#1934 - Vanguard Lounge, Las Vegas - 10/12/2012

516 Fremont St Las Vegas, NV 89101 - (702) 868-7800              
Web site: vanguardlv.com - facebook  
Reviews: lasvegasweekly - vegasseven - vegas.com

#1933 - Mickie Finnz Fish House & Bar, Las Vegas - 10/12/2012

425 Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101 - (702) 382-4204
Est. March 2006

Web site: mickiefinnzlasvegas.com - facebook  
Reviews: celebratelv - vegas.com - yelp - tripadvisor

#1932 - View Bar (Aria), Las Vegas - 10/11/2012

3730 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109 - (702) 590-7111
Web site: arialasvegas.com - facebook
Reviews: vegaschatter - yelp

#1931 - HAZE Nightclub (Aria), Las Vegas - 10/11/2012

3730 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 - (702) 693-8300
Web site: hazelasvegas.com - facebook  
Reviews: vegas.com - yelp

#1930 - The Griffin, Las Vegas - 10/10/2012

The Griffin, Las Vegas, NV

Vegas is not known for it's charm or nuance, but for people who love bars with a distinctive personality, the East Fremont area offers three quite nice alternatives: The Downtown Cocktail Room, the Beauty Bar, and the Griffin. The Griffin is dark and old school. It hosts bands and serves Hamms to hipsters, but it is also fairly ornate, romantic, and traditional. I stayed a longer than I expected on my bar hopping, enjoying the music in the back room from Rusty Maples.

Rusty Maples, The Griffin, Las Vegas, NV

511 Fremont St Las Vegas, NV 89101 - (702) 382-0577

Web site: facebook
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#1929 - Beauty Bar, Las Vegas - 10/10/2012

On Fremont Street, just across Las Vegas Boulevard from the lights and zip-lines of the "Fremont Street Experience," downtown Las Vegas begins in earnest. It's a shabby area, working on upgrading itself, and at this point most the tourist traffic ends and local hipsters gather at the Beauty Bar and The Griffin. The Beauty Bar is a chain with joints in New York, San Francisco, Austin and a few other towns, all modeled like 1950s beauty salons. This one is said to be a bit more divey than the others. They have DJs 7 nights a week and sometimes live music or burlesque shows.

517 Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101 - (702) 598-1965
Est. May 2004

Web site: thebeautybar.com - facebook - twitter  
Reviews: vegas.com - lasvegasweekly - yelp

#1928 - Downtown Cocktail Room, Las Vegas - 10/10/2012

Try the: Pumpkin Spice

The Downtown Cocktail Room is a swanky, mellow alternative to the Fremont Street Experience right around the corner. One of the most highly regarded craft cocktail stops in the city, you can barely spot it from outside, particularly by Vegas standards. The sign is small and the door is virtually impossible to identify.

Inside they serve a range of inventive, original cocktails, from a menu that provides a numbered scale to denote complexity. The decor is romantic and lounge-y, the music ambient, and the crowd mellow (the web site includes an enumerated list of rules of decorum). You don't see much of the blaring seen outside -- except for through the one-way glass in the restroom.

For cocktail lovers and swank lounge lovers, DCR is definitely one of the top stops in the city.

111 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, NV 89101 - (702) 880-3696
Web site: thedowntownlv.com
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