It’s time for brunch again. Name another destination city that serves decadent food like Las Vegas during the day. It’s okay, we’re waiting.
That’s enough. Stop thinking and start making plans. When fine French cuisine prepared in an innovative and exaggerated way sounds like your jam, start your Vegas brunch tour around Bardot Brasserie (877.230.2742). Chef Michael Mina’s restaurant at Aria is all about the classics for dinner, but the brunch menu is driven by fun. Start with an incomparable pastry basket and huge tower of chilled seafood to share with your crew, then consider a thick plate of brioche French toast with vanilla bean mascarpone, the Hunter’s waffle with duck confit and two poached eggs, crab eggs benedict resting on top of flaky Vol-au-vent batter or braised prime beef short rib hash with Madeira-glazed mushrooms.
For more satisfaction south of the Strip, check out Mandalay Bay’s Mexican Food Facility Border grill (702.632.7403). Its groundbreaking Border Brunch offering, served on Saturdays and Sundays, consists of unlimited small plates served at your table, complemented by tasteful bottomless mimosas, micheladas or bloody marys. The most delicious bites include creamy potato tacos with corn relish and chipotle aioli, cumin and garlic steak and eggs with guacamole, Peruvian prawns and grits with aji panca salsa and manchego cheese, and sweet plantain empanadas with black beans and poblano peppers. There is no brunch experience in Las Vegas or anywhere else like this.
Away from the hustle and bustle of the strip, Honey salt (702.445.6100), near the Summerlin neighborhood, has long been a popular spot for a leisurely weekend meal. The brioche bourbon caramel baobab is a no-brainer to start things off in this cozy dining room, but a new shared dish is buzzing – breakfast routine of crispy fried potatoes, bacon and bacon sauce, cheese curd and a sunny side-up egg. It’s good that you can choose a lighter variant of Honey Salt with burrata and asparagus salad, a quinoa and lentil power bowl with avocado and fennel or the lemon and chicken salad with fresh mozzarella, chickpeas and sunflower seeds.
More mimosas await you at the nearby Tivoli Village and its brunch hotspot. Echo & Rig (702.489.3525), where sandwich options include fried chicken with balsamic onions, flatiron steak with lemon chimichurri, and the delicious grilled short rib cheese. More traditional dishes are the steakhouse scrambled eggs with homemade sausage and filet mignon, smoked wild salmon on a bagel with cream cheese, blueberry buttermilk pancakes or spinach and goat cheese quiche.
If you are looking for a real crowd puller that happens to have five convenient locations across the Vegas Valley, Hash House A Go Go (hashhouseagogo.com) is the big, bold brunch you’re looking for. Located on the Strip at The Linq, downtown on the Plaza, and in Henderson, Summerlin, and West Sahara Avenue, browsing its huge menu is almost as fun as that fork of “twisted farm food.” The scrambled eggs with three fresh eggs is legendary, the cast iron frying pans easily feed two, the pancakes the size of your face, and the famous fried sage chicken with waffles could be your all time favorite Instagram post – not to mention a meal, that you will always remember.
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