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Buffet Update – June 2026

Caesars Palace – Bacchanal Buffet: The Weekend Crab Brunch went up by $5. Weekday Dinner Mon-Thu, 2:30 p.m.-9 p.m. is still $86.99. Weekend Dinner Fri-Sun, 3 p.m.-10 p.m. is still $91.99. Weekend Crab Brunch Fri-Sun, 9 a.m.-02:30 p.m. is now $91.99.

Circus Circus – Circus Buffet: This weekend’s brunch buffet is Fri-Sun, 8 a.m.-12 p.m. is $25.95. Then their dinner buffet is Fri & Sat, 5 p.m.-9 p.m. is $27.95.

Cosmopolitan – Wicked Spoon: Separated brunch to breakfast and lunch during weekdays. Weekend brunch went up by $5. Weekday Breakfast is now Mon-Fri, 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m. is $49.99. Weekday Lunch is now Mon-Fri, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. is $54.99. Weekend Brunch is now Sat & Sun, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. is $59.99.

Main Street Station – Garden Court Buffet: Friday is now under their Weekend Brunch price and time. Weekday Brunch is now Mon-Thu, 8 a.m.-2p.m. is still $24.99. Weekend Brunch is now Fri-Sun, 8 a.m.-2p.m. is still $27.99.

Wynn – The Buffet: Temporarily closed from June 22–25. All buffet prices went up by $5. Daily Gourmet Brunch is daily, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. is now $64.99. Daily Seafood Gourmet Dinner is daily, 1 p.m.-9 p.m. is now $84.99.

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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.

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🌴 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

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🍺 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

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🎙️ 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

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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

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🍔 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

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🌺 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

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Strip Surges Again, Locals Flat

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Despite a 2% dip in visitation to Sin City, gambling receipts were up again in April. Las Vegas Strip casinos surged 6.5% to $689.5 million. Although a recent survey of gamblers (see “License to Gouge”) overwhelmingly indicated an inclination to visit Downtown, that didn’t show up in the latest data. Downtown casinos were flat at $83.5 million. North Las Vegas ticked up 3% to $25.5 million, while the Boulder Strip was flat at $90 million. Miscellaneous Clark County was also becalmed at $164.5 million.

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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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Downtown Burger Makers to Smashburger Fans: Not a Damn Chance!

Walk into almost any trendy new burger spot, and you’ll probably hear the same pitch: smashburgers.

That’s why Neen Williams is quick to correct people when they describe the burgers at newly opened NADC Burger in Downtown Las Vegas’ Fremont East District.

“We are not a smash burger,” Williams recently told the Food and Loathing podcast. “We press our burgers so we could get that nice crust on our burger, but we do not overly smash and dry out the meat.”

His willingness to distance himself from the hottest trend in burgers might have something to with the fact that NADC Burger wasn’t created by a traditional restaurateur trying to cash in on a trend. It’s the product of an unusual partnership between Williams, a professional skateboarder with a longtime passion for cooking, and Michelin-starred chef Phillip Frankland Lee of Scratch Restaurants Group. What began as backyard burger sessions and pop-ups evolved into a fast-growing concept that recently opened its first permanent Las Vegas location near Fremont East.

At the center of the menu is a burger built around 100 percent Wagyu beef. Rather than flattening the patties into the ultra-thin style popularized by many smashburger joints, NADC presses its burgers just enough to create a crust, while preserving a juicier interior. Williams says the patties are finished with onions that steam directly into the meat during cooking, adding both flavor and moisture.

The burger is topped with American cheese, house-made sauce, pickles and four “tamed” pickled jalapeños designed to provide flavor and crunch without significant heat. The result is intended to balance the richness of the Wagyu beef rather than overwhelm it.

The restaurant’s name comes with its own story. NADC stands for “Not a Damn Chance,” a phrase Williams popularized on social media while documenting his fitness and cooking journey. When he and Frankland Lee began hosting burger pop-ups, the phrase became the obvious choice for a brand name.

While the burger world continues to embrace the smashburger craze, Williams isn’t interested in following the crowd. Instead, he’s betting that a carefully constructed Wagyu cheeseburger — one that’s pressed, not smashed — can stand out on its own.

Fans in a dozen other cities have embraced the idea. Whether Las Vegas will be next is still to be seen.

Hear Al Mancini’s interview with Neen Williams on the May 29 episode of the Food And Loathing podcast.

