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Unfortunately, Lagasse’s Stadium doesn’t have a kids’ menu. Children are not permitted in the restaurant, as it doubles as the sports book for The Palazzo hotel, and has a gaming floor, where kids won’t be allowed. If you’re looking for a family-friendly restaurant, your options abound inside The Palazzo and The Venetian, but you’ll have to find a different place to watch sporting events and dine on celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse’s New Orleans cuisine. If you’re set on dining at one of Emeril’s restaurants and still want to bring your kids, be sure to check out Delmonico Steakhouse or Table 10, where your whole family is welcome.

Unfortunately, Lagasse’s Stadium doesn’t have a kids’ menu. Children are not permitted in the restaurant, as it doubles as the sports book for The Palazzo hotel, and has a gaming floor, where kids won’t be allowed. If you’re looking for a family-friendly restaurant, your options abound inside The Palazzo and The Venetian, but you’ll have to find a different place to watch sporting events and dine on celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse’s New Orleans cuisine. If you’re set on dining at one of Emeril’s restaurants and still want to bring your kids, be sure to check out Delmonico Steakhouse or Table 10, where your whole family is welcome.

Scott Pajak is the chef at Lagasse’s Stadium. He is a product of UNLV and Emeril’s New Orleans Fish House at MGM, where he spent nine years.

Scott Pajak is the chef at Lagasse’s Stadium. He is a product of UNLV and Emeril’s New Orleans Fish House at MGM, where he spent nine years.

Take the escalator down from The Palazzo lobby to the “B” level.  Lagasse’s Stadium is located next to Dal Toro restaurant.

Take the escalator down from The Palazzo lobby to the “B” level.  Lagasse’s Stadium is located next to Dal Toro restaurant.

The interior design at Lagasse’s Stadium takes sports bar to a whole new level. The main room features stadium seating, all centered on a 9-by-16-foot main television, it’s a sports lovers dream. With more than 100 HDTVs throughout the space you can’t turn your head without catching another game.

Along with the main stadium, you’ll also see a number of private rooms, each filled with sports memorabilia, more TVs and multiple seating areas. Some of the private rooms have pool tables, and there’s even a private gaming room inside the Emeril Lagasse restaurant. Head outside to the patio, where you’ll enjoy views of multiple televisions and the Las Vegas Strip, all while you recline in comfortable leather sofas and chairs. Lagasse’s Stadium is something of a sports fan’s heaven — and with great food and beer, too.

We wouldn’t classify Lagasse’s Stadium as being a romantic restaurant—unless your idea of romantic is a wedding proposal up on the scoreboard at a ballgame. If that’s the case, then this Las Vegas restaurant might suit you fine. But really, we think the sports-bar food, the copious amount of televisions and the dedication to sports better gears the restaurant toward hanging out with the guys than an intimate dinner for two. The stadium seating, giant television and sports memorabilia decorations leave something to be desired in the romance department. So while we love Lagasse’s Stadium, we think you’re better off going elsewhere for a romantic night out.

You’ll only have a few options for dessert at Lagasse’s Stadium, but each one will do the trick when it comes to satisfying your sweet tooth. Your options will include funnel cake, Sinfully Southern pie, Shake ‘n Cookies and a New York style cheesecake. The funnel cake is fried to order and topped with powdered sugar, along with your choice of cinnamon apples or strawberries. The Sinfully Southern pie combines pecans and walnuts in an oatmeal shortbread crust, served with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce. The Shake ‘n Cookies features a vanilla, chocolate, strawberry or coffee ice cream shake, along with warm chocolate chip cookies, while the New York style cheesecake comes on a graham cracker crust with sour cream topping and fresh berries. We think you’ll love the desserts at Lagasse’s Stadium just as much as you love the full lunch and dinner menus (and almost as much as you love sports)— great food, at a great price.

Lagasse’s Stadium has a bar, right inside the entrance to the restaurant. But if you’re a sports fan, you’ll want to go around to the other side of the bar, where you’ll get a view of the 9-foot by 16-foot giant television. The bar is on the other side of the screen, though there’s still plenty of other HDTVs (about 100) that let you keep up with the day’s big plays. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the Las Vegas restaurant also offers food and drink specials, with $3 beers, $5 appetizers, $15 beer buckets and $20 cocktail pitchers between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., except during football, major sports and special events. So if you’re looking for a place to unwind and watch your favorite sporting event, drink in hand, plan to come to Lagasse’s Stadium.

Don’t just take our word for it — walk into Lagasse’s Stadium and you’ll see the best seat(s) in the house almost immediately. Right past the entrance, to the left, you can’t miss the central stadium seating, where plus sofas and chairs let you kick back while an enormous 9-foot by 16-foot television plays the day’s biggest games, with other surrounding TVs playing other sporting events and news. If you’re into sports and enjoy good food, you’ll have a tough time finding a better place to watch your favorite team than in Lagasse’s Stadium, where you can dine on celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse’s take on classic bar food.

