The Restaurant at Vdara Hotel & Spa

"On-site there is a small shop for groceries (make your own picnic!) and a lobby bar plus a pool and spa, but there is nary a restaurant, slot machine, showroom, or white tiger in sight"

"At the 1,495-room condominium hotel, designed by Rafael Viñoly, there is a ground-floor restaurant called Silk Road, a new venue for chef Martin Heierling, who is known for his imaginative Pan-Asian cuisine"

"Despite its location, at CityCenter, just off the Las Vegas Strip, Vdara has no casino, no celebrity-chef restaurants, no glittering stage productions, no over-the-top pool and nightclub scene, and—like its neighbor, the Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas (but rare for Las Vegas) no smoking permitted anywhere on the property"

"It also offers a unique perspective on Vegas: you get access to all of the city’s over-the-top wonders (casinos and some of the best new restaurants in town, courtesy or ARIA and Bellagio, connected by a pedestrian walkway), but somehow Vdara feels like an escape"

"Only a short walk from buzzing casinos, restaurants and nightlife, Vdara offers a blissful escape in which to relax and unwind"

"This may be too much sensory deprivation for guests used to Vegas' ambience, as there is no nightlife, or even a restaurant for that matter (there is a Starbucks in the lobby)"