CASBAR Lounge

CASBAR Lounge sits on the casino floor at SAHARA Las Vegas, at the north end of the Strip where the crowds thin out and the room rates drop, and it trades on being a lounge in the older sense of the word: a place with seating, live music every evening, and no expectation that you are moving on to somewhere else afterwards. It is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Best of Las Vegas awarded it Bronze for Best Cocktail Bar in 2024, which places it in genuine cocktail-bar territory rather than in the category of a bar that happens to be attached to a casino.

The non-alcoholic program is the reason it belongs in this directory, and it is better constructed than almost anything else of its kind on a casino floor. The bar's approach is to rebuild classic cocktails rather than subtract from them: instead of serving a gin drink without the gin, it works with low- and no-ABV substitutes, leaning heavily on Lyre's non-alcoholic spirits so that the botanical structure of the original drink survives. As one of its bartenders put it when explaining why simply omitting the spirit does not work, the guest otherwise misses the juniper in the gin, the vanilla of the whiskey and the agave of the tequila. Documented builds include an N/A Old Fashioned made with Lyre's American Malt and an N/A Raspberry Mojito made with Lyre's White Cane Spirit, and the wider non-alcoholic list has been described in coverage as extensive and thoughtful rather than perfunctory. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's own guide named CASBAR among seven must-try spirit-free stops in the city, noting that it uses low or no ABV mixers to reimagine classic cocktails; the same guide describes the bar's party trick, a machine that prints an image of your choosing onto the foam of the finished drink, with the picture uploaded through the bar menu. The round-the-clock licence is the practical detail worth remembering: at four in the morning, on a street where the alternative is a soda from a slot-machine cocktail server, this is a room where someone not drinking can order a properly built drink and sit down to live music.