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Best Italian Restaurants in Las Vegas 2026
Italian · Las Vegas · 7 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 20, 2026 · Updated June 20, 2026
Mario Carbone runs two restaurants on this Strip now, a mile apart, and they cook nothing alike: one is a New York red-sauce fever dream with veal parmesan the size of a steering wheel, the other a coastal-Italian seafood palace in the room where Picasso used to hang on the wall. That gap is the whole story of Italian food in Las Vegas. The casinos import the biggest names — Carbone, Giada De Laurentiis, the Sinatra estate — and pour money at them; the off-Strip institutions, Ferraro's and Piero's, have quietly out-cooked half of them for forty years. Ranked on the plate, the room, and what the bill actually buys, with the dish to order at each.
1.Carbone
The Strip's hardest Italian reservation, theatrical and worth it; book a month out for a celebration you want to feel cinematic.
Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi opened this Aria dining room in 2013 and it has been the hottest Italian table in Las Vegas more or less ever since — captains in burgundy dinner jackets, a Caesar finished tableside, a soundtrack of Bobby Darin. The spicy rigatoni vodka (around $34) is the dish everyone photographs and the veal parmesan (around $89) is the one to actually order, a pounded cutlet that overhangs the plate. It is loud, expensive and gloriously aware of its own act, which is exactly the point. Book through Resy or OpenTable about thirty days ahead and dress for it.
Reserve on Resy at the drop; spicy rigatoni, the Caesar, then veal parmesan.
2.Carbone Riviera
Major Food Group's coastal-Italian sequel in the old Picasso room; book for a fountain-side seafood blowout with a two-pound lobster pasta.
When the Bellagio closed Julian Serrano's Picasso in 2024, Major Food Group took the most coveted dining room on the Strip and reopened it in late 2025 as Carbone Riviera — an evocation of the Italian and French coast where the original Carbone is a New York steakhouse fantasy. The meal opens with a raw-bar tower of king crab, langoustines and sea urchin; the whole-fish program runs nightly over Japanese charcoal; and the pasta to order is the two-pound lobster arrabbiata with hand-cut fettuccine. Floor-to-ceiling windows put the Bellagio fountains in the frame. This is the city's grandest new Italian opening — reserve well ahead and sit by the glass.
Book direct or OpenTable; the raw bar, a whole fish, and the lobster arrabbiata.
3.Sinatra
The only Sinatra-estate-sanctioned room in the world; book for an old-Vegas fine-dining night built around the ossobuco.
Sinatra at Encore is the only restaurant the Frank Sinatra estate has authorized to use the name, and the walls carry his Oscar, his Grammys and his framed letters. Chef Theo Schoenegger — who cooked at the Sinatra room in New York — runs a Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star kitchen whose signature is the Ossobuco "My Way," a braised veal shank over saffron risotto with gremolata. It is the most classically grand of the Strip's Italian rooms, all warm lighting and tuxedoed service, and the patio looks onto the Encore pool. Book through Wynn or OpenTable and order the ossobuco without debate.
Reserve via Wynn dining; the ossobuco over saffron risotto, a Barolo alongside.
4.Ferraro's
The off-Strip institution locals trust; book for a slow-braised osso buco and a 20,000-bottle Italian cellar.
Gino Ferraro opened on Spring Mountain Road in 1985 and crossed the year 2025 marking forty years in business; his son Mimmo Ferraro now runs the kitchen at the Paradise Road room across from the convention district. The osso buco (around $76) — veal shank in a red-wine reduction, slow-cooked until it slides off the bone — is the dish the family built its name on, and the wine program is the real flex: more than 20,000 bottles across 1,200 Italian labels, with a Wine Spectator record to match. No celebrity branding, no casino floor, just housemade pasta and a sommelier who knows every region. Reserve a few days ahead.
Book by phone or OpenTable; the osso buco and whatever the sommelier opens.
5.Giada
Giada De Laurentiis's bright, view-first room; book a window table for lemon spaghetti and the best Italian brunch on the Strip.
Giada De Laurentiis put her first restaurant on the top floor of the Cromwell on the Strip, and its window tables look straight across at the Bellagio fountains and Caesars Palace. The cooking is lighter and more Californian than the red-sauce rooms — the lemon spaghetti is the dish to order, with the chicken-Marsala meatballs close behind — and the weekend brunch is among the better ones on the Strip. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and a stack of Las Vegas Review-Journal "Best of" wins. Book ahead and ask specifically for a window. It is the approachable, daylight side of Strip Italian.
Reserve on OpenTable; request a window; lemon spaghetti and the meatballs.
6.Lago
Julian Serrano's small-plates room over the fountains; book for a graze-and-share Italian dinner that flatters a group.
