Everything You Need to Know About Netflix's New Restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip
The menu is inspired by ‘Bridgerton,’ ‘Stranger Things,’ and more hit series
Netflix is the largest streaming company in the world with more than 300 million subscribers. Whether it's a brand based on loyalty or habit, the streaming company hopes viewers will similarly tune in for its next great venture: a new pop-up restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip.
What even is this? A restaurant? An experience?
Officially, Netflix Bites is a one-year culinary residency at the MGM Grand in the space formerly home to Avenue Cafe. In other words, it’s a restaurant with a one-year lease. So yes, that means you can book a reservation here like at any other restaurant.
It's actually not the first iteration of the restaurant. An earlier version ran for six months in 2023 at the Short Stories Hotel in Los Angeles; think of that as the pilot episode—an experiment focused on spotlighting a selection of the food and cocktails that contestants made while participating in the streaming platform’s culinary competition shows, like Chef's Table and Drink Masters.
What’s new?
In the new Vegas version, the streaming platform transcends the reality cooking show premise. That means anything and everything from the Netflix universe was fair game to inspire the restaurant’s design and menu. Artwork representing The Queen's Gambit, Tiger King, and other hit shows decorate the walls of a dining room that pops with red, orange, yellow, and blue tones, while each dish makes its source material clear through its flavor or naming. Nothing is meant to be taken too seriously—in case the enormous pair of ruby-red lips that encircle the main entrance didn’t already make that clear.
How do I go?
The restaurant began accepting reservations on February 20, but walk-ins are welcome. Diners can get a taste of Netflix Sundays through Thursdays, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. On Fridays and Saturdays, the restaurant will open from 5 p.m. and close at midnight. You can make a reservation roughly two months in advance (60 days for the sticklers).
What’s on the menu?
Shareable, large-format platters embrace the TV-as-food gimmick the best. Enjoy Bridgerton-style tea service with pastries and mini-sandwiches, or waffle sliders inspired by Eleven's Eggo obsession on Stranger Things. A wooden boat filled with sushi was designed with viewers of the hit anime-turned-live-action-series One Piece, while fans of Squid Game can take a turn at Red Bite, Green Bite—a spinning wheel that helps decide which dipping sauce to pair with your chicken tenders. It was so popular at dinner, it's already been added to the lunch offerings.
The rest of the menu is a more subtle test of how well you know your shows with somewhat-coy dish descriptions. The WWE Smashburger, a clear reflection of World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night Raw, is a no-brainer and it's impossible to not figure out the series connected to Orange is the New Mac, a serving of mac n' cheese smothered in Cheeto dust. Although, presenting a breakfast platter as an antidote to the Worst Roommate Ever feels like more of a stretch.
Overall, you get a selection heavy on comfort foods with creative presentations. There's even a lineup of choices for Surfer Boy Pizza—another nod to Stranger Things—brought to your table in a delivery box. Call the number on the outside for a surprise message.
Or try the molten lava cake presented in the form of a volcano. Riffing off Floor Is Lava, guests are invited to place gummy bears in position to see which ones will survive the eruption of strawberry and raspberry sauce as the whole thing melts and slowly collapses onto itself—with flames, of course.
If you prefer to set the gimmicks aside, the menu items listed under Chef's Table and Dinner Time Live with David Chang play it straight. It's where you'll find a 20-ounce, bone-in ribeye and gochujang-marinated Korean short rib.
What about drinks?
While the rest of Vegas is obsessed with lean-and-mean craft cocktails and speakeasy spirits, Netflix Bites fully commits to fancy, photogenic libations on the sweeter side. The more ridiculous the garnish, the better—whether it's a thundercloud of cotton candy in the sticky-sweet Mind Flayer (pulled straight from the Upside Down) or a classic Korean candy (used in a moment of suspense in Squid Game) in the Dalgona Rumm Buzz. Couples can put their relationships to the test like Love Is Blind by answering a series of questions to customize a cocktail for their partner and see how well they truly know each other.
Who is this for?
So where does Netflix Bites stand amid Sin City's current culinary landscape? Years ago, cheap dinners and buffets were loss leaders to keep Vegas casinos busy. Today, we have celebrity chefs and food halls as attractions in their own right—with prices escalating to premium levels. By comparison, Netflix Bites is something else: a film-and-television-themed restaurant capable of drawing directly from the company's expansive archive of media, an entertainment x ood crossover we haven't seen on the Strip since Planet Hollywood closed its doors.
In other words, Netflix has put together a restaurant suited for those who prefer to watch TV on a phone screen than browse varietals on a wine list, which probably says something grand about where we are as a culture, but we’re too busy streaming old Kimmy Shmidt episodes to think too hard about it. Don't be surprised if the place outlasts its one-year commitment at the MGM Grand and survives to see Season 2.