re: Going to Vegas in a couple of weeks

My wife has to go every other year or so for a convention and we probably enjoy the Venetian and Wynn best for hotels. Our favorite meals were probably at Lotus, as others have said, and Scarpetta was fantastic. I can say Public House wins our vote for every meal not dinner. We've done several of the steakhouses and they were all solid but none stood out over the others. Parasol Down in the Wynn won for our favorite cocktail.

I'd be remiss to forget that place in the Wynn/ Encore that was always open late for drunk food. It always seemed to do us right but it may be fond just because, "it was late," sorry, the name escapes me.

There's a liquor store in a strip mall you can walk to from the Wynn and a taqueria of sorts there that does some mean hangover food as.

Favorite show so far has probably been Absinthe...

Hope this helps...