Dining Around Lake Las Vegas
Please Your Palate While You Feast Your Eyes on Gorgeous Sights.
Lake Las Vegas eateries offer a banquet of choices when it comes to snacks, sidewalk café meals and gourmet dinners.
When you’re hungry at Lake Las Vegas, it’s not necessary to look far to find an interesting restaurant. In fact, MonteLago Village and the surrounding area offer almost two dozen choices.
Fine Dining
Among the top Village restaurants, Sunset and Vines has the quintessential Italian ambience with stuccoed walls and arches, live plants in niches and a wrought iron stairway leading to mezzanine dining. Specialties of the house are the tapas – there’s a special menu devoted strictly to them that includes grilled finger lamb chops, smoked salmon quesadilla and grilled sirloin mini-burgers.
Luna Rossa is another favorite with Lake Las Vegas residents and visitors alike. Décor is San Francisco Italian, with dark wood and white napery. Specializing in pasta and risotto in various guises, the restaurant is also known for its salads – try the Insalata Caprese (mozzarella and tomato slices with basil, kalamata olives and extra-virgin olive oil).
Como's Fine Dining is housed in an elegant two-story building with wrap-around dining veranda. Menu centerpiece is beef, with prime cuts of filet, Kobe, flat iron, New York, sirloin and prime rib. Starters are primarily. Salad stars are Cobb, Caesar and grilled prime rib. Chef Joseph Keller is well on his way to gaining a reputation approaching that of his brother Thomas Keller's Bouchon in the Napa Valley.
Casual Fare
There’s an authentic French atmosphere at Bistro Zinc, with its white tablecloths, bentwood chairs and open kitchen of stainless steel. Menu choices range from fried shrimp with Cajun remoulade po-boy sandwiches to Maryland style lump crab cakes The Bistro’s Sunday Jazz Brunch features live music and such dishes as brioche French toast with fresh strawberries.
Looking for a pub atmosphere? Both Auld Dubliner’s ambience and menu are transplants from the Emerald Isle. MonteLago Village boasts a pizzaria, too – Pizzamania – where you can buy pizza (whole or by the slice) calzoni, Italian rice balls, mozzarella sticks, calamari, wine and beer.
Almost every one of the full service restaurants and more casual dining places offers both indoor and outdoor dining. On weekends, street entertainers and musicians add festivity to the al fresco experience, especially at sidewalk cafes along the water.
Picnic Possibilities
Caffe Positano is a bakery/delicatessen, with lots of atmosphere and picnic tables outside. If you’re of the ”loaf of bread, jug of wine” persuasion, go to Casamar’s Market for imported crackers from England, Derrygold cheese from Ireland and a bottle of Sonoma/Nappa Valley wine, such as one of Coppola’s 1995 vintages. Picnic spots -- benches by fountains and walls beside the lake -- abound throughout MonteLago Village.
Snacks and Such
For between-meal indulgences, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Tutti Galati and Starbuck’s provide myriad choices. In fact, the Chocolate Factory handles more than 300 kinds of candy.
More Culinary Choices
Across the lake at Loew’s Lake Las Vegas Resort, Marssa, where windows look out on the water, features a Pacific-Rim inspired menu with full sushi bar. The hotel’s Sansabar Grill is an outdoor eatery and Rick’s Café serves breakfast, lunch and dinner both indoors and out.
Rounding out the Montelago Village bill of fare are the Ritz Carlton’s Medici Cafe and MonteLago Casino’s Tenuto Café and its Tappo Lounge, which also serves food.
Prices at most Lake Las Vegas restaurants are in the moderate-expensive range. A listing of the restaurants, their addresses and phone numbers is available at montelagoresort.
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