

I’m happy to report that the Chilean Sea Bass (with a puttanesca sauce and baby spinach) was stratospheric.

Now 40 years old, the just-off-The Strip eatery specializing in Italian cuisine and seafood is sprawling and grand. Piero’s: Soon as you pull up to this stand-alone building on Convention Center Dr, the valet attendants are all waiting to take your car, like you’re a famous crime figure. Here are four classic spots, and each one was absolutely bustling, with seriously top-notch service, when I recently visited them. Yesterday may be gone, but gangster mythology remains fascinating. It’s impossible not to spot restaurants with old-school Italian vibes all over Vegas-places with dim lighting, storied pasts as mobster hangouts, live Rat Pack music, and chicken parmigiana that doesn’t skimp on the cheese. (Image: Open Table) Track #1: Piero’s, Capo’s Restaurant & Speakeasy, Italian American Club, and Casa de Amore Check out more about the spot below in Track 6. These “tracks” spotlight the sizzle and rich eclecticism of this ever-evolving city, where there are many different roads, on and off The Strip, to go down. So it was hard to resist building on the Las Vegas “mixtape” theme of my last column with this new compilation. You know what they say about making mixtapes? It’s hard to create only one.
