LAVO Italian Restaurant Nightclub

by Truc N.

My previous review for this place was based on their nightclub, now i'm reviewing on their restaurant!  =DGreat atmosphere, great food, great people, and definitely great service.  At first it was a bit of a drag.  We had reservations at 10:15pm but were not seated until 10:45pm.  I was getting really hungry, but due to great company, I didn't mind the wait since I was distracted by laughter and goofiness.  Anyway, once we were seated, everything got better!  The guy who showed us to our table was a sweetheart.  He made sure we were all comfortable and when we would get up for the restroom, he would come over and fold our napkins.  When we got back, he would pull our chairs out for us to sit.  Talk about great service!  He's not even our server!!  Our server was great, she came back at all the right times to see if we needed anything.  Of course we didn't because everyone else took really good care of us.  The food runners were awesome as well!  They'll wipe crumbs off our tables and brought out food in an orderly fashion.  When they noticed we were done with a plate, they'll bring out the next!  I felt like VIPs.  Hehehe.  Anyway, onto the food!  We ordered:Garlic Bread - Good (no charge)Caesar Salad - Awesome!  One of the best I've ever had!  Salad was fresh, chunks of cheese, and perfect amount of Caesar dressing.  Crispy Fried Calamari - Good.  Not soggy, big chunks, good marinara sauce.  Crispy Zucchini - Good!  I love zucchini! Margherita Pizza (two feet long) - Good.  Cheesy, crispy crust.  Salmon Oreganato - this and the Caesar salad was my favorite dish of the night!  The zucchini was very good with this dish.  Very tasteful!  The salmon was amazing!  The crust was very good, the salmon was very flavorful and juicy!  I would totally come back here!  Make sure you come with friends and share though because they have HUGE portions!  It's quite pricy but since each entrée is so huge, it makes up for it and it'll help if you share!  Hit up the night club afterwards!  Better crowd, not too many perverted people!  =D Lavo was unexpectedly very fun!  Only three of us went and we managed to have a really good time.…

by Moises A.

You don't have to read my reviews to convince you this spot is just terrible. The Palazzo itself is grand, awesome and has beatiful places for pictures.I was reluctant to come here. My girl stated,"Yeah a friend of mine has hookups there." Truth of the matter Vegas has no hookups for men, yet we usually pay the bill in Vegas. I already know and understand this about Vegas. No biggie.Let me illustrate to you how poorly run this waste of space is. From the beginning. The line causes confusion. You have an entrance door that within close proximity to an exit door. Once you enter, you eventually end up at the exit door. Then you ask yourself, "Why don't they just use both doors?" One can be used as a VIP entrance. No fire codes would be violated in the process.Bars are poorly stocked. Lost count at the amount of times bartenders were calling for replenishments. Then you get other employees trying to squeeze past you carrying drinks "by hand" to get to the bartender. Aisles are super tight on the second floor. This is the main club area. Security here is inefficient too. Keep the aisles clear guys. Cmon. Very frustrating place to be. We exited within 20 minutes.

by Jeffrey M.

Straight up, this place sucks.. Sure the decor is kind of unique with the sinks lining the pathway in.. sure it's nice to see such lovely female scenery on the stairs as you enter the club.. and of course, it's always nice when the ladies in your group get hooked up with free alcohol and pass on to the guys..BUT DAMN.. none of that can make up for the amount of DICKERY that the security guards have when corralling you and suffocating you on the tiny dance floor.. Seriously, we couldn't stand anywhere, unless of course it was in the mass of sweaty, stinking, rhythmically challenged bodies.. To top it off, they played the typical top 40 hits with nothing else really worthwhile..And on top of that, I had to fork over 20 hard earned dollars.. whaaaat??

by Joshua C.

I've been to Lavo twice. First time was a Friday night back in April. We got the hookup so we didn't pay to get in. The music was bumping and I loved that they played some dirty south hip hop for a while. Since it was crowded and the dance floor is tiny, we just stood and did a little bounce and two step. Second time was on a Saturday night after partying at Tao. We got in free but instead of heading to the upstairs club, we hung out at the downstairs lounge. There were plenty of seats and as long as you ordered drinks, you could sit anywhere. The music downstairs was good, chill but something you could still dance to if you wanted. You could even go to the outside patio where there were couches and views of the strip.I like the concept of the restaurant/loung/nightclub and the decor is nice. It's supposed to mimi a Greek bathhouse. If the dancefloor upstairs was a little bigger it would be nice. -1 star for the psuedo-lesbian girls dry humping on display for the guys. Instead of go-go dancers, Lavo has these girls dressed up like Greek concubines who pretend to be all lesbionic with eachother. If you're going to do all that, at least LOOK like you enjoy it. Most of the girls look bored. At least get real lesbians. I'm just saying..

by Jen T.

First time:Got in free because we were guests at Palazzo. The club could be a bit bigger but then if it was bigger, I would probably just say it could be even bigger. Haha. Good music, had fun.Second time:I like the free drinks we got from the free wristbands. Our friend pulled some strings and got us all in for free (except one guy, he had to pay, poor guy) and the girls got wristbands. It gets super crowded but the place is nice. The crowd is younger and can sometimes be sort of rude. Dunno, maybe they're just drunkards.

by Miriam C.

Creators from TAO inside the Palazzo. Lavo is more published for there restaurant than its nightclub. They claimed that when Lavo opens, it is going to better than TAO. Not true. As a nightclub, its small. The dance floor is midsize. The music was okay.   However, the decor and ambiance of Lavo is beautiful. Supposedly it is the club is a greek italian bathhouse with sinks upstairs. Hmm.

by Jackie S.Cassandra M.Chanmao S.jules h.

