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VegasChatter 2011 Awards: The Epilogue

December 30, 2011 at 6:55 PM | by | Comments (0)

Thanks for joining us on the last day of the second annual VegasChatter Awards.

While all of our awards are based on our personal experiences, we would be nothing without all the Vegas visitors, lovers and locals who send us tips, share personal stories, dish on gossip, ask us questions, and most of all, who comment -- whether they agree with us or not. You always keep us entertained and on our toes and we hope it's a two-way street. Keep it up in 2012!

No matter where you stay, what you do or who you see, we wanna know how you spent your time in Vegas. Here's how to fill us in:

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Best New (Re)Opening: The Plaza

Where: 1 South Main [map], 89101
December 30, 2011 at 5:59 PM | by | Comments (0)

Welcome to the second annual VegasChatter Awards! Today, we continue to bring you the best and worst of the year. All of our picks are based on what we've personally experienced in Vegas over 2011 - the good, the bad, and the mind-boggling. Agree or disagree with us? We want to know! Air your thoughts in comments below.

In these depressing days of takebacks and delays, for an establishment to actually open when it says it will is a huge feat. So for that, we award Best New Opening to the renovated Plaza Hotel and Casino.

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Favorite Vegas Celeb: Melody Sweets

December 30, 2011 at 3:45 PM | by | Comments (0)

Welcome to the second annual VegasChatter Awards! Today, we continue to bring you the best and worst of the year. All of our picks are based on what we've personally experienced in Vegas over 2011 - the good, the bad, and the mind-boggling. Agree or disagree with us? We want to know! Air your thoughts in comments below.

Our favorite Vegas celebrity has nothing but our breast interests at heart. Err, best.

She'll dance for us. Sing. Shimmy. Sashay. Strip. And, almost nightly, too. Our biggest crush of the year goes to Melody Sweets. Meow.

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Most Unexpected Find: Ron's Steakhouse

Where: 740 South Decatur Boulevard [map], 89107
December 30, 2011 at 2:31 PM | by | Comment (1)

Welcome to the second annual VegasChatter Awards! We're bringing you the best and worst of the year today (as well as yesterday, too). All of our picks are based on what we've personally experienced in Vegas over the past year - the good, the bad, and the mind-boggling. Agree or disagree with us? We want to know! Air your thoughts in comments below.

Some Vegas events and places generate a lot of buzz while other gems slide under the radar due to lack of awareness. Vegas visitors and locals alike have traditions they hit every trip while the hot, new kid on the block pulls in the curious set for at least one peek. Sometimes the latest and greatest even graduates into the rotation of go-to spots.

Our favorite finds are the ones that sneak up on you from in plain sight like an MGM lion or those that far exceed low expectations. Back in the fall, we discovered our Most Unexpected Find of the year inside Arizona Charlie's Decatur.

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Best Sportsbook: Lagasse's Stadium

Where: 3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South [map], 89109
December 30, 2011 at 12:17 PM | by | Comments (2)

Welcome to the second annual VegasChatter Awards! Today, we continue to bring you the best and worst of the year. All of our picks are based on what we've personally experienced in Vegas over 2011 - the good, the bad, and the mind-boggling. Agree or disagree with us? We want to know! Air your thoughts in comments below.

Best Sportsbook of 2011: Lagasse's Stadium

While Cantor Gaming has expanded their sterile and homogenized brand of sportsbook across various casinos in Vegas, our favorite sportsbook this year (and since it opened in 2009) is one of Cantor's first -- Lagasse's Stadium at Palazzo.

Lagasse's Stadium is a unique and one-of-a-kind sportsbook with stadium seating in the main area, couches and TVs all around. And, let's not forget about the restaurant, great wait service, self-contained casino, outdoor seating, billiards, and more. With all that, we can forgive that they won't give us drink tickets when we place a wager and that they charge $50-$100 minimums to sit and watch the games during football season.

The unique setting has as good a vibe as any sportsbook on The Strip and we love it so we're willing to guarantee that we'll eat and drink there just to hang for the games.

