The Bend Is Finally Opening in Southwest Las Vegas — Here Are the First Bars and Restaurants to Watch For

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Marufuku Ramen One of San Francisco’s champion ramen restaurants is among the caller restaurants A southwest Las Vegas eating and retail improvement that has been successful the works for 5 years is present open. While the Bend volition 1 time beryllium location to astir 20 businesses — including a 10,000-square-foot pickleball analyzable — the astir 10-acre country volition debut six caller bars and restaurants this month, including some section favorites and new-to-Vegas imports similar a San Francisco-favorite ramen shop. It's the latest entrant to the southwest’s burgeoning country arsenic a vicinity for glossy caller complexes with big-name draws. Dapper Companies archetypal announced plans for the Bend connected Sunset Road (near Durango Boulevard and the crook of the 215 highway) backmost successful February 2020. It’s the latest large improvement to deed the southwest portion of municipality successful caller years — joining the Durango Casino and Uncommons, some located little than a mile away. The buying halfway is officially unfastened with the debut of Mothership Coffee, which opened its 5th determination connected Saturday, January 4. With wavy booth seating and graphic snake murals connected the walls, Mothership offers a sharply designed mounting from which to bask its regular paper of lattes and meal burritos. Dapper Companies The Bend. Then, aboriginal this month, 1 of San Francisco’s champion ramen restaurants volition marque its Las Vegas debut: The Japantown-based Marufuku Ramen earned a pursuing for its Hakata-style ramen with bladed noodles and creamy tonkotsu broth. The store is besides known for its bowls of chickenhearted paitan with chashu chickenhearted bosom and seasoned soft-boiled eggs. The Vegas outpost volition besides person izakaya-style appetizers and a afloat barroom serving cocktails with premium Japanese liquors — a archetypal for the restaurant. The noodle store volition articulation Evolve Brewing, from the Aces and Ales gastropub team, which besides opens this month. The 250-seat brewery volition location a 10-barrel strategy and service nutrient wrong and connected its 2 dog-friendly patios. Other restaurants that program to unfastened astatine the Bend successful January see the mini-chain Great Greek Mediterranean Grill and a caller outpost for Freed’s Dessert Shop. The Bend’s colossal enlargement continues successful February: On February 1, a caller meal restaurant, Union Biscuit, volition unfastened with a paper of Southern-style biscuits and gravy and okonomiyaki murphy cake. Other businesses, including Sola Salons, Kintsugi Yoga, and Halcyon Health, are besides slated to unfastened successful January oregon February. Eventually, the Bend volition beryllium location to Killer Whale Creamery, Metro Pizza, Sunny Times, Sea Ya Soon, and Butcher & Thief; Electric Pickle — the three-acre pickleball analyzable — and Dinette Luncheonette, the grant victor from Dapper’s Great Las Vegas Coffee Shop Giveaway contest, are successful the works, too. Marufuku Ramen It’s a large undertaking for J Dapper’s Las Vegas improvement company. On Monday, January 6, the institution besides announced that it acquired the Farm Basket — a 45-year-old section edifice that serves fried chicken, sandwiches, and fries done its barn-shaped drive-thru astatine 6148 West Charleston Boulevard and 2 different locations. The institution is inactive revitalizing the Huntridge Center downtown on with the Huntridge Theater — and the erstwhile Mission Linen building, which volition location the Evel Knievel Museum and pizza parlor. Between the Durango Casino, Uncommons, and the Bend, the 3 developments unsocial location astir 30 restaurants. Southwest Las Vegas is shaping up to beryllium a vicinity to ticker successful 2025.