20 Excellent Dining Options in Henderson (2024)

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Where to find some of the best restaurants in Henderson serving black rice sushi, pork carnitas Benedicts, and Latin American comfort food

by Janna Karel Updated Apr 15, 2024, 11:56am PDT

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Chef Steve Kestler, a veteran of Las Vegas Strip powerhouses Bazaar Meat by José Andrés, Edo Gastro Tapas & Wine, and Bouchon Bistro, embraces Latin American comfort food in this compact Henderson restaurant. Popular items include a steak sandwich with chimichurri, beef short ribs in mole sauce and spiced corn, and Guatemalan-style enchiladas.

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Chef and owner Todd Clore’s wine dinners are the toast of the town and sell out quickly at this restaurant with a neighborhood feel and gourmet fare. Clore manages to change up the menu to keep foodies coming back while satisfying regulars. Try the duck cooked in a pomegranate red wine sauce.

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Todd’s Unique Dining/Facebook

Kosher deli fans love the chicken noodle soup and matzo ball soup here. Don’t neglect the bakery items, such as apple fritters, challah bread, and more.

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• Foursquare

Weiss Deli & Bakery/Facebook

This all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue goes for $26.99 at dinner. That includes your fill of sirloin steak, short rib, marinated spicy chicken, baby octopus, and more. Pair grilled meats and veggies with spicy cucumber and potato salad banchan.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Gen Korean BBQ House/Facebook

Penn Amarapayark’s hole-in-the-wall Thai restaurant makes everything, down to the curry, from scratch. Try larb made with ground meat, spice, and rice-powder salads; marinated Thai barbecued chicken on the bone; and green curry with shrimp.

• Open in Google Maps

Penn’s Thai House [Official Site]

The popular Tex-Mex menu at Juan’s Flaming Fajitas includes the namesake flaming fajitas, sopas, ensaladas, table side guacamole, Baja-style fish tacos, plus margaritas, sangria, and daiquiris.

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• Foursquare

Juan’s Flaming Fajitas/Facebook

This ode to the hot dog features the pushcart variety with onions in tomato sauce, sauerkraut, and spicy house mustard; the Windy City with tomato, dill pickle, diced onions, sport peppers, neon relish, celery salt and yellow mustard; and the Nor’wester in cream cheese, griddled onions, scallions, fresh jalapeño peppers, and Sriracha. Even two vegan varieties make the menu. Everything here rings in under $8.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Steamie Weenie [Official Site]

Located on Water Street in Downtown Henderson, this Italian restaurant with outdoor seating serves penne alla vodka and tender chicken marsala with mashed potatoes, tempura cauliflower with buffalo sauce, and wagyu carpaccio.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

This restaurant from Top Chef alum Elia Aboumrad-Page, Christian Page, and Tony Angotti serves everything from corndogs to caviar. The menu is a playful mash-up of American diner comforts and French cuisine. Start with the mushroom carpaccio, a celebration of all things fungi, then share plates of sole meunière, spaghetti carbonara, and the 20-hour duck confit.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Louiie Victa/Eater Vegas

Wood-fired brick oven pizzas with crisp crusts that you have to tear apart by hand attract families from all over the valley. Try the Capricciosa with tomatoes, prosciutto, artichoke hearts, roasted mushrooms, and olives.

• Open in Google Maps

SettebelloPizzeria [Official Site]

For excellent seafood, this restaurant prepares cooked and raw selections, all super fresh and flavorful. Go for delightfully tender Chilean sea bass, crispy crab cakes, creamy clam chowder, buttery lobster rolls, and citrusy yellowtail carpaccio.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Down at Green Valley Ranch, the steaks at Hank’s bring 'em in. Try one with a Gorgonzola crust. Want to split a dish? Look for the tomahawk chop or Chateaubriand made for two. Kobe beef even makes the menu.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Station Casinos [Official Site]

The menu at Bottiglia Enoteca at Green Valley Ranch includes antipastas, salads, fresh fish, and the house specialty: papperdella Bolognese with braised short ribs, truffle ricotta, and piquillo pepper gravy. Bonus, a shaded patio that wraps around the restaurant and features a fire pit.