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License to Gouge

One of the hottest casinos on the Las Vegas Strip is—believe it or not—Casino Royale. How the humble have risen! The oft-mocked, independent joint was favored by a surprising amount of Sin City customers surveyed by Truist Securities. Out of all the places to stay, 4% said the Margaret Elardi-owned gambling den was their favorite. That’s as many as were partial to Harrah’s Las Vegas, that Strip monument to Stalinist architecture. It also put Casino Royale up there with Bellagio (the choice of 6%) and Caesars Palace (7%), but well behind MGM Grand (11%). Considering that two of those properties are synonymous with price-gouging and bad customer service, you have to wonder if Vegas tourists are masochistic by nature.

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Helping a Friend

Bob Dancer

I received a phone call from a very good friend — who isn’t a video poker expert. He’s the kind of person I’m willing to help basically an unlimited amount for free. 

He asked about using the “user defined games” section of WinPoker to add Deuces Bonus Poker (DWB). He didn’t see any way to enter a game with wild cards using that feature.

“Well,” I told him, “You’re correct that you can’t enter such a game using user defined games, but fortunately the game is already included. If you’re looking for “Deuces Bonus” you won’t find it, but if you’re looking for “Bonus Deuces,” you will.” 

Sure enough, he found it easily, and was embarrassed he couldn’t find it before he called me.

I asked him if he could share where he found a playable DWB game. I knew he wouldn’t be playing for small stakes, and he wouldn’t be playing if he didn’t think he had the advantage. 

Sometimes players aren’t willing to share such information, figuring that more skilled players who know about a particular play will kill the game. Still, we do favors back and forth so maybe he’d share with me this time. (And maybe not. He’d still be my friend if he felt he couldn’t share this particular game.)

“It’s actually an Ultimate X (UX) game. I’m trying to run coin-in at a casino in case I can’t find enough slot plays there. It’s not a positive play by itself, but enough coin-in gets you good mailers. Playing that game exclusively would be too expensive of a way to earn the mailers, but if it only averaged 20% or so of your play (with the rest being slots), it would be a good filler.

“I know UX games are played differently than regular video poker,” he continued, “but I don’t know the DWB game at all and wanted to get a feeling for it.”

I told him he was going about it wrong. The strategy for UX DWB is much different from regular DWB — primarily because when you get a straight flush in UX DWB, you get a 12x multiplier on the next hand. So you play for straight flushes MUCH more often in the UX game than you do in the regular game.

I do not have a UX DWB strategy. If I felt I needed to play that game, I’d have to buy the strategy from somebody else — and I currently don’t have anyone I know who can make one — or use the VP PRO strategy analyzer on videopoker.com to figure it out. 

The VP PRO strategy analyzer requires a monthly or annual fee to use. It allows you to get correction on several games that WinPoker doesn’t — and one of those games is UX. 

You can play the game, get correction when you are wrong, and ask it the correct play for any hand with any “sum of multipliers (SOM).” It’s a lot of work to create a strategy using this tool, but it’s the best way to do it for those of us without access to advanced programming skills.

The difficulty with UX for any game is that the strategy changes for different SOMs. Consider the Triple Play version. Multipliers can range from 1x to 12x for each hand — meaning the SOM can range from 3x to 36x. There are hands you play the same for all SOM levels (like a dealt straight flush, for example) and there are hands that you play differently at low SOMs and high SOMs. 

To cover all possibilities, you need to create 30+ strategies. Which is not a trivial feat. Five Play SOMs range from 5x to 60x, so that means 50+ strategies. For Ten Play you need a different approach because VP PRO doesn’t cover that game. It’s far too complicated.

When I played UX, I used a simplified strategy for each game — created by someone who I’m not in touch with anymore. It was complicated, but manageable. I don’t play the game anymore because the games I have the strategy for (like 9/6 Double Double Bonus UX Ten Play) do not exist anywhere that I know about.

I’m not sure my message was welcome news to my friend, but it kept him from wasting his time practicing something that wasn’t going to do him any good.

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Bobby Vegas — Be a Patriot

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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.

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Atlantic City surges, New York stumbles

Long-awaited casinos in New York City aren’t coming out of the starting blocks well. Resorts World New York may have been overhasty in installing table games. Steve Cohen is having a hard time getting his ducks in a row at Metropolitan Park and Bally’s Corp. has no financing yet for Bally’s Bronx beyond the $500 million license fee, plus a $115 million gratuity paid to Donald Trump. Bally’s may be the lucky one, as it will have time to study its competitors’ mistakes.

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