Las Vegas Donuts in Focus with New Vegas Foodie Tours

Las Vegas Donuts may not the next big breakout for the world’s top chefs that have put restaurants in Las Vegas on the map. But new Las Vegas foodie tours showcasing the city’s donuts may the next big hit. 

The Underground Donut Tour, that is cropping up in iconic cities across the country, is launching its next big foodie tour in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Underground Donut Tour has been running for 7 years across the US, UK and Ireland, including Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City, Portland, Seattle, Boston, Nashville, Miami, New Orleans, London, Dublin and now adding a map to the mighty Las Vegas donut tour to its roster. 

“The donut tour has on a roll lately and we feel like we hit the jackpot with the launch of our Las Vegas donut tour. Everybody knows about the casinos, the nightlife, and the shows of Las Vegas, but there’s a lot of amazing local donut shops that need to highlights and that’s why we’re here,” said Jeff Woelker, founder of the Underground Donut Tour.

Backing this bet is the knowledge that Americans eat more than 10 billion donuts per year, according to the Simmons National Consumer Survey, despite the advice of their doctors to cut down to 8 billion. Complementing such Sin City dining concepts, perhaps, is the new Downtown Las Vegas dining spot, Bacon Nation, that touts how customers should bring their cardiac surgeon with them. 

The Dare

Passionate donut diners will be walking between four of the most interesting donut, churro and beignet shops in downtown Las Vegas as the history of each location, along with many local sights, sounds, and tastes of the area come to life. The tour takes place mostly in the arts district of downtown Las Vegas, not for from the Fremont Street experience with visits to the Ferguson Motel — a 1940s-era motel turns retail and community space, the Downtown Container Park, Fremont Street, DT Alley and numerous murals and artwork as part of the Las Vegas Arts District.

Las Vegas Donuts on a Roll

Tours will start on Friday, November 11th, and run year-round. Tours run every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 10am with more days and times coming soon. Tickets sell on a first come/first serves basis for $40 for adults and $25 for kids 10 and under. 

Las Vegas has been consider a Foodie’s paradise since the 1960s when the venerable “Gourmet Room” was the central dining attraction at such top resorts as Caesars Palace, Desert Inn and the Saraha Hotel. The white-glove service and prime cut extravaganza was use as a way to lure top gamblers and reward them with complimentary experiences for their entourages in exchange for whale-size bets. 

Eventually, magnificent buffets took top billing, especially at Caesars Palace and Bally’s where the resorts’ top chefs showcase their specialties in all-you-can-eat-portions at affordable prices that only Las Vegas could manage. In the early aughts, top celebrity chefs from all over the world poure into the city creating signature kitchens and putting Las Vegas on the Michelin star map. That wave continues today as the city gets known for its food and wine events and continue focus on food of every stripe. 

Bundling the Las Vegas foodie focus is Las Vegas foodie tours is Lip Smacking Foodie Tours, which curates Las Vegas food experiences by interest, theme and region and takes small groups on a tasty adventure of Las Vegas’s best bites according to chose passions. 

Meanwhile, the city is developing and growing with new “restaurant rows,” a Chinatown, an artsy “Bistro Boulevard,” and plenty of heady, unusual, bizarre, and wonderfully unexpect places to experience a meal while on vacation.