Chinatown Is Closing Faster Than the Rest of Las Vegas
We track 1,897 established Las Vegas restaurants. Fifty-nine closed this year, and the losses cluster hard on Spring Mountain Road.
By June Park · Aug 5, 2026
146 rooms ranked from the full review record, not the marketing. The late-night tacos in Chinatown, the breakfast counters in Summerlin, the Henderson rooms the guidebooks skip. Scored by writers who live here, no tourist traps.
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Closures, openings, and board moves, from the same data that builds The List.
We track 1,897 established Las Vegas restaurants. Fifty-nine closed this year, and the losses cluster hard on Spring Mountain Road.
By June Park · Aug 5, 2026The ramen-and-katsu room on south Jones was flagged permanently closed by our checks this week.
The breakfast-and-burger room enters The List at No. 9 with an 8.6 Insider Score, the first burger spot in the top 10.
Our weekly hours check found the Bellagio dining room dark on two separate runs, which is the bar a closure has to clear before we call it.
New rooms on our radar. They earn a full review once the record is deep enough.



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