ARIA Patisserie

A French case with a wide brief

ARIA Patisserie runs a broader case than its name suggests. French pastries lead, but crepes, sandwiches and salads, gelato, chocolates and celebration cakes all sit within the same counter, which makes it a patisserie able to answer a sweet stop, a light meal or a birthday from one display.

Bright, polished, and built for a scan

The room has the polished feel of a resort patisserie in Las Vegas, with glass cases doing the main work and counter service keeping the pace up. It is a pass-through rather than a place to settle, so the useful move is to give the whole case a look before ordering: the chocolates and the gelato pull in a different direction from the pastry, and the sandwiches and salads keep it from being only a sugar stop.

Take a French pastry first, then decide about a crepe

Order from the French pastry side first. It is the name on the door and the clearest expression of the counter. If the stop needs to be more substantial, a crepe keeps the same French line without turning it into a meal, and gelato is the natural second order when it is hot outside, which in Las Vegas is most of the time.

Chocolates are the reason to look at the case twice, and celebration cakes sit in their own category, useful when a stay includes a birthday or a table that wants something more formal than individual pastries.