Your 5 best bets for dining in the week ahead
Family fun
Christmas may be over, but winter's not, and Wonderland Bakery knows there's still cookie-decorating to be done. The bakery in Downtown Summerlin is offering Winter Wonderland Snowflake Cookie Workshops daily from noon to 7 p.m. through Sunday. They're $19.95 per person; call 702-363-3333.
Solo trip
Resolutions, schmesolutions; if you want to cheat, we won't tell. Smoke's Poutinerie at Pawn Plaza, 725 Las Vegas Blvd. South, is offering 20 percent off to anyone who shows a local gym membership card or their bulging biceps on Sundays and Mondays through the end of the month. And they promise they won't tell, either.
Date night
You can continue celebrating the new year through Saturday at Bravo! Cucina Italiana at the Galleria at Sunset in Henderson, with three-course prix-fixe menus priced at $24.99 for seafood or $39.99 for surf and turf. Bravo! and its sister restaurant, Brio Tuscan Grille, which is in Town Square and at Tivoli Village, also will celebrate National Spaghetti Day on Monday, with all-you-can-eat spaghetti with marinara sauce for $9.95.
For friends
Get your buddies together and take a jaunt to Aliante Casino, where Bistro 57 and MRKT Sea & Land have introduced Bistro Bites and MRKT Bar Bites during happy hour. They include such dishes as crab cake sliders, ribs and mini-calzones at $4 to $12.
Something new
Bellagio has opened Season, from longtime Bellagio chef Roy Ellamar, with an emphasis on market-driven, regionally sourced, sustainable cuisine. Even the cocktail menu is involved, with such creations as Beets by Roy, which is El Silencio Espadin mezcal with house-made cold-pressed beet juice, lemon juice and mandarin syrup, garnished with a goat-cheese-stuffed beet cone.
