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Buffet Update – November 2025
Where To Eat Caviar On The Las Vegas Strip
Nobody does luxury like Las Vegas, where a small but significant portion of visitors are always looking for a way to make their experience a little extra. In the restaurant world, that might mean touches like freshly shaved truffles, edible gold leaf or, of course, caviar.
Up and down The Strip, chefs have found that adding a touch of briny sturgeon roe can take any dish, from appetizers to entrees, to a new level. (And let’s be clear, when a foodie talks about caviar, they are only talking about sturgeon eggs.) Many restaurants offer cute little caviar snacks to entice the curious. Some have gone so far as to create seasonal caviar tasting menus. And others pull out all the stops with elegant spins on traditional service. The result: caviar is more popular than ever in Las Vegas.
You can probably find caviar in most of Las Vegas’ more luxurious resorts – if you look hard enough. These four properties, however, have some of the best offerings on The Strip.
Bellagio
Michael Mina
Caviar is prepared tableside at celebrity chef Michael Mina’s Las Vegas flagship, on a cart dedicated exclusively to the delicacy. Options include three distinct types of sturgeon roe: Imperial Golden, Tsar Imperial Daurenki, and Royal Baika. You can get one, or a flight of all three, in a classic presentation. But I prefer the Caviar Parfait the chef created for his wife on their honeymoon, which layers caviar, chopped egg, diced salmon and horseradish crème fraîche atop a tiny potato pancake.
Petrossian Bar
Located just off the Bellagio lobby, Petrossian is ideal for daytime tea, late-night cocktails, or caviar at any hour. Owned by the most famous family in the caviar world, it’s no surprise that several of their best products are offered with the classic accompaniments. What might surprise you are the caviar-infused small bites, which include tacos, deviled eggs and tuna cones. Snack on them while people-watching and enjoy the live pianist in the lounge.
Wynn Las Vegas
Pisces Bar & Seafare
Wynn’s elegant new lakeside seafood restaurant offers classic caviar service as well as small bites. The former is meant to be shared by the table and includes anywhere from 27 grams to 100 grams of Golden Ossetra roe alongside the classic accompaniments of blinis, crème fraîche, chives, egg whites, egg yolks and shallots, for between $250 and $725. For curious newbies, Chef Martin Heierling also offers bumps of Kaluga caviar with salmon and whipped kefir on airbread for $50 apiece, and “classic caviar” on Iberico Ham Croquetas, adorned with gold leaf, for $48.
Delilah
Wynn’s sultry supper club offers refined cuisine with old-Hollywood glamour to create the perfect atmosphere for a caviar indulgence. Ossetra is served with delicate waffles, egg mimosa, and crème fraîche. Indulge as you listen to a jazz singer, or perhaps a famous pop performer, belt out classics on the small stage positioned in front of a stunning art deco bandshell. But don’t snap a selfie; Delilah has a strict no-photos policy.
Caesars Palace
Restaurant Guy Savoy
French master Guy Savoy and his team of Las Vegas chefs have no trouble making use of caviar in all sorts of dishes. None, however, are as beloved as the signature Colors Of Caviar appetizer, created specifically for the Las Vegas restaurant. It’s a savory parfait with layers of caviar, caviar crème, green bean purée and warm sabayon sauce, offered on both the tasting and à la carte menus.
Caspian’s Rock & Roe
Located in the space that was once home to Cleopatra’s Barge, Caspian’s is part lounge, part music venue. Drop by the front lounge to sample caviar-based snacks like tacos, deviled eggs, and lobster rolls topped with roe. The bar program offers playful cocktails. And when you’re done here, the Montecristo cigar lounge (just a few steps away) ia a great place to continue the luxury experience. But before you leave Caspian’s for a smoke, make sure to check who’s performing in the live music speakeasy, assuming you can find the secret entrance.
