Bazaar Meat by José Andrés

Bazaar Meat is José Andrés' carnivore carnival — and as of September 2025 it lives at the Venetian's Palazzo tower, in a 20,000-square-foot room where every seat faces the central open-fire kitchen. The move from Sahara (its home since the 2014 SLS days) gave the Strip's most theatrical steakhouse a stage worthy of the show.

The show is the point: the caviar cone ($22) and José's taco of ossetra and jamón ibérico ($25) open, whole suckling pig and tableside Caesar carry the middle, and the beef program runs by weight — Vaca Vieja Black Angus at $90 a pound, Akaushi at $118, Japanese wagyu by the ounce — which is where the bill becomes a group project. Tapas discipline and shared large cuts keep it around $150-275 a head; abandon discipline and it won't.

It's loud, sprawling, and easy to over-order — a menu this wide punishes indecision — and the new room is still shaking down since the September opening. But nothing else in Vegas cooks over live fire with this much Spanish wit: Eater keeps it on the essentials list, and the Gold 'Best Strip Restaurant' hardware isn't sentimental.