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    Bazaar Meat

    Neighborhood: 
    The Strip
    Cuisine: 
    Fine Dining
    Award: 
    Best of the City
    Restaurant Awards
    Award Year(s): 
    2018
    2016
    2015
    2014
    Price: 
    $$$$$--$75 and up
    SLS Las Vegas
    2535 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
    Las Vegas , NV
    702-761-7610
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    Last Updated: 
    November 18, 2019

    If there’s any trace of glitz or glamour left in this city, you’d be hard-pressed to find it on your dinner plate. In case you haven’t noticed, our current restaurant landscape has been infiltrated by a glut of haute casual street food. Besides the few fine dining temples left standing (Guy Savoy, Twist, Joël Robuchon), we live in a world of burgers, pizza, noodles and tacos.

    Fortunately, the second half of 2014 brought relief in the form of Bazaar Meat at SLS Las Vegas. Chef José Andrés’ spin-off of his five year-old Beverly Hills restaurant, The Bazaar, provides a novel experience to match Las Vegas’ best assets. It’s grandiose, hospitable, entertaining and the food is delicious.

    As the name implies, protein — of every kind, in every form, and made to suit every taste — is the name of the game. (You can also play blackjack inside the restaurant, but I digress.) There is outrageously priced caviar service for the whales, shrimp cocktail for the traditionalists and Iberico ham for the food snob. Offal enthusiasts are offered kidneys while steakhouse lovers can stick to a Kobe ribeye. Or, for an obscene feast, guests can drop half a grand on an entire suckling pig, roasted in a wood-fired oven.

    But for an over-the-top show, your best bet is to sample Andrés’ signature dishes and succumb to his magic. “Smoke and Ice” oysters arrive under a dramatic smoke-filled glass cloche, while chicken croquettes are served in curious sneaker-shaped dishware. For dessert, a palate-cleansing sorbet is frozen tableside with liquid nitrogen. It’s a lot of gimmickry that my cynical side might shun in any other city. However, this being Las Vegas, the showmanship is more than welcome — in fact, it’s long overdue.  - Debbie Lee

    Award:

    "Best Place to Wow Out-of-Towners," 2015 Desert Companion Best of the City issue.

    "Best New Restaurant," 2015 Restaurant Awards

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    Best of the City: Food & Drink

    Jan 29, 2018

    Hear from a rousing chorus of voices on the best food in the city!

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    Shark Reef
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    Best of the City: Out and about

    Feb 01, 2015

    There is something not only mystical but calming about the languid movements of sea creatures. And Shark Reef takes you deeper and deeper not only into the world of the sea, but into yourself.

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    Best of the City Bonus: Out and about

    Feb 01, 2015

    C’mon, you know you take them. And why not? Vegas was made for it.

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    Desert Companion Restaurant Awards

    Dec 01, 2014

    2014 was an anxious year for foodies — but a good kind of anxious. The kind of anxious that comes from maintaining a feverish, nearly athletic dining schedule to try to keep up with all the new restaurants that opened this year.

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    At first bite: Flesh for fantasy

    Nov 01, 2014

    Bazaar Meat by José Andrés makes protein the main player — but with a captivating sense of whimsy and wonder

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    Raise your forks

    Dec 01, 2014

    I have this borderline stalker-ish awe and admiration for chefs, probably because I myself am an enthusiastic cook. Enthusiastic but terrible.

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    Chef's choice

    Dec 01, 2014

    Why let the food critics have all the fun? This year, we quizzed six local culinary luminaries — from high-profile restaurateurs to the city’s most innovative chefs — about the year in dining. Voila: A little praise, a little panning, a dash of OMG-I-can’t-believe-he-went-there — served piping hot.

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    Whiskey Attic
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    Lift your spirits

    Sep 27, 2016

    A simple drinking guide for complicated times. Sure, organic artisanal beaker concoctions with 27 ingredients are fun, but sometimes you want to keep your drinking simple, with a classic cocktail, fine wine or hearty beer.

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    2016 Restaurant Awards

    Nov 30, 2016

    As you dig in to our annual honor roll of the valley's best chefs and restaurants this year, you'll come across the words revolution, revolutionize and revolutionare a lot.

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    Summer dining issue

    Jul 01, 2017

    You know what the universal language is? Soup. Also noodles. And sandwich...

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