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Top 3 Picks: Las Vegas Happy Hours This Week

Las Vegas Happy hours this week: July 8, 2026

Three happy hours this week that all earned their spot on the list. A new one in the Arts District from one of the most respected hospitality groups in Vegas, an Italian institution that has been doing it right since 1985, and a local sushi favorite that keeps getting better. Different neighborhoods, different menus, great deals. All worth knowing about.

🥐 Bar Boheme — Arts District
Daily 4–6 PM · 1401 S Main St

Bar Boheme Happy Hour

Here is the context that makes this happy hour worth paying attention to. Bar Boheme is the latest restaurant from Chef James Trees — the Las Vegas native behind Esther’s Kitchen, Al Solito Posto, Ada’s, and High Steaks, and a two-time James Beard semifinalist, including a 2026 nomination. Trees took a former mid-century mechanic’s shop on Main Street in the Arts District and turned it into a modern French brasserie centered around a zebra marble bar, bohemian chandeliers, and a wine list sourced exclusively from France. The kitchen is led by Executive Chef Sean O’Hara.

The happy hour menu is where the pedigree meets the price point. Escargot for $4. Le Hamburger — a genuinely remarkable burger that reviewers consistently single out — at happy hour pricing. Poutine. Martinis. The move is Le Hamburger, poutine, and a martini for around $35. That is outstanding on every level and not a combination you will find at this quality anywhere else in the valley.

The Arts District crowd here is local professionals, creatives, and food-savvy visitors who found the place through a recommendation. The room has that lived-in charm that takes years to develop and usually requires an actual neighborhood to exist. This one does.

Order this: Escargot to start and at $4 it is a no-risk introduction to one of the best kitchens in Vegas. Then Le Hamburger + poutine + a martini. ~$40 total.

📍 1401 S Main St, Las Vegas Arts District · (702) 848-6823
🌎 Bar Boheme website
🍸 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

🍝 Ferraro’s Ristorante — Paradise Road (Off Strip)
Ora Sociale: Daily 4–7 PM · Bar, Lounge & Patio

Ferraro's Happy Hour

Ferraro’s started as a six-table deli and pizzeria in 1985. Today it holds the Gambero Rosso Tre Forchette — one of only eight restaurants in the United States to earn the highest rating for authentic Italian cuisine — alongside a wine collection of 1,800 labels and 22,000 bottles. Tasting Table named it the best Italian restaurant in Nevada. It has been family-owned and operated for 41 years, now led by Executive Chef Mimmo Ferraro, son of founders Gino and Rosalba.

That is the restaurant. The Ora Sociale happy hour is how locals experience it every day without a special occasion attached. Classic Italian hospitality, serious food, and prices that feel like they belong to a different era. The $10 meatballs and Italian small plates are the entry point. The Carpaccio di Manzo is the move — thinly sliced beef tenderloin prepared the way a 40-year Italian institution prepares it. Do not overthink it. Just order it.

One block off the Strip. Free parking. The kind of restaurant that locals keep to themselves and visitors put on bucket lists. The happy hour is the shortcut to both.

Order this: Carpaccio di Manzo + meatballs + a glass from the wine list. You are one block from the Strip at one of the eight best Italian restaurants in America by one credible measure. Act accordingly.

📍 4480 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89169
🌎 Ferraro’s website
🍸 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

🍣 Kusa Nori — Resorts World Las Vegas
Sun–Thu 5–10 PM · Sat 5–6:30 PM · Closed Friday · Free parking for locals

Kusa Nori Happy Hour

Kusa Nori has built a loyal following among local sushi enthusiasts since opening at Resorts World, and the updated happy hour menu is the best version yet. This is an elegant, chic sushi bar that takes the fish seriously — and the happy hour prices make it one of the better-value sushi experiences in Las Vegas regardless of what you compare it to.

Hand rolls at $8 each — including the Ikura Salmon and the Tsurai Yellowtail, both of which are worth ordering on their own terms. The move is to add the Jidori Chicken Karaage or the Blue Fin Tuna Tartare at $16 to build a complete experience rather than treating this as a snack stop. That combination runs well under $50 and delivers at a level that most Strip sushi bars charge twice as much to approximate.

