The Strip's Most Celebrity-Filled Food Hall Has Recently Opened — Here Are the Culinary Offerings

A new food hall has debuted on the Las Vegas Strip, contributing to a citywide surge of food halls that unite local favorites, national chains, and celebrity chef brands in a single venue. Via Via, which premiered on Monday, June 9 at the Venetian Resort, may be the most exhilarating establishment in the city to yet.

Via Via. The Venetian Resort Las Vegas

While several Las Vegas casinos have replaced buffets with contemporary dining halls, Via Via adopted an alternative strategy by revamping its existing food court, replacing well-known mall establishments such as Bonanno’s and Fatburger with trendy, in-demand restaurants from various regions of the country. Howlin’ Ray’s is a prominent establishment in Los Angeles, renowned for its Nashville-style hot chicken. Its enthusiasts once queued for hours to obtain fried chicken sandwiches, and even nine years after the inauguration of its initial site in LA’s Chinatown, queues remain a frequent occurrence on weekends.

Mason Hereford, a James Beard Award nominee and New York Times best-selling author, is introducing a significant infusion of New Orleans cuisine to the Las Vegas Strip. His renowned establishments, Turkey and the Wolf and Molly’s Rise and Shine, are now offering sandwiches and breakfast specialties at Via Via.

Turkey and the Wolf, the sandwich establishment recognized by Bon Appétit as America’s Best New Restaurant in 2017, is renowned for its unconventional menu, featuring items such as double-decker collard green sandwiches and chicken pot pie-stuffed empanadas with tarragon buttermilk. Adjacent to Hereford’s Magazine Street, Molly’s Rise and Shine offers inventive interpretations of breakfast staples, such the Grand Slam McMuffin, which features sausage patties, American cheese, grilled onions, and house-made English muffins.

At Via Via, the renowned New York noodle establishment Ivan Ramen offers some of the most delightful noodles on the Las Vegas Strip – a critic even proclaimed its ramen “so good it will make your eyes explode.” The menu extends beyond ramen, featuring a selection of innovative izakaya-style small meals, like hot pickles and wagyu pastrami buns.

Some may recall Chef Ray Garcia, the mastermind behind ¡Viva! at Resorts World, as well as his B.S. Taqueria during its brief tenure in the now-defunct Sundry food hall in southwest Las Vegas, where it offered tacos, small plates, and an extensive tequila selection that rivaled full-service bars. The notion has been reintroduced with a novel perspective at Via Via. The cuisine features house-made chorizo, served on freshly pressed heirloom corn tortillas.

Scarr's Pizza, located in the Lower East Side, has been offering pizzas for almost ten years, although its latest establishment had queues extending around the block upon its inauguration in 2023. Owner Scarr Pimentel mills his own flour on-site to establish the optimal base for a quintessential piece of cheese pizza.

Sandwiches from All’Antico Vinaio. At Antico Vinaio

All’Antico Vinaio, the renowned sandwich establishment from Florence famous for its extensive queues, square-cut schiacciata bread, and impressive layers of cured meats and cheeses, has inaugurated its second Las Vegas store within the food hall. The inaugural outpost was launched at UnCommons last year.

Finally, the hospitality group behind for Death & Co., the seminal cocktail bar that significantly shaped the contemporary cocktail renaissance, is introducing its newest idea in Las Vegas. Close Company, which launched in Nashville recently, provides the same premium cocktails as its predecessor but in a more casual, community-oriented atmosphere. This represents Gin & Luck's inaugural foray in Las Vegas, the team responsible for Death & Co. establishments in New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Washington, D.C., and Seattle.

Via Via is the most recent entrant in Las Vegas's burgeoning food hall phenomenon. Tacotarian has recently inaugurated their establishment within the Miracle Eats food court at the Miracle Mile Shops in Planet Hollywood, which is gradually accommodating other vendors such as Irv’s Burgers and Fat Sal’s. Similar to the Venetian, Caesars Palace has revitalized its food court, substituting its utilitarian yet unremarkable stalls with renowned establishments such as Bobby’s Burgers by Bobby Flay and Guy Fieri’s Chicken Guy. Off-Strip, the ephemeral Sundry, which notably ceased operations precisely one year after its inauguration last June, is being supplanted by a renowned Hawaiian food hall emphasizing Asian street cuisine. The newest H-Mart features an integrated dining hall with a variety of Korean and other Asian delicacies.

Via Via emulates Proper Eats at Aria, uniting talent that already attracts audiences in several U.S. locales. Featuring establishments such as Howlin’ Ray’s, Ivan Ramen, Turkey and the Wolf, and Death & Co., along with an impressive array of menus, Via Via transcends the typical food hall; it serves as a guide to the current trends in American cuisine.