Extreme cocktails sizzle in Las Vegas: Los Angeles Times Travel

Extreme cocktails sizzle in Las Vegas: Los Angeles Times Travel

Las Vegas has gone far beyond its martini days.

The cocktail is no longer a cocktail. It’s flaming tiki bowls of roiling red juice at the Peppermill or 30-ounce berry-infused vodka elixirs sucked from a jar at the Hard Rock pool. It’s a $1,000 cocktail sipped with steak at BOA Steakhouse or 60-ounce “muddled” martinis, stirred and then shaken at Blush. Like most things in this over-the-top town, Vegas cocktails are a phenomenon that other cities would find tough to match.

Showy? Yes. Good? Probably not.

Just like Vegas, doncha think?


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