Resorts World has more happy hours than most people realize and free parking for locals makes the math work even better. Kusa Nori is the reason to make the trip.

Order this: Ikura Salmon hand roll + Tsurai Yellowtail hand roll + Blue Fin Tuna Tartare. That is the full Kusa Nori happy hour experience in three items.

📍 3000 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109
🌎 Kusa Nori website
🍸 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

Explore More Happy Hours in Las Vegas

🌍 Not in any of these neighborhoods tonight? Happy Hour Vegas has you covered across the valley:
The Strip · Summerlin · Downtown · Henderson · Arts District · Southwest · Off Strip · Centennial

🎯 Looking for something specific? Browse by vibe:
Sushi · Italian · Oyster · Date Night · Hidden Gems · Foodie · Wine · Deals

👈 See Last Week’s Happy Hours on Las Vegas Advisor – July 1, 2026

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The Case for a Chase Sapphire Reserve Card

I’m not typically a fan of a credit card with a $795 annual fee. The Chase Sapphire Reserve card is an exception. Here’s why I think the card is worth the price. I list the Chase value of each major benefit and then what I think the benefit is actually worth:

$300 dining credit; JJ value is $200
The dining credit is broken out into two $150 credits. The first is good Jan.–June and the second July–December. Here is the list for Las Vegas. The list is limited and I wish they would just give you a $300 credit for the year. Still, a nice perk.

$300 credit at Stub Hub or Viagogo; JJ value $200
Again, the credit is split in two. Stub Hub surcharges can be quite a bit and you have to attend two events.

$300 travel credit; JJ value $300
This credit is good for the whole year and is a direct credit for travel expenses. These include airfare, hotels, rental cars, parking, tolls, etc.

Pre TSA or Clear credit: $85 for Pre TSA and $119 for Clear; JJ value $25
This credit is good once every four years (the length of the Pre TSA and Clear membership). You can use this only once in that time, so if you already have either of those, there’s no value. You can buy someone else’s membership. This one is a bit difficult to price.

Priority Pass $399; JJ value $200
This perk gets you priority-pass membership that allows you to bring two guests into an airport lounge. Again, this one depends a lot on where you fly and how good the lounges are in your location.

Chase Sapphire Reserve Lounges. I’m not putting a value on this, since I haven’t been in a Chase lounge yet. The few times I tried, the lines were way too long. I think they’re working on the capacity issue.

Primary Rental Car Insurance; JJ value $300
This is one of my favorite CSR perks. Primary rental car insurance means you can skip the high-pressure sales pitch at the rental car counter and your car insurance company isn’t even notified if there’s damage to the vehicle. It used to be a minor accident wasn’t reported to your personal auto insurance company. I don’t know if that’s the case anymore or not.

The rental car companies charge $20-$40 per dayfor this coverage. The peace of mind is great and it can save you a bunch, especially if you typically take the insurance from the rental car company.

There are various other perks but these are the major ones.

JJ value is $1,225. There’s also a sign-up bonus, currently 100,000 points, worth about $1,500, depending on how you use it. If you’re interested, please use my link. I’ll split the referral bonus 4 ways: 1/4th to you, 1/4th to me, 1/4th to LVA, for hosting and 1/4th to the IRS. This is now considered taxable income. The current referral bonus is 20,000 points. I take the lowest valuation at $0.01 per point, so I would send you $50.

Here are one link and another link with more information.

Also, check to see if you can get a better offer. Many factors go into the sign-up bonus and some people get more than the general public. Sometimes doing the search in incognito mode helps you to get a better offer.

I’ve had this card for eight years. I think the annual fee was $295 the first year and has gone up several times. I still think the card is worth the price, especially with the sign-up bonus.

If nothing else, I recommend getting this card for one year and see how you like it. The usual Chase 5/24 rules apply. If you’ve opened five cards in 24 months, Chase won’t let you open another card. Also, I believe they’re looking for a mid-700 FICO score. Many factors go into determining credit-card offer eligibility.