• Open in Google Maps

Bottiglia Enoteca [Official Site]

One of pizza king Tony Gemignani’s Pizza Rock locations sits inside Green Valley Ranch with 7,000 square feet of TVs, a semi-truck, and even a dining table with a roulette wheel. There are classic Italian entrees and pastas, but the four wood-fired pizza ovens and variety of award-winning pies are what bring the crowds.

• Book with OpenTable
• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Pizza Rock/Facebook

Southern Italian with a view comes at the hands of Arnauld Briand and Carmine Vento. The eggplant rollatini rolled in ricotta is a must-try. Request to sit near the restaurant’s namesake windows for a view of the city while you dine on generous portions of pasta and seafood.

• Book with OpenTable
• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Ventano/Facebook

Snap up globally inspired American breakfasts and lunches at the sunny Kitchen Table from chef Javier Chavez. Pastries, breakfast taquitos, monkey bread, crepes, and Nutella S’mores await, along with a chorizo omelet, Nutella French toast, and croque-madame.

• Open in Google Maps

Kitchen Table/Facebook

Readers love the home-style northern Italian fare at Gaetano’sRistorante. Look for homemade pastas and raviolis, veal, poultry, beef, and seafood. Try the Mezzelune di Vitello con Porcini made with homemade half moon pasta filled with veal, served with peas, prosciutto, and porcini mushrooms in a light cream sauce.

• Book with OpenTable
• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Gaetano’sRistorante

Former Fish N Bowl chef Howard Choi is now behind the sushi counter at Hiroba Sushi, which specializes in black rice sushi. Fans love the lemon roll, spicy rainbow roll, and bento boxes.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Hiroba Sushi/Facebook

Jaret Blinn serves breakfast and lunch at CraftKitchen with a menu of crustless quiches of the day, churro waffles, pork carnitas Benedicts, and short rib hash. And that’s just for breakfast. On the lunch side of the menu find short rib grilled cheese, chicken and waffles, and Korean fried chicken sandwich. Gluten-free and vegan options available.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

CraftKitchen/Facebook

This neighborhood restaurant aims to make brunch a celebratory affair. You’ll find seafood towers, bellini French toast with peaches, and hangover tots. Whatever you end up ordering, pair it with Champagne. Either in a glass, swirled with fruit juice, or taken on the count of three with a chambong.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

The Stove/Facebook

Chef Steve Kestler, a veteran of Las Vegas Strip powerhouses Bazaar Meat by José Andrés, Edo Gastro Tapas & Wine, and Bouchon Bistro, embraces Latin American comfort food in this compact Henderson restaurant. Popular items include a steak sandwich with chimichurri, beef short ribs in mole sauce and spiced corn, and Guatemalan-style enchiladas.

• Open in Google Maps

Chef and owner Todd Clore’s wine dinners are the toast of the town and sell out quickly at this restaurant with a neighborhood feel and gourmet fare. Clore manages to change up the menu to keep foodies coming back while satisfying regulars. Try the duck cooked in a pomegranate red wine sauce.

• Book with OpenTable
• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Todd’s Unique Dining/Facebook

Kosher deli fans love the chicken noodle soup and matzo ball soup here. Don’t neglect the bakery items, such as apple fritters, challah bread, and more.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Weiss Deli & Bakery/Facebook

This all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue goes for $26.99 at dinner. That includes your fill of sirloin steak, short rib, marinated spicy chicken, baby octopus, and more. Pair grilled meats and veggies with spicy cucumber and potato salad banchan.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Gen Korean BBQ House/Facebook

Penn Amarapayark’s hole-in-the-wall Thai restaurant makes everything, down to the curry, from scratch. Try larb made with ground meat, spice, and rice-powder salads; marinated Thai barbecued chicken on the bone; and green curry with shrimp.

