10 New Meeting Venues in Las Vegas

In May, Gordon Ramsay opened Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris Las Vegas, marking the award-winning chef’s first restaurant in Las Vegas. The two-level steak house draws in guests through a Chunnel-style entrance, and the space offers an eye-catching, restaurant-wide Union Jack ceiling mural and custom neon sculpture. Take a meeting group to the private dining room that can be separated into three rooms or used as one large venue with a capacity of 56. There is also an upstairs area for meetings or events, with a seating capacity of 68.

Slated to open this month is the new Boulevard Theater. The 500-seat theater will host a variety of performances and will also be available for meetings and corporate events. The entire space encompasses 19,000 square feet with five bars. It is equipped with presentation equipment, 7,000 square feet of reception space, and 1,700 square feet of patio space with an outdoor bar. The venue is located across from CityCenter in the old Empire Ballroom space.

The Mob Museum opened February 14. The downtown Las Vegas space tells the story of organized crime and law enforcement, including the mob’s impact on the city's history. The venue is available for booking as a meeting or event space.

Right for small meetings, Harrah’s has just 25,000 square feet of space, lending it a manageable feel compared to other sprawling properties on the Vegas strip. The meeting space was recently revamped, with new wall coverings, carpeting, lighting fixtures, and finishes. Several updated meeting rooms, including the Elko, Ely, and Goldfield rooms, each hold fewer than 50 guests in a classroom-style arrangement.

Flamingo Las Vegas debuted its latest restaurant, Center Cut Steakhouse, in April. The menu includes steak-house classics such as the 20-ounce rib eye and the 24-ounce porterhouse for hearty meeting fare. The space has a large bar and lounge area and holds 172 guests in all, including the bar, lounge, restaurant, and private dining room. The decor is black and white with pink accents, and several plasma screens throughout the restaurant showcase photo montages from the 1940s to the present, paying homage to the 66 years Flamingo has been on the Strip.

Like Harrah's, Bally's is a Caesars Entertainment venue, and its meeting space recently got a face-lift that included new wall coverings, carpeting, lighting fixtures, and other details. Renovated small space in Bally’s North Tower includes the Palace meeting rooms, most of which hold about 30 classroom-style, and the Director’s room, a boardroom that holds 20.

SBE's new Hyde Bellagio opened on New Year's Eve, with design by Philippe Starck with Gulla Jonsdottir of G Design. The 12,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor space has a variety of spaces for meeting groups. The Northern Terrace, which holds 50, sits directly on the water of Lake Bellagio and features windows, a glass wall, and access to a private bathroom. The Southern Terrace, which holds 60, sits opposite the garden and has a large, glass-backed bar.

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts is finally open. The public-private partnership brings performances by resident companies as well as first-run touring attractions to town. The five-acre cultural campus includes three performance spaces: the 2,050-seat main performance area in Reynolds Hall, the Boman Pavilion’s 258-seat Cabaret Jazz theater, and the 250-seat Troesch Studio Theatre.

Mizumi, the Japanese restaurant at Wynn Las Vegas, opened in May. Helmed by chef Devin Hashimoto, the menu offers classic entrées, sushi, and sashimi, robatayaki selections prepared over authentic Japanese charcoal grills and teppanyaki offerings. Design comes from Wynn Design and Development executive vice president Roger Thomas and includes traditional Noh theater masks, embroidered obi sashes, hand-painted fans, and other iconic Japanese-design themes, along with a bold color palette of red with gold accents. There are floor-to-ceiling windows in the main dining room. Another group option is the theatrical teppanyaki room.

Late this year, you can take your meeting to a big-name new space on the Strip: the world’s first Nobu Hotel, restaurant, and lounge. The new restaurant will be an 11,200-square-foot space with an East-meets-West look and feel. Bowed columns of bamboo will line the exterior, meant to resemble the structure of the traditional Japanese ikebana basket used for the art of flower arranging. Colorful, patterned private dining pods and leather-upholstered screens will wrap the dining room. A 15-person bar will be the focal point of the lounge and will include an oversize bowl hand carved from a single block of wood.