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The Magician’s Study

The Magician’s Study
Secret Location, South Strip
Thurs.-Sun. 7 and 9:30 p.m.
$99-$159

Large-scale magic shows used to be a fixture in Vegas — David Copperfield, Siegfried & Roy, Lance Burton … That scene is still around to a lesser degree with Cris Angel, Shin Lim, Mat Franco, and Penn and Teller, but a much more intimate experience is offered at the Magician’s Study — part speakeasy, part magic show, and part stand-up comedy.

The performance itself, roughly 90 minutes, is an up-close show, with a lot of sleight-of-hand and card tricks, mixed in with a little mentalism and a couple of traditional show-stopper tricks.

The room seats only about 50 people and VIP tickets (which I sprung for) get you in the front row, where you will become part of the show. If you’re shy, I wouldn’t recommend the VIP seats, but that doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be left alone. There’s a lot of audience participation and plenty of acerbic wit from the host directed at the crowd.

The VIP tickets were $159 each, and I’m glad I got them, but you’ll enjoy the show just as much from the “regular” seats, which go for $99. Tickets can be purchased only with a code word at the beginning of the ordering process (fill out the form on the home page and if there’s availability, you’ll receive the secret password that allows you to unlock the ticketing page). In addition, the show is held at a secret location, which is given to you on the day of the show, along with another password to gain entry (for purposes of planning your evening, I’ll tell you that it’s somewhere on the South Strip).

Note that The Magician’s Study has a strict no-photography policy, which is why I couldn’t provide any pictures of the show. Also, you must be at least 21 to attend.

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Three Happy Hours to Beat the Heat This Week ☀️🍸

Las Vegas Happy hours this week - June 24, 2026

It is hot outside. The kind of hot where the right move is indoors, air conditioned, and in front of something cold and worth drinking. Las Vegas is built for exactly this. This week’s list has an indoor adventure park with a retro bar and arcade games, a fresh seafood happy hour served anywhere in the restaurant you want to sit, and an all-day sushi happy hour run by a chef who trained at Nobu and Yellowtail at the Bellagio. All three are verified. The AC is definitely on.

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🕹️ Spy Ninjas HQ Retro Bar: West Sahara (Summerlin)

Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri 4–8 PM · 7980 W Sahara Ave

Spy Ninjas HQ is a 53,000 sq ft family adventure park — zip line, rock wall, trampoline zone, aerial net, the whole operation. The Retro Bar sits on the second floor with a direct view of all of it. Neon lights, 80s and 90s hits, classic arcade games, and a happy hour menu that makes the whole afternoon make financial sense.

Cheese Curds $8.50 · Quesadillas $11.50 · Chips, Salsa and Guacamole $5. Cold beer, wine, and signature cocktails at happy hour prices. There is also a Cocktail Claw Machine — yes, it is real, and yes, everyone wins. Watching your kids tackle the zip line two floors below while you play Donkey Kong with a $7 cocktail in hand is a specifically Las Vegas experience that does not exist anywhere else. This is a happy hour designed for parents who also want to have fun. It delivers.

Order this: $7 signature cocktail + Cheese Curds + a turn on the Cocktail Claw Machine. The view of the park from the bar is the real happy hour bonus — free of charge.

Where: 7980 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas (West Sahara / Summerlin area)

👉 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

🐟 Bonefish Grill: Town Square & Summerlin

Daily 3–6:30 PM · 5:30 PM close on Sundays · Two Las Vegas locations

Bonefish Grill calls their happy hour “Social Hour” and they mean it — this is one of the few happy hours in Las Vegas where the discounted menu is available at the bar, the dining room, and the patio. You pick where you want to sit. Same menu, same prices, anywhere in the restaurant.

Cocktails from $7 · Wine from $6 · Shrimp Toast $9 · Beef Cheddar Sliders $9. Two Las Vegas locations — Town Square near the Strip or the Summerlin location on the west side — means there is almost certainly one close to you. Both run the same menu at the same prices with the same upscale casual feel that makes this one of the most consistent happy hours in the valley. Fresh fish, cold drinks, real patio if you want one.