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Worst Vegas Mistake: Vegas Takebacks

December 29, 2011 at 7:05 PM | by | Comments (0)

Welcome to the second annual VegasChatter Awards! We're bringing you the best and worst of the year today as well as tomorrow, too. All of our picks are based on what we've personally experienced in Vegas over the past year - the good, the bad, and the mind-boggling. Agree or disagree with us? We want to know! Air your thoughts in comments below.

Last year's Worst Vegas Mistake award was pretty easy to handout...to Paris Hilton for her stupid drug arrest. But this year, we had a little harder time trying to figure out the worst of the worst. But as we were going through the list of contenders, we realized they all had something in common--they all once offered or promised Vegas visitors something, whether it was a specialty service or an amenity and then for whatever reason (cough, money, cough) decided to take it back.

Here are the following examples of the most egregious Vegas Takebacks in 2011:

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Most Memorable Moment: The Sahara Sale

Where: 2535 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
December 29, 2011 at 5:10 PM | by | Comments (4)

Welcome to the second annual VegasChatter Awards! We're bringing you the best and worst of the year today as well as tomorrow, too. All of our picks are based on what we've personally experienced in Vegas over the past year - the good, the bad, and the mind-boggling. Agree or disagree with us? We want to know! Air your thoughts in comments below.

Even thinking of it now, it seems a bit surreal. Like something you saw on TV and felt like you had been there only because you happened to dream about it. The lines. The heat. The guy being wheeled by on a stretcher. The unbelievable thirst.

Our most memorable moment of 2011 started off as a lark. Be one of the first inside the Sahara liquidation sale, see the old gal one last time and, maybe, pick up a souvenir or two. It's not like we weren't expecting a line. We just weren't expecting one that wrapped halfway around the resort. And, that's just when we showed up. The line kept growing behind us and, reportedly, snaked three-quarters of the way around at one point. There was no way we were giving up our place in line to eyeball that for ourselves, though. No way.

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Best New Restaurant: The Barrymore

Where: 99 Convention Center Drive [map], 89109
December 29, 2011 at 2:05 PM | by | Comment (1)

Welcome to the second annual VegasChatter Awards! We're bringing you the best and worst of the year today as well as tomorrow, too. All of our picks are based on what we've personally experienced in Vegas over the past year - the good, the bad, and the mind-boggling. Agree or disagree with us? We want to know! Air your thoughts in comments below.

Spooning through all the candidates for a dining category isn't easy. You don't believe us... Consider all the meals we had to choke down that couldn't have been a contender and how much our arteries hate us. Still not buying it? We wouldn't, either. Moving on.

Congratulations go out to the Royal Resort, home of VegasChatter's 2011 Best New Restaurant. Royal who? We weren't familiar with it ourselves until this summer whether due to its off-Strip location, non-gaming status, or the fact that previously there just wasn't much to talk about.

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Best Show: Absinthe

Where: 3570 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
December 29, 2011 at 12:51 PM | by | Comments (3)

Welcome to the second annual VegasChatter Awards! We're bringing you the best and worst of the year today as well as tomorrow, too. All of our picks are based on what we've personally experienced in Vegas over the past year - the good, the bad, and the mind-boggling. Agree or disagree with us? We want to know! Air your thoughts in comments below.

Last year, we got a little dirty in naming the winner in the Best Show category. As in Matt Goss's sexy sidekicks, the Dirty Virgins. For this year, we skipped the dirty and got downright filthy. Yes, kids the winner of VegasChatter's 2011 Best Show award is Absinthe.

There are many reasons to be excited about Absinthe, such as burlesque babe Melody Sweets and her hilarious, extremely talented co-stars. Or, the fact that the large, odd empty space outside Caesars Palace has finally been put to good use. But, perhaps most impressively, Absinthe hit the ground running. Unlike other shows that have been tweaked or entirely revamped in attempt to find an audience they can live with, Melody and company had a hit from opening night. We proclaimed our show crush then and are happy to report Absinthe is still #1 on our speed dial.

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