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Secret Pizza

A Byrd

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Secret Pizza
Hands for scale.

The day we arrived in Las Vegas, we didn't get a chance to eat from 7:30am (breakfast in Seattle with B's cousin) to after 7pm (dinner in Las Vegas), which was a bit ridiculous given that our flight was only 1.5 hours! But that's how it goes with travel days sometimes.

The main issue was that it was New Year's Day and the car hire company we'd booked through (which was a train + bus ride away from the airport) was closed, so all their customers had to line up at a different counter. B was in line for over 2 hours!! But we eventually made it to our hotel, figured out the parking arrangements (with difficulty!) and checked in. And it's the best place we've ever stayed in in Vegas! (This is our fifth time here!)

We're staying at the Jockey Club, which is in between the Bellagio (on the left in this pic) and The Cosmopolitan. This puts us right in the middle of the Strip, an awesome location for exploring on foot! I took this pic outside the Jockey Club entrance.
Our one-bedroom suite set us back AUD $166/night. Everything has become so expensive in Las Vegas that we couldn't believe our luck when we found this place!

Anyway, while researching options for dinner that first night, Google made me aware of a takeaway pizza joint inside The Cosmopolitan called Secret Pizza, with rave reviews about its New York-style pizzas, so off we went. The reason I thought it worth posting about is because it's quite a cool concept... unmarked, unsigned, buried in the middle of a huge casino filled with posh eating options and somehow incredibly popular! The only way we could even find it was by following the detailed directions in people's reviews!

In between two fancy restaurants is this easy-to-miss corridor decorated with album covers. There is no pizza-related signage whatsoever. This is where the queue for Secret Pizza starts!
Once we reached the front of the line, which took at least 20 minutes, we could see the guys making the pizza. It was sold by the slice (about ~$10 AUD) or by entire pizza (about ~$60 AUD).
After a 40 minute wait, we could return to collect our pizza. This was their sausage and ricotta pizza, with added pepperoni for J, which cost about $63 AUD and was slightly more food than our family really needed. They are BIG pizzas! (And delicious!)

Anyway, that was Secret Pizza... a fun dining option in Vegas!

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