Order this: Shrimp Toast + a cocktail. The no-table-minimum, sit-anywhere policy is the hidden value here — come for drinks, stay for a proper happy hour meal without being cornered at a bar stool.

Where: Town Square Las Vegas (near the Strip) · Boca Park, Summerlin

👉 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

🍣 Pier 215: Southwest Las Vegas (Durango)

Weekdays 11 AM–5 PM · 7060 S Durango Dr

The backstory matters here. Chef Ted Jung was the Master Sushi Chef at Nobu in Caesars Palace and then at Yellowtail at the Bellagio — two of the most recognized sushi programs in Las Vegas. He left to open his own place in a strip mall off the 215. That decision tells you something about the food.

Pier 215 specializes in high-quality seafood, sushi, and oysters at prices that have nothing to do with their Strip-level pedigree. The happy hour runs from 11 AM to 5 PM on weekdays — not a typo, and not a short window. The Waikiki Roll (Chutoro Carpaccio and Japanese Snapper Crudo) is $11 and was described by one HHV subscriber as “the bite that will set you free.” That is a strong endorsement and an accurate one based on what reviewers consistently say about the fish quality here.

Locals have known about this place for years. The Durango Casino opening across the street brought more traffic to the neighborhood. Easy off the 215, cool room, serious kitchen, all-day happy hour pricing that makes it worth building your afternoon around.

Order this: Waikiki Roll $11 · Spicy Tuna Roll (happy hour priced) · Ask your server what’s fresh. Chef Ted’s background means the fish sourcing is taken seriously — the answer will be worth following.

Where: 7060 S Durango Dr, Suite 101, Las Vegas · (702) 586-3311

👉 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

Three Happy Hours This Week. All Air Conditioned. All Verified.

An adventure park bar with arcade games and a zip line view. A seafood chain that lets you sit wherever you want. A strip-mall sushi restaurant run by a former Nobu chef with an all-day happy hour. None of these require a reservation. All three are open this week. When it is this hot outside, a cool happy hour is not a luxury it is a plan.

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Bobby Vegas—Unlimited Free Drinks and Free Play

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

To my Vegas homies and Golden Knights fans (just don’t kill the messenger).

I live in Raleigh. Yes, that Raleigh. OUCH! Home to your arch nemesis the Hurricanes. Sorry! Not.

Caniac fever’s off the charts here (right after college basketball). My friends were so obsessed with the Stanley Cup, they asked me to sacrifice some goats and throw in a few vestal virgins. I maybe handled the goats, but I draw the line at virgins. I mean what does vestal mean anyway?

Parade? Vegas gets a Bruno Mars parade and a street named after the billion-download- worldwide one-super-hit-after-another Pinky-Ring-killin’-it Allegiant-sell-out moneymaker. Cool.

We’re having 150,000 people at our parade — for hockey. Heck, we sold out the arena for the watch party.

Another thing Raleigh has in common with Vegas? Drought. But it’s raining today, in more ways than one.

Back in Vegas, shades of Ellis Island and its unlimited-drinks MRB coupon back in the day. These days, Golden Gate has unlimited free drinks from 6 to 7 p.m. and a chance to win up to $1,000 in free play at Prohibition Bar. Check it out and report back, please. I tried to confirm, but Derek went full customer non-service; when you call in, you’re sent to AI hell and wind up on hold forever.

Back here in Hurricanelandia, I’ve been working a frugal summer of fun. So far? Two Carolina beach trips, one on partial points, another super-frugal rate. Saw Earth Wind & Fire. Amazing. Going to Santana in early July, then Gladys Knight. All favorite performers and tickets for each concert under $100. I tend to be in the back at outdoor venues, so I can dance and I do. Let’s groove right?

How about premium floor seats at Usher/Chris Brown at $2,000 per ticket? Times two, that’s a hefty down payment ON A CAR. Guys, love your energy, but no way.

I’m more the personal experience, you know? Hanging with Bruno’s 175 pals, waving their pinky rings to the moon, watcha gonna do? This Bruno tour? Like Usher/Brown, insane prices, but if you’ve never seen Bruno and the Hooligans, they’re not too be missed. Bruno’s rocking the world after his Vegas parade and, oh yeah, he’s slated to make $500 million smackolas on this tour. That’ll keep him in Pinky Rings for the foreseeable future.

