Tamba

Anand Singh cooked at the Rosewood Las Ventanas, in India and in the Seychelles before he took over this room at Town Square.

Why go

Tamba traded on the Strip for more than two decades before moving down Las Vegas Boulevard to Town Square, and Matthew Kang says what changed with it: The cuisine at Tamba couldn't be more unexpected or refined compared to the days when the restaurant focused on curry and rice.3 Singh cooked at the Rosewood Las Ventanas in Cabo San Lucas and in India and the Seychelles.3 Johnathan L. Wright describes the plates that come of it: hamachi given tangy, whisper-umami tamarind ponzu, and bhuna gobi in which cauliflower is josper charred, then balanced with green curry and broccoli purée.1 The James Beard Foundation made Tamba a nominee for Best New Restaurant in 2026, in the national category.5 When MICHELIN's first American Southwest selection came out in August 2026 without it, Wright put the city's question in print and left it there: So, again, why the omission? Michelin will never tell.2

Order this / avoid

Order: the octopus, charred on the tawa and finished in the josper.1
Order: the bhuna gobi, which is the dish that shows what the live fire is for.1
Order: the spiced okra with pickled mango masala if the table has a vegan at it.1
Order: the aloo gobi and the fenugreek chicken kebab for the cheaper way through. Kasten: You could have just as great a meal with a plate of aloo gobi and fenugreek chicken kebab as you could with lobster fried rice.4
Avoid: writing the room off from the car park. It sits in an outdoor mall between chain restaurants.3

What locals & experts say

Johnathan L. Wright, Las Vegas Review-Journal, on the guide that left it out: Many people with palates worth paying attention to consider Tamba one of the finest restaurants to open in Vegas in the past several years.2
Matthew Kang, Eater Vegas: The modernist interior could have been pulled from a five-star resort, but instead contends with the P.F. Chang's and California Pizza Kitchen next door.3
Emmy Kasten, The Infatuation Las Vegas: The menu at Tamba (butter chicken, hakka noodles, seared nigiri sushi) is confusing at first, especially in the middle of an outdoor mall across from a CPK. But it all tastes great on the table.4

Good to know

MICHELIN left it out. Tamba is a Beard nominee for Best New Restaurant and sits on the Review-Journal's Top 100, and it is absent from the debut Southwest selection.2
The lamb chops arrive standing up, over piped chutneys, and the seabass comes in a banana leaf with celeriac purée.3
The cocktails are worth a look, and Kang names the West Indian Rumble, a Bramble built with blackberries, dried ginger and allspice.3
I have not found a printed cover price. Matthew Kang says to expect to pay a pretty penny, and Emmy Kasten writes about wagyu and caviar.

Verdict

should-visit — Anand Singh chars octopus on a tawa pan and pulls it out of a josper live-fire oven, and puts hamachi in a tamarind ponzu. The James Beard Foundation made it a nominee for Best New Restaurant in 2026, in the national category, and MICHELIN left it out of the first Southwest guide. Order the bhuna gobi and the okra to see what the kitchen does with vegetables, and bring money: Matthew Kang says to expect to pay a pretty penny.