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If Joël Robuchon, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller and Emeril Lagasse aren't household names in your dining circle, you're not dining close enough to Las Vegas. Celebrity chefs have set up shop in Las Vegas, providing Sin City revelers with more epicurean options than ever before. The restaurants are grand, the tasting menus are intricate and extensive, and the prices are steep. But diners still up nightly, eager to sample celebrity cooking, for the bragging rights if nothing else.

It all started in 1992 when the Forum Shops opened at Caesar's Palace. Las Vegas critics were skeptical, saying that people only came to Las Vegas to gamble and partake in free cocktails—not shop, eat or lounge by the pool. When the Forum Shops broke national retail records, the critics began rethinking the potential for Las Vegas. The Forum Shops hosted the first celebrity chef in the city, with a branch of Wolfgang Puck's legendary L.A. restaurant, Spago. Crowds converged on the space almost immediately, and a trend was born.

Celebrity chefs have become so prevalent in Las Vegas that every major casino hotel seems to have one (if not two or three). There are more celebrity chefs concentrated in Las Vegas than any other city on earth. And why not? Opening a restaurant with a star behind the chopping block has become a recipe for successful dining rooms.

The most remarkable thing in all this celebutant madness is that the food remains surprisingly good. Whether it's a juicy rib-eye at Emeril Lagasse's Delmonico Steakhouse at the Venetian or a seven-course tasting adventure at Alessandro Stratta's Alex at Wynn Las Vegas, the cuisine is fresh, inventive and down right tasty.

The price points are another matter. With high rollers swinging through Las Vegas daily, the demand for high-end, luxurious restaurants is constant. Alex, the namesake restaurant of Alessandro Stratta, brings fine dining to a new level. If the grand hour-glass-shaped staircase doesn't wow you, the imposing crystal chandelier and deep mahogany furniture will. And that's before you taste the food. Joël Robuchon's eponymous restaurant at the MGM Grand favors Art Deco décor to rococo elegance, but nevertheless creates a divinely simple tasting menu with a not-so-simple bill.

Whether or not these celebrity chefs ever don an apron and get behind the stove, having their name on the door (in case you haven't noticed the trend in restaurant titles) seems to be enough to satisfy hungry patrons. And if the food tastes good, what does it matter.