Several of the restaurants and bars cooking for Formula 1 race week on the Las Vegas Strip this month are visiting from Tokyo and New York. Most are in town for race weekend only, and two of them get just one night, so you don’t have long to plan a visit.
Formula 1 is racing on the Strip for a fourth straight year, and the race recently secured an extension through 2037. Cars hit the track Thursday through Saturday, while fan events and parties keep going into Sunday. Strip resorts are serving food and drinks you can only get during race weekend, and several of them are bringing in chefs and bartenders from other cities.
6 Restaurants With a Handful of Seats Each
TENSHOU debuts at BLVD Las Vegas with six counter-only restaurants, and each one seats six to eight guests per service. The chefs cover sushi omakase, wood-fired kaiseki, tempura, yakitori and fine Chinese cuisine, and the city’s tourism authority says they trained under Japan’s most revered culinary masters. Tokyo’s BAR CENTIFOLIA comes along too, and reservations for all six restaurants go through Tock.
A Tokyo Yakiniku Spot Gets One Night at Bellagio
Yoroniku, a yakiniku restaurant from Tokyo, takes over Yellowtail at Bellagio for one night only. Las Vegas tourism officials call Yoroniku Japan’s most influential yakiniku destination.
New York and Barcelona Bring Their Bars to the Strip
New York’s Superbueno takes over The Vault at Bellagio for all three nights of the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Expect agave-forward cocktails and late-night plates.
Double Chicken Please, another New York bar, moves into Allē Lounge on 66 at Resorts World Las Vegas for a single night. Co-founder GN Chan and his team are mixing culinary-inspired “Race World” cocktails 66 floors above the Strip.
James Beard Award winner Rick Bayless is teaming up with Barcelona’s SIPS Drinkery House for an afternoon session at Caesars Palace. The “Sips and Dips” event pairs cocktails and food with a moderated talk on the culinary ties between Spain and Mexico.
Race Weekend Menus at The Cosmopolitan
Wicked Spoon at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas serves dishes inspired by the home cities of races on the Formula 1 calendar on Friday and Saturday. Nevada residents with a valid Nevada ID get a two-for-one deal through Friday.
Momofuku Las Vegas gives the classic steakhouse dinner a race-week spin with Lights Out, a four-course menu that runs all three nights. You’ll find king crab “Louie” and an Australian wagyu New York strip on it, and a caviar cart makes the rounds too.
Plan Around Thursday and Friday
Thursday brings Yoroniku’s one-night takeover and the Rick Bayless session, and it’s also opening night for Superbueno. Friday is the only night Double Chicken Please pours at Allē, and it’s the same day TENSHOU opens its six restaurants at BLVD. Book those first, then build the rest of your race weekend around them.