Lagasse’s Stadium serves the kinds of food you’d expect to see at a sports bar, only with Emeril Lagasse’s gourmet slant. With that in mind, here’s our list of the five best things to order at the Las Vegas restaurant:

1. Chicken wings: The buttery hot sauce on the wings has just the right consistency, served with celery and carrots, and your choice of homemade Ranch or blue cheese dressing. What’s a sports bar without wings?
2. French dip: You’ll see Emeril’s New Orleans influence here in a slow-roasted and shaved prime rib sandwich, topped with caramelized onions, provolone cheese and truffle mushroom aioli on French bread.
3. Creole reuben: A Big Easy spin on the classic sandwich, made with shaved corned beef and ham, Fontina cheese and coleslaw on griddle rye bread, drizzled with Russian dressing.
4. Nachos: You can choose between grilled chicken or BBQ pork (or meatless), but these crispy tortilla chips come with layers of cheese and pinto beans, served with guacamole, sour cream and homemade salsa.
5. BBQ Shrimp: A mainstay at all of Emeril’s restaurants, the New Orleans BBQ shrimp speak for themselves. Served with rosemary flatbread.

Lagasse’s Stadium features a menu filled with classic bar & grill foods—the kind of stuff you’d expect to eat at a sports bar, except of a higher quality and with a distinct New Orleans flair. Soups, salads, pizzas, seafood, burgers and sandwiches, steaks and other sports-bar classics make up the menu at Lagasse’s Stadium. You’ll see such favorites as barbecue pork nachos, fish and chips and baby back ribs, along with more original items, such as the Emeril’s New Orleans barbecue shrimp and virgin bloody mary soup.

The Las Vegas restaurant also features a prix fixe menu for $135 that includes a first course choice of chicken wings, Italian sausage arancini or stadium salad; a second course choice of a half-slab of baby back ribs, slow-roasted half-chicken, or fish and chips; a Blue Man Group blue zone ticket; two-for-one cocktails at Salute Dueling Pianos Lounge; and complimentary entrance to Lavo nightclub.

Lagasse’s Stadium caters to the sports enthusiast, so you can have a great bite to eat while you cheer on your favorite teams on one of the hundreds of TVs throughout the restaurant.

The interior design at Lagasse’s Stadium takes sports bar to a whole new level. The main room features stadium seating, all centered on a 9-by-16-foot main television, it’s a sports lovers dream. With more than 100 HDTVs throughout the space you can’t turn your head without catching another game.

Along with the main stadium, you’ll also see a number of private rooms, each filled with sports memorabilia, more TVs and multiple seating areas. Some of the private rooms have pool tables, and there’s even a private gaming room inside the Emeril Lagasse restaurant. Head outside to the patio, where you’ll enjoy views of multiple televisions and the Las Vegas Strip, all while you recline in comfortable leather sofas and chairs. Lagasse’s Stadium is something of a sports fan’s heaven — and with great food and beer, too.

Lagasse’s Stadium has a casual dress code; in fact, though there’s no formal code, you may want to consider wearing the jersey of your favorite team to the restaurant. In case you didn’t already know, Lagasse’s Stadium doubles as a sports book inside the Palazzo hotel, where plenty of people go to watch sports on game day. Lagasse’s Stadium serves the typical bar & grill favorites you’d find at your favorite neighborhood watering hole but with a BAM!, after all, it’s an Emeril Lagasse restaurant. So with that in mind, come dressed as casual or as spirited as you’d like; shorts and a t-shirt, business casual or decked out in face-paint all work just fine.

You can expect to spend about $20 on an entrée at Lagasse’s Stadium, and closer to $30 for dinner. As a whole, the menu at the Las Vegas restaurant offers bar & grill-type food, with chicken wings, sandwiches, burgers and nachos. The lunch menu will cost you just $15, with options including a BBQ pork sandwich, a chicken and avocado wrap, and fish and chips—each for just $15. The lunch specials include French fries and a soda, and are available between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Otherwise, the rest of the menu items at Lagasse’s Stadium come in at around $15 to $20 each, with buffalo chicken wings, an open-faced ahi tuna melt and a Creole reuben as just a few examples. The most expensive item on the menu is the grilled filet of beef, at $32. So by and large, you can get out of the restaurant without spending more than $50 per person (depending on how many beers you down). Speaking of drinks, you’ll also want to check out the long list Lagasse’s Stadium’s beverages— nothing goes quite so well together as a frosty beer and a weekend of watching football.