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Originally Posted by blankall
There are still lots of cheap food options in Vegas. You still find steak and seafood specials all over the place. You just largely won't find them directly on the main strip. You can even find, for example, a high end steak for about $40 USD at the Circus Circus Steakhouse. There's also plenty of off strip Mexican restaurants that are top notch.
Will you find a place that cheap and has a celebrity chef's name on it right on the strip...probably not.
There's also a lot of romanticizing about the way things used to be. The standards for food especially about pre 2010 were just really bad. Lots of restaurants would have been serving you pre-made frozen patty burgers that nobody would eat anymore.
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I respectfully disagree about the food pre 2010, it's not like dining standards have changed THAT much. There was the classic affortable places, family places, mid tier places and top end places.
The problem is the corporations who run Vegas have just gone for a maximum revenue generation model across the board. There are not really deals and everything is insanely expensive not by Canadian standards but by American standards.
Lot's of $35+ sandwich places in a food court. When an American family is spending $110+ for sandwiches at a non fastfood chain, that's expensive. The higher end restaurants were $80-100 a plate now, it's through the roof.
The places I used to party at went from $18 USD a highball with a strong pour but than we could get bottle service for $325 with a table so that made some sense for no line/no cover. It exploded to $700 a bottle and than when I went years ago, the place where we used to sit for $325 for 4 people was $10k minimum spend. It's like we were starting to rent real estate in the club which became literally insanity, thankfully I don't partake anymore.
I recall reading an article that was really true years ago. Describe how literally average Joe's and Jane's go to Vegas and literally spend mountains of money like they are uber wealthy celebs or billionaires but they are baristas, carpet store installers or admin in an insurance office. Vegas was never like that before.
Just wild times all around. Personally I have been to Vegas a million times but I haven't been in ages, the costs and the good times just don't add up as much as they used to.