16 Las Vegas Restaurant and Bar Closures to Know About — May 2024
Peyote. | Anthony Mair A running list of restaurant and bar closures in Las Vegas and Henderson The first few months of 2024 have brought a slew of closures to restaurants and bars in Las Vegas and Henderson. While the Las Vegas Valley continues to see frequent openings, other businesses have closed or scheduled their final days of service. Check back as this list is updated regularly. See something missing? Hit up the tipline. May Peyote The Latin American restaurant with a psychedelic Palm Springs flair closed abruptly, surprising both staff and fans. The restaurant at Fergusons Downtown was owned by Corner Bar Management, the group that owns bars and restaurants like Park on Fremont, Lucky Day, and the Laundry Room. Sitting right on Fremont Street, the restaurant served dinner with dishes like grilled octopus and sirloin steak, and a brunch of chilaquiles and challah French toast. It closed on April 29. Bella Vita The restaurant's three locations closed within months of each other between February and May. The owners posted on Instagram in March, saying that they opted not to renew their leases at Boca Park, the District, and on Blue Diamond. In addition to serving lunch and dinner, the restaurant also often hosted live music. Shalom Ya’ll The Israeli restaurant opened along with the Proper Eats Food Hall inside the Aria in December 2022. The quick-service eatery served cauliflower shawarma and fluffy pita. The restaurant has closed and is set to be replaced with Parm this spring. It closed on April 14. April Lost Spirits Distillery and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea One of Las Vegas’s most fantastically weird attractions closes at the end of April. The Lost Spirits Distillery is equal parts functioning rum distillery, walk-through attraction, and circus show. While meandering through Lost Spirit’s winding pathways, visitors will come across stations for rum tastings or aerialists suspended from the rafters, spinning mind-bendingly quickly. The 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea restaurant inside is one of the more bizarre dining experiences in Las Vegas. Helmed by chef Taylor Persh, each dinner is available only to 16 people, seated around a communal wooden table illuminated by candles. Grilled octopus is skewered on a small fencing sword, more or less encouraging diners to play with their food. Uni is served in the raised mouth cast on a ceramic plate (yes, you might kiss your dishware). And chef Persh takes to a podium to hand-slice a pig’s head. Lost Spirits closes on April 29. The Tropicana The Tropicana has put locks on the door for the first time in 67 years. The Las Vegas Strip casino is closed — the space will eventually be turned into a baseball stadium. It closed up with its handful of restaurants and bars, including the higher-end Oakville Tuscan Grill, the quick-service Red Lotus Asian Kitchen, the Trago Lounge cocktail bar, a coffee shop, and a small bar for frozen daiquiri drinks called Chill’m. Most notably, celebrity chef Robert Irvine’s sleepy Public House restaurant also shuttered. It closed on April 2. Jason James Pizza Bistro A pizza restaurant known for its crispy thin-crust pizzas has closed. Located in the Southwest, near Rhodes Ranch, the casual restaurant also served pasta, sandwiches, salad, and a really good prime rib dip. It closed in March. Nightmare Cafe The horror-themed bar and restaurant that served cocktails in skull-shaped glasses, hosted Haunted Brunch events, and featured walls covered in homages to slasher films, has called it quits. Nightmare Cafe, which opened in the Las Vegas Arts District in October of 2022, hosted a send-off on Saturday, March 27. Trevi Italian Restaurant Anyone who has ever stepped foot in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace should be familiar with the Trevi Italian Restaurant. It was not acclaimed for its pasta nor for its gelato — but made popular by its central location and ancient Roman theming. The restaurant’s tables were strewn across the mall’s faux cobblestone walkway, surrounded by the fallen column ruins that double as benches, beneath the mall’s painted sky, and in the shadow of the Fountain of the Gods. On Monday, March 25, it abruptly closed. Margaritaville After more than 20 years on the Las Vegas Strip, the Margaritaville restaurant is closing. The restaurant inspired by the late Jimmy Buffett’s song opened in Las Vegas 2003 and the three-level restaurant with six bars hosts live music, serves those 45-ounce cocktails that tourists love to haul around, and serves burgers and expected bar food. Margaritaville will close on April 15. March Astronomy Aleworks On March 9, the Astronomy Aleworks brewery in Henderson will close its doors for the last time. “We ran out of money,” Astronomy Aleworks founder and brewer Matt Brady told Eater Vegas. Brady opened the family-owned taproom in October 2017 in Hederson’s Booze District. It will continue hosting trivia nights through its last day on March 9. February Bird Bar T
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A running list of restaurant and bar closures in Las Vegas and Henderson
The first few months of 2024 have brought a slew of closures to restaurants and bars in Las Vegas and Henderson. While the Las Vegas Valley continues to see frequent openings, other businesses have closed or scheduled their final days of service. Check back as this list is updated regularly.
See something missing? Hit up the tipline.
May
Peyote
The Latin American restaurant with a psychedelic Palm Springs flair closed abruptly, surprising both staff and fans. The restaurant at Fergusons Downtown was owned by Corner Bar Management, the group that owns bars and restaurants like Park on Fremont, Lucky Day, and the Laundry Room. Sitting right on Fremont Street, the restaurant served dinner with dishes like grilled octopus and sirloin steak, and a brunch of chilaquiles and challah French toast. It closed on April 29.
