16 Las Vegas Restaurant and Bar Closures to Know About — May 2024

Peyote. | Anthony Mair A running list of restaurant and bar closures in Las Vegas and Henderson The first few months of 2024 have brought a slew of closures to restaurants and bars in Las Vegas and Henderson. While the Las Vegas Valley continues to see frequent openings, other businesses have closed or scheduled their final days of service. Check back as this list is updated regularly. See something missing? Hit up the tipline. May Peyote The Latin American restaurant with a psychedelic Palm Springs flair closed abruptly, surprising both staff and fans. The restaurant at Fergusons Downtown was owned by Corner Bar Management, the group that owns bars and restaurants like Park on Fremont, Lucky Day, and the Laundry Room. Sitting right on Fremont Street, the restaurant served dinner with dishes like grilled octopus and sirloin steak, and a brunch of chilaquiles and challah French toast. It closed on April 29. Bella Vita The restaurant's three locations closed within months of each other between February and May. The owners posted on Instagram in March, saying that they opted not to renew their leases at Boca Park, the District, and on Blue Diamond. In addition to serving lunch and dinner, the restaurant also often hosted live music. Shalom Ya’ll The Israeli restaurant opened along with the Proper Eats Food Hall inside the Aria in December 2022. The quick-service eatery served cauliflower shawarma and fluffy pita. The restaurant has closed and is set to be replaced with Parm this spring. It closed on April 14. April Lost Spirits Distillery and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea One of Las Vegas’s most fantastically weird attractions closes at the end of April. The Lost Spirits Distillery is equal parts functioning rum distillery, walk-through attraction, and circus show. While meandering through Lost Spirit’s winding pathways, visitors will come across stations for rum tastings or aerialists suspended from the rafters, spinning mind-bendingly quickly. The 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea restaurant inside is one of the more bizarre dining experiences in Las Vegas. Helmed by chef Taylor Persh, each dinner is available only to 16 people, seated around a communal wooden table illuminated by candles. Grilled octopus is skewered on a small fencing sword, more or less encouraging diners to play with their food. Uni is served in the raised mouth cast on a ceramic plate (yes, you might kiss your dishware). And chef Persh takes to a podium to hand-slice a pig’s head. Lost Spirits closes on April 29. The Tropicana The Tropicana has put locks on the door for the first time in 67 years. The Las Vegas Strip casino is closed — the space will eventually be turned into a baseball stadium. It closed up with its handful of restaurants and bars, including the higher-end Oakville Tuscan Grill, the quick-service Red Lotus Asian Kitchen, the Trago Lounge cocktail bar, a coffee shop, and a small bar for frozen daiquiri drinks called Chill’m. Most notably, celebrity chef Robert Irvine’s sleepy Public House restaurant also shuttered. It closed on April 2. Jason James Pizza Bistro A pizza restaurant known for its crispy thin-crust pizzas has closed. Located in the Southwest, near Rhodes Ranch, the casual restaurant also served pasta, sandwiches, salad, and a really good prime rib dip. It closed in March. Nightmare Cafe The horror-themed bar and restaurant that served cocktails in skull-shaped glasses, hosted Haunted Brunch events, and featured walls covered in homages to slasher films, has called it quits. Nightmare Cafe, which opened in the Las Vegas Arts District in October of 2022, hosted a send-off on Saturday, March 27. Trevi Italian Restaurant Anyone who has ever stepped foot in the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace should be familiar with the Trevi Italian Restaurant. It was not acclaimed for its pasta nor for its gelato — but made popular by its central location and ancient Roman theming. The restaurant’s tables were strewn across the mall’s faux cobblestone walkway, surrounded by the fallen column ruins that double as benches, beneath the mall’s painted sky, and in the shadow of the Fountain of the Gods. On Monday, March 25, it abruptly closed. Margaritaville After more than 20 years on the Las Vegas Strip, the Margaritaville restaurant is closing. The restaurant inspired by the late Jimmy Buffett’s song opened in Las Vegas 2003 and the three-level restaurant with six bars hosts live music, serves those 45-ounce cocktails that tourists love to haul around, and serves burgers and expected bar food. Margaritaville will close on April 15. March Astronomy Aleworks On March 9, the Astronomy Aleworks brewery in Henderson will close its doors for the last time. “We ran out of money,” Astronomy Aleworks founder and brewer Matt Brady told Eater Vegas. Brady opened the family-owned taproom in October 2017 in Hederson’s Booze District. It will continue hosting trivia nights through its last day on March 9. February Bird Bar T