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| - Velveteen Rabbit is everything I like in a bar. It's casual, interesting, unpretentious, friendly, and most important, they make amazing drinks. Even more important is the latter combined with the former, since in so many cases amazing drinks are served up with a double dose of snoot. Not here. These folks are legit.
This little hole in the wall has a definitely grimy feel to it. I wouldn't have been slightly surprised to find a dive bar occupying this space. But instead they are slinging out some pretty interesting craft cocktail concoctions. And not only classics. They are making things up that please the palate and put your head on swirl. And beyond the delicious flavors, the prices are very right.
While the space itself seems a bit unpolished, they have some really interesting art, like an installation based on a projection on one of their walls with flaking paint, and a nice piece back near the bathrooms. And possibly the most endearing to me was the graffiti on the bathroom stall wall that simply proclaimed "Fuck your selfies".
Yup. I like this place. It reminds me just a little tiny bit of my home base in Portland, but it's different. It fits this town much better. And by this town, I mean the real LV, beyond the strip.
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