News for Restaurants in Las Vegas
April 2024 Archive

•Mikiya Wagyu Shabu House, the latest opening from Chubby Group (the team behind The X Pot and Chubby Cattle), has opened its first Las Vegas location in Chinatown. The menu offers three-tiered all-you-can-eat options, priced at $45, $55 and $78, which include domestic, Australian and Japanese wagyu. Each price point also includes a specialty dish appetizer (such as such as foie gras, sweet shrimp sashimi, wagyu nigiri, wagyu tartare and wagyu bone marrow), and your beef also comes with condiments of Thai chile, spicy soy sauce, sesame sauce, pasteurized egg, ponzu sauce, green onion and garlic. Four seasoned broths to cook your meat, veggies and seafood in a shabu pot at your table include sukiyaki, house ponzu, spicy-misu and Japanese tomato. The pots are conveniently divided into two sections allowing you to experiment with two different broths of your choice. Mikiya Wagyu Shabu House is open Sun.-Thu. noon-11:30 p.m. and Fri. & Sat. noon-2:30 a.m. Mikiya Wagyu Shabu House, 3930 Spring Mountain Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89102, 725-500-5664.

• Celebrity chef duo Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken (creators of Border Grill) have opened their first-ever drive-thru and and first free-standing location of their quick-serve BBQ Mexicana. Located just north of the 215 Beltway at Sunset and Durango in Southwest Las Vegas, everything on the menu is fresh and made from scratch and features their acclaimed smoked meats, which are mesquite smoked for 14 hours and include pulled pork, mesquite smoked chicken and slow smoked brisket. Several burritos and tacos are offered, such as pulled pork with manchego cheese and crispy jalapeños, avocado chicken with crispy potatoes and cilantro coleslaw, smoked brisket with chipotle mayo and habanero bbq sauce and smoked tofu with charred corn relish and pickled vegetables. A kids menu has choices of fried chicken tacos, brisket taquitos, chicken tenders, black bean & cheese burrito and quesadilla. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. daily with indoor seating for 40. BBQ Mexicana, 8480 West Sunset Road Suite #200, Las Vegas, NV 89113, 702-552-0111.

• “Zorro,” made with Producer Mezcal, Guinness reduction, and chocolate, orange and tobacco bitters 
• “Seven Serpents,” an Old Fashioned made with Abasolo Mexican Whiskey, a 100% ancestral Mexican cacahuazintle corn, Nixta, bitters and demerara 
• “Night Fishing Taxi,” a margarita variation with Thai inspiration, made with rice and ginger infused Espolon Blanco, lime, thai-spice honey and Bangkok Betty Bitters