Lago by Julian Serrano sits at the lake level of the Bellagio with floor-to-ceiling windows and a patio that runs right up to the fountains. Serrano — the chef who built Picasso and the eponymous Spanish room next door — designed Lago around modern Italian small plates rather than three-course formality: crostini, pizzettes, raw seafood and pastas like the seafood linguine with scallops, shrimp and lobster, all sized to share. The 600-bottle wine list and 30 by-the-glass pours make it an easy table for a group that can't agree. Time a reservation to a fountain show and order broadly across the menu.
Book on OpenTable for a fountain-show window; order small plates wide, plus the seafood linguine.
7.Piero's Italian Cuisine
The off-Strip power-broker's table since 1982; book for osso buco in a room that played itself in Casino.
Freddie Glusman opened Piero's at 355 Convention Center Drive in 1982, and four decades on his son Evan keeps it running as the city's old-school Italian-American power table — the room that appeared in Scorsese's Casino and still draws senators, athletes and casino owners. The kitchen sells between ninety and a hundred-thirty osso buco a night, veal shank with gremolata, and the bone marrow and the stone crab are the orders to bookend it. There is nothing modern here and that is the appeal: red leather, career captains, a guest book of Vegas history. Reserve a few days out and ask for a booth.
Book by phone; the osso buco, bone marrow to start, stone crab in season.
How Las Vegas eats Italian
Italian in Las Vegas splits cleanly along one line: the Strip and everything off it. On the Strip, the casinos buy the names — Carbone, Carbone Riviera and Lago cluster around the Bellagio and Aria, Sinatra anchors Encore, Giada tops the Cromwell — and the rooms trade as much on spectacle, fountain views and tuxedoed service as on the cooking. The prices follow the address: a pasta runs $30 and up, and the bill for two crosses several hundred dollars before wine.
Off the Strip, around Paradise Road and the convention district, Ferraro's and Piero's have cooked the Italian-American canon for forty years for an audience of locals and regulars who never set foot on a casino floor. Both are full-service institutions with deep cellars, and both are easier to book and gentler on the bill than the Strip rooms. The move, if you have two nights, is one of each: a marquee Strip dinner and an off-Strip institution. For the rest of the city beyond pasta, the Las Vegas dining guide maps every neighborhood and casino by occasion.
Where not to look for it
Skip these for a real Italian dinner
The food-court "Italian" inside the casino quick-eats. Every resort has a counter selling rubbery cacio e pepe and warmed-over meatballs at room-service prices. Walk to any room on this list instead — even the cheapest of them cooks pasta to order.
Carbone for a quiet conversation. The original at Aria is a loud, high-energy, see-and-be-seen room by design; it is the wrong call for a deal you need to hear yourself close or a date you want to actually talk through. For quiet, point yourself at Sinatra at Encore or a booth at Piero's.
Frequently asked
What is the best Italian restaurant in Las Vegas?
Carbone at Aria is the city's defining Italian room — Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi's theatrical take on New York red-sauce cooking, with the spicy rigatoni vodka and tableside Caesar as its signatures, and one of the hardest reservations on the Strip. For coastal Italian seafood, the same team's new Carbone Riviera at the Bellagio is its equal; for an off-Strip institution, Ferraro's has cooked the same osso buco for forty years.
How hard is it to get a reservation at Carbone in Las Vegas?
Carbone at Aria releases tables on Resy and OpenTable about thirty days out, and prime weekend slots are gone within minutes of the drop. Weeknights and earlier or later seatings are easier. If Carbone is full, its sibling Carbone Riviera at the Bellagio and Sinatra at Encore both run the same fine-dining tier and book a little less ferociously. Set a Resy notify and take the first time offered.
Which Las Vegas Italian restaurant has the best wine list?
Ferraro's on Paradise Road carries the deepest cellar — more than 20,000 bottles across 1,200 labels, with a Wine Spectator track record to match — and a sommelier who will pour Italian regions you have never heard of. On the Strip, Giada at the Cromwell holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. For both, ask the floor to pair the osso buco or the lemon spaghetti rather than ordering blind.
Where do locals eat Italian in Las Vegas, off the Strip?
Ferraro's on Paradise Road and Piero's on Convention Center Drive are the two off-Strip institutions locals have eaten at for decades — Ferraro's since 1985, Piero's since 1982. Both cook the old-school Italian-American canon, osso buco above all, away from the casino floor. Piero's was a filming location for Scorsese's Casino and still draws the city's power players. Reserve a few days ahead for either.
What is the difference between Carbone and Carbone Riviera?
Carbone at Aria is the original Italian-American red-sauce room — veal parmesan, spicy rigatoni vodka, captains in burgundy dinner jackets. Carbone Riviera at the Bellagio, opened in late 2025 in the former Picasso space, is a coastal-seafood pivot from the same Major Food Group team: a raw-bar tower, whole fish over Japanese charcoal, and pastas like the two-pound lobster arrabbiata. One is a New York steakhouse fantasy; the other is the Italian Riviera.
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