Now, have you seen Michael yet? $920 million worldwide. Biggest biopic ever. Beat Bohemian Rhapsody, which I saw three times as well.

Back to Vegas, the Plaza’s CEO, my man Jonathan Jossel dipped his toe in no resort fee nation water with another summer NRF deal.

Don’t ever change, Jonno. I mean that. Actually, you do keep changing and I love that. So scratch the “don’t ever.” Just keep “doin’ the things you do” (loved that movie too).

Enjoy the shows, peeps. And freebies. All of ’em. I know I will.

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Since You Asked …


The Mandalay Bay pool complex is one of the best in town. Given the regular pools, beach, wave pool, and lazy river, there’s a lot to choose from. You can elevate your experience even further by renting a cabana.

Due to all the options at the Mandalay pool complex, along with access by a limited number of non-hotel guests, it’s a busy and crowded pool complex, with lots of families and kids.

Since I was staying at the W, I could book a cabana (#W72) at the quieter pool, accessible by W hotel guests only, while being steps away from the main attractions.

The cabana comes with a fridge stocked with water and soda, plus a couple of dedicated loungers with an umbrella for shade and two inner tubes for use in the lazy river (more on that later), which I think normally rent for $30 each. The cabana also boasts a TV, ceiling fan, and safe for your valuables. The cabana technically seats six and I could have fit five other people, but that would have been a little tight. It would have been perfectly comfortable for four people. I was solo, so it was moot.

Towel and food/drink service were plentiful. I never had to wait long for an attendant to come by if I needed anything.

The full-day rental cost $375, but I booked it months in advance. Day-of reservations were going for at least $500.

I found the experience to be well worth it. I’m the kind of guy who likes to sit in the pool with my book and have someone bring me fruity drinks and I got exactly what I wanted. When I felt like it, I took a break to enjoy the wave pool, which is a fun, unique, Vegas attraction. I also tried the lazy river, but I don’t like this lazy river as much as other lazy rivers I’ve experienced in other cities; the current on this one was actually a little too fast for my comfort. It wasn’t really “lazy” at all!

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Bobby Vegas — Advantage Evangelist Strikes Again

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette


A reader asked me to “show him the way” to easy play. Then he wouldn’t listen. I was frustrated, but kept on.
What brings me great satisfaction? Turning just one newbie away from the dark side of foolish wasteful gaming. This is a calling, my friends. We are but seekers of the truth, hunters of the mathematical epiphany manifesting as a royal flush.

That slim chance of deliverance is a 40,000-1 redemption. We soldier on, knowing it’s coming if we just learn to play the Good Game.

Really, it’s okay to just play. Heck, I have a profound desire — no, a need — to play, to dance and imbibe like any of us in this one-of-a-kind adult Disneyland, even at my advancing age and maybe even more so. It keeps me young and fresh and alert.

But as they say, “You can’t keep it if you don’t give it away,” so when I was corresponding with “Joe,” though frustrated, I kept insisting this neophyte do what for many these days seems a rare commodity: THINK!

Read “The Best Video Poker on the Strip,” learn the games, and walk away from anything under 99.5%. Avoid the siren call of the Strip — the bright lights enthralling you as your wallet is vacuumed clean — and your intense regret on the flight home, hungover and broke. “Why did I go to the (dark chapel of) ATM again, and again?”

It’s okay. You’ll get another chance at redemption. As long as you didn’t actually sign a marker for your home, car, and first born.

But even Joe, after pleading “I want to play at Caesars,” saw the light. “I didn’t realize even at quarter level I’d need a $1,000 bank and at $1/$5 many times more than that.”

Though he’d danced along the edge of the bad-gaming precipice, he turned away! That satisfaction, turning one player and toward the light of advantage play? Excellent.

This is not a game for everyone. It requires patience, skill, and dedication, while frivolity reigns and surrounds you like a waterfall. Witnessing people plied with free drinks, pouring dollar after dollar down the rat hole, hoping against hope, is downright tragic, especially knowing that if they just looked at the pay schedule and understood what they were seeing, their future would be nicely laid out for them and they could’ve avoided all the sucker traps. Maybe 3% do. Is that you?

