Junior’s is bringing its famous cheesecakes to Las Vegas
The 300-seat diner will open this fall at Resorts World, joining other Brooklyn-born staples in Sin City
There are few things as culinarily sinful as Junior’s Cheesecakes, so it was only a matter of time before they hung a shingle in Sin City.
The Brooklyn institution is opening a new location at Resorts World Las Vegas later this fall, marking the diner’s first-ever (nearly) West Coast location. The 300-seat restaurant will offer its full menu and bar in addition to its “legendary cheesecake offerings.”
“I feel like I just won the jackpot,” said Alan Rosen, the third generation of his family to own Junior’s, in a press release. He noted that his grandfather, Harry Rosen, “absolutely enjoyed coming to Vegas whenever he could. So I know he’d be thrilled that we are opening a location in the city he loved almost as much as New York.”
Junior’s joins a slew of other Brooklyn institutions in repping Kings County on the strip. Peter Luger announced a year and a half ago that it will be expanding to Las Vegas and recently reported that it will likely open for business in October at Caesars Palace. It’s the first Luger restaurant in the U.S. that isn’t located in New York.
Brooklyn Bowl also has a Caesar’s outpost. Other New York legends on the strip include Old Homestead steakhouse, Carbone and Grimaldi’s. To be sure, not all of them arrive out West with the same quality they’re known for here (we’re looking at you, Di Fara’s)
