The Best Brunch in Las Vegas, From Authentic French Bistros to 24-Hour Greasy Spoons
To visualize the best brunch in Las Vegas, simply consider the production value found at the flashiest spots on the Strip—fog machines, bottle service, theatrical stages, and even more theatrical talent—and add towers groaning to support colossal lobsters, veritable vats of caviar, and even juices presented in a gilded birdcage. This is how seriously (or perhaps, unseriously) Las Vegas takes its weekend morning dining. Thoughtfully, the best Las Vegas brunch affairs also consider that some guests will be recovery dining from the night prior, while others are pre-gaming for the day ahead—accordingly, they provide choices for both camps. All this brunching takes place with great people-watching and typically wraps with a promise to yourself that you’ll atone for your intemperance tomorrow. After all, living, breathing, and eating Sin City extravagance is exactly what you came for. Bon appétit ,and pass the rosé.
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How we choose the best brunch in Las Vegas
Every restaurant on this list has been selected independently by Condé Nast Traveler editors and reviewed by a local contributor who has visited that restaurant. Our editors consider both high-end and affordable eateries, and weigh stand-out dishes, location, and service—as well as inclusivity and sustainability credentials. We update this list as new restaurants open and existing ones evolve.
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Courtesy MGM ResortsrestaurantBardot Brasserie at Aria Las Vegas
$$Set on the second floor of Aria Las Vegas’s promenade, Bardot transports you to a 1920s Parisian café, as evidenced by the bistro chairs, Art Deco-style lamps, and oversized brass bar. But this is no ersatz American bistro impersonator. This is the place to go when you want to feel totally cozy with someone you already love, or look way more attractive to someone you're hoping to lure in. Chef Michael Mina serves high-end comfort classics, including your favorite morning-after stars: croissant Benedicts with Parisian ham and Maine Lobster, traditional quiche Lorraine, waffles with duck confit, French toast, croque madame, and artisanal French cheeses. The French onion soup under a lid of cave-aged Gruyere-topped sourdough crouton has been known to cure a monster gueule de bois. (Isn’t it amazing how even hangovers sound better in French?) It's a convivial room that's best experienced with company willing to dive headfirst into the bread with beurre d'echire A.O.C. butter and keep going through the cheese plate.
Barbara KraftrestaurantTableau
$$$Wynn receives its share of celebrity visitors, and this is where they brunch if they don't choose in-room dining. There's almost always a name you know here trying (sort of) to go incognito. It is also a power breakfast spot for the rest of the Strip, sitting just beyond the private Wynn Tower Suites elevator in a garden atrium overlooking a sparkling pool. One of Tableau's real treasures is its kitchen juice bar, which produces fresh-pressed juices like "Purify" (honeydew, green apples, kale, spinach, cayenne, agave, and celery) and smoothies like a silky chai with banana and coconut. If you can't commit, try a juice flight (a favorite). There are also endless cocktail options including prosecco, mimosas, bellinis, pink sangria, rosé, and a great brunch signature cocktail program of garden-inspired coolers. If you’re really hungry, don’t pass up the Grazing Star Ranch wagyu burger with smoked bacon. All Wynn restaurants give guests a “Living Well” menu with lighter or veg-forward options.
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Scott ChebegiarestaurantCatch
This is vibey Vegas dining at its best: Enter through an 80-foot-long pergola walkway with cascading leaves and flowers to get into the main dining room, which brings the outdoors in with a trellised seating area, banquettes salvaged from vintage Indonesian buildings, and the effective feel of an overgrown warehouse rooftop. For brunch you can order birdcage mimosas—a bottle of Champagne with three flavors of fresh juices served in a gold, ivy-wrapped birdcage. There are plenty of serious cocktails masquerading as brunch options, like a Pineapple Trainwreck (vodka, pineapple, tarragon, lemon, Peychaud's); or you can go virtuous with fresh-pressed juices. Catch, of course, does fish like no one else, but they also excel at sweets. If this is your thing, you'll want to go for the sky-high Anytime Waffle Tower, with layers of layers of milk chocolate and raspberry ice cream, chocolate ganache, and raspberry jam. If you're going all out on drama for lunch, order the A5 Japanese Miyazaki wagyu, which is cooked tableside on a hot stone.