Here’s the kicker. Once they see us coming, then observe us for a time, the Big Houses don’t like us at all.

“Don’t give that guy a room, a meal, free play, or a damn dime. He actually knows what he’s doing and we can’t have that!”

And like a lonely Dirty Harry (“Do I feel lucky?”), I ride on down the road. No worries, there are 100 more casinos right down the road.

And since he read the guides, is learning the good games, and will be on the search for the better way of advantage play, I, having converted one more soul, for that today I’m content.

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6 New Las Vegas Happy Hours for June 2026 🍸

Las Vegas Happy Hours June 2026

Las Vegas opens new restaurants constantly. Happy hour is a great way to try them. These six are worth trying.

Happy Hour Vegas tracks 475+ verified happy hours across the valley and these are the new additions with a couple of quiet standouts that made the cut for June. Specific prices, current hours, and what to order at each one.

👉 See all verified Las Vegas happy hours at Happy Hour Vegas →

🌴 Todo Bien — UnCommons (Southwest)

Tue–Sun 4:30–7:30 PM

Todo Bien is a tiki tequileria tucked inside UnCommons — agave-forward cocktails, bold Mexican flavors, and a rotating happy hour menu that gives you a different reason to come back every night of the week. This is not a generic happy hour. The menu is structured by day, and the prices are specific enough to plan around.

What’s on the menu by day:
🌮 Tuesdays — Tequila & Tacos: tequila flight + taco $10 · cocktail + tequila sample + taco $9 · individual tacos $3
🤠 Wednesdays — Vaquero Nights: 24oz Topo Chico $5 · Montucky Cold Snack $4 · whiskey flight $10 · Oaxacan Old Fashioned $11
🍹 Thursdays — Tiki Thursday: featured cocktail in a take-home tiki mug $12 · refill with your own mug $8
🌺 Fri–Sun — Spring Cocktail Weekends: all featured seasonal cocktails $8

Where: 8533 Rozita Lee Ave, UnCommons, Southwest Las Vegas

👉 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

🍺 Pub 365 — Tuscany Suites & Casino (East of Strip)

Hours: Check listing for current schedule

365 rotating craft beers. That’s the concept, the name, and the commitment at Pub 365 inside Tuscany Suites & Casino. This is a local casino bar that takes beer seriously — 60+ taps, all local and regional craft, no imported macro lager dressed up as a deal. The happy hour prices are straightforward: $3.65 select craft beer pints · $5 house wine · $6 well drinks.

The food menu is not a dedicated happy hour menu but it’s good value — and the smash burger is worth ordering with a happy hour pint regardless of the price. Quietly one of the best beer happy hours off the Strip, and the kind of place that rewards locals who know where to look.

Where: Tuscany Suites & Casino, 255 E Flamingo Rd

👉 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

🎙️ The Piazza Lounge — Tuscany Suites & Casino (East of Strip)

Happy hour daily · Live music nightly from ~7:30 PM · No cover

Same building as Pub 365, completely different experience. The Piazza Lounge has live music every single night — no cover charge, no bottle service minimums, no nonsense. The draw is the martinis: consistently oversized, strong, and 50% off during happy hour. Add $4 oysters and you have one of the better value combinations in the building.

The crowd skews local and the singers rotate nightly. Wednesday tends to be the biggest night. It’s the kind of lounge that feels like it belongs to a different era of Las Vegas — the one locals tend to prefer. If you’re coming for the martinis, come early. If you’re coming for the music, Wednesday is your night.

Where: Tuscany Suites & Casino, 255 E Flamingo Rd

👉 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

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💥 KJ’s — New Open (April 2026)

Mon–Fri 4–6 PM · Fri & Sat 9 PM–Midnight

KJ’s opened in April 2026 and immediately ran two happy hours a day — an after-work session and a late-night one on weekends. The kitchen is having fun: the happy hour menu includes shrimp corn dog lollipops and fried chicken sliders, which tells you exactly what kind of energy this place is bringing. The room feels fresh, the food is better than the menu description suggests, and the double happy hour structure means there are two windows to take advantage of the pricing.