Resorts World Las Vegas
Aqua Bar & Lounge
Aqua was originally known as Caviar Bar, before broadening its focus to celebrate a wider range of seafood. But sturgeon roe still features prominently on the menu. Chef Shaun Hergatt offers six varieties of his own brand, Caspy Caviar, including a luxurious Golden Ossetra. They offer it with traditional service, and atop appetizers like Steak Tartare, Sushi Rice Cakes, Shrimp Toast and Wagyu Toast.
Wally’s
Caviar is featured on a dedicated menu at this spinoff of a beloved Beverly Hills wine shop, alongside charcuterie and fine cheeses. Service is traditional, with four options on the caviar — Reserve Ossetra, Polish Ossetra, Polish Siberian and Kaluga Imperial — priced from $150 for 28 grams of the Kaluga to up to $1,800 for 250 grams of the Reserve. The menu even suggests the perfect beverage to accompany each.
Crossroads Kitchen
First things first: Crossroads Kitchen is a plant-based (vegan) restaurant that does not use any animal products, so no, they don’t serve real caviar. But vegan chef-to-the-stars Tal Ronnen is a master at offering plant-based alternatives to non-vegan dishes. And when he came to Las Vegas, he created vegan “caviar” to channel this city’s luxury vibe. It’s made from kelp, which gives it the ocean notes you want in caviar.
For more seafood recommendations, check out the Neon Feast list of Las Vegas’ Top Seafood Restaurants.
For more luxury dining, Neon Feast also has a list of Places To Eat When Money Is No Object.
For something on a budget, you should read this month’s Las Vegas Advisor story on Oyster Happy Hours, by our friends at HappyHourVegas.com.
Bobby Vegas — How To Look for Advantage Plays (and Van Halen)
This post could also be titled, “The One That Got Away.”
Treasure hunts require patience and lots of false starts. Discover an opportunity that gets shut down by the house? Join the club. But finding that elusive 102% game or major house miscalculation? JUMP! (My nod to Van Halen.)
I didn’t jump. I found it. Then missed it. That’s the VIP lesson today. Find. Confirm. Jump.
I’d been studying non-linear recurrence theory and discovered the Birthday Paradox. This is a counterintuitive expression where, within a surprisingly small group of people, two can have the same birthday.
Most people assume, okay, two people, 365 days, half of 365 would be 183 people. Right? Wrong. The correct answer is 23. From 365.
The birthday paradox is Any X = ANY X.
With each pair, the match percentage increases exponentially, because ANY 2 can match. It’s not two people matching one number; it’s any two numbers matching.
With 23 people, its breakeven is a 50% chance of a match. With 30 people, it’s 100%. Believe it or not.
So what does this have to do with advantage play?
Double-zero roulette has 38 numbers. A new game, Double Action Roulette, was introduced at the M years ago. It had two wheels, one inside the other. You could bet on either wheel or both. You could also bet on when one number lands on both wheels. Max bet $5. Payout 1,200-to-one. Massive house edge (17%). And major house mistake.
They’re thinking: two wheels, one number, 1,444-to-one — and not any two numbers matching with just 38 numbers. Jackpot. I’m very excited, but am leaving that day. So I called a roulette AP associate, with whom I was working on another roulette project. “Go to the M right now and hammer this! It’s going to pay off 5 to 10 times a day!” (In other words, $24K to $60K. A day.)
Due to other time commitments, he declined. My plane took off. I looked down at the M, sighing.
Back a few weeks later, I headed straight to the M. Double Wheel Roulette was nowhere to be found. Innocently, ahem, I asked the floor manager, “Where’s Double Wheel?”
“Oh, we had to take that out. It was hitting at least five times a day.”
Go ahead. Hit me. Again. Harder.
My mistake? I never should’ve left town. I should’ve confirmed and jumped. I’d identified a major opportunity. Great! But I also missed a potential $24K a day. Not so great. Painful lesson learned.
Still, that’s the nature of the beast. Keep seeking. And when you find, confirm, then go ahead and … JUMP !
Note: Maybe I was spared. To overcome the massive edge, you’d have to eliminate seven numbers through charting wheel bias. Aspects of live roulette that no longer exist allowed for wheel bias to overcome the house edge. Roulette manufacturers eliminated that possibility with shallower wheels, which are now much more random.
