The Biggest New Las Vegas Restaurant Openings, May 2025

15 hours ago 1

Cafe Landwer. | Eugene Dela Cruz, One Seven Agency A 100-year-old cafe moves to Vegas, a sushi speakeasy opens on the Strip, and the food hall in a long-awaited grocery store is finally here Las Vegas’s dining scene moves quickly — powerhouse casinos usher in new behemoths with Champagne and sparklers and off-Strip restaurants continue to open doors in homey neighborhood strip malls. Here is a list of new and notable spots that opened in Las Vegas recently. For the best restaurants in town, check out Eater Las Vegas’s Essential 38 or Eater’s guide to eating and drinking in Las Vegas. Cafe Landwer Summerlin Cafe Landwer (8704 W Charleston Blvd, Suite 101) got its start in 1919 as a small coffee roasting facility in Berlin, Germany. More than 100 years later, it has taken over the former Chinglish space in Boca Park. With nearly 5,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor seating, the restaurant blends quick service with comforting Mediterranean food. Mornings here call for cappuccinos and mint lemonade with platters of French toast and sliced fruit. Mezze platters come with thick, fluffy pitas for dunking into smooth hummus, smoky babaganoush, and creamy labneh. The rest of the menu spans dishes like shakshuka, schnitzel challah sandwiches, falafel pitas, and lamb kebab skewers with tahini. H-Mart Food Hall Central After years of teasing its Las Vegas debut, H-Mart (2620 South Decatur Boulevard) opened with showgirls, giveaway prizes, and a line of at least 400 people. In addition to the Korean grocery store’s inventory of yellow mangoes, rice cookers, Hello Kitty toilet paper, and sashimi-grade seafood, H-Mart opened its adjacent food hall. While lines to enter the store have mostly calmed down since its April 24 opening, navigating the expansive new store and winding through the perilous tangle of shopping carts is bound to work up an appetite. Fortunately, the adjacent food hall offers quick meals from South Korean chains like Paik’s Noodle, Jopok Topokki, and Moobongri Soondae, as well as global names like Bb.q Chicken and Tiger Sugar. Doberman Drawing Room Las Vegas Arts District Angelo Clinton Doberman Drawing Room. Shelling out $3,000 for a membership is not required in order to visit the Doberman Drawing Room. But the option to do so sure makes the new downtown bar feel exclusive. The latest project from Corner Bar Management veers away from its stomping grounds in the Fremont East District, redoing the old Artisan space with a vintage European chateau aesthetic and a bar with serious cocktail chops. Acclaimed bartender Juyoung Kang’s beverage menu benefits from her decades of experience while leaning joyously into the avant-garde. Expect drinks like the Sahara, a boozy take on horchata, and a creamy Tom Kha Fizz, with a pleasant kick of bird’s eye chile. Zaxby’s Southwest Southern transplants in Las Vegas have long clamored for their favorite fast food brands to expand west. The latest arrival is Atlanta-based chicken chain Zaxby’s (5290 Blue Diamond Road). The fast food restaurant slings fried shrimp, fried chicken sandwiches, party-sized servings of wings and tenders, and loaded “zalads.” Nomikai The Strip Drex Agency Nomikai. The Venetian Resort is still chipping away at the $1.5 billion allocated to its reinvestment project. The latest player is Nomikai, a new sushi restaurant in the resort’s Restaurant Row area, near Sugarcane Raw Bar and Chica. It’s a clever move for the resort. Unlike Wakuda, a short walk away, Nomikai (3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard) is a casual sushi counter with a compact menu of nigiri and handrolls. Located near the convention center and walkway to the Sphere, it also has a to-go window for tourists who need to eat and run. But Nomikai also opened a speakeasy-style bar in the back with plush booths, a cocktail bar, a private dining room, and a mural custom-painted by Tokyo-based artist Sush Machida. The bar’s expanded menu offers small plates like chilled snow crab legs, miso black cod lettuce wraps, and ocean trout with yuzu kosho and seasoned soy. Drinks include and ube espresso martini and a toasted sesame Old Fashioned.. Alebrijes Downtown Chef Paco Cortes draws on the flavors of his native Mexico City at Alebrijes (450 Fremont Street Suite 310), located at Neonopolis. Formerly executive chef of El Dorado Cantina, Cortes’s new restaurant is vibrantly designed with outdoor seating that looks out over the center of Fremont Street. He leans into bold flavors with duck confit carnitas and chicken breast in an earthy mole sauce with pickled onions. Other specialties include Gulf shrimp in spicy chipotle butter and sizzling platters of chicken, steak, and shrimp fajitas, ready to heap into tortillas with guacamole and sautéed peppers. Guy Fieri’s Chicken Guy! The Strip The Mayor of Flavortown debuted another location of his Chicken Guy restaurant. Located in the Fulton Street Food Hall at Harrah’s

A bowl of chicken shawarma with soft pita.

A 100-year-old cafe moves to Vegas, a sushi speakeasy opens on the Strip, and the food hall in a long-awaited grocery store is finally here

Las Vegas’s dining scene moves quickly — powerhouse casinos usher in new behemoths with Champagne and sparklers and off-Strip restaurants continue to open doors in homey neighborhood strip malls. Here is a list of new and notable spots that opened in Las Vegas recently. For the best restaurants in town, check out Eater Las Vegas’s Essential 38 or Eater’s guide to eating and drinking in Las Vegas.

