The 10 most over-the-top restaurants in Nevada

At the 10 most over-the-top restaurants in Nevada, you can enjoy a meal in total darkness, bite into a steak that costs as much as your mortgage, and more. 

Nevada is an abundant land famous for its sprawling desert landscapes, buzzing casinos, and legendary nightlife. It’s also known for world-class dining experiences, some of which you might consider over the top.

From a meal where someone turns off the lights to a steak that costs as much as your mortgage, we think you’ll have an extraordinary time at any of these 10 over-the-top restaurants in Nevada.

1. Blackout Dining

3871 S. Valley View Blvd., Ste 8., Las Vegas

Las Vegas is a city full of lights, but it’s also home to Blackout Dining, where you can eat a gourmet meal entirely in darkness. Servers in night-vision goggles guide you through the mysterious seven-course sensory dining experience sans sight, including soup, salad, entree, dessert, and drinks. Your other senses will get a boost, and no one will know if you have food stuck in your teeth.

2. Heart Attack Grill

450 Fremont St., #130, Downtown Las Vegas

Where else but Sin City would you find a restaurant that rewards unhealthy behavior? At Heart Attack Grill, the food is so deliberately high in fat, sugar, and cholesterol that the staff wears hospital-themed uniforms, and the waitresses wear nurse outfits. There’s an over-the-top burger on the menu here that’s almost 20,000 calories, and customers over 350 pounds can eat at the restaurant for free. Actual heart attacks may be included.

3. Middlegate Station

42500 Austin Highway, Fallon

Nevada legend tells of a burger so large and over the top that people will trek to the middle of nowhere—a remote location along the Loneliest Road in America (U.S. 50)—to try and finish it. Successfully eating the entire triple-decker Middlegate Monster Burger—made from more than a pound of Angus beef, sourdough bun, lettuce, tomatoes, red onions, pickles, cheese, peppers, olives, and fries—earns you a free T-shirt and a place in the Monster Hall of Shame. If you’re too full to drive after your meal, that’s OK. Middlegate Station is also a motel.

4. Economy Drug

696 Aultman St., Ely

The good old days are nowadays in Ely, where you can still sidle up to the soda fountain, just like it’s 1946. Owned by three generations, Economy Drug is primarily a drug store and pharmacy, but the family maintained the original soda fountain for nostalgia. Seeing this relic is like taking a trip back in time. Order a sandwich from the menu while waiting for your prescription and experience that old-fashioned feeling. 

5. Dick’s Last Resort

3850 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas

If you have low self-esteem or you’re a masochist, Dick’s Last Resort may be the place for you. When you eat at this restaurant inside the Excalibur, the staff relentlessly pokes fun at you, to your face. Sometimes they even write their over-the-top criticism on a ridiculous paper hat that you have to wear while you eat so that everyone knows how much you suck. The food and the beer are rivaled only by the insults.

6. Little A’Le’inn

9631 Old Mill St., Rachel

Alien hunting along Nevada’s official Extraterrestrial Highway (SR 375) would make anyone hungry. Fortunately, Rachel–the town closest to the back gate to the infamous alien hideaway, Area 51–has a restaurant (and motel) for that. At the Little A’Le’Inn, you can order the “World Famous Alien Burger” or another non-alien related menu item, chat with locals about UFO sightings, and stock up on alien-related souvenirs to charge up for your search for little green men. If you’re an alien yourself, you’re in luck. There’s a special UFO parking spot just for you.

7. Nusr-Et

3786 S Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas

At Nusr-Et Steakhouse, you get more than just a perfectly cooked cut of meat. You can order your perfectly cooked dish with a precious metal. To think you’ve been ordering your steak medium rare all this time! To show off your good taste at the table, order The Golden Amor, a 32-ounce marinated Wagyu Rib Cap wrapped in 24-carat Gold for a cool $1,500. Not in the mood for an over-the-top steak? No problem. There’s a 24-carat gold-coated Whole Rack of Lamb for $800. This may be the Silver State, but Nusr-Et gives new meaning to the phrase “good as gold.”

8. Top of the World

2000 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas

When it comes to restaurants, you can’t get more over-the-top than Top of the World, located atop the Strat Hotel, Casino, and Tower in Las Vegas. The dining room showcases an award-winning view of Las Vegas by revolving 360 degrees every 80 minutes. The gourmet menu, meanwhile, is award-winning. It’s a romantic venue 800 feet above the world-famous Las Vegas Strip in the country’s tallest freestanding observation tower.

9. Martin Hotel

94 W. Railroad St., Winnemucca

Nevada is one of the only places in the United States where you can find traditional Basque food. Built in 1989, the historic Martin Hotel in Winnemucca is among the state’s most traditional Basque restaurants. Acquired in 1913 by a Basque family, it was transformed into a 25-room hotel and restaurant in 1920. The Martin Hotel continues to serve a family-style meal of complimentary wine, homemade soup, salad, Basque beans, mashed potatoes, a Basque side dish, a vegetable, home-baked bread, hand-cut fries, and bread pudding. Wash it all down with a signature Pincon Punch. Many of the recipes here date back to the restaurant’s origin.

10. Superfrico

3708 S. Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas

If you were to eat dinner while falling down a rabbit hole, it might be something like eating at Superfrico, a cacophony of bars, lounges, and dining rooms under one roof. Created by entertainment giants Spiegelworld, it’s a place where performers mill about freely while you eat, and you never know what will happen next. It’s described as “a veritable smorgasbord for the senses” with an over-the-top dinner accompanied by impromptu amusements.

This article first appeared on Good Info News Wire and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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