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Heavy hitting designers have made the dining rooms in restaurants some of the must-see environs of Las Vegas. Here, a look at 21 restaurants that should be on any list ofplaces to see just for the design. And sometimes, the food rivals the decor.

Andrea’sThe Jetsons meet the future at Andrea’s at Encore Las Vegas features a wall of privatebooths with “shimmer screen” doors and abstract floral pendant artwork. At the bar, anoversized piece of artwork that features restaurant namesake Andrea Hissom’s eyes,photographed by Denise Truscello, that change colors.

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21 dining room that shouldn’t be missedby Susan Stapleton Mar 19, 2019, 12:00pm PDT

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Beijing Noodle No. 9

Beijing Noodle No. 9Inside this casual Northern Chinese restaurant at Caesars Palace sits two enormousaquariums that hold hundreds of goldfish at the entrance. Inside Beijing Noodle No. 9,designed by BWA Architecture + Interiors, a modern metropolitan design set off bycontemporary cafe-style furniture and floral finishes on a white-on-white palette.

Bouchon

BouchonSettle into the soaring confines of a Parisian bistro at Bouchon in the Venezia Tower ofthe Venetian. Chef Thomas Keller selected designer Adam D. Tihany to recreate theoriginal Bouchon’s vibrant environment only in blue in Las Vegas. The restaurantfeatures a classic mosaic floor, a magnificent pewter bar that only wears with stories as itages, antique light fixtures, and hand-painted murals by French artist Paulin Paris. Findadditions to the menu hand-written on blackboards throughout the restaurant.

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Wolfgang Puck’s Cut

Cut by Wolfgang PuckLas Vegas-based firm Todd-Avery Lenahan, founder of local design firm TAL Studio,created the original design for Cut when it opened in March 2008 and worked on therenovations that bring a lounge that doubled in size. The lounge now accommodates 90,while an extended bar seats 20. Also new? A shellfish and crudo bar on ice that sits atone end of the bar. The bar top now features a leathered stone bar, custom seating,acrylic table tops, textured walls and ceilings, wood flooring, and a redesigned banquetroom. The modern space features a basket woven felt wall high above bronzed mirrorwalls and acid-etched glass. On the floor, white limestone, walnut wood tiles andcustom-designed carpeting. Custom-designed lighting fixtures give the feel of lamplightwhile leather seating and leather table tops framed in brushed metal offer a contrast tothe English Windsor wood slab tables that occupy the center of the space.

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é by José Andrés

é by José AndrésHidden inside of José Andrés’ Cosmopolitan restaurant Jaleo is é, where the chef’s tablecan seat eight people for a 20-course dinner. Chefs roll out course after course, manycooked right at the table and meticulously plated with tweezers, dry ice embellishmentsand novelty dish ware, including plaster replicas of Andrés’ hands. A dramatic red glasswall and red velvet curtain, a nod to the chef’s concept of cooking as performanceaccompany a ladder that seems to climb to nowhere.

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Giada

GiadaStepping into Giada at The Cromwell is almost like walking into chef and namesakeGiada de Laurentiis’ living room, only with an antipasto bar, a pasta station, a breadstation, and a pizzetta bar. The room has a very airy and spacious feel with cantileveredwindows overlooking the busiest intersection in Nevada and the Bellagio fountains. Sixlights with the phrase, “Taste a little bit of everything and not a lot of one thing,”emblazon and give diners a direction for ordering. Giada’s touch is found everywhere,from almost antique looking red water glasses to her name or just “G” emblazoned onthe menus, napkins, and plates. On the walls find movie posters such as Barbarella fromher grandfather Dino De Laurentiis’ production days.

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Gordon Ramsay Steak

Gordon Ramsay SteakGordon Ramsay’s first restaurant in Las Vegas features a mock Chunnel leading fromParis Las Vegas into Gordon Ramsay Steak. The 7,500-square-foot restaurant thatfeatures an open kitchen, serpentine booths, a second floor with three private diningrooms, and a Union Jack flying overhead with a red neon sculpture modeled after hiscooking gestures in the kitchen. Two staircases lead upstairs, giving diners a stunningview of the restaurant and bar area.