Order this: The shrimp corn dog lollipops. They’re a statement dish and worth making the statement.

Where: Las Vegas — see listing for full address

👉 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

🍔 Boom Bang — Henderson

Fri–Sat 11:30 AM–6 PM · Check listing for full weekly schedule

Boom Bang is run by a Top Chef veteran with Robuchon pedigree. That’s not a marketing line — it’s the explanation for why the scratch kitchen in Henderson is producing food at this level at these prices. Everything is made from scratch. Cocktail ingredients are juiced in-house. The menu reads clean and organic without making a point of it.

Happy hour prices: Smash Burger (single, grass-fed, house-made bun) $8 · Broccoli Cauliflower with Hot Rojo sauce and house ranch · Hummus with Salsa Macha, pickled onions, and pepitas · CT Style Pizza $12–$15 · Cocktails $9 · Wine $7 · Draft beer $6

The Friday and Saturday happy hour runs from 11:30 AM to 6 PM — a long window that works for lunch, an early dinner, or anything in between. Chef Elia describes the place as “like Cheers where everyone knows each other.” The food backs that up.

Order this: The double smash burger and a cocktail. Then the cauliflower. You have time.

Where: Henderson, NV — see listing for full address

👉 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

🌺 Glitter Gulch Tiki — Downtown (One Block off Fremont)

Tiki Tuesday Happy Hour: 4–7 PM · Check listing for full weekly schedule

The name “Glitter Gulch” hadn’t been heard in downtown Las Vegas since 2016. It was the old nickname for the neon-lit stretch of Fremont Street, and it’s back — now as a full tiki bar one block off Fremont with bamboo, thatching, tiki carvings, a dance floor, and a live music stage. The Nacho Daddy team built it. They know downtown and they know their audience.

The cocktail program is serious and rotates by day: Rhum Agricole Mai Tais, a tequila-meets-tiki mashup, a Pain Killer built on Pusser’s Rum and guava puree. Happy hour brings those prices down to where exploring the menu makes financial sense.

Best value night: Tiki Tuesday, 4–7 PM. The $7 Na’cho Whip Dole soft serve cocktail is the move. Add the lumpia. Start tropical, stay awhile.

Where: One block off Fremont Street, Downtown Las Vegas

👉 Full menu & hours at Happy Hour Vegas

Six Happy Hours. All Verified. All Worth the Trip.

These aren’t opening-week specials or temporary promotions. Happy Hour Vegas tracks menus, confirms hours, and updates listings when things change — so what you see is current. Whether you’re a local looking for a new regular spot or a visitor who wants a real Las Vegas experience outside the obvious tourist track, any one of these is a good use of an afternoon.

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Bobby Vegas — Get Paid To Stack and Win Free Gas

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

Did you say get paid to win free gas, Bobby?

How many ways do I love Rainbow? Let me count the ways. Like five. Should you drive way out to Water Street in Henderson? Do bears …? From all my previous flag-waving, guess. It’s a resounding yes.

I never thought it possible, but Rainbow/Emerald Island’s monthly contests just got even better. With so many simultaneous promotions going on (often three at once), now they’re paying you to win free gas.

Rainbow’s Monthly drawing is for eight $250 gas cards. It’s just 100 points per day ($100 coin in) to get your daily entry. Then they give you $10 in free play for it. All month long, every day. Drawing at EOM. That’s not just crazy, it’s crazy good. There’s more.

At Anthony’s favorite, Emerald Island, (I’m more a Rainbow/Triple B guy, but play both), I swear I heard Judy Garland singing “Somewhere … over at Emerald Island …” Yep, their June 19drawing is for eight pairs of tickets to The Wizard of Odds. Oops! Sorry (they’re not giving away Michael Shackleford). I mean the Wizard of Oz at Sphere.

These promos are base points only, but no ticket limit of one a day for Oz like on the gas cards, so as Prince tells us “Let’s go crazy!”

Now about those stacks.

