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| Pub | Comments | Location |
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LAS VEGAS |
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| Banion's Horseshoe | A plain friendly casino/bar. | Fremont Street |
| Golden Gate | Gaming tables and machines are closely packed in to this slightly down-market bar/casino, in the oldest hotel in Las Vegas. | Fremont Street |
| Holy Cow Brewery | No escape from the fruit machines even here! I tried a superb Apricot Wheat and a very nice Stout in this pleasant brewpub with a slight variation on the usual warehouse style - It's painted in a Fresian Cow colour scheme! The food is good. | Las Vegas Boulevard South / Sahara Avenue |
| Monte Carlo Pub and Brewery | Modern industrial decor in this brewpub in the Monte Carlo Casino complex. Some excellent tasting beers included a so-called "Belgian Wit" which was not cloudy, but who cares - it tasted great. Instead of a pitcher you can order a yard high glass column of beer with a tap on the bottom. Goodness knows how much beer it holds. | Monte Carlo |
| Omaha Lounge | A large casino/bar with a live band playing on a small stage. Drinks are much cheaper here in Downtown Las Vegas than they are on the strip. | Plaza Hotel
Fremont Street / Main Street |
| Quark's Bar | Modelled on the bar on Deep Space Nine, this place has a remarkable range of beers including Klingon Warnog Ale, Romulan Ale, Klingon Blood Draft, Cardassian Pale and Obsidian Dark. Some of them have colours unusual to human eyes! A cosmopolitan clientele included some Klingons when I was there. | Las Vegas Hilton
Paradise Road / Riviera Boulevard |
| Rain Forest Cafe | Spoof jungle decor complete with (carefully controlled) real rain and an impressive tropical thunderstorm sequence. The menu looks OK but we just sat on the bar stools and enjoyed a beer. | |
| Skyview Lounge | There's absolutely no view of the sky from this standard casino bar. | Circus Circus |
| Sports Bar | This one differs from the usual casino bars in that it has TVs showing sports and news above the bar. It is also in a slightly less noisy part of the casino. | Circus Circus |
| Starlight Lounge | No draft beer in this bar separated from the incessant racket of the fruit machines. The live band were quite good when I visited. | Stardust |
| Top Of The World Lounge | A superb view from this bar at the top of the Stratosphere Tower. No draft beer, but reasonable prices on the bottles. The bar is on a balcony overlooking the revolving restaurant but the doesn't itself move, except that the roller coaster running above causes the floor to shake!
I drank my first beer as a forty year old here. |
Stratosphere |
| West Casino Bar | An ordinary casino bar, serving a few draught lagers, and only a couple of paces from the gaming machines. | West Casino, Circus Circus |
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