The Best Meals to Blow Your Vegas Money On

In spite of 100-degree days and 90-degree nights, summer in Las Vegas is one of the toughest times to snag a prime dinner reservation at the city's most popular restaurants.

The culinary landscape changes almost daily, with new hotel openings like Palms Place bringing with them a new slate of starry eateries and even more hype.

But like any other city, there are a select few restaurants known from their tricky reservations lines, staffed by quick-talking receptionists that inevitably have only 5 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. reservations, only on a Tuesday night.

Prime
Tip: If you can't snag a reservation, hit the outdoor cigar patio with one of the best smoking scenes in the city.

You can thank Steve Wynn, who negotiated the deal that brought chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten to this opulent waterfront-dining palace at the Bellagio. While Wynn has long since packed up, this fabled eatery is still a tough-to-snag reservation for Vegas' fussier dining set looking to hobnob amongst visiting celebrities like Regis Philbin and some of the town's shrewdest socialites.

Under cut-crystal Baccarat chandeliers, Las Vegas' fussiest steakhouse overlooks the erupting fountains of a faux Lago Como amongst a gilded dining room of deco '20s décor, dramatic pouf-curtains and tabletops of polished silver. Saturday night is the best night to visit, as local diners ring on their department store stylists to assemble a one-night look for all the town to see.

Ago at the Hard Rock
Tip: Go ahead tell them who you think you are, especially if you're an AGO-regular who doesn't want to wait an hour in the bar.

Not as tight a guest list as the New York location, or as Euro-trashy as the one in L.A., Ago's Las Vegas outpost debuts in the space formerly occupied by Simon Kitchen and Bar at the Hard Rock Resort.

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