An updated lower-payout Double Wheel version exists at El Cortez. Don’t play it. Also, don’t play Quad Roulette at Palazzo.
And remember, “Friends don’t let friends play triple-zero roulette.” Ever.
LAS VEGAS ADVISOR INTERVIEW – “Hollywood” Dave Stann
This week Anthony and Andrew sit down with professional gambler “Hollywood” Dave Stann.
Locals Rise, Strip Sinks
It’s a good thing that Las Vegas has diversified its economy since 2008. Were that not the case, the subpar performance of the Las Vegas Strip would be pulling everyone down with it. But September’s gambling grosses show resilience in the locals-casino sphere … and the weakness of the Strip starting to infect Downtown as well.
Continue reading Locals Rise, Strip SinksThe Wizard of Odds at the Sphere
I rarely go to movies and don’t remember if I’ve ever recommended a movie in my blog, but here goes a rave review.
After hearing several positive things about the experience, Bonnie and I decided to go to the Sphere and see The Wizard of Oz. The Sphere is a big ball, just east of the Palazzo on Spring Mountain, and the entire inside of the big ball is the movie screen.
While this is the original 1939 movie, it was color enhanced sometime along the way and shortened by a couple of songs so they could have back-to-back shows in the same day, the experience at the Sphere is immersive and different from anything I’ve previously witnessed.
I suppose I should offer a spoiler alert here — but this is an 86-year-old movie, with a couple of sequels out there, and I’m guessing most of you are generally familiar with the story.
The first and last scenes, in mid-19th-century Kansas, are in black and white — actually brown and white. When the tornado strikes, the theater rumbles, lights flash, and wind blows. Thousands of leaves (actually paper) fly around the theater. This kind of multisensory experience is what the Sphere was built to deliver — and it delivers it well.
While I was enjoying the spectacle, Bonnie was squeezing my leg. She was actually scared while the tornado was going on! In her own way, she was getting more out of the movie than I was. I suspect small children may also be frightened by the tornado, and later by the Wicked Witch.
After the tornado, when Dorothy wakes up in Oz, the colors are spectacular — all the more so because it was black and white previously —- and the colors cover the entire sphere above and around you.
Just before Dorothy and the scarecrow meet the tin man, apples fall from trees. In the VIP seat area, foam apples fall from the “sky.” Many get sold on eBay for prices as high as the tickets to the show!
There was one thing about the show that puzzled me until I slept on it. The Sphere seats around 18,000 people — and there were areas on the side that were totally empty! Tickets are in high demand, so why did they leave thousands of unsold tickets?
I think the answer was that we were in a 5:00 p.m. show. The show lasts 90 minutes, and there was also an 8:00 show scheduled for the same night. I’m guessing the logistics of emptying and cleaning the theater before the next show was such that had they sold those extra 3,000 or 4,000 tickets, they couldn’t get it all done.
The biggest “problem” with the Sphere, in my opinion, is the location. While it is walking distance from a few casinos, it’s not a short walk. We went on Wednesday, October 15, for the 5:00 show and it was cold. While Vegas is warmer than many places in the country, it’s going to get colder through the winter months.
There is parking on the site for $20, which might be the best option. There were many thousands of Uber, Lyft, and regular taxis involved in getting so many people in and out. I was walking briskly to our car, feeling underdressed because it was so cold, and I didn’t stand around and watch how the taxi and ride sharing worked. I suspect it worked pretty well — the whole affair was run efficiently — but I can’t testify to that from personal experience. The show is scheduled to run through April, at least. I suggest you check it out.
Foul Play
Be careful what you wish for, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, you are liable to get it. Silver wanted sports betting and, over the last seven years, has seen the consequences come home to roost in his league. Whereas the NFL cleaned up its sports betting problem (consisting mainly of player stupidity) fairly expeditiously and Major League Baseball comes down like a ton of bricks on offenders, the NBA remains dogged by scandal. (Can you say “Jontay Porter“? We thought so. How about “Malik Beasley“?)
