National publication honors 20 Rising Stars from Vegas restaurants
The culinary stars continue to align for Las Vegas.
On Monday, StarChefs, the national restaurant industry publication that identifies and celebrates hospitality talent, announced its 2026 class of Las .......We hope you appreciate our content. Subscribe today to continue reading this story, and all of our stories.
number1. New Las Vegas Strip nightspot to display ‘thousands’ of vinyl albums.
A club taking over the former Foundation Room is putting the high in hi-fi.
The Vinyl Room, its title nodding to its collection of vintage albums, is taking over the rooftop spot where the Foundation Room operated from March 1999 through its shutdown last fall.
The opening is scheduled for August, nearly a year after the space went dark.
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number2. Giant Asian food hall from Hawaii begins construction in Las Vegas.
Asian: authentic and affordable.
With these four words (and 11 syllables), Frank Clark pithily presented the philosophy of Stix Asia, the 18,000-square-foot food hall that began construction this week in the former Sundry food hall at UnCommons in southwest Las Vegas. UnCommons will be the second location for Stix Asia (as in chopsticks), following the 2023 debut of the original in downtown Honolulu. A fall 2026 opening is planned.
A dozen or so independently operating Asian restaurants Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, perhaps Thai with table service are replacing the QR code chaos of The Sundry. The design of each concept reflects the traditions of its home country. Although a handful of restaurants might be from Las Vegas, the majority will be first-timers to the city and to the U.S., including a 100-year-old Japanese restaurant from the Ginza district of Tokyo.
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number3. Popular Mexican restaurant closes a Las Vegas location.
April is the cruelest month for Las Vegas restaurants in 2026.
El Dorado Cantina, which debuted in January 2020 in Tivoli Village near Summerlin, has closed, according to Lyman Lambson, director of operations.
El Dorado Cantina has made the difficult decision to close its Tivoli Village restaurant, effective immediately, Lambson said in a statement for Neon. This outcome follows extensive efforts to reach a mutually beneficial agreement with the propertys landlord; however, despite negotiations, an agreement could not be achieved, and the team was ultimately left with no alternative but to vacate the space.
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number4. An upcoming science show on Netflix is casting Las Vegas kids.
An upcoming Netflix series is looking for local youth with science and engineering skills.
Schooled, a STEM series from former NASA engineer Mark Rober, is holding open-call auditions at Code Ninjas locations in Las Vegas. The show opens the doors to his full gamified laboratory, where teams of young inventors face off in the wildly imaginative, high-stakes science experiments that get bigger with every round.
Jimmy Kimmel, raised in Las Vegas, is set to produce.
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number5. Sick New World brings heavy dose of ’90s metal to Vegas — PHOTOS.
The sky opened up, and a whole lot of mosh pits followed suit.
Perhaps it was fitting that heavy cloud coverage greeted the return of heavy music festival Sick New World on Saturday at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, leading to brief showers at the end of the night.
After all, the sounds here leaned toward the dark and overcast.