• Open in Google Maps

Penn’s Thai House [Official Site]

The popular Tex-Mex menu at Juan’s Flaming Fajitas includes the namesake flaming fajitas, sopas, ensaladas, table side guacamole, Baja-style fish tacos, plus margaritas, sangria, and daiquiris.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Juan’s Flaming Fajitas/Facebook

This ode to the hot dog features the pushcart variety with onions in tomato sauce, sauerkraut, and spicy house mustard; the Windy City with tomato, dill pickle, diced onions, sport peppers, neon relish, celery salt and yellow mustard; and the Nor’wester in cream cheese, griddled onions, scallions, fresh jalapeño peppers, and Sriracha. Even two vegan varieties make the menu. Everything here rings in under $8.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Steamie Weenie [Official Site]

Located on Water Street in Downtown Henderson, this Italian restaurant with outdoor seating serves penne alla vodka and tender chicken marsala with mashed potatoes, tempura cauliflower with buffalo sauce, and wagyu carpaccio.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

This restaurant from Top Chef alum Elia Aboumrad-Page, Christian Page, and Tony Angotti serves everything from corndogs to caviar. The menu is a playful mash-up of American diner comforts and French cuisine. Start with the mushroom carpaccio, a celebration of all things fungi, then share plates of sole meunière, spaghetti carbonara, and the 20-hour duck confit.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Louiie Victa/Eater Vegas

Wood-fired brick oven pizzas with crisp crusts that you have to tear apart by hand attract families from all over the valley. Try the Capricciosa with tomatoes, prosciutto, artichoke hearts, roasted mushrooms, and olives.

• Open in Google Maps

SettebelloPizzeria [Official Site]

For excellent seafood, this restaurant prepares cooked and raw selections, all super fresh and flavorful. Go for delightfully tender Chilean sea bass, crispy crab cakes, creamy clam chowder, buttery lobster rolls, and citrusy yellowtail carpaccio.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Down at Green Valley Ranch, the steaks at Hank’s bring 'em in. Try one with a Gorgonzola crust. Want to split a dish? Look for the tomahawk chop or Chateaubriand made for two. Kobe beef even makes the menu.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Station Casinos [Official Site]

The menu at Bottiglia Enoteca at Green Valley Ranch includes antipastas, salads, fresh fish, and the house specialty: papperdella Bolognese with braised short ribs, truffle ricotta, and piquillo pepper gravy. Bonus, a shaded patio that wraps around the restaurant and features a fire pit.

• Open in Google Maps

Bottiglia Enoteca [Official Site]

One of pizza king Tony Gemignani’s Pizza Rock locations sits inside Green Valley Ranch with 7,000 square feet of TVs, a semi-truck, and even a dining table with a roulette wheel. There are classic Italian entrees and pastas, but the four wood-fired pizza ovens and variety of award-winning pies are what bring the crowds.

• Book with OpenTable
• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Pizza Rock/Facebook

Southern Italian with a view comes at the hands of Arnauld Briand and Carmine Vento. The eggplant rollatini rolled in ricotta is a must-try. Request to sit near the restaurant’s namesake windows for a view of the city while you dine on generous portions of pasta and seafood.

• Book with OpenTable
• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Ventano/Facebook

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Snap up globally inspired American breakfasts and lunches at the sunny Kitchen Table from chef Javier Chavez. Pastries, breakfast taquitos, monkey bread, crepes, and Nutella S’mores await, along with a chorizo omelet, Nutella French toast, and croque-madame.

• Open in Google Maps

Kitchen Table/Facebook

Readers love the home-style northern Italian fare at Gaetano’sRistorante. Look for homemade pastas and raviolis, veal, poultry, beef, and seafood. Try the Mezzelune di Vitello con Porcini made with homemade half moon pasta filled with veal, served with peas, prosciutto, and porcini mushrooms in a light cream sauce.

• Book with OpenTable
• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Gaetano’sRistorante

Former Fish N Bowl chef Howard Choi is now behind the sushi counter at Hiroba Sushi, which specializes in black rice sushi. Fans love the lemon roll, spicy rainbow roll, and bento boxes.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Hiroba Sushi/Facebook

Jaret Blinn serves breakfast and lunch at CraftKitchen with a menu of crustless quiches of the day, churro waffles, pork carnitas Benedicts, and short rib hash. And that’s just for breakfast. On the lunch side of the menu find short rib grilled cheese, chicken and waffles, and Korean fried chicken sandwich. Gluten-free and vegan options available.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

CraftKitchen/Facebook

This neighborhood restaurant aims to make brunch a celebratory affair. You’ll find seafood towers, bellini French toast with peaches, and hangover tots. Whatever you end up ordering, pair it with Champagne. Either in a glass, swirled with fruit juice, or taken on the count of three with a chambong.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

The Stove/Facebook

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