Poodle Room Members-only Bar in Fontainebleau Las Vegas

• Poodle Room is a members-only membership on the prime of 67-story Fontainebleau Las Vegas. 
• The social house options putting, poodle-inspired decor, in addition to a bar with beautiful views of the Vegas Strip, a patio, lounge areas, a cigar room, a personal bar, and a 12-seat omakase restaurant. 
• The invite-only membership is accessible to friends staying within the resort’s Fleur de Lis suites, in addition to these invited by a Poodle Room member and friends eating at 12-seat omakase restaurant Ito.

One in all Journey + Leisure’s Las Vegas reporters just lately instructed me that one of the best view of Sin Metropolis is at a members-only bar known as Poodle Room on the highest ground of the Fontainebleau resort.

Fontainebleau Las Vegas, the second outpost from the hospitality model recognized for its ever-popular Miami Seaside resort, was named certainly one of one of the best new motels of 2024 on T+L’s annual It Record. Housed within the “tallest occupiable constructing within the state of Nevada,” in line with a Fontainebleau spokesperson, the bar crowning the tower additionally has a 12-seat omakase restaurant, Ito.

The members-only membership, 67 tales up, made New Yorker headlines at the start of 2024—throughout its preview part—when A-listers like Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Cher, and because the article put it, “a couple of Kardashian” confirmed as much as have a drink with Josephine, the bar’s headlining poodle.

The thought of a sky-high bar, typically purchased out by movie star clientele, with poodles in every single place lived rent-free in my thoughts till, lastly, I succumbed to curiosity and made plans to see it. There are 3 ways to get in: you must be invited by a member, have a coveted reservation at Ito, or keep within the Fontainebleau’s $1,500-a-night Fleur de Lis suites, which embody butler service and lavish digs with a number of bedrooms and a lounge that feels roughly the dimensions of Nantucket. In my Fleur de Lis suite, I discovered a rest room that might definitely rival Caligula’s—or actually any Roman emperor’s. And simply as I turned on the fountain that might fill the marble Jacuzzi tub beside the in-suite sauna, I noticed it: An invite to the newly opened Poodle Room, prolonged to the friends of the resort’s highest-rolling rooms.

At 11 p.m. that night time, I made it house from the marriage that introduced me to Las Vegas, swapped my lehenga for a black costume and bright-red Carel heels, and rode the Fontainebleau elevator to the 89th ground. (Typically, motels go away flooring unaccounted for—many forego a thirteenth ground out of pure superstition—which is how the Poodle Room is 67 tales up however on the 89th ground.)

The mirrored entry is ripe for Instagram moments, however there are not any telephones allowed up right here; No pictures, no movies, and sure, it’s strictly enforced. I instructed the host I used to be a Fleur de Lis visitor, was granted entrance to the decked-out bar, and almost walked right into a full-sized illuminated poodle statue. On her hind legs together with her head held excessive, she was taller than I used to be and posing haughtily in entrance of floor-to-ceiling glass home windows framing the Vegas strip. The welcoming committee.

I used to be transfixed. Not a lot by the view, although it was spectacular, as by the poodle statues, sconces, and patterned lamp shades which may have been left over from a ‘60s hang-out the Rat Pack frequented. The serviette underneath my gin martini had a poodle within the backside proper nook, and when the dessert cart got here, it was achieved up with petit-fours and truffles organized on what appeared to be wax paper with sketches of purple poodles.

Poodle Room oozes luxurious, however it isn’t quiet. And within the U.S. capital of unabashed opulence, the deeply maximalist membership suits proper in. The navy blue partitions meld with the glowing white orb the poodle sconces and statues emit, creating an ambiance that has you ordering a 3rd martini for the primary time in years. (On a associated word, three martinis in was after I visited the ladies’s restroom, and got here face-to-face with a taxidermied poodle sitting on a rest room in one of many stalls.)

We’re not within the smooth launch part anymore. Poodle Room is in full swing, with a vibey cluster of hanging lights over the bar and a small patio the place I discovered a member smoking subsequent to a dangling portrait of a topped poodle labeled “La Reine” in gold script. There’s a cigar room, inviting lounge areas, and the sultry Forneau personal bar, clad in floor-to-ceiling crimson and a formidable artwork assortment. 

Lastly, the 12-seat omakase restaurant Ito has a separate Japanese whiskey bar and serves uncommon fish that make every day flights from Japan to be dolled up by acclaimed cooks Masa Ito and Kevin Kim. The restaurant, which can be headed for the Las Vegas Michelin-star record, is open to members and non-members, and may be your finest approach into Poodle Room.

To guide your Ito reservation, go to fontainebleaulasvegas.com/ito, or to guide a keep on the Fleur de Lis suites, from $1,500 an evening, go to fontainebleaulasvegas.com/fleur-de-lis.