re: Vegas restaurant recommendations

I've been to SW Steakhouse at the Wynn hotel and I'd recommend that. Try to get a table near a window so you can see the little shows that happen every 15 min or so on top of the waterfall.

I also went to Brand steakhouse at the Monte Carlo. It was okay but I preferred the atmosphere of SW better. The brand did have a cool appetizer where they brought out raw meat and a hot stone and you cooked the meat on the stone.

For a "fun" restaurant I really liked Gordon Ramsay's BurGR at planet Hollywood.