Category: Downtown

Downtown Las Vegas, also know as Glittergulch, the areas around downtown include East Fremont, Symphony Park, and the Arts District.

Taking it to the Streets – Vegas StrEats Festival

August 11, 2011

The Food Network is getting ready for the premiere of the second season of The Great Food Truck Race, which airs Sunday August 14, 2011 10pm/9c. Now, you have to chance to experience Las Vegas’ food trucks in the monthly Las Vegas Streats Festival. The Festival starts at 6pm – 2am August 13, 2011 in Downtown Las Vegas across the street from the El Cortez. Admission is free and there will be Live Music, Dj’s, and Artist, and along with Vegas’ own upscale Food Trucks. Including: Slidin’ Thru, Fukuburger, Tasty Buns, Snow Ono, Muncheeze, Lulu’s On the Move and others. Great food and music bringing new life to the downtown, see you there.

For a quick recap of last month’s Vegas Streats Festival – see July’s post and pictures.

Vegas Streats Festival - Saturday August 13, 2011 @6pm-2am

Visit their website http://www.vegasstreats.com

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Luv-It Frozen Custard

July 26, 2011

Luv-it Frozen Custard

Every town has a favorite ice cream shop. I left behind my favorite custard stand, Glen’s Frozen Custard, when we moved from our small town of Springdale, Pennsylvania to Las Vegas in the early 1970s. Lucky for me that same year, 1973, Luv-It Frozen Custard, opened in Las Vegas and has been serving up delicious, frozen custard from the same location to loyal locals for nearly four decades.

Luv-It is located just off of the Las Vegas Strip, next to Olympic Gardens Gentlemen’s Club, it’s not in the best neighborhood, but that only seems to add to its authenticity. The small building serves frozen custard through a small walk up window and has survived mainly on word-of-mouth advertising for 38 years.

Luv-It Frozen Custard specializes in sundaes, cones, shakes, malts, and floats. Root beer floats, whips, luv sticks and chocolate covered frozen bananas are also favorites. They have basic sundaes banana splits etc… but are known for their own creations. Their top seller is the Western, which is vanilla custard topped with hot fudge, caramel and salted pecans. But my personal favorite is the Scotch Jimmie, vanilla custard, butterscotch, bananas and chocolate jimmies or sprinkles. You can get a regular size (3 scoops) or a junior size (2 scoops). Pints, quarts and half gallons are available as packaged to go products.

Like many long-time Las Vegans, I have had a long love affair with Luv-It Frozen Custard, beginning in my early childhood when I would beg my parents to take me there as often as possible and through my teenage years where I drove past the store to and from high school (and usually stopped on my way home from school). As a young adult living near-by, I would stop by to get a late night treat and now I proudly take my children there so they can enjoy what has been a favorite of mine for so many years.

Luv-It Frozen Custard is located…

Just off The Strip (Las Vegas Blvd. just one building away)

505 E. Oakey Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89104

(702)384-6452

Located within WALKING DISTANCE from the Stratosphere (one light) between Sahara Ave. and Charleston Blvd.

Hours of operation are:

1pm-10pm Sun-THU

1pm-11pm FRI-SAT

CASH ONLY

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Downtown Las Vegas – Symphony Park

July 20, 2011

Update: July 20, 2011 -In Downtown Las Vegas, a new crop of buildings have sprang up over the past few years. The following buildings are within a quarter mile from each other with most of them in the Symphony Park development in downtown Las Vegas.

New Las Vegas City Hall under construction on Main Street

New Las Vegas City Hall is currently under construction adjacent to Symphony Park on Main Street. This $185-million project will be a energy saving LEED-certified building. This new building will bring down the annual energy cost by more than $500,000 compared to the current City Hall. The new 310,00-square-foot, seven-story building is taking shape and looks to be completed in spring of 2012.

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Cleveland Clinic's Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health opened May 21, 2010

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, opened on July 13, 2009 in Las Vegas and is operated by the Cleveland Clinic. The building was designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry and is fast becoming a landmark for Las Vegas and Symphony Park.

Smith Center for the Performing Arts, It is scheduled to open in 2012

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts located in Downtown Las Vegas Nevada’s symphony Park is a 4.75 acres theater facility consisting of three theaters in two buildings. The future home of the new Discovery Children’s Museum is shown in the photo near the left edge. Groundbreaking for the Smith Center’s $470 million project was on May 26, 2009. The design is an Art Deco, reflecting that of the nearby Hoover Dam. It is scheduled to open in 2012. The Smith Center will feature international music, and dance companies, and will be the main center of the Las Vegas Philharmonic and Nevada Ballet Theatre.

World Market Center Las Vegas has 3 buildings with total ofover 5,000,000 sq. feet

The World Market Center is located across from the Lou Revo Center and are three massive buildings housing a whooping 5,000,000-square-foot showcase for the home and hospitality contract furnishings industry in Las Vegas. Originally slated for eight buildings, three have been built and the rest on hold until better economics times. Building A (10-stories) stood alone starting back in July of 2005, Building B (16-stories) opened in January 2007 and Building C (16-stories) opened in July 2008. Within the center is also a gourmet restaurant by the name of Mundo.

New Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters opens July 2011

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters is located a few blocks west of the World Market Center on Martian Luther King and Alta Drive and is the new centralized headquarters for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (Metro). The new facility has more than five times the space of the headquarters Metro currently occupies inside City Hall and will help Metro to centralize and consolidate its administrative staff, which currently now operates out of several offices throughout the Las Vegas Valley. When the facility opens this month (July 2011), approximately 1,400 employees will move into the new building.

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links:
http://www.symphonypark.com/
http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/index.htm
http://www.lvmpd.com/
http://www.lasvegasmarket.com/
http://www.mundolasvegas.com/

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Food Trucks Invade Downtown: East Fremont

July 10, 2011

Every second Saturday starting at 6pm downtown, off Fremont Street East, there is a street party going on featuring Las Vegas’ high end food trucks called Vegas StrEATS. It is a food festival bringing in upscale food trucks to the downtown area with a very unique blend of food, music and art.

The Vegas StrEATS festival opens at 6 p.m. and runs until 2 a.m. The food is delicious, affordable and there is no admission charge. Vegas StrEATS is held across the street from the El Cortez Hotel Casino on 6th street. The festival is a mix of Vegas locals, eclectic hipsters, artists and a few downtown tourists. It can take 15 minutes or more to get your food because everything is made to order, but it is well worth the wait. Also, there is nowhere to eat your food once you get it. They set up 4 cocktail tables, but that wasn’t enough to support the large crowd and there are no benches or even walls to sit on. You can sit on the curb, which is not comfortable or the easiest place to balance a platter of sliders and fries. There were tents with various vendors selling everything from local art to costume jewelry, a DJ and graffiti artists creating works of art for the crowd.

Vegas StrEATS another original, cultural event happening downtown on Fremont East

Engine 1 Pizza, the fire oven is built in the truck

Grouchy John's Coffee

BBQ Boy

SnOw ONO Shave Ice - Real Shave Ice just like you would find in Hawaii.

Philly’s Famous Italian Ices

Curbside Cafe

Slidin’ Thru - these mini burgers are great!

Fukuburger Truck, adds Asian flair to traditional American dishes.

The girls at Fukuburger

Another handmade pie ready for the oven, which is built in the firetruck.

Crowd at Vegas StrEATS

Vegas Food Trucks links:

Slidin’ Thru slidinthru.com
Fukuburger – fukuburger.com
SnOw ONO Shave Ice – snowonoshaveice.com
Curbside Café – curbsidecafelv.com
Engine 1 Pizza – engine1pizza .com
BBQ Boy bbqboylv.com

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Downtown: Bars and Lounges in Fremont East

July 8, 2011

In 2002, the city of Las Vegas created an entertainment district in the heart of downtown Las Vegas: Fremont East. The Fremont East District sits adjacent to the popular tourist attraction, the Fremont Street Experience. Fremont East is one of the only areas which is non gaming.

The Fremont East District offers an eclectic mixture of bars, clubs and cafes along Fremont Street from Las Vegas Boulevard to Eighth Street. The district continues one block north of Fremont Street to Ogden Avenue and one block south to Carson Avenue.

In the Fremont East District, you’ll be keeping good company with popular downtown venues such as Azul Tequila, The Beat Coffeehouse, Beauty Bar, The Griffin, Maharaja Hookah Café, Vanguard Lounge, newly opened Insert Coins and (my favorite), the Downtown Cocktail Room (concealed front door entrance and great drinks).

Just a note on parking:

Valet at El Cortez on 6th and Ogden
Free Parking Garage entrance on 7th between Ogden and Fremont
Metered street parking on 6th or 7th street, bring some quarters (free after 8pm)- check times on meters.
Parking along Jackie Gaughn Parkway metered credit card or coins.
Avoid the over priced parking ($10) next to the Hookah lounge or the parking at the Fremont Experience

The Griffin - Open Mon-Sat 5pm-4am; also open Sun

Beauty Bar - Open Nightly 9pm-2am

New Bar on East Fremont, Insert Coins Hours: Mon - Fri: 4pm - 4am; Sat: 12pm-6am, also open Sun

Next door to Insert Coins, Vanguard Lounge Mon-Fri: 3pm-2am; Sat 6pm-2am; also open Sun

Maharaja Hookah Cafe - (no alcohol is served here)

The Beat Coffeehouse and Records

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Downtown Las Vegas “Glitter Gulch”

July 5, 2011

Fremont Street Experience “Glitter Gulch” (c.1999)
Located in downtown Las Vegas, also know as “Glitter Gulch” or the newly renamed Fremont Street Experience, this four block canopy is actually the largest lighted outdoor sign in the world.

Click on the small thumbnail photos to view the 360° panoramic photos in high definition. All photos and were taken in summer of 1999

Plaza Hotel and Casino (originally the Union Plaza) across the street, Las Vegas Club and The Golden Gate (oldest casino in Las Vegas-1906 Located at 1 Fremont St.) with the famous $.99 Shrimp Cocktails.

The Golden Gate, Golden Goose (Girls of Glitter Gulch- strip club), Las Vegas Club and the Coin Castle.

The Golden Gate, Golden Goose (Girls of Glitter Gulch), Las Vegas Club and the Coin Castle.

Sassy Sally’s, Pioneer Club, Horseshoe, and the Golden Nugget.

Binion’s Horseshoe, home of the World Series of Poker, and the Elegant Golden Nugget. Note: in 2004, the hotel was sold, rename to Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel and the rights to the World Series of Poker was sold to Harrah’s.