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Thursday, January 31, 2013

#1936 - Heart Attack Grill, Las Vegas - 10/12/2012

God bless America.

450 Fremont St, Las Vegas, NV 89101
Est. Oct 21, 2011

Web site: heartattackgrill.com - facebook
Reviews: wikipedia - lvrj - yelp
Calories in Quadruple Bypass Burger: 9,982

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

#1935 - Mermaid's Casino, Las Vegas - 10/12/2012

When what is now Mermaid's Casino opened in the summer of 1956 it was the first two level club in Las Vegas and the "motor stairs" were the first in Las Vegas. (Las Vegas Sun) Mermaids is now a small, kitschy casino with a snack bar and no web page except Facebook.

32 East Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada 89101-5602 - (702) 382-5777
Web site: facebook
Reviews: link - fremontstreetbars - yelp

#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
Best articles: uptake - vegaschatter - esquire - fremontstreetbars - spyonvegas- yelp - lasvegassun

#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

Sunday, January 27, 2013

#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
Reviews: vegaschatter - fremontstreetbars - vegas.com - theminty - drinkspirits - bestclubsin - yelp

#1927 - Dino's Lounge, Las Vegas - 10/10/2012

This is one of my favorite Vegas bars. It's lively, it's divey, it's old, and it has a classic Vegas pedigree. It has been Dino's since 1962, when Rinaldo Dean ("Dino") Bartolomucci bought the place, then named Ringside Liquors. The owner of Ringside was mobster Eddie Trascher, "who used the back room for big-money pool hustling, kept the beer refrigerator stocked with stolen jewels and furs, and once pistol-whipped a patron so viciously that he incurred the wrath of the entire plumber’s union." (lasvegascitylife) It has been run by Dino's family ever since, continuing with his two sons and now run by his granddaughter.

Dino's bartender Josette, "like in Dark Shadows"

Dino's today has the "Last neighborhood bar in Las Vegas" painted across the side of the building, and in neon over the door, just to make sure you get the message. It gets a nice cross-section of patrons, several of whom compete for Dino's "Drunk of the Month" title (the winner gets their picture on the wall and use of a special parking space). If a patron impresses the management enough, they get an invitation to play in the weekly card game of 99, which has been going for 50 years by invitation only (now hosted by current owner Kristin).

One of the painted ceiling tiles at Dino's, Las Vegas

Dino's is a great, gritty alternative to the bars on the strip.

1516 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, NV 89104 - (702) 382-3894
Est. 1962
Previous bars in this location: Ringside Liquors
Web site: dinoslv.com (great old photos of Dino here) - facebook
Best articles: lasvegascitylife - lasvegasweekly - vegas.com - yelp