Joël Robuchon

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Joël RobuchonPierre-Yves Rochon designed this decadent room to look like Paris in the 1930s. Ablack-and-white tiled foyer lit by a crystal teardrop chandelier greets diners as they enterJoël Robuchon at the MGM Grand. To the left, a small bar area. In the tiny dining roomthat seats 42, soaring 17-foot ceilings set the stage for the black and purple room withspots of turquoise, all decadent, decadent, decadent. To the right of the dining room, anivy-covered patio that serves as a secondary dining room.

L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon

L’Atelier de Joël RobuchonChef of the Century Joël Robuchon opened this more casual concept from designerPierre-Yves Rochon in 2005 at the MGM Grand. Inside L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon,the boundaries between kitchen and dining room are crossed as diners watch theirmeals created in front of their eyes in this dramatic red and black space. Request seats1 and 2 for a perfect view of the action.

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Le Cirque

Le CirqueDesigner Adam D. Tihany created this ode to a circus tent at the Bellagio with amahogany interior and decadent furniture to complement the big top above. Sit at thesmall bar at the front of Le Cirque at the Bellagio for an intimate drink or request one ofthe seats right with a prime view of the Fountains at Bellagio.

Mr Chow

Mr Chow

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Restaurateur Michael Chow designed the opulent black-and-white space of Mr Chow onthe second floor of Caesars Palace. Diners walk in through a champagne lounge on thecasino floor, where they can sip on Krug Grande Cuveé or Dom Pérignon from therestaurant’s champagne trolley, while taking in the bright space and the Jeff Koons“Balloon Venus” sculpture on display. Private elevators head up to the restaurant, firsttaking customers through the 150-label wine room displayed in a floor-to-ceiling glasspartition. Behind that, a lounge with bronze furniture and custom Clive Barker artwork.White Venetian plaster and Plexiglas line the dining room surround by outer banquetteseating and overlooking a 150-plus lily floral arrangement in the center. A wooden barwith shelves extending to the ceiling come lined with spirits, large windows and Frenchdoors leading to the terrace overlooking the Garden of the Gods Pool Oasis. The nearly250 seat restaurant includes three private dining rooms, bar seating and four terraces.Overhead, a kinetic sculpture, suspended from a 60-foot dome created by Chow andconstructed by TAIT. The 3,800-pound fiberglass and aluminum framed sculpturedubbed “The Moon” looks like a full moon, but during service, a four-minute showchanges its look.

Picasso

PicassoDine among the works of Pablo Picasso at his namesake restaurant at the Bellagio.Original pieces of the master’s art and pottery decorate the space. In addition, 16 tablessit on the Picasso patio for a remarkable view of the Fountains at Bellagio.

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Prime Steakhouse

Prime SteakhouseThis jewel box of a restaurant from Jean-Georges Vongerichten at the Bellagio is deckedout in plush velvet draping and powder blue marble floors, an ode to Tiffany & Co. Thescene evokes a 1930s speakeasy chop house. On the walls at Prime Steakhouse atthe Bellagio, three commissioned paintings by Carlo Maria Mariani, George Deem, andMichael Gregory, as well as a water-themed canvas screen created by Joseph Raffael.

Rivea

Rivea

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Alain Ducasse’s Rivea at the top of the Delano features one of the best views of theStrip, peering north from its perch on the 64th floor of the resort. But inside, the lighted“Wave Wall,” made with hundreds of glass squares in a pattern that reflects the lappingmotion of the Mediterranean garners diners’ attention. In a nod to the restaurant’s formerdecor, those 15,000 hand-blown glass spheres that made up the centerpiece custom-designed chandelier made in Murano, Italy, still sit in the center of the room. Plus insidethe restaurant’s 50-seat private dining room find views of the Strip through floor-to-ceilingwindows. There, a light fixture made from twinkling lights that mimic the constellationsoverhead may detract from Ducasse’s fare.

Rose.Rabbit.Lie.

