Las Vegas

Be prepared to gain a few kilos while visiting Las Vegas, the thriving metropolis sure knows how to put on a spread! Sin City hosts one of America's hottest restaurant markets.

Celebrity chefs like Wolfgang Puck, Michael Mina, Joël Robuchon, Guy Savoy, Charlie Trotter and Gordon Ramsey all helm establishments in The Strip's top casinos.

Brazilian steakhouses, French bistros, sushi trains, Chinese eateries, Mexican cantinas and Italian trattorias are packed into every nook and cranny of the desert city’s grid. Popular fast-food chains, all-American favourites and coffee houses line the streets.

Room service allows for breakfast, lunch and dinner in bed. While the city’s all-you-can-eat buffets are institutions, and must be experienced to be believed.

Outside of gambling, drinking is Las Vegas’s favourite pastime. Very few towns in the United States are as open to drinking as Sin City.

The drinks flow free when gambling at the casinos – often served by scantily-clad hostesses. The law permits drinking in public, and many holidaymakers choose to wander The Strip with a giant novelty cups in hand.

Bars pockmark the city, and can be found on rooftops, by pools, in lobbies and cloaked under demure disguises. Nightclubs are big business, in particular venues like Tao, 1 Oak, Tryst, Chateau, XS and Pure, which attract a who’s who of the world’s rich and famous.