Cafe Landwer

Summerlin

Cafe Landwer (8704 W Charleston Blvd, Suite 101) got its start in 1919 as a small coffee roasting facility in Berlin, Germany. More than 100 years later, it has taken over the former Chinglish space in Boca Park. With nearly 5,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor seating, the restaurant blends quick service with comforting Mediterranean food. Mornings here call for cappuccinos and mint lemonade with platters of French toast and sliced fruit. Mezze platters come with thick, fluffy pitas for dunking into smooth hummus, smoky babaganoush, and creamy labneh. The rest of the menu spans dishes like shakshuka, schnitzel challah sandwiches, falafel pitas, and lamb kebab skewers with tahini.

H-Mart Food Hall

Central

After years of teasing its Las Vegas debut, H-Mart (2620 South Decatur Boulevard) opened with showgirls, giveaway prizes, and a line of at least 400 people. In addition to the Korean grocery store’s inventory of yellow mangoes, rice cookers, Hello Kitty toilet paper, and sashimi-grade seafood, H-Mart opened its adjacent food hall. While lines to enter the store have mostly calmed down since its April 24 opening, navigating the expansive new store and winding through the perilous tangle of shopping carts is bound to work up an appetite. Fortunately, the adjacent food hall offers quick meals from South Korean chains like Paik’s Noodle, Jopok Topokki, and Moobongri Soondae, as well as global names like Bb.q Chicken and Tiger Sugar.

Doberman Drawing Room

Las Vegas Arts District

A martini with onion, olive, and pepper garnish.

Shelling out $3,000 for a membership is not required in order to visit the Doberman Drawing Room. But the option to do so sure makes the new downtown bar feel exclusive. The latest project from Corner Bar Management veers away from its stomping grounds in the Fremont East District, redoing the old Artisan space with a vintage European chateau aesthetic and a bar with serious cocktail chops. Acclaimed bartender Juyoung Kang’s beverage menu benefits from her decades of experience while leaning joyously into the avant-garde. Expect drinks like the Sahara, a boozy take on horchata, and a creamy Tom Kha Fizz, with a pleasant kick of bird’s eye chile.

Zaxby’s

Southwest

Southern transplants in Las Vegas have long clamored for their favorite fast food brands to expand west. The latest arrival is Atlanta-based chicken chain Zaxby’s (5290 Blue Diamond Road). The fast food restaurant slings fried shrimp, fried chicken sandwiches, party-sized servings of wings and tenders, and loaded “zalads.”

Nomikai

The Strip

A moody bar with wooden accents and a display of samurai armor.

The Venetian Resort is still chipping away at the $1.5 billion allocated to its reinvestment project. The latest player is Nomikai, a new sushi restaurant in the resort’s Restaurant Row area, near Sugarcane Raw Bar and Chica. It’s a clever move for the resort. Unlike Wakuda, a short walk away, Nomikai (3355 South Las Vegas Boulevard) is a casual sushi counter with a compact menu of nigiri and handrolls. Located near the convention center and walkway to the Sphere, it also has a to-go window for tourists who need to eat and run. But Nomikai also opened a speakeasy-style bar in the back with plush booths, a cocktail bar, a private dining room, and a mural custom-painted by Tokyo-based artist Sush Machida. The bar’s expanded menu offers small plates like chilled snow crab legs, miso black cod lettuce wraps, and ocean trout with yuzu kosho and seasoned soy. Drinks include and ube espresso martini and a toasted sesame Old Fashioned..

Alebrijes

Downtown

Chef Paco Cortes draws on the flavors of his native Mexico City at Alebrijes (450 Fremont Street Suite 310), located at Neonopolis. Formerly executive chef of El Dorado Cantina, Cortes’s new restaurant is vibrantly designed with outdoor seating that looks out over the center of Fremont Street. He leans into bold flavors with duck confit carnitas and chicken breast in an earthy mole sauce with pickled onions. Other specialties include Gulf shrimp in spicy chipotle butter and sizzling platters of chicken, steak, and shrimp fajitas, ready to heap into tortillas with guacamole and sautéed peppers.

Guy Fieri’s Chicken Guy!

The Strip

The Mayor of Flavortown debuted another location of his Chicken Guy restaurant. Located in the Fulton Street Food Hall at Harrah’s Las Vegas (3475 Las Vegas Boulevard South), the second Chicken Guy serves up its regular menu of Jalapeño Popper Big Bite Sandwiches, seasoned fries, and apple cinnamon cereal-flavored milkshakes.

Le Café Central

Chinatown

A French cafe with teal walls and silver furnishings.

A new French restaurant with sweet crepes, savory galettes, and espresso drinks is now open in Chinatown. Le Café Central (3616 Spring Mountain Road, Suite 101) joins sister restaurants Le Café du Val in Henderson and Le Café du Sud in Southern Highlands, serving European-style fare in a boldly designed restaurant with teal walls, glossy chandeliers, and metallic furnishings. A pastry case displays an array of viennoiseries — Nutella beignets, flaky pain au chocolat, iced cinnamon rolls, and rainbow-colored macarons. Breakfast at Le Café Central takes the form of savory salmon French toast and crepes with berries and whipped cream. Sandwiches come layered with brie and prosciutto on a baguette or turkey breast with caramelized onions on ciabatta. The restaurant will launch weekend dinner service on Friday, May 16, with petits farcis stuffed vegetables, bouillabaisse fish soup, and daube niçoise beef stew.

Read Entire Article