Rose.Rabbit.Lie.AvroKO collaborated with Digital Kitchen the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on the designof Rose.Rabbit.Lie. that includes different rooms, including the study, the library, themusic room, the swimming pool and the ballroom. Of note, a copy of The Garden ofEarthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, a triptych originally painted in the late1400s/early 1500s. While the original sits in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, this oneresides in the study.

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Sage

SageDesigner Jacques Garcia created an opulent French boudoir for Shawn McClain’sculinary delights. Inside find hand-painted murals by Paulin Pâris that reinterpret earlymodernist paintings such as Manet’s The Lunch on the Grass on the walls around themirror in the bar, and Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party overlooking the maindining room. Muted gold on the pillars and tiled walls keep the light low as it reflects offmirrored panels. Plum drapes, walls, and furniture bedeck the space with stained woodflooring. Above, find pendant lights and stainless-steel chandeliers as well as floor-to-ceiling wine towers.

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Strip House

Strip HouseDavid Rockwell designed the seductive Strip House at Planet Hollywood Resort as adouble entendre that refers to the restaurant’s signature cut of steak and to the seriesStudio Manasse black and white nudes from the 1900s that pepper that space. Old-world glamour comes alive in this siren red space that boasts 763 photos throughout.

SW Steakhouse

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SW SteakhouseThe look at SW Steakhouse at Wynn Las Vegas comes at the hands of Wynn Resortsexecutive vice president of design Roger Thomas, who looked to the Mojave Desert forinspiration from the horizontal lines found in the sandstone that surround the Las Vegasvalley. Tucci marble from Italy and stone pieces carved in Jerusalem are found inside.Handwoven fabric panels installed in a geological formation randomly repeat. Thomascommissioned artists in Germany, France, Italy, Holland, and Southern California tocreate these panels. The bar area features Las Vegas artist Tim Bavington’s Full FathomFive, his visual representation of the song Elephant Stone by the Stone Roses. The bartop constructed of metals woven together on an 18th century European loom were thentransported to Oregon to be encased in glass. And that detail on the bar edge? A tip toCartier Love bracelets. Out on the terrace overlooking the Lake of Dreams find anantique grill with white gold leaf, Thomas-designed carpet in Prince of Wales plaid,popularized by the Duke of Windsor, and the half-round centerpiece now made of resininstead of copper.

Tao Asian Bistro

Tao Asian BistroCelebrities flock to Tao Asian Bistro at the Venetian, and the decor inside only adds tothe experience. Designer Thomas Schoos created an Asian restaurant decked out inlush velvets and silks, waterfalls, and century-old woods and stones. An extensivecollection of Buddha statues watches over every corner of Tao, including a uniquereclining Buddha and Tao’s signature 20-foot Buddha that “floats” peacefully above aninfinity pool complete with Japanese koi. Other decadent touches include a red neonentrance that nods its head to the red gates used to mark the entrances of Buddhist andShinto temples, bathtubs filled with rose petals, a Zen garden complete with a raked rockpattern and boulder accents and antique Asian opium pipes.

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Wing Lei

Wing LeiThis Chinese restaurant at Wynn Las Vegas features a dramatic interior designinfluenced by early French-influenced Shanghai. Chinoiserie decks out the entire spaceat Wing Lei. Designer Jacques Garcia created the white onyx bar that greets diners asthey enter. Throughout the main dining room and private rooms, numerous ancientChinese motifs such as the dragon and flaming pearl are visible. The ceiling her featureswhorls and circles in lavender, deep blue, gold, celadon green and more. Outside therestaurant, 100-year-old pomegranate trees line one entire wall of the dining room.

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Zuma

ZumaZuma at the Cosmopolitan takes elements of earth, fire, water and air to decorate the9,000-square-foot space that cleverly combines a Japanese izakaya and robata grill aswell. Noriyoshi Muramatsu of Tokyo-based Studio Glitt designed the space with neonlights and man-made structures. Organic materials, such as a feature wall composed ofnatural stone from Chiang Mai in Thailand, as well as a reception desk, bar and sushicounter made of tree trunks, also sourced from Thailand round out the decor here.

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