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HOME » DESTINATIONS » LAS VEGAS
NIGHT+DAY LAS VEGAS
With an unparalleled scene, nightlife that goes until dawn, the world’s best chefs competing to outdo each other, and a bevy of once-in-a-lifetime experiences, today’s Sin City is all about excitement.
March Love Letter
Hurry, hurry! Daniel Boulud Brasserie (wynnlasvegas.com) will close next month, so book a table while you can. We recommend the DB Burger, a nine-ounce burger stuffed with truffles, foie gras, and short ribs on a parmesan bun. It’s $32 of pure decadence.
At CityCenter’s Crystals, Wolfgang Puck’s Brasserie Puck (crystalscitycenter.com) is now open for business, as is Mastro’s (mastrosrestaurants.com), the Vegas outpost of the LA hotspot. Head to Todd English’s P.U.B. (citycenter.com) for craft beers and English comfort food—think, shepherd’s pie, toad in the hole, and the like—and look for Social House (socialhouselv.com), formerly at Treasure Island, in early summer.
What we’re really obsessed with this month, though, is pizza. No, this isn’t New York, or even Chicago, but real Neapolitan style pies can be found at Settebello (settebello.net), where there’s also an attractive BYO policy ($10 corkage fee). A second outpost of Grimaldi’s (grimaldispizzeria.com), the Brooklyn pizzeria, is due to open this month at Boca Park Fashion Village. And then there’s Nove Italiano (n9negroup.com), which gets its inspiration from New Haven’s famous Pepe’s. For something more local, hit up Metro Pizza (metropizza.com), where you’ll find immigrant style fare: Sicilian pies and Ellis Island brews.
Geraldine Campbell
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LAS VEGAS (2008):
George Maloof Jr. (Hotelier)
 Casino mogul and proud bachelor George Maloof Jr. epitomizes the
“work hard, play hard” mantra that fuels Las Vegas. Maloof Jr., known
as much for his business savvy as for his Playboy Playmate girlfriends,
is a Steve Wynn for a new generation, living every bachelor or single businessman’s
fantasy in both the board room and the bedroom.
Maloof Jr. is the visionary tycoon behind The Palms Resort and, some
would say, the brains behind the billion-dollar Maloof family empire ,
which includes the NBA Kings, the WNBA Monarchs, a beer distributorship,
a film production company, and a record label. He parlayed the
sale of the family’s Fiesta Hotel and Casino into the $270 million Palms
in 2001. His goal was simple: Return the “sin” to Sin City.
“I wanted to create a place that represented, to me, the real reason people
came to Las Vegas,” Maloof Jr. has said, “That’s to come and party
and have fun.”
While competitors focused on families and older folks, the Palms
catered to the MTV generation, especially the hot, young, rich, and
famous, using his family’s crossover connections to draw stars from the
NBA, NFL, Hollywood, and hip-hop worlds. His first stroke of genius was
allowing MTV to film its popular reality show The Real World here in
2002. The move put The Palms on the pop culture map.
His latest venture (thus far) is the Palms’ 40-story Fantasy Towers, with
the first Playboy Club in over 25 years. The $600 million expansion is a
huge risk for the grandson of a Lebanese immigrant.
“As they say in poker, ‘All in,’” has said Maloof, a former late-night gambler
in his college days at UNLV. “We’re all in.”
Check out our choice for the
world's foremost Urbanistas in other cities:
The Urbie Awards.
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