Aside from Italian food, a Las Vegas staple since the 1930s, international menus first emerged in the 1960s, when European-trained chefs ran mainly French gourmet restaurants in the top resorts of the day. Quainter offerings included daily “salutes to the foods of the world” at the legendary International Hotel’s Cafe Continental.
Consider Lamoon a sister restaurant to Lamaii, the Thai restaurant from Bank Atchawaran. The Asian restaurant in Chinatown from Bon Atchawaran, Bank’s older brother, features Thai food from Bon’s wife Bia Hawang and Japanese cuisine from Jay Boonparsook.
Bon worked with Bank at Chada Thai, Chada Street, and Lamaii before opening Lamoon. Boonparsook worked at BarMasa at Aria and other local Japanese restaurants before coming to Lamoon. Hawang worked at Lamaii, where she managed the bar, and spent years working at Catch, Sage, and Jean Georges Steakhouse at Aria.
Diners can scan in a QR code on their phones to order dishes such as coco tom yum with shrimp, soft tofu with mixed vegetables in a clear vegan broth, a taro and chestnut crispy stick, crispy wings with yuzu honey or spicy tom yum, pad kra pow with ground chicken or pork, vegan garlic fried rice, and yellow curry with chicken. For sushi rolls, find the Take Me Out with seared crab, eel, salmon, scallop, and tuna; the Ro