Restaurants Open Christmas Day in Las Vegas 2026
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The Christmas-Day pick in Las Vegas for 2026 is Restaurant Guy Savoy, the Forbes Five-Star French room at Caesars Palace and the top-ranked Las Vegas restaurant on La Liste. Editorial runners-up: Joel Robuchon, SW Steakhouse, CUT by Wolfgang Puck, Wing Lei and Mizumi.
Las Vegas is the city that refuses to close. While Paris and New York go dark on the 25th, the Strip runs at full tilt, and the casino resorts keep their best rooms open and pouring. That makes Las Vegas one of the easiest places in America to book a serious Christmas dinner, so long as you reserve ahead and confirm the date. The surest tables are the Forbes Five-Star resort rooms. Six, ranked by prestige and certainty.
Six Tables for a Las Vegas Christmas
The best table on the Strip on Christmas Day, by the metrics that matter. Restaurant Guy Savoy at Caesars Palace took its Forbes Five-Star award for the fourteenth straight year in 2026 and was named the highest-ranked Las Vegas restaurant on La Liste's 2026 list. It is Guy Savoy's only kitchen outside Paris, run day to day by executive chef Julien Asseo; order the Colors of Caviar and the artichoke and black-truffle soup that built the house. Caesars keeps the room open over the holidays, so confirm the 25th and book early. This seat fills first.
The grandest French room in the city, a jewel-box salon off the MGM Grand casino floor. Joel Robuchon has held the Forbes Five-Star rating since it opened in 2006, and executive chef Eleazar Villanueva now runs the kitchen following Christophe De Lellis's move to Dallas. The sixteen-course Menu Degustation, with the famous bread cart and pommes puree, is the maximalist play; a shorter menu runs lighter. MGM Grand stays open through Christmas, so the room is a holiday option, but confirm December 25 specifically and reserve well ahead. This is the special-occasion blowout of the list.
The confirmed-Christmas pick, and the one with a published menu. SW Steakhouse at Wynn runs a Christmas Day service from 5:30 to 10 p.m. with a festive card layered over the regular steaks: garganelli with duck ragu at 28 dollars, a red-wine-aged Snake River Farms New York strip at 165, and a buche de noel for dessert. The room looks onto Wynn's Lake of Dreams, with its hourly water show. It is the most reliable booking on this list for the 25th, because the holiday menu is already documented, and the easiest sell for a table that wants steak over tasting menus.
Wolfgang Puck's modern steakhouse at The Palazzo, and a second strong option for a meat-first Christmas. CUT runs USDA Prime Nebraska corn-fed beef aged thirty-five days alongside 100 percent Japanese Wagyu, with Kobe short ribs braised Indian-spiced and a whole French turbot for two among the non-steak plays. The kitchen layers holiday specials over the card through the festive period, and the Venetian-Palazzo complex stays open on the 25th. Choose it over SW if you want the louder, more theatrical Strip steakhouse room; both deliver the same prime-beef ambition. Book ahead and confirm the holiday start time.
The only Forbes Five-Star Chinese restaurant in North America, and a different kind of Christmas. Wing Lei at Wynn, under chef Ming Yu, became North America's first Cantonese kitchen to earn a Michelin star back in 2008, and it still sets the standard for fine Chinese dining on the Strip; the Peking duck and the Imperial tasting are the orders. One catch worth planning around: Wing Lei runs a Friday-to-Sunday schedule, and December 25 falls on a Friday in 2026, so it is open on the day. Reserve ahead through Wynn, and confirm the holiday hours when you book.
The Japanese option, built around a private garden and koi pond off the Wynn esplanade. Mizumi holds a Forbes Four-Star rating under executive chef Jeff Ramsey, an Iron Chef veteran, and runs sushi and sashimi alongside a robatayaki grill and teppanyaki tables. It is the most relaxed of the six, and the choice for a group that wants raw fish and yakitori over French degustation or prime beef on the 25th. As a Wynn room it serves through the holiday; book the garden-pavilion table if you can, and confirm the date. The best non-Western Christmas dinner here after Wing Lei.
How to Book on Christmas Day
The resort rooms are the certainty here, because the Strip casinos run 365 days a year and keep their flagship restaurants open through the holidays. Restaurant Guy Savoy, Joel Robuchon, SW Steakhouse, CUT, Wing Lei and Mizumi all sit inside resorts that stay open on the 25th. Book through OpenTable or the resort concierge two to four weeks ahead; Christmas week is busy, and the Forbes Five-Star rooms fill earliest. Guy Savoy and Joel Robuchon go first of the six.
Two cautions. First, confirm December 25 specifically rather than the festive 'week,' since some kitchens keep their own weekly dark days, and Wing Lei in particular runs only Friday to Sunday. Second, the city has no Michelin guide anymore, so the rating that matters in Las Vegas is the Forbes Travel Guide star and the AAA Diamond, not a Michelin star; treat any current Michelin claim about a Vegas room as out of date. Book the resort rooms, confirm the day, and the Strip will deliver Christmas dinner when most cities cannot.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most of the Strip's best rooms are open on Christmas Day, because the casino resorts run 365 days a year and their restaurants serve through the holiday. The surest fine-dining tables are Forbes Five-Star Restaurant Guy Savoy at Caesars Palace and Joel Robuchon at MGM Grand, SW Steakhouse and Wing Lei at Wynn, CUT by Wolfgang Puck at The Palazzo, and Mizumi at Wynn. SW Steakhouse runs a confirmed Christmas Day menu.
Restaurant Guy Savoy at Caesars Palace is the strongest Christmas pick in Las Vegas for 2026, a Forbes Five-Star room for fourteen straight years and the highest-ranked Las Vegas restaurant on La Liste 2026. For steak, SW Steakhouse at Wynn runs a confirmed Christmas Day menu, and Joel Robuchon at MGM Grand serves its Forbes Five-Star French degustation. Book Guy Savoy first; its seats go earliest.
Yes. The Strip is busy over the holidays and the Forbes Five-Star rooms book out well ahead, so reserve two to four weeks in advance through OpenTable or the resort concierge. Confirm December 25 specifically rather than the festive week, since some kitchens keep their own weekly dark days. Wing Lei runs a limited Friday-to-Sunday schedule, and the 25th falls on a Friday in 2026, so it is open.
The Forbes Five-Star rooms run high. Guy Savoy and Joel Robuchon are tasting-menu houses where dinner runs several hundred dollars per person before wine. SW Steakhouse's Christmas menu lists a Snake River Farms New York strip at 165 dollars, garganelli with duck ragu at 28 and a buche de noel at 18. CUT and Mizumi sit in the same luxury bracket. Festive set menus often replace the regular card on the 25th, so expect a fixed price at the French rooms.
Yes, if you want a city that does not close. Unlike Paris, London or New York, the Las Vegas Strip runs at full tilt on December 25, so the casinos, showrooms and most fine-dining rooms stay open. That makes it one of the easier American cities for a serious Christmas dinner, with several Forbes Five-Star options taking reservations on the day itself. Confirm the date and book ahead, since the best seats still fill.