Continue reading Foul PlayLAS VEGAS ADVISOR – YOUTUBE BEER FRIDAY
Anthony and Andrew go live for BEER FRIDAY.
Wizard of Oz at Sphere
Like everyone else, I’d heard all the amazing things about Sphere over the last two years. I’d been wanting to experience it firsthand, but none of the bands that have played there so far have interested me enough to go and certainly not enough to pay Sphere prices to see them.
So I was excited when I realized that my next scheduled Vegas trip was only a few weeks after Sphere’s debut of the remake of The Wizard of Oz. I grabbed tickets early and was glad I did; demand has only gotten stronger after all the word of mouth about the show.
Two caveats. This review contains spoilers and is from the perspective of someone who hadn’t yet experienced the largest screen on Earth. If you’ve already seen a concert or movie there, some of this will be old territory for you.
I went to a 10 a.m. show and arrived a little before 9. There were plenty of kids and families at that hour and a handful of people (kids and adults alike) were dressed up in character; Sphere is encouraging people to don Oz costumes for their Halloween-weekend screenings. Doors opened between 9 and 9:15 and entry/security checkpoints went more smoothly than I expected. You don’t need to arrive as early as I did, but do give yourself some extra time. Merchandise lines are long and there are a few fun things to see in the lobby.
My seat was in Section 307, row 11, which was ideal: dead center and not too high up. I would have had a better view from one of the lower rows of my section, but I wouldn’t have wanted to be in the 200s; in the rear rows of the 200s, your view is partially blocked by the overhang from the 300 sections.
You have to climb down some very steep stairs from the concourse to the 300-level seats; if you’re prone to veritgo or dizziness, keep your head down, focus on the stairs, and wait to look around the theater until you’re in place. And no one, vertigo or not, should navigate the stairs without hanging onto the handrail for dear life.
The show itself was absolutely amazing all around. You felt like you were inside the movie. The best comparison I can make is that it’s like riding Soarin’ at Disney World for an hour-plus. At certain points, you feel like the theater is actually moving (it’s not, but again, if you’re prone to vertigo, maybe close your eyes for a few seconds during these sequences). The film is so high def that you can count individual pieces of straw during the Scarecrow’s scenes. The sound is impressive (though I did spot some minor lip-sync issues in one or two spots — barely noticable and not surprising, considering all the work they did to transform the original film).
And the effects … man! I can’t overstate how impressive they are. There’s not a lot of Disney/Vegas crossover in general, but this really was Disney-level Imagineering, like you’d get on a ride such as Remy or Rise of the Resistance: Apples fall from the sky during the forest scene, actual flying monkeys in the theater supplement the ones on screen, and the tornado scene causes the audience to break into spontaneous applause. I won’t completely spoil it for you. Suffice it to say, you’ll be very impressed.
Runtime is 75 minutes (the movie has been edited down slightly, though what’s missing isn’t particularly discernible), but budget some time to take in the post-show theatrics in the lobby.
Tickets are expensive (and dynamic — check the website for your preferred show and seat location), but I paid $150 to a company owned by someone I find distasteful to see a movie I own on video and definitely felt it was worth it.
Sphere’s website claims to have strict no-bag and no-photo/video policies, but I saw both violated with abandon and no apparent consequences, but your mileage may vary.
If you’re on the fence about this, don’t be. The Wizard of Oz lives up to all the hype.
… And They’re Here To Help
Not! It’s time for Stupid Government Tricks, in which the guvmint blunders into gambling oversight, usually with disastrous consequences. First up is Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D), who wants to double down on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) and his usurious tax on sports betting handle. Seeing all the money the state stands to make (and possibly affrighted by the specter of predatory prediction markets), Johnson proposes a 10.25% tax on OSB revenue. It’s all part of a tap dance to cover a gaping budgetary hole. The target amount? $26 million a year.
Continue reading … And They’re Here To Help