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The Most Expensive Meals in Las Vegas Might Cost You the Rent
In a city built to separate you from your money, these 10 dinners can do the job before you reach the casino.
By Eric Barton | Oct. 13, 2026
é by José Andrés
AUTHOR BIO: Eric Barton is editor of The Adventurist and a freelance journalist who has reviewed restaurants for more than two decades. Email him here.
Las Vegas will happily take your money at the blackjack table. But some of its restaurants can get the job done while you’re still seated for dinner. A steak arrives in a briefcase, four ounces of beef costs $345, and a private French tasting menu runs $1,500 per person—enough to cover a rent payment in plenty of places. Although the landlord rarely provides Champagne. These are meals built around rare ingredients, elaborate service, and, sometimes, the simple pleasure of making the next table turn its head. Here are the most expensive meals in Las Vegas, from the highest listed base price down, with exactly what that price means on your plate.
1. Restaurant Guy Savoy
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The Krug Chef’s Table puts you beside the kitchen for a dinner priced like a month of living somewhere considerably less glamorous. The $1,500 buys nine to 10 courses shaped around your party’s preferences, a glass of tête de cuvée Champagne, and a conversation with the chef before the meal begins. There’s one seating a night for two to six guests. Add the $600 premium wine pairing and dinner reaches $2,100 per person, before tax and gratuity. At that point, asking for another bread roll seems perfectly reasonable.
What you’ll get: $1,500 per person for a multi-course tasting menu
2. ONE Steakhouse
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Inside Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, ONE’s Tomahawk Feast is an 18-pound, dry-aged USDA Prime steak, which sounds less like an entrée than something you should discuss with the airline before flying it home. It’s carved tableside and comes with six sides, feeding 10 to 12 people for $1,500. Do the division and it’s $125 to $150 each, making this the rare item on the list that becomes somewhat sensible once enough friends show up. The kitchen needs 72 hours’ notice. So does anyone responsible for assembling a dozen people who agree on how to cook a steak.
What you’ll get: $1,500 for an 18-pound tomahawk
3. Papi Steak
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Papi Steak at the Fontainebleau has found a way to make a $1,000 steak even harder to ignore: put it in a briefcase, bring it to the table, and brand it before sending it back to the kitchen. Inside is a 55-ounce Australian purebred wagyu tomahawk, the Beef Case that turns dinner at Fontainebleau into a bit of nightclub theater. That four-figure price is for the steak, not a tasting menu for each diner. It’s an order to share, although the person paying may reasonably claim custody of the leftovers. Apparently, beef can require an entrance.
What you’ll get: A shared $1,s000 wagyu tomahawk with a very public arrival
4. PRIME Steakhouse
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The Bellagio fountains provide the scenery; the Japanese beef provides the reason to read the menu twice. PRIME offers Kagoshima A5 wagyu as filet mignon or New York strip, with a 12-ounce portion costing $720. Six ounces cost $360 and nine ounces cost $540, so the arithmetic is admirably consistent even if the decision requires a minute. Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s steakhouse also offers additions like seared foie gras and black truffle butter, charged separately. The steak alone works out to $60 an ounce. Chewing slowly seems like sound financial planning.
What you’ll get: $720 for a 12-ounce Kagoshima A5 wagyu filet mignon or New York strip
5. Bazaar Meat by José Andrés
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There are several ways to overspend at Bazaar Meat, but the whole suckling pig has the advantage of arriving as a fairly complete explanation. The Spanish pig weighs about 10 pounds, costs $620, and comes with a salad of gem lettuce, tomatoes, and piparra peppers. It’s roasted in a wood-fired oven in a Spanish cazuela, with crisp skin the intended reward for planning ahead. The kitchen asks for 24 hours’ notice. At the Palazzo at the Venetian, this is a feast for the table; ordering one for yourself would leave considerable explaining to do.
What you’ll get: $620 for a whole suckling pig with a salad
6. Joël Robuchon
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Joël Robuchon at MGM Grand takes the quieter approach to separating you from $525: French cooking, an Art Deco townhouse setting, and service with enough ceremony to make the casino outside feel very far away. The dégustation is a succession of carefully composed plates, while the hotel highlights signatures such as ossetra caviar over crab with cauliflower purée. Then there are the bread and sweets carts, small rolling arguments for staying another hour. Wine costs extra. This is the sort of dinner where a bread basket would seem insufficient, even if it contained the deed to a house.
What you’ll get: $525 per person for the dégustation menu
7. Kame Omakase
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Leaving the Strip usually helps the dinner budget. Kame is a fairly emphatic exception. The Chinatown restaurant’s Signature Omakase costs $500 per person, with rare ingredients distinguishing it from the $350 option. The menu follows the kitchen’s selections rather than a checklist of rolls, and the restaurant operates by reservation. It’s a useful reminder that Las Vegas can deliver an expensive Japanese dinner without a casino attached. Nobody is requiring you to gamble afterward, either, which removes at least one opportunity to turn a $500 evening into a much worse story.
What you’ll get: $500 per person for Signature Omakase
8. Wakuda
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A private bar at Wakuda leads to a six-seat omakase counter, the most intimate way to have dinner at the Palazzo at the Venetian. The reported $500-per-person experience leaves the sequence to the chefs, with dishes shaped around the guest and the ingredients available that evening. It’s the private Omakase Room you want when booking, rather than one of the restaurant’s other sushi or tasting options. With so few seats, dinner has the intimacy of a small gathering. The bill, unfortunately, retains the scale of a much larger one.
What you’ll get: $500 per person for the private Omakase Room experience
9. é by José Andrés
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Nine seats surround a steel-topped counter inside the Cosmopolitan, where é turns Spanish avant-garde cooking into an evening of tightly choreographed surprises. The red glass wall and velvet curtain suggest a performance, and the chefs assemble the changing menu in front of you. Pricing varies: a reported 2026 booking showed $490 for dinner and $629.04 after tax and gratuity, while other dates were $325 before those additions. Check the total for your chosen night. Vegas has found a way to make even the dinner price a question of timing.
What you’ll get: A Spanish tasting menu, reported at $325–$490 per person depending on the date
10. Ito
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Ito occupies a 12-seat counter at Fontainebleau, where the hotel advertises an 18-course omakase for $400 per person. The kitchen describes its approach as an inventive interpretation of traditional sushi, leaving the evening’s progression in the chefs’ hands. Beverages, tax, and gratuity are extra, so $400 is the start of the conversation. Spread across 18 courses, the price works out to about $22 a course. That calculation will not make dinner cheaper, but it does give you something reassuring to tell yourself between bites.
What you’ll get: $400 per person for an 18-course omakase
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