ITO

Ito is a twelve-seat omakase counter on Fontainebleau's 67th floor — chefs Masa Ito and Kevin Kim's (VCR Group) $400, eighteen-course procession of Japan-flown fish, staged with Strip-to-Red-Rock views and, against every omakase convention, a hip-hop soundtrack. It opened in February 2024 inside the members-only Poodle Room and quickly joined the city's top-tier sushi conversation.

The access question answers cleanly: you do NOT need the club's five-figure membership — an Ito reservation, booked only through Fontainebleau's own site, is itself your pass into the Poodle Room for the evening. Two seatings nightly at 6:00 and 8:45, roughly two hours each, no walk-ins, sake and wine pairings extra.

The calculus: $400 before pairings puts it among the city's most expensive counters (Vegas's top omakase tier runs $125-500, and this sits near the ceiling), twelve seats make lead-time mandatory, and the club setting adds glamour some find charged. But the seasonal uni bowl — urchin, marinated ikura, ossetra over rice — and the altitude make the case: this is occasion sushi with the city underfoot.