Both casinos have super points multipliers spread throughout the day every day —  regular 25x periods, along with 50x, 75x, and even two 100X periods. They’re good on all games except DDB. But no worries, mate, 9/6 JOB, etc., are still positive EV with even the “lowly” 25x multipliers.

Hmmm, maybe try out the new LVA advantage slots? Ya think?

You’re also in for daily free spins, free gifts, free food, and some other damn freebie (so many freebies, so little time). Pick up all the promo sheets at the cage. Try keeping track of it all. When are the XXX periods? MY GOD! What a burden. Call the casino and ask. We need a spreadsheet. Anyone?

 I concentrate on 75x, bouncing from Rainbow to EI earning boatloads of points.

 Hungry after all that frantic button tapping? Try any of the excellent daily specials starting at $10. Or Emerald Island Grille’s Saturday filet mignon & lobster tail dinner for $29. Or Rainbow’s four-course prime rib at Triple B. for $24.

But hold your horses, cowboy. That’s before paying with points and combining your LVA MRB coupon for 50% off or 2-for-1 with points. Can you spell S.T.A.C.K?  All while playing positive-expectation video poker.

I died. This is heaven.

Vanna? Guess there really is a Wheel of Fortune gold at the end of Water St.’s Rainbow So? Go.

And downtown off Fremont, Downtown Grand’s got a great July 4th deal: $125 a night for two nights, plus $25 in free play and $25 in food. FOR THE 4th!

 God bless America. No one else will.

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Bobby Vegas — Be a Patriot

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

Bulletin! Bulletin! Stop the presses. A Bobby Vegas emergency has been declared. Calling all able-minded swift-fingered patriots.

Developed in the last hours of Memorial Day, your mission, if you choose to accept it, is: Come to Vegas. Now.

To paraphrase Ed Harris’ quote from Apollo 13, “Failure is not an option. People, work the problem.”

People! Men, women, heck, bring your dogs if you have to, America needs you today, so step up.

My best bud Bobby Wilson alerted me that he was driving down the Strip (during the BTS K-Pop invasion at Allegiant, no less ) and said the street was as empty as COVID. He’d invited his son to town to take advantage of hotel rooms for $0. Zero? I had to check it out. Okay, I didn’t find any zero-dollar rooms, but I was stunned to find on Expedia Strip hotels for $8-$20 a night!

Here they are: Circus Circus, Harrah’s, Horseshoe, Linq all $8; Flamingo and Excalibur $9; Luxor and Sahara $12; Strat $15; Planet Hollywood $20. These are all before resort fees, so call it $60-$70 total per night. On the Strip! Find a hotel anywhere in the U.S. right now for less than $125 to $200.

“All we are asking is give Vegas a chance.”

Be an American. Gamble. Eat! (As Grandma used to say, “You’re just skin and bones!”) Party, dance, see shows, buy clothes, but come to VEGAS.

America needs you. More important, Vegas needs you. All you need to do is super easy. With literally tens of thousands of empty hotel rooms (especially if you’re flexible and can come Sunday to Thursday), grab a super-value Bobby Vegas vacay.

The Canadians abandoned us. The Mexicans. The Asians. While Americans are being socked with $4 and $5 gas, food inflation, rising utilities, the corporates are desperate, throwing deals out there you NEED to take advantage of. Smell blood? Pounce.

Frankly I’m tired of all the Vegas bashing. This is a value play of epic proportions. Don’t miss out. Grab it.

With any active casino play, they’ll roll out the red carpet and toss in free … well, everything. Free play, food credits, shows — you name it, you can probably get it. Just ask. Then tell us. Report back to us here @ LVA HQ.

Pining for the good ol’ days? They’re here. Again. I stayed at the Stardust for $14 a night with $10 free play back and a free buffet coupon or two.

I’ve been raving about the insane deal the Wynn’s been sending me that, when all the free play and food credits are subtracted, ends up costing $6.50 a night. For the Wynn.

People. Step up. Vegas needs you. Ask not … no, correct that. Do ask what Vegas can do for you and what you can do for Vegas. Easy peasy. Just show up.

We thank you. We salute you. Now go find the good machines and rock the house, baby. Patriotism never felt this good.