What Bazaar Meat is
Bazaar Meat is José Andrés's answer to the Las Vegas steakhouse: a 300-seat carnival of open fire, Spanish tapas, whole roasted animals and molecular-gastronomy jokes, opened in 2014 at what is now the Sahara Las Vegas at the north end of the Strip. The room is a series of theatrical stages — a glass-walled butchery, a raw bar, a wood-fired oven with suckling pigs turning, a "meat curtain" of hanging jamón — around a cocktail bar that does liquid-nitrogen tricks. It has won essentially every local award for a decade and is the restaurant Las Vegas chefs most often name when asked where they take visiting cooks.
The Sahara is a less glamorous address than the centre Strip, and that is part of why Bazaar Meat is easier to book and slightly better value than its peers. It is ten minutes by rideshare or monorail from the centre Strip, and the restaurant's entrance is off the casino floor near the resort's front.
How to order: the plan
The menu is long and confusing on first reading, so use this structure. Round one, the fun bites: the cotton-candy foie gras (a lollipop of foie wrapped in spun sugar), the "beefsteak tomato" tartare, the liquid olives if you want the elBulli reference, and a plate of hand-carved jamón ibérico from the meat curtain. Round two, from the raw bar and fryer: the Kobe-style beef tartare prepared tableside, croquetas, and the tuna or scallop crudos. Round three, the fire: this is where you choose between a steak — the Vaca Vieja, an aged beef from older dairy cattle with enormous flavour, or the American Wagyu cuts — and the whole suckling pig, cooked in the wood oven and carved for the table with a plate, in the Segovian tradition. The pig must usually be ordered ahead and feeds a group; ask when booking.
Sides are Spanish rather than steakhouse — patatas bravas, roasted peppers, fried potatoes with egg — and are worth ordering. Dessert is optional; if you have room, the flan.
Prices in 2026
Bazaar Meat is priced like a top steakhouse with a wider low end. As of 2026 and subject to change: small bites and tapas $15–40, jamón and caviar dishes higher, croquetas and crudos $20–35, steaks by weight with the Vaca Vieja and Wagyu cuts running well over $100 and shareable large-format cuts in the several-hundred-dollar range, and the suckling pig priced per portion or whole for a group. A tapas-led dinner with one shared steak works out to $90–150 per person before drinks; a full-tilt dinner with the pig and premium cuts is $180–250. Cocktails are $20–26 and the sherry and Spanish wine list is one of the best in the country. Confirm current prices on the Sahara site.
The bar and lounge serve a shorter version of the menu to walk-ins, which is the way to taste the kitchen for $60–80 a head, and happy-hour specials appear on some weeknights — see our happy hours guide.
Booking and timing
Reservations are via OpenTable and the Sahara site and, because the room is large and the Sahara is off the main tourist flow, a table is usually available with a week's notice, and often a few days out midweek. Weekend prime time still fills, particularly during fight weekends and conventions at the nearby convention centre. Book directly if you want the suckling pig, which needs advance ordering, or the chef's tasting menu, which walks a table through the greatest hits at a fixed price and is the best option for first-timers who do not want to navigate the menu.
Allow two to two and a half hours. Dinner-only service, from around 5:30pm. The Sahara is on the monorail — the station is at the back of the property — and a rideshare from Bellagio is about $12–18. See transportation.
The room, the dress code and who it suits
Dress is smart casual; the crowd is a mix of food-obsessed couples, big groups and industry people, and less dressed-up than Carbone or CUT. The energy is high and the lighting is dramatic, with the fire stations glowing. Ask for a table near the wood oven or the butchery if you like the show, or a booth on the perimeter if you want to talk.
Bazaar Meat suits groups of four to eight who will share, adventurous eaters, and anyone who finds ordinary steakhouses boring. It is a great choice for a birthday. It suits less well: solo diners at a table (use the bar), picky eaters, and vegetarians, though the vegetable tapas are good enough for one non-meat-eater in a group — see vegan and vegetarian. Compare it with the conventional greats in best steakhouses.
José Andrés's other Las Vegas restaurants
José Andrés's group has a bigger footprint here than almost anywhere outside Washington. Jaleo at The Cosmopolitan is the tapas-and-paella original: paellas cooked over open wood fires, patatas bravas, the same jamón, at $60–100 a head, and one of the friendliest rooms on the Strip for a group. é by José Andrés is the eight-seat tasting counter hidden inside Jaleo and the hardest table in town; see fine dining. China Poblano, also at The Cosmopolitan, mashes Chinese and Mexican street food — dumplings and tacos — and is the cheap, casual option for lunch. If you can do only one, Bazaar Meat is the most complete expression of what the group does.
Tips and mistakes to avoid
- Order the suckling pig ahead if you are four or more. It is the dish the restaurant was built around.
- Take the chef's tasting menu if the menu overwhelms you; it is the curated route.
- Do not order a steak each. One shared cut plus tapas is the right proportion and far cheaper.
- Drink sherry. The list is superb and the staff know it.
- Leave room for the bar. The cocktail program is a show in itself.
- Use the monorail if you are staying at MGM Grand, Bally's/Horseshoe or Harrah's; it drops you inside the Sahara.
