Chris' Excellent Las Vegas Adventure! Pirate Cocktails, Peking Duck and Following the Rat Pack

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Welcome to Las Vegas! Chris reunites with our friend and Vegas food scene expert Al Mancini for the ultimate night out. They start downtown at Atomic Liquors, where Barbra Streisand, Hunter S. Thompson and the Rat Pack were regulars. They then head to Chyna Club at the Fontainebleau for “the best cocktail I’ve ever had” (says Chris), plus the Vegas food you need to try right now, prepared by Chef Richard Chen. And for their last stop, Chris and Al visit Stray Pirate for a bar unlike anything we've ever seen.

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0:00.0	I'm Christopher Kimball, and this is a special episode of Milk Street Radio in collaboration with our sponsor, Las Vegas.
0:11.9	Today's show, it's my big night out in Vegas with Al Mancini.
0:16.3	You might remember Al from the live episode we did in Las Vegas last year.
0:20.7	He's a food journalist and host of the podcast, Food and Loathing.
0:24.6	He also runs the Vegas restaurant guide, Neon Feast.
0:28.6	Coming up, Al and I eat the Vegas dish you need to try right now.
0:32.6	I got a nickname. They called me a duck master.
0:35.6	And you give me a duck, I'll make it magical, make something happening. We also visit a bar unlike anything I'd a nickname. They called me a duck master. And you give me a duck, I'll make it magical and make something happening.
0:39.1	We also visit a bar unlike anything I'd ever seen.
0:42.2	So the whole concept behind our bar is that we're sitting here inside of a sunken pirate ship, a dog pirate ship, mind you.
0:49.7	And that's all later in the show.
0:51.6	But first, we're venturing beyond the Las Vegas Strip to downtown,
0:56.1	and that's where we found Atomic Liquors, our first stop of the night.
1:00.3	Al wanted to meet me here for a very special taste of Vegas history.
1:05.9	You know, one thing I love about Las Vegas is it covers the full gamut.
1:15.6	You have the big casinos and the strip, and then you have downtown. I'm looking at the sign right now for atomic liquors,
1:19.6	cocktails, package liquors, cold beer.
1:22.6	You know, it's a dive bar, but it's an incredibly charming dive bar with a long history.
1:28.3	The first thing I notice is it says dress code and force, which really makes me feel at home, right?
1:33.3	Because in Boston that would mean coat and tie.
1:36.3	Unfortunately, here it doesn't.
1:38.3	It says, bikers, no colors allowed, including jackets, vests and t-shirts.
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