Bars

Artisan Café and Lounge Details

• Hours:
  Open 24 hours daily.
• Average drink price:
  $5 - $8. Happy hour from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. daily features 2-for-1 house wines, well drinks and domestic drafts.
• Payment info:
  Cash, Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
• Parking:
  Free in hotel parking lot.
• Occupancy:
  80.
• Special events:
  • Friday: Shake and Pop with resident DJ M!KEATTACK and Justin Baule from 10 p.m.-8 a.m.
  • Saturday: Artisan Afterhours with resident DJ M!KEATTACK and Stellar from 4 a.m.-close.
  • Aug. 12, 19: Scotch tweet up from 6-8 p.m.
  • Aug. 28: Live music with the Steampunk group from 1-6 p.m.
  • Aug. 11, Sept. 8, Oct. 6: "Rock & Roll Wine Event," a choice of California and old world wines from 6-9 p.m.

Artisan Café and Lounge Review

There's nothing quite like a swanky bar to make you feel like a cool customer. Off the Strip they don't come ritzier than the Artisan Lounge. The whole Artisan Hotel seems to spring from its own desert oasis, the ground level shrouded in lush vegetation to hide nearby Industrial Road.

Inside, I'm overwhelmed by the décor. Every inch of wall—and ceiling—is covered by reproductions of famous paintings by Monet, Picasso and Da Vinci. You have to kink your neck to see them all, but it adds to the magnificent ambience of the joint. Glasses full of paint brushes sit atop the counters. The dark wood of the horseshoe bar flickers under candlelight.

In the corner, a jazz musician in a canary-colored zoot suit performs saxophone solos, intermittently drowning out our discussions of Jackson Pollock.

The Artisan Lounge is an exceptionally smooth place, where I'm free to shed my mundane persona and enjoy a few hours of slick, intellectual conversation, with perhaps a slight tinge of pretentiousness to flavor. This is the perfect venue for such activity.

-- Review by Matthew Scott Hunter

Las Vegas Life's 2004 Vegas 100 named the Artisan Lounge Best New Bar.

More info: The lounge, like the rest of the hotel, is a free "wi-fi hotspot," offering wireless Internet access. Food is served from 6 a.m. - 2 a.m.