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The people.

The chefs, critics and writers and bar people, owners and locals whose picks shape the Las Vegas list, grouped by what they do for a living. Every name is a real person with a public track record, and each one appears against a room only where they endorsed that room themselves.

Chefs 29Critics and writers 7Bar people, owners and locals 10

Chefs.

Chefs cook for a living, and a chef who sends you to somebody else's room is putting their own name on it.

  • Nicole BrissonChef5 picks

    Italian cooking and whole-animal butchery in Las Vegas; beef in particular.

  • Jamie TranChef2 picks

    The cooking at The Black Sheep, in Las Vegas.

  • Joshua SmithChef2 picks

    French brasserie cooking, and the Chinatown rooms a native goes back to.

  • Oscar AmadorChef2 picks

    The cooking at Anima by EDO, in Las Vegas.

  • Alessandro StrattaChef1 pick

    Fine dining in Las Vegas, and a pho habit five days a week.

  • Dan KrohmerChef1 pick

    Off-Strip seafood and sushi, and the neighbourhood room as a form.

  • Eduard XatruchChef1 pick

    Cooking at Disfrutar, Barcelona, and what a visiting chef eats on a trip to Las Vegas.

  • Giada De LaurentiisChef1 pick

    Italian cooking, and the Strip restaurant.

  • Janaína TorresChef1 pick

    Cooking at A Casa do Porco, São Paulo, and what a visiting chef eats on a trip to Las Vegas.

  • Julián SerranoChef1 pick

    Spanish cooking on the Strip, and what he calls the best room off it.

  • Kimberly McIntoshChef1 pick

    Filipino baking and off-Strip neighbourhood rooms.

  • Paul BartolottaChef1 pick

    Italian and coastal seafood cooking; a James Beard Award winner.

  • Pichaya SoontornyanakijChef1 pick

    Thai cooking, and what a Thai kitchen outside Thailand has to get right.

  • Agata SiwinskaChefno picks on this list yet

    Restaurant openings at scale, and the Las Vegas kitchens she grew up in.

  • Alex ReznikChefno picks on this list yet

    Live-fire barbecue and modern American cooking in Las Vegas.

  • Barry DakakeChefno picks on this list yet

    Steak, and the old Las Vegas Italian room.

  • Brian HowardChefno picks on this list yet

    The cooking at Sparrow + Wolf, in Las Vegas.

  • Bruno RiouChefno picks on this list yet

    French cooking on the Strip, and ramen after a Saturday night service.

  • Eric SunigaChefno picks on this list yet

    Spanish cooking at the Strip's most exclusive counter, and where a chef takes his kids.

  • Gina MarinelliChefno picks on this list yet

    Italian cooking in Las Vegas, and the Chinatown bowl after a night on the line.

  • John ArenaChefno picks on this list yet

    Pizza, and forty years of watching this city's kitchens from the inside.

  • Jonah ResnickChefno picks on this list yet

    Italian-American cooking, and what a chef wants after a long shift.

  • Marlon SimbulanChefno picks on this list yet

    Italian cooking, and the 24-hour room a late shift needs.

  • Matthew SilvermanChefno picks on this list yet

    Neighbourhood Las Vegas cooking, west of the Strip.

  • Oulay Ceesay FisherChefno picks on this list yet

    The cooking at Calabash African Kitchen, in Las Vegas.

  • Rick MoonenChefno picks on this list yet

    Sustainable seafood, and Korean barbecue on his night off.

  • Roy EllamarChefno picks on this list yet

    Farm-to-table cooking on the Strip, and the small local rooms he visits weekly.

  • Sarah ThompsonChefno picks on this list yet

    The cooking at Casa Playa, in Las Vegas.

  • Tayden Poha-EllamarChefno picks on this list yet

    Spanish and live-fire cooking in Las Vegas.

Critics and writers.

Critics ate the meal, wrote it up under their own name, and the review is linked so you can read it yourself.

  • Johnathan L. WrightCritic21 picks

    Las Vegas restaurants, for the city's daily paper: the Top 100 guide, openings, and the standings as they land.

  • Emmy KastenCritic18 picks

    Las Vegas restaurants off the Strip: Chinatown, the west side and the neighbourhood rooms.

  • John CurtasCritic17 picks

    Las Vegas restaurants, door by door, including which branch of a room is the one to go to.

  • Janna KarelJournalist5 picks

    The Las Vegas Strip: the casino dining rooms and the chef-brand restaurants in them.

  • Brock RadkeCriticno picks on this list yet

    Las Vegas dining, nightlife and the Strip, for the city's alt-weekly.

  • Melinda SheckellsCriticno picks on this list yet

    Las Vegas restaurants and the rooms the city's own history turns on.

  • Rebecca RolandJournalistno picks on this list yet

    Las Vegas restaurant news: openings, closings and the awards as they are announced.

Bar people, owners and locals.

Bartenders, owners and locals know the things a review misses, like where the trade actually drinks.

  • Christina EllisOwner / operator2 picks

    Locals' Las Vegas: the Arts District and the neighbourhood casino floor.

  • Diana BrierOwner / operator1 pick

    Cheese, wine and the small local business.

  • Jolene ManninaOwner / operator1 pick

    The local food community, and the events that make it visible.

  • Juyoung KangBartender1 pick

    Cocktail programmes on and off the Strip.

  • Van-Alan NguyenOwner / operator1 pick

    Vietnamese flavours through a Las Vegas restaurant kitchen, and the industry's own after-shift rooms.

  • Elizabeth BlauOwner / operatorno picks on this list yet

    Las Vegas restaurants as a business and as a scene; she built much of it.

  • Kristen CorralOwner / operatorno picks on this list yet

    Vegan cooking in Las Vegas, and the late-night restaurant.

  • Mariena Mercer BoariniBartenderno picks on this list yet

    Cocktails on the Strip, and vintage Las Vegas.

  • Sonny AhujaOwner / operatorno picks on this list yet

    Wine bars, and the Chinatown rooms the crowd walks past.

  • Wyndee ForrestOwner / operatorno picks on this list yet

    Beer, and the Henderson dining scene.

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