Jean Georges Steakhouse

Jean Georges Steakhouse is Vongerichten's crystal-strewn beef room on Aria's promenade level — the flashier, younger sibling to his Bellagio Prime, running a global steak program from a $72 New York strip up to Hyogo Kobe A5 at $201 per three ounces, with the chef's sauce-and-sides intelligence doing the differentiating.

The orders that earn the room: the 18oz bone-in ribeye ($86) that reviewers consistently crown, the Kobe carpaccio, grilled octopus with paprika, and — to finish — the 24K Gold Bar, the actual signature dessert (skip any lore about soufflés and cotton candy; the Gold Bar and a chocolate sphere are the real closers). A $48 cheeseburger exists for the committed.

Honest calibration: this is one of the country's most expensive steakhouses (~$140-plus a head before ambition), the room leans sparkle-and-scene, sides bill separately, and critics split between 'excellent' and 'pricey-average.' Dinner nightly 5-10:30; business casual with a house quirk — no ball caps in the main dining room. Book for peak nights; off-peak walk-ins land.