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Best Downtown Bar: The Silver Stamp
With rotating taps and reliable favorites always on pour, this beloved beer bar anchors both weekend crawls and midweek escapes.
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Best Barbecue: Wild Fig BBQ
Who would have thought Sun City Summerlin would be a barbecue hot bed?
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Best Coffeehouse: Mothership Coffee Roasters
Mothership Coffee Roasters has a lot going for it—terrific drinks, tasty pastries, friendly and capable baristas and more!
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Best Buffet: The Buffet at Wynn
Casual casino dining trends have shifted but Wynn’s dedication to an elevated buffet experience isn’t going anywhere.
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Best Chinatown Bar: The Golden Tiki
1960s pop, Navy Grog, crab rangoon and the coolest collection of shrunken heads all live at this one-of-a-kind Chinatown hot spot.
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Best Brewery: Able Baker Brewing
This longtime local fave has essentially achieved perfection.
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Best Cocktails: Stray Pirate
This cutie-pie of a tiki bar, hung with portraits of doggo buccaneers, serves up tropical beverages worth sniffing out.
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Best Bakery: Freed’s Bakery
Strawberry shortcake. Dubai chocolate pistachio brownies. Macarons. Rugelach. Cookies, cookies, such wonderful cookies.
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Best Breakfast: Broken Yolk Cafe
Think of it as the Cheesecake Factory of breakfast joints.
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Best Happy Hour: WSKY Bar & Grill
This local chain actually offers dual happy hours four days a week.
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Best Brunch: Siegel’s Bagelmania
It’s everything you could want in a brunch, done deli-style.
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Best Locals Casino: Durango Casino & Resort
A Strip-tier experience without tourists? It’s almost too good to be true.
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Best Clothing Boutique: For The Love, LV
This Arts District Boutique caters to every kind of fashion hunter.
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Best Afterhours: Drai’s Afterhours
Who says the party needs to end?
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Best Antique Shop: Charleston Antique Mall
Seeking to wander for hours through various sundries? Look no further.
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Best Comedian: Piff the Magic Dragon
Razor-sharp wit, perfectly timed delivery and clever comebacks reveal Piff as a truly gifted comedian who happens to do magic.
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Best Downtown Casino: Circa Resort & Casino
Circa is entirely composed of greats.
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Best Bookstore: The Writer’s Block
Independent bookstores aren’t as abundant as they once were, but readers are thankful to have an outlier in the Writer’s Block
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Best Attraction: AREA15
AREA15 has become the quirky theme park Las Vegas didn’t realize it needed.
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Las Vegas Sun presents: High School Heroes 2026
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Sports are just part of Special Olympics Nevada's mission
As CEO of Special Olympics Nevada, Thornton is many things — but on this morning, walking through the basketball gym at Legacy High School for ...
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The Phenomenal Womxn Poetry Festival, Mariah the Scientist, the Philharmonic does the music of John Williams, Major League Indoor Soccer and more.
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Nevada high school football postseason brackets face a chaotic new reality
No matter what record Bishop Gorman, Faith Lutheran or Somerset Losee posts in the fall, each program will play in a state championship game. All ...
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Standing on a small stage in front of the historic Harrison House on F Street, Katherine Duncan-Reed read aloud a proclamation that — 66 years ...
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Zoox robotaxi rolling out new destinations and improving service
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Henderson lags behind Nevada in closing the gender pay gap
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White Castle closing two Las Vegas locations
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Now 10 years old, T-Mobile Arena is the most impactful non-casino venue ever built in Las Vegas
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Las Vegas initiative supports trafficking survivors’ path to independence
While law enforcement focuses on getting people, mostly women, out of the cycle of human trafficking, Anzorena said Hope Co. is about supporting survivors’ transition ...
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Tyrin Jones will be back for sophomore season with UNLV basketball
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K-pop star Lisa sets up a Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum
The Blackpink singer, rapper and dancer will be the first K-pop artist with a Las Vegas Strip residency.
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Report: Super Bowl expected to return to Las Vegas in 2029
NFL league owners are expected to vote next week on bringing the Super Bowl back to Las Vegas and Allegiant Stadium in 2029, according to ...
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UNLV instructor Elsa Gramola brings the taste of Italy to your table
Born in Sicily, Gramola says she feels like a local now, “because I’m finally sharing my Italian culture here in Las Vegas.”
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