The city's best restaurants aren’t just importing rare snow beef from Hokkaido, they’re also trucking in plump tomatoes from Pahrump, Nevada. But in the last few years, growing up has also meant importing extraordinary talent with no television ties, and looking in its own backyard. and the best access to the rarest ingredients in the world. It now has more celebrity chefs than you can shake a stick at the most master sommeliers of any city in the U.S. As Vegas has grown up, so has the culinary scene. Las Vegas restaurants have evolved from the steakhouses, red sauce joints, and buffets that once powered the city’s vacationers (though we fully endorse that some of those early icons are worth the trip down Memory Lane).
