Local Corner—Marché Bacchus French Bistro and Wine Shop

Local Corner—Marché Bacchus French Bistro and Wine Shop
2620 Regatta Drive, Suite 106, 702-804-8008

We’ve had an odd relationship with Marché Bacchus. It’s one of the most acclaimed non-casino restaurants in town, a perennial “Essential 50” selection (and even a Top 10 pick in the 2013 edition) of Eating Las Vegas, and a place where we’ve had outstanding experiences. But for some reason, every time we visited before making it the Local Corner, we ran into a clunker. Clunkers happen, but this time we went in for a taste and there were no clunks.

Marché Bacchus deals high-end French cuisine, but it’s not overly expensive. Entrées are mostly in the $30s, though it’s all a la carte and portions are smallish (so you’re probably adding on). There’s nothing wrong in our book with paying for a good meal in an idyllic lakeside setting.

Or you can get the meal and setting for $19.95 with the lunch special, available Mon.-Fri. from 11 am to 3:45 pm., which comes with choice of entrée, an appetizer or dessert (couples can do one of each), and a glass of wine.

Outside of the special, the best things we’ve had here are the soups (all tremendous), any steak dish that can be prepared rare, the Prince Edward Island mussels for $21, and the fantastic escargot for $12, plus the crème brulée ain’t no slouch.

Note the “Wine Shop” in the name. That’s the big banger in this play. You can purchase your dinner wine from the shop and they’ll open and serve it to you for $10 above retail. That means great dinner wines at half to a third of the price of almost any fine restaurant in town — huge.

On top of everything, owners Jeff and Rhonda Wyatt are hands on. Hours are 11 am to 9:30 pm daily (10 pm Fri. and Sat.). It’s a little ways out on the northwest side of town, but you’ll get to see the neat little Desert Shores community.