No, no, before you stop taking me seriously: I'm normally not into pre-staged foodie scenes. Just the word… Foodie... But. But! The Lipsmacking foodie tour variant is truly different: club owner Donald gives the tours himself and is very picky about the restaurants that can be part of the tour. Not the other way around, as is so often the case (that restaurants can register). Plus: Donald's favorites are certainly not shy of customers. But hey, if you want to be taken seriously (in Vegas) you can only go with the very best come on. This is how it happened: if you book a tour with Donald, you will join the best during a tour through the city (recommended anyway: book your tour especially at the start of your Vegas trip so that you know where you want to go back to later). restaurants of the city. Appetizer here, snack there, main course elsewhere and so on. Each restaurant serves a selection of the tastiest dishes, something of everyone and enough for everyone.

And yes, a number of the restaurants on this list were recommended by Donald – we are only human.

If you want, you can eat your way around The Venetian for about two weeks, in a different restaurant every day. That is honestly highly recommended... (although it would be a shame to miss the rest of the fascinating city). The hotel - like most premium hotels on the Strip - has a long list of very good restaurants and, for convenience, has compiled a list of 'celebrity chefs'. It is not without reason that they were given the status of celebrity chefs: Celine, Mariah, Britney and Jennifer also sometimes join us and for such a Vegas in-crowd, only the best is good enough.

One of the best/nicest/tastiest and most famous is Chica by Latina chef Lorena Garcia. She cooks unparalleled with ingredients from Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. And that is oh so delicious. You can read the entire list of celeb chefs from The Venetian here, and all restaurants, sorted by taste, here.

The sparkling fancy Aria hotel, just like The Venetian, has more than one must-go foodie addresses under one roof. We sat at the gigantic tapas tables Julian Serrano, the chef who managed to cook un-American Spanish (because Americans often can't do that very well. Too greasy. Too much. Too everything. But not here). For when you feel like sharing the better things. Chef Julian, we may say Julian, serves in the famous restaurant Bellagio the best of his Spanish-French cuisine restaurant Picasso. Costs a few cents, but then you get something. A view of the fountain, for example, and of a real Picasso. Just, in the restaurant. In the same Bellagio Julian also presented the Italian menu Lago by Julian Serrano together.

For the better steak it is dark purple Art Deco style restaurant Sage your stop – many say this is the best place to eat in all of Vegas (and that's saying something). Although Sage is also very much about the speakeasy style bar – a must!

While we're at it... NYC favorite (okay, one of the favorites) wrestling a branch will soon open in the Aria Hotel! That makes our tail wag because we are still dreaming about the crispy tempura shrimp with spicy whatever sauce that we order as standard when in The City.

Look, this hotel, The Cosmopolitan, is the favorite of Vegas travel (and Barts!) Buddy Marloes. And Marloes should know because buddy has been to Vegas for the fifth time (!). Why favorite? Because The Cosmopolitan feels just a little less grand. Yes, the hotel is gigantic, but things are indeed a bit more manageable. Also important: the presence of a number of unmissable restaurants and bars. You can't ignore the new classic The Chandelier, a purple and white slightly hysterical and therefore very nice bar in the middle of the hotel. Get the signature cocktail here. It's not on the menu (inside info!), but the waitress knows immediately what you're talking about. The cocktail including tequila comes with a narcotic fruit. You should eat that first before drinking the rest – super weird! During the foodie tour we had a main course at the Greek restaurant Milos and that was, in my opinion, the highlight of the tour. The most tasty tomato salad, the freshest burrata and a divine fish.

Now that we're looking back... Another one at the Cosmopolitan and another NYC fav: Beauty & Essex. Since day 1, Beauty & Essex in Manhattan has been the go-to place for models, actors and other jet-set glitterati. It is not surprising that the store also opened in Vegas, where the trick was repeated: here too, the old English mansion feeling with faux-vintage and a lick of dark paint, supplemented with a portion of rock 'n' roll attitude. Model food on the menu: mini tacos, Thai-style shrimp, tomato tartare and for the big appetite: fried chicken.