Las Vegas Mixtape v19: Dead Forever, Culinary Delights, and More

Track #4: Piero’s Italian Cuisine @Convention Center Dr

One of the pleasures of dining at Piero’s Italian Cuisine, which was featured in the 1995 movie “Casino,” is driving up to this standalone building in your car. In seconds flat, multiple valet attendants are all over you, making you feel like an old-school Vegas mobster.

To keep that glamorous feeling going, slide into a dark leather circular booth in one of the six dining rooms in this sprawling, elegantly old-school space where the food is supreme.

Piero’s has been known for its sophisticated take on authentic Italian cuisine and seafood since 1982.  For my second visit here, we followed an incomparable Caesar salad with a majestic, thick slice of Chilean sea bass over a bed of baby spinach and a spiced-just-right puttanesca sauce.

We paired it with the linguini pomodoro with basil—a simple dish, but an expert chef, like the one in Piero’s kitchen, can make it taste like a million bucks.  An exquisite crème brûlée—sweet, tangy, and creamy, with a crunchy caramel topping and raspberries—sent us off happily into the hot Vegas night.

When you enter Piero’s, don’t forget to look for the original restaurant sign from when it opened in 1982 on Karen Ave (now called Liberace Ave). Five years later, the restaurant outgrew its 88-seat configuration and moved to its current location, right off The Strip, with room for 345 guests. Book your holiday parties now.