Anthony MairrestaurantLago at the Bellagio
$$Chef Julian Serrano focuses on small plates at his namesake restaurant at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino. But you’ll hardly go hungry: Each three-course brunch begins with a pastry basket of bombolone (Italian donuts), zeppole (deep-fried dough balls), and pane al cioccolato (chocolate-chip bread), followed by hearty and well-portioned main dishes. The best way to eat at Lago, which is all about the experience of romantic dining lakeside over Bellagio's fountain, is to order small plates (don't miss the faultless crudo with citrus oil) and cocktails or wine, and keep ordering as you go. That said, you don't just come here for the food—the restaurant overlooks the Bellagio Fountains, guaranteeing front-row seats to this famous Vegas spectacle. It's undoubtedly the sexiest spot on property.
Courtesy PeppermillrestaurantPeppermill
$$For nearly 50 years, visitors and locals have been coming to this Vegas institution, just a short distance from the Wynn Las Vegas. With its dim lighting, neon accents, mirrored ceiling, red-leather booths, and fake cherry blossom trees sprouting up here and there, the place feels a little bit like it belongs in an episode of the Twilight Zone. Since it's a 24-hour joint, the Peppermill attracts a different crowd depending on the time of day. In the wee morning hours, it‘s club and casino employees refueling after a long shift. By mid-morning, conventioneers gearing up for a day of meetings. Later on, celebrities and DJs fresh from the stage. And of course, always a few party stragglers who aren’t quite ready to call it a night. Think of this as your favorite hometown greasy-spoon diner: The menu is vast (every kind of omelette under the sun), the portions are enormous, and almost every dish comes with hash browns and toast.
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Deborah JonesrestaurantBouchon at the Venetian
$$Lazy Sunday brunch gets a major upgrade at this Thomas Keller-helmed French restaurant, hidden in the Venezia tower on the 10th floor of Venetian. The bistro-style tile floor, antique-style lighting, and wood-paneled columns are a très chic contrast to the Italian surroundings. This is one of the most transporting restaurants on the Strip, overlooking the lesser-known Venezia pool. Brunch begins with a basket full of fabulously flaky French pastries. And it’s a virtual requirement to try the gooey pecan sticky bun that is practically the size of a small child. If you're feeling something more savory and want to get the full effect of the place, go French with a croque madame on homemade brioche or the quiche of the day. Champagne cocktails, like the white peach Bellini and the French 75 pair perfectly with light-as-air gaufres au levain (waffle), oefs Benedict (eggs Benedict), and croque madame.
Anthony Mair/MGM Resorts InternationalrestaurantSpago
$$With its al fresco digs and large space, Spago has leaned into brunch. Guests here run the gamut from girl groups ordering pitchers of margaritas and mojitos (the pitchers have spigots), to sage older couples who have been dining on Wolf's smoked salmon pizza (a must-try, a forever classic for a reason) for decades. Accordingly, the cuisine is classic Puck: seafood towers, pizzas, the famed Chinois chicken salad that Wolfgang loyalists have all ordered a million times (and still love). Those who want to go big can order pappardelle bolognese or a grilled prime burger with cheddar and charred onions; or you can have a demure French omelet with additions like king crab, or sweet and rich blueberry-ricotta pancakes with whipped cream. There's an entire brunch-specific cocktail list that not only includes pitchers of margaritas, bloody Marys, mojitos, and a drink called "Reel Around the Fountain," (Aperol, St. Germain, strawberry, Moscato), but four bottomless offerings as well: rose, Moscato, DIY mimosas, and rosé Champagne.
Matt ArmendarizrestaurantBorder Grill at Mandalay Bay
$$This cantina-style Mexican restaurant overlooks the massive, multi-pool complex, Mandalay Beach. The restaurant was imagined by chefs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, of Food Network's Too Hot Tamales, so you can expect some show-stopping cuisine. And in a city whose restaurants have a short shelf life, the quarter century of Border Grill (and still going strong) is evidence that Milliken and Feniger understood the assignment. Brunch is served as unlimited small plates (one of the best values still on the Strip), most of which have a Mexican or Southwestern twist like the Yucatán eggs Benedict and tres leches bread pudding. You’ll also find sweet-and-savory combos like chicken and waffles and cinnamon roll pancakes. If you, like any reasonable person, believe brunch should end in dessert, do not skip the horchata French toast bathed in Mexican chocolate and piloncillo syrup.
