What: Lobby Bar
Website: Click here
Where: 3799 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Why:
Just past the lobby of the MGM Grand is a delicious little wine lounge and bar called (perhaps unsurprisingly) “Lobby Bar”. The dress code is technically “casual”, but even though you can get away with wearing your Nikes and Lorna Janes, when you walk in you’ll probably convince yourself to at least up the ante to smart casual, because this wine lounge is lovely and at least a little swanky.
The lounge is dimly lit, mainly by the lights of the bar on the convex curved inside wall and by the gaming machines in the large gaming section outside, and that gives it a smooth clubby feel, which is matched by the dulcet tones and demeanour of the nightclub-attired wait staff ready to help you start or finish your night – or day – as the case may be … this is after all Las Vegas, which never sleeps.
There is an already impressive cocktail list but they will happily make you cocktails off list if you prefer. That said, the menu cocktails we tried were very tasty and the service we found to be excellent. It helps if you tip well – but we were served very well despite paying our bill and tip just before leaving.
There does seem to be a raft of negative comments on Yelp! about the service at this place. Our experience and those of others we know was quite the opposite.
Being a wine lounge and bar, no food is offered. Our waitress told us that apparently in Nevada you can either serve food and drink with no smoking allowed, or allow people to smoke and only serve drinks. Because it’s apparently less offensive to drink around smoke than eat around smoke right? Let’s save that discussion for another day.
So, again like many places in Las Vegas, smoking in the venue is fine, but the ventilation is excellent so the smoke (to whiny non-smokers like us) was never an issue.
Smooth up to date music plays non-stop which gives the lounge an active and exciting ambience when coupled with the dazzling display of lights at the bar and outside. Later in the night, a DJ amps it up a bit and plays music choices seemingly attuned to the crowd at the time, and it is well appreciated.
This fine lounge and bar is a must-visit venue when in Vegas.
