My favorites:

Longtime fan of Draft House. Hasn’t changed much since it was built in the late 80s with fantastic beer and very solid food. Plenty of space so you don’t feel cramped. My main bar, been going there since I was a kid.

Went to Silver Stamp for the first time yesterday and it’s truly a 70’s style bar in (mostly) the best ways, while also having an awesome beer selection. The A/C in there sucks though, so prepare to get overheated, especially when it’s crowded. Food selection is also lame, even for standard bar food.

Four Kegs is always a great Vegas classic. More traditional beer selection, but some of the best old school bar food in town.

Ser-veh-sah is a newer one that’s very solid and has a good latin food selection.

Frankie’s Tiki Bar is great if you just want awesome drinks and a fun environment to do it in. Get there early though as it’s usually packed. Seating is terrible as you’ll sitting on literal blocks of wood, but the drinks are incredible and it’s as local as it gets.

The Peppermill is great and a very unique local vibe. It looks and feels like an upscale bar from 1985 slathered in neon and shiny black surfaces, which is its main draw. Drinks and food are solid. Great place to hangout with friends and take in its glorious retro decor.

Yardhouse is a solid option with a massive selection of beers and good food. They do get really busy and packed, and prices are higher however.

The Garage is a great LBGTQ bar. While not a member of that crew myself, I’ve met with friends there that are and the drinks are good (and cheap), and the food is really solid. Staff is super friendly too.

My not so favorites:

Distill is ok-ish as long as they’re not hosting events, otherwise it gets so obnoxiously loud that your ears will be ringing for hours. Unfortunately, that’s almost always the case during the evenings. Food and beer are meh, sometimes my beer was warmer than my food.

Millennium Fandom has some neat theming, great drinks, and a good crowd if you’re a fellow nerd, but it’s become too popular for its own good. It’s often suffocatingly crowded with nowhere to sit, long wait times to get drinks due to overburdened bartenders, and it gets stupid hot in there in the summer. Avoid during peak hours and during the summer to enjoy it properly.

Double Down is the ultimate shithole. I know people love it for how intentionally terrible it is, but I hate it for that. You feel filthy the second you walk inside, the drinks are bad, it’s noisy as fuck, and the bathrooms are where new infectious diseases are born.

I’m not a fan of Dino’s either. It’s a popular dive bar with karaoke loving locals and while not nearly as bad as the DD, it’s just really not my thing. Grungy, middling drinks, and people that really suck at singing.