Bill MilnerestaurantHoney Salt
$$It's been over a decade since Honey Salt settled into a corner of a Boca Park shopping center and gave the affluent west side of Las Vegas arguably its first restaurant that truly feels like a neighborhood place. It's not just a restaurant that's built on the concept of buying from trusted farms and purveyors, but also on food memories from childhood, the owners' travels, and the dishes they cook at home. The food here is homey but beautifully executed and consistent. Major favorites include a puffy Dutch pancake that comes with seasonal toppings, brioche monkey bread with bourbon caramel sauce, and breakfast poutine (herb roasted potatoes, bacon gravy, smoked bacon, cheese curds, and a sunny-side-up farm egg). The interior was recently refreshed and now feels even cozier. In nice weather, the patio is the west side’s place to be.
Courtesy LavoLavo Italian Restaurant
Every Saturday in colder months, Venetian’s Lavo turns into a gluttonous daytime party brunch, morphing from Italian eatery into a high-energy day party, with DJs, table dancing, bottle parades, and…chicken and waffles. This is where you go if you haven’t finished with the night before or you’re gearing up for a pre-Saturday night disco nap. Arrive hungry and ready to party—this is not your quiet eggs Benedict affair—and dress to be seen. The party brunch pairs booming bass and fog machines with flowing Champagne and a full pound of single wagyu and Italian sausage meatball. Is it wacky? You betcha, but this party isn’t stopping. New for Saturday and Sunday mornings in the spring and summer, an endless à la carte menu and farmer’s market specials like sheep’s milk ricotta waffles with gianduja and Anson Mills polenta blueberry pancakes with Harry’s Berries compote will focus you back on the food portion of this weekend extravaganza.
Steve FreihonLPM Restaurant & Bar
The French Riviera takes a detour through the Strip and stays for mimosas during LPM’s weekend 10-course Brunch Affair. Ask for a seat in the airy, sunlit atrium section, with its prime views of the Strip. It all starts with a basket of pain au chocolat and brioche, graduating to buttery yellowtail carpaccio, lobster eggs Benedict, glazed double cut applewood bacon and fluffy French toast, ending with cheesecake. (There are, naturally, a few courses in between, like avocado toast on focaccia and steak and Provencal eggs.) If you’re not ready to commit, you can order à la carte and have your choice of some bonus items, like an unforgettable smoked salmon omelet with sautéed leeks and caviar crème fraîche. Splurgy, bien sûr, but here we are.
Bloomberg/Getty ImagesMon Ami Gabi
Pedestrians walk past the Mon Ami Gabi restaurant at the Caesars Entertainment Inc. Paris Las Vegas hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Caesars Entertainment is scheduled to release earnings figures on August 6. Photographer: Roger Kisby/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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David Borzkowski - Lettuce Entertain You EnterprisesMon Ami Gabi
The 25-year-old French bistro in Paris Las Vegas that sits right on the Las Vegas Strip has reached institution status and is bar none the best place to watch the daily circus performance on the city’s main thoroughfare against a backdrop of the Fountains of Bellagio. Yes, it does indeed smack of Epcot, but surrender to its charms and you’ll enjoy some of the best quiche Lorraine and fruits de mer outside the best restaurants in Paris. This is one of the very few all-weather patios in Las Vegas (heated in winter and cooled by misters in the city’s punishing summers). Those who love the idea of al fresco dining but not the reality in 100-Fahrenheit-plus temps will get the best of both worlds in the inside patio by the bar that affords both view and A/C. Weekends are three days here: brunch begins on Friday.
Ashley RandallGjelina
New Venice Beach import Gjelina may feel downright austere after walking through the casino floor at the Venetian. The room borrows relaxed, beachy vibes from the original, as well as its produce-forward menu and sustainable sourcing (much from the Santa Monica Farmers Market but also from local Nevada purveyors). In a city of excesses, its straightforward approach to brunch—introduced some months after its 2024 opening—can be a comforting release from sensory overload. Deftly executed soft scrambled eggs with herbs and crusty sourdough will soak up last night’s regret, while a decadent plate of lemon ricotta pancakes with fat blueberries continues the fun, as does Moroccan shakshuka and merguez bathed in cilantro spiced yogurt. Just don’t go high-maintenance: this kitchen doesn’t do modifications, but the dishes don’t need tinkering.
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