the overloaded pastrami chili cheese fries, the restaurant also serves a bunch of cold cuts, hot dogs, and burgers.

Metro Sliceteria

World pizza champion John Arena has opened a fast-casual slice shop at the Bend, a new dining and shopping district in the Southwest.

Unlike the traditional Metro Pizza locations, Sliceteria gives Arena more freedom to experiment with different styles of pizza and more elaborate toppings. While the menu may change, expect Sicilian slices topped with meatballs and ricotta, macaroni and cheese slices, and Grandma-style chicken pesto squares. And yes, whole pies are available along with salads, sandwiches, calzones, and a variety of sorbets and gelato.

Diamond Spur

Chef Marc Marrone has teamed with Todd Lunger to open his dream restaurant — a full-service butcher shop and deli in the city’s southwest valley. In the style of the Bronx meat markets Marrone grew up with, Diamond Spur sources organic, pasture-raised, and grass-fed meat directly from ranches in Arizona, Missouri, and South Dakota to sell directly to the consumer.

The deli menu has a chicken Parmesan sandwich, a burger ground in house from high-quality beef, rotisserie chicken, steak frites, and more.

Meril

Emeril Lagasse’s Creole classics can now be found at the M Resort in Henderson.

Named after his daughter, Meril is a casual 220-seat natural-lit space with an outdoor terrace overlooking the expansive pool. Open all day, breakfast offerings consist of beignets, andouille sausage potato hash, and bananas Foster French toast, while lunch and dinner feature Emeril staples such as gumbo, barbecue shrimp, and blue crab linguine.

Save room for a giant slice of banana cream pie.