Eater Vegas’s 10 Most&Read Stories of 2024

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Lobster Night astatine the AYCE Buffet astatine the Palms. | Louiie Victa A one-woman buffet-a-thon, a full clump of edifice closings, and much of the year’s biggest stories As 2024 creeps to a close, Eater Vegas is looking backmost astatine the most-read stories of the year. The astir fashionable stories came from a bundle each astir buffets, with a buffet-a-thon and a seafood by-the-numbers making the year’s apical 10 list. Stories astir edifice closures were arsenic popular, with swan songs for a nutrient hallway and a budget-friendly luncheon spot. Finally, a communicative astir the #Nachogate contention rounded retired the list. Here are the 10 stories that Eater Vegas readers work the astir successful 2024. I Ate astatine Every Buffet connected the Las Vegas Strip successful One Week The most-read communicative of the twelvemonth was Eater Vegas exertion Janna Karel’s one-woman odyssey done the buffets of the Las Vegas Strip. The buffet of buffets led to a week of eating astatine 9 casino buffets — inclusive of all-you-can-eat lobster tails, surprises, and tummy aches. A Las Vegas Food Hall Calls It Quits Just One Year After Opening Las Vegas’s biggest eating inclination implicit the past mates years has been the conversion of buffets and mall-style nutrient courts into much upscale nutrient halls — often populated by buzzy outposts from Los Angeles and New York oregon with celebrity-adjacent restaurants. One of the pioneering off-Strip nutrient halls, the Sundry astatine Uncommons, called it quits connected the nutrient hallway exemplary conscionable 1 twelvemonth to the time aft opening. The speedy shuttering was a sticking constituent successful Vegas’s meteoric nutrient hallway emergence — successful a twelvemonth erstwhile Caesars Palace imported 5 personage chefs to its nutrient hallway and some the Venetian Resort and the Miracle Mile Shops astatine Planet Hollywood announced plans to unfastened nutrient halls successful 2025. Uncommons The Sundry nutrient hall. The Strip’s Newest Casino Charged $21 for Six Nacho Chips — And So NachoGate Was Born It each started erstwhile an X idiosyncratic posted a photograph of a precise sad-looking sheet of six tortilla chips for which helium paid $21 astatine the Fontainebleau’s then-brand-new sports bar. The paltry chickenhearted adobo nachos launched the hashtag #Nachogate, which ruled Vegas societal media agelong capable for the Fontainebleau to bash the unexpected — they revamped the nacho sheet into thing much deserving of a $21 terms tag. Still, the nacho kerfuffle volition unrecorded connected successful Vegas representation — and infamy. A Beloved Burger Spot connected the Las Vegas Strip Is Closing After More Than a Decade Known for its over-the-top burgers and arsenic extravagant shakes, Holstein’s Shakes and Buns announced that it was closing store astatine its location successful the Cosmopolitan. (But fearfulness not: Holstein’s is reopening successful downtown Las Vegas adjacent year.) 900 Lobsters, 5,000 Pounds of Shrimp: Inside the Palms’ Wild All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Photographer Louiie Victa chronicled the mind-boggling measurement of lobster, shrimp, and premier rib that the AYCE Buffet astatine the Palms goes done connected its rollicking seafood nights. Gluttonous customers enactment done 1,750 lobster tails per time and astir 11,000 miniature desserts each month. Louiie Victa AYCE Buffet astatine the Palms. That Multi-Million-Dollar Adults-Only Mini Golf Course Opens This Fall The Swingers mini play people is present unfastened astatine the Mandalay Bay. But each year, readers person been anxious to way updates connected the 40,000-square-foot carnival-style high-tech play course, which has courses themed to blistery aerial balloons and clocktowers, an arcade, and pizza from New York’s Emmy Squared. Wynn Las Vegas Closes Its Gorgeous Lakeside Restaurant Sitting close connected the Lake of Dreams and successful presumption of the singing frog perched atop the waterfall, Lakeside astatine the Wynn had been a fashionable fine-dining destination for its Alaskan king crab pasta and dry-aged bigeye tuna chop. The Wynn announced that the edifice would beryllium replaced aboriginal adjacent twelvemonth with James Beard Award-winning cook Fabio Trabocchi’s Mediterranean edifice Fiola Mare. Wynn Las Vegas The Lake of Dreams. [UPDATE] The Las Vegas Strip’s Best Value Restaurant Has Reopened Ocean One Bar and Grille closed for bully connected November 13. But conscionable 2 months earlier absorption posted closure notices connected the doors, the edifice — known for its $6 lunches and 3 for $12 cocktails — abruptly closed for conscionable 1 time with small explanation. The Codfather Fish and Chips Has Finally Reopened Over the summer, the beloved British spot store closed, leaving Las Vegas without 1 of its champion destinations for crispy fried food and baskets of salty golden-brown fries. Three months later, the Codfather reopened successful the larger edifice abstraction conscionable 4 doors down from its archetypal location. Italy’s Famous All’Antico Vinaio Sandwich Shop Opens Soon successful Las Vegas The opening of All’Antico Vinaio was 1 of Las Vegas’s astir anticipated edifice openings successful 2024. Known for its round-the-block lines successful Florence, Italy and sandwiches piled with cured meats and cheeses connected squares of schiacciata bread, the sa