Three words - Kobe.  Beef.  Meatball.If you think a meatball, or any other form of sphere-shaped meat cannot be exquisitely delicious, then you are so wrong.  The grapefruit sized Kobe meatball was one of the most sinful treats I have ever tasted.  Lavo's dishes win because of their simplicity and elegance.  Nothing is too fancy or over the top, it's just classic Italian food amplified with high quality ingredients in a gorgeous setting.  The dining room has sky high ceilings, massive chandeliers, low lighting, and is staffed with very attractive servers.  I couldn't have asked for a better Vegas dining experience, and I only tried three things on the menu!This is a review for the Nightclub.  :)We had a blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast.  Arrived around 1030 so there was a pretty hefty line but we got to go into a shorter one (upon receiving evil looks from other clubgoers) because one of our friends knew one of the promoters!  He got all 7 of our girls in for free with open bar bracelets for the first hour we were there!  Our 6 guys got in with just a simple $10 cover -- EXCELLENT.First of all the entire venue is beautiful ---I was even impressed by the restroom of all things!  Haha I remember walking up a pretty long flight of stairs and the walkway was cool -- open so you could see the restaurant and lined with super cool sinks with running water!We used our free drink bracelets right away.  The bartenders were cool got us what we needed, we just passed our free drinks to the boys.  Later in the night when my friend got me water, I kept finishing it real quick -- the awesome bartender kept refilling it without a problem.  Awesome service!  The music was pretty good.  Most of my blisters from that weekend were no doubt from dancing at Lavo!  The only issue I had was the crowd -- you had to fight your way to get from one side to the other.  At one point everyone lost each other (but we found each other on the dance floor).  We had a good time and needless to say, we will return again Lavoooooo.REVIEW IS FOR THE NIGHTCLUB ONLY For Vegas this place is out of place. I almost felt like I was in a bar in San Jose and not in Vegas. Almost as small as the Temple on First street (a little exaggeration there). One bar and a mini stand right outside the restrooms. If you like rubbing skins and touching people's sweat on the dance floor this is the place for you to do just that. I think my suite back at the hotel was bigger and enjoyable than LAVO.LAVO is hip of course--it's Las Vegas. More attempts at something fusion to distinguish itself from the other Las Vegas near indistinguishable -- a restaurant and nightclub. How original.Not crazy overpriced for the attempt at service and cuisine.Garlic bread and marinara garnished the table.  The garlic bread a dripping oily mess. The marinara, well, marinara dipping sauce.I ordered the lobster, asparagus risotto.  Lightly battered asparagus, (asked for no pine nuts) and tons of lobster! Searing hot, when served, I was not disappointed.  The broccoli, bitter, but still crisp.The sides, all hearty (but hardly heart healthy) portions.  Tasty in their own right, but nothing prepared nor flavored or garnished in any any way that would set it apart from even a middle of the road local family restaurant.More stylized-Vegas-fusion.  I left after dinner and did not visit the nightclub. I would not be upset if I were invited to dine there again. Less than a 50% chance that I would I would invite my own guests to dine with me at LAVO.

by Joe B.

We had the night all planned out: Dinner and drinks at Tao, then we get into Tao nightclub without having to wait in line and pay cover.  It was brilliant, and all thanks to other Yelpers who noted that this was their policy.Only trouble is: Tao nightclub isn't open on Wednesday, and we didn't find that out until after dinner when we asked our server.  He mentioned that Lavo, their sister restaurant/nightclub, would let us in for free.   Ok, cool, mission accomplished.  Maybe tomorrow we can dine at Lavo, then get into Tao nightclub.  Hope it works the other way around . . . .Not really impressed by Lavo, partially because of the bottle-service phenomenon.  It was pretty small, and all the seating was taken up by bottle service tables, roped off even though there was no one there.  You try telling your girlfriend who just walked to the monorail, to Tao, and then from Tao to Lavo in heels that she can't sit down.  Not pretty.I have to give bottle service and high heels a separate paragraph.  See above for why both of these things can make a fun night out feel like a death march.  If these two things did not coexist in Vegas everywhere, there would be a lot more happy ladies out there, perhaps with less-sexy feet and not draped around some dude who wants to show off his $, though . . . The music was just OK.  The mashups/medleys of old school pop like MJ and other '80s and '90s hits were too short - you'd get into one song and they'd switch it up on you real quick.  Most of the newer stuff was standard club hip hip . . . snore.  It was still fun, I can dance to almost anything with a beat, but mix it up a little.  Soaring melodies and more funky bass lines can do wonders to lighten up the droning bass.  I wish MJ's Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough lasted longer than just part of a medley . . .  we stopped, but we didn't get enough.The crowd was cool, no real aggressive douches, or it would have been maybe 2-star or worse.  But we did see a group of them entering as we were leaving, so who knows.  The dancer they had on a platform was hot and talented, she kept things going.  The rest of the crowd was fun, friendly, out for a good time, and that, a bass line, and some good club lighting can keep me out on the dance floor despite the music.Looking forward to trying Tao-the-nightclub tomorrow, and hope dinner at Lavo gets us into Tao like the reverse did last night.

by L L.

Came here as part of the PubCon conference.  Lots of eye candy -- but too bad they were all downstairs.  They put all the conference attendees upstairs, away from the action.

by Chanmao S.

REVIEW IS FOR THE NIGHTCLUB ONLY For Vegas this place is out of place. I almost felt like I was in a bar in San Jose and not in Vegas. Almost as small as the Temple on First street (a little exaggeration there). One bar and a mini stand right outside the restrooms. If you like rubbing skins and touching people's sweat on the dance floor this is the place for you to do just that. I think my suite back at the hotel was bigger and enjoyable than LAVO.