Bella Vita
The restaurant's three locations closed within months of each other between February and May. The owners posted on Instagram in March, saying that they opted not to renew their leases at Boca Park, the District, and on Blue Diamond. In addition to serving lunch and dinner, the restaurant also often hosted live music.
Shalom Ya’ll
The Israeli restaurant opened along with the Proper Eats Food Hall inside the Aria in December 2022. The quick-service eatery served cauliflower shawarma and fluffy pita. The restaurant has closed and is set to be replaced with Parm this spring. It closed on April 14.
April
Lost Spirits Distillery and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
One of Las Vegas’s most fantastically weird attractions closes at the end of April. The Lost Spirits Distillery is equal parts functioning rum distillery, walk-through attraction, and circus show. While meandering through Lost Spirit’s winding pathways, visitors will come across stations for rum tastings or aerialists suspended from the rafters, spinning mind-bendingly quickly.
The 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea restaurant inside is one of the more bizarre dining experiences in Las Vegas. Helmed by chef Taylor Persh, each dinner is available only to 16 people, seated around a communal wooden table illuminated by candles. Grilled octopus is skewered on a small fencing sword, more or less encouraging diners to play with their food. Uni is served in the raised mouth cast on a ceramic plate (yes, you might kiss your dishware). And chef Persh takes to a podium to hand-slice a pig’s head. Lost Spirits closes on April 29.
The Tropicana
The Tropicana has put locks on the door for the first time in 67 years. The Las Vegas Strip casino is closed — the space will eventually be turned into a baseball stadium. It closed up with its handful of restaurants and bars, including the higher-end Oakville Tuscan Grill, the quick-service Red Lotus Asian Kitchen, the Trago Lounge cocktail bar, a coffee shop, and a small bar for frozen daiquiri drinks called Chill’m. Most notably, celebrity chef Robert Irvine’s sleepy Public House restaurant also shuttered. It closed on April 2.
Jason James Pizza Bistro
A pizza restaurant known for its crispy thin-crust pizzas has closed. Located in the Southwest, near Rhodes Ranch, the casual restaurant also served pasta, sandwiches, salad, and a really good prime rib dip. It closed in March.
Nightmare Cafe
The horror-themed bar and restaurant that served cocktails in skull-shaped glasses, hosted Haunted Brunch events, and featured walls covered in homages to slasher films, has called it quits. Nightmare Cafe, which opened in the Las Vegas Arts District in October of 2022, hosted a send-off on Saturday, March 27.
Trevi Italian Restaurant
Anyone who has ever stepped foot in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace should be familiar with the Trevi Italian Restaurant. It was not acclaimed for its pasta nor for its gelato — but made popular by its central location and ancient Roman theming. The restaurant’s tables were strewn across the mall’s faux cobblestone walkway, surrounded by the fallen column ruins that double as benches, beneath the mall’s painted sky, and in the shadow of the Fountain of the Gods. On Monday, March 25, it abruptly closed.
Margaritaville
After more than 20 years on the Las Vegas Strip, the Margaritaville restaurant is closing. The restaurant inspired by the late Jimmy Buffett’s song opened in Las Vegas 2003 and the three-level restaurant with six bars hosts live music, serves those 45-ounce cocktails that tourists love to haul around, and serves burgers and expected bar food. Margaritaville will close on April 15.
March
Astronomy Aleworks
On March 9, the Astronomy Aleworks brewery in Henderson will close its doors for the last time. “We ran out of money,” Astronomy Aleworks founder and brewer Matt Brady told Eater Vegas. Brady opened the family-owned taproom in October 2017 in Hederson’s Booze District. It will continue hosting trivia nights through its last day on March 9.
February
Bird Bar
This bar inside the Flamingo used to be part of Margaritaville, before becoming a casual bar. At one time, it had the cheapest craps tables on the Strip. It closed abruptly in January.
Graze Kitchen
Graze Kitchen, a casual restaurant that served vegan food closed in late February. The restaurant, from the owners of Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar, was located at 7355 South Buffalo Drive. It served appetizers, chips and dips, soup and chili, Firecracker Cauliflower, and vegan sandwiches and salads. Its last day was February 29.
Bad Beat Brewing
Bad Beat Brewing, which had been at 7380 Eastgate Road in Henderson’s Booze District since 2014, has closed its Henderson location — but is already working on reopening in a new space at 142 South Main Street in the Las Vegas Arts District. It has brews like the Little Death salted watermelon gose, a Hoppy Times IPA, and the Bluffing Isn’t Weisse German hefeweizen. Its Henderson brewery closed on February 18.
Trustworthy Brewing Co.
Trustworthy Brewing Co. opened in the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Palazzo in 2019 as the only functioning brewery on the Strip. It had a 60-seat bar, a beer garden, and, overall, room for 430 people. It closed in early February.
Late 2023
See the full listing of 2023 restaurant closures here.
Stack Restaurant and Bar
The restaurant at the Mirage known for serving steak, seafood, and typical American fare closed its doors without fanfare. The restaurant had interesting dimensional wood paneling on the walls and ceiling and served dishes like loaded mac and cheese and mini lamb gyros.
Paymon’s Fresh Kitchen & Lounge
Paymon’s closed its spin-off locations Paymon’s Fresh Kitchen & Lounge, and Paymon’s Fresh Express at 8955 S. Eastern Avenue. The Vegas restaurant that has been serving Mediterranean food for more than 35 years is still open at its 8380 West Sahara Avenue location.
