Taco Bell is opening a Live Más Café, its drinks-first café concept, inside a shipping container right next to the Las Vegas Taco Bell Cantina at 3717 S. Las Vegas Blvd. Taco Bell calls it a first-of-its-kind flagship, and it's being run with longtime franchise partner Diversified Restaurant Group. Beyond the 20-plus café drinks, this one gets spiked drinks you can only order here, including a Boozy Mountain Dew Baja Blast, a Strawberry Passionfruit Refresca Rush and a Cold Brew Cinnatini, plus Taco Bell merch sold only at this spot. The cafés also just added horchata drinks like a Purple Horchata Chiller. Taco Bell says it opens later this fall, with no date yet.
Taste of UnCommons is Saturday, Oct 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. in The Quad at UnCommons (Durango and the 215), with bites from AMARI, Cootoh, General Admission, Rare Society, Todo Bien Tiki Tequileria and Wineaux plus more than 10 wine and cocktail pairings. Tickets are $75 plus tax, and it's capped at the first 150 people, so don't wait.
Honey Salt's third Featherblade Farm Table Dinner is Tuesday, Oct 27, with chef Kim Canteenwalla and Featherblade Craft Butchery's Martin Kirrane cooking carved Creekstone striploin with peppercorn sauce and Featherblade-style porchetta with chimichurri, plus truffle smashed fingerlings and sticky toffee pudding to finish. There's an optional wine pairing or a CraftHaus beer pairing, and you book through Honey Salt's event page.
The Las Vegas Pizza Festival is Saturday, Nov 14, at The INDUSTRIAL Event Space, and the VIP room now has its chefs: Rebellion Pizza's Ryan Perras and Ricky Lewis, plus Golden Boy Market & Deli's Scott Arn and Ramtin Yashar doing sandwiches. GA runs 1 to 4 p.m. for $92, and VIP (21+) gets in at noon with drinks included for $167, both with fees and tax already in, and prices climb as tiers sell out.
Finney's Crafthouse runs happy hour Monday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m. (dine-in only), with any of its 30 drafts for $6, and most of those taps are local breweries like Able Baker, CraftHaus and Tenaya Creek. Bites run $7 to $9 (chicken tenders, mini cheeseburgers, coconut shrimp, carnitas nachos), and a second valley Finney's is planned for Town Square, expected in January.
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