Bellagio bar guide: Petrossian, the Baccarat Bar, The Vault and The Pinky Ring, with hours and dress codes

Petrossian is the first thing on your left as you walk from the hotel lobby towards the casino, and it keeps the most civilised hours in the building: 10am to 1am, every day. A pianist plays, and the resort names 7 of them. The dress code is upscale casual. From Friday to Sunday, between 1pm and 4pm, the bar serves afternoon tea with scones, tea sandwiches and French pastries; when we looked, the reservation page offered tea tables from 1pm to 3.30pm on those days, each one held with a credit card.

The menu is built round caviar. 3 kinds, Imperial Ossetra, Royal Daurenki and Baika Classic, come by the 30, 50 or 125 grams with blinis, crème fraîche, sieved egg and red onion, or all together as a trio with 2 glasses of Veuve Clicquot or a flight of vodkas. Smaller bites put caviar on a taco with hamachi and gold leaf, on a potato cake, on a deviled egg. The Bellagio Martini is Grey Goose, dry vermouth, lemon essence and what the list calls an Ossetra caviar cigar; there are 7 other house cocktails, 3 vodka flights, 3 alcohol-free drinks made with fruit juices, and wine by the 6oz or 9oz glass.

2 bars never close. The Baccarat Bar is on the left of the centre path through the casino, with a view of the tables and of high-stakes play; the bar pours round the clock, its lounge seats from 11am to 1am, the dress is casual, and the page promises martinis and a long list of cigars. Club Privé, past the Baccarat Bar on the same path and then to the left, is a gaming room with a whiskey collection and cigars of its own, upscale casual.

The Vault is the bar Bellagio describes least: hidden inside the resort, its page says, with limited seating and no directions. It has been recognised by The World’s 50 Best Discovery. Through the year it runs Liquid Legends, 2-night collaborations with guests from the cocktail world, each with a limited menu; Lynnette Marrero, co-founder of the Speed Rack competition, is due on 4 and 5 December. A guest in August 2026 wrote of Bellagio’s lounges that one of them is «secret».

The Pinky Ring by Bruno Mars is the late room: take the centre path through the casino, turn right towards the cage, then left. A DJ plays from 9pm to closing and bands take the stage every night, the Hooligans among them. The house rules are strict: fashionable dress, no photographs or video, and no food. Tables are reserved on a separate booking site, where tax and a 10% table fee are added, the deposit is not refunded, and a table is released if nobody has checked in by 10pm.

What guests say depends on the room. One, in September 2026, called a cocktail at Petrossian beside the grand piano a must before the evening performance of «O», and found the drinks well balanced. Another that month praised a bartender at the Baccarat Bar by name for treating a rude customer with the same respect as everyone else. A guest writing in German in August 2026 could barely hear the piano bar over the noise of the casino next to it. An August visitor comes back to Petrossian for what they call its ice-block caviar drink.

The Chandelier at The Cosmopolitan, the next hotel south, spreads a bar over 3 levels beneath 2 million crystal beads. It is open 24 hours; the middle level serves from 5pm to 2am, the top from 11am, or 9am from Friday to Sunday, until 3am, and walk-ups are encouraged when no reservation is free.

Across Flamingo Road, Caesars Palace lists Vanderpump Cocktail Garden, Lisa Vanderpump’s lounge, which takes reservations, and Caspian’s, a speakeasy behind the paintings that serves caviar, seafood and cocktails.