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Fin & Feathers Restaurant

Late-night seafood and live music south of the Arts District.

Open until 2 AM $$ Local FavoriteLive MusicLate Night
7.1/10
Great Scored by Hal Brennan · How we score
№ 01 · The Brief

Fin & Feathers Restaurant sits on South Casino Center Boulevard, in the corridor that runs through the southern edge of the Arts District toward the Strip. The operating pattern here covers seven days a week, with doors opening at 11 AM Monday through Friday, 10 AM on weekends, and the kitchen running until 2 AM on Fridays and Saturdays, an hours structure that signals the room was built for the late-night crowd as much as the lunch one. 419 reviews and a 4.5 average describe a room that holds its ground across a full day.

The categories tell the story in shorthand: seafood, chicken wings, sandwiches. The catfish nuggets appear in the review record with enough consistency to read as a signature, and the rum punch has its own following. Reviewers note live music alongside the food, which positions Fin & Feathers less as a straight dining room and more as an evening room where the meal shares billing with the music program. Bingo nights draw their own regulars, distinct from the weeknight after-work crowd.

South Casino Center Boulevard places the restaurant at an interesting seam in the city: close enough to the Strip to pull visitors, close enough to the Arts District to draw the neighborhood crowd. The corridor has its own rhythm, separate from the Spring Mountain corridor and from Fremont East. Rooms that hold a 4.5 average across 400-plus reviews in this stretch are not running on foot traffic alone.

The extended weekend hours are the clearest operating signal: Fin & Feathers is serving the late crowd, the after-show crowd, the post-shift crowd. A room open until 2 AM on Friday and Saturday in this part of the city has thought about who keeps those hours and built accordingly. The combination of seafood, wings, live music, and a late close gives it a position few spots in the valley occupy.

№ 02 · What to Order

The order, from the record

№ 03 · Insider Tip
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The room runs until 2 AM on Fridays and Saturdays, which makes it a legitimate late-night option in a part of the city that doesn't have many. Bingo nights pull a separate crowd from the live-music evenings; the two programs give the room two distinct personalities across the week.

Hal Brennan · Top of Las Vegas
How we score

The Insider Score is our own 10-point editorial rating, set by the writer who covers the room. It is never an average of other sites’ stars, and it is never for sale. It weighs three things:

01Track record

How highly a kitchen rates, across how many diners, over how long.

02Consistency

Whether recent diners still agree with the long-term verdict.

03Distinction

What the kitchen does that its category does not.

Fin & Feathers Restaurant earns a 7.1, great on our scale for Seafood in Las Vegas.
Hal Brennan
Hal Brennan
Editor at Large

Hal covers the rooms that earn their reputation the hard way: the long-running kitchens, the specialists, the places Las Vegas quietly agrees on. His reviews start with the record and end with a reason to go.

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