Editing Las Vegas (section)

== Foodsurfing ==

The following are restaurants in Las Vegas that might be of interest to couchsurfers. Good restaurants are easy to find - this is a list of restaurants that are good in a way that might not be expected, and which most visitors might not know about. If you want to take your couchsurfers out someplace memorable, try one of these:

* [http://www.casadiamore.com/index.html Casa Di Amore] - 2850 East Tropicana. Semi-expensive Italian food.

* Chicago Joe's - 820 S. 4th Street. An Italian restaurant downtown, in a little brick house.

* Cottage Cafe - 4647 Paradise Rd. Ethiopian food near the Hard Rock Casino.

* Hikari - all you can eat sushi for $21, at Buffalo and Flamingo.

* Hash House A Go Go - 6800 West Sahara. Hearty and very untraditional "twisted farm food". A bit pricey but two meals will feed three people. Americans find this place weird. Foreigners will be bewildered. But happy.

* [http://www.himalayancuisine.com/ Himalayan Cuisine] - off strip east on Flamingo.

* Hush Puppies - 7185 W. Charleston. Southern cuisine.

* India Oven - 2218 Paradise Rd. Excellent Indian restaurant at way below Strip prices.

* Kobe Sushi Bar: 9340 W. Flamingo, all you can eat sushi for $22 after 5pm.

* La Palapa: 2477 E. Tropicana Ave at Eastern. Veracruz style seafood.

* [http://www.saipinchutima.com/ Lotus of Siam] - 953 E. Sahara Ave. Very good Thai food, at reasonable prices. The buffet is from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm.

* Luv-It Frozen Custard - 505 East Oakey Boulevard. Conveniently located near the Olympic Garden strip club. Inconvenient to everything else, but a tasty frozen treat.

* Marnee Thai - Spring Mountain Road, 2 blocks west of Decatur. Couchsurfers agree, Marnee Thai is good Thai.

* Ming - Good Chinese food on the Strip. Hidden in the Imperial Palace. Much cheaper than most sit down places on the Strip.

* M&M Soul Food - 3923 W. Charleston. So when they get home they can say, "I was in Vegas, hooked up with some people and we all went out for soul food." How many people get to say that?

* Naked Fish's - 3945 S. Durango Drive. Japanese/ Sushi bar. For some reason I can't stop going there. It's so damn good I order the same thing most times I go there. When I do order something different, I end up liking it and order that everytime, too. They have, probably, the best sushi I've ever had...a lot of their stuff is on the spicy side, though. It's a very small place. Very limited seating. It's a good idea to make reservations. Johnny Fo.

* Pho Kim Long - 4029 Spring Mountain Rd. Vietnamese food served from 8 AM to 3 AM daily.

* [http://www.rosemarysrestaurant.com/ Rosemary's Restaurant] - Rosemary wants a lot of money for her food, but you have to love a place that includes a suggested beer pairing with every menu item.

* Sonic - Sure it is only fast food, but its unlike what you will get anywhere else in the world. Try the Ocean Water.

* Souper Salad - On Flamingo and Maryland (also on the north side somewhere). All you can eat soup and salad bar with a few other things as well, $8 plus $2 for a drink.

* Sushi Factory - Tropicana and Jones, also Eastern and Horizon Ridge. All you can eat sushi, $22 lunch, $25 dinner.

* Taco Yayo - Exotic tacos, beers and tequilas. Low-priced student hangout across from UNLV at 4632 Maryland Parkway

* [http://www.vivamercadoslv.com/ Viva Mercados] - Mexican

=== Buffets ===

Buffets are a Las Vegas tradition and a part of the complete Las Vegas experience. Most hotels have buffets, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For a fixed price you can eat as much as you want, from a usually vast selection of cuisines. Often the food is quite good, and it can be a bargain as well, especially if you skip other meals for that day and just load up at a buffet.

* Arizona Charlie's: On Decatur north of Charleston, way off strip and not a very interesting casino, but the $9 for the dinner buffet makes it a bargain, and the food is enjoyable, if not great.

* Asia: 2380 S. Rainbow, $8 lunch buffet includes sushi, more for dinner, which includes crab legs

* Bellagio: The dinner buffet is $30 or so, but the quality is exceptional.

* Circus Circus: At $14 or so this is in the bargain zone for dinner buffets, but the food is not so good here. It is adequate but better buffets can be found for the same price.

* Excalibur: Their Roundtable Buffet is $17 for dinner, and pretty high quality. 2-for-1 buffet in the afternoon.

* Main Street Station: Around $12 for dinner. This is located downtown just north of Fremont Street. A very popular buffet, with high quality food at a bargain price.

* Palace Station (and the other station casinos): $7 or $8 for dinner with club card; food is ok and at the price it is quite a bargain.

* Paris: An expensive buffet, $30 or so for dinner, but very high quality.

* Riviera: $14 lunch buffet. About average in quality.

* Terrible's: $10 for the dinner buffet, which is reasonably good.