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Las Vegas has a lot of high-end, expensive, celebrity-driven restaurants. That's not foodie to me. Real foodies enjoy street food, hole in the walls, mom and pop restaurants, historic establishments that define a neighborhoods, ethnic neighborhoods, easily accessible/affordable local offerings, etc. LV is none of that. Boston is that.
Boston is at least improved from 50 years ago when it was awful. Other than Chinatown, “ethnic food” was Italian in the North End. It’s now average-ish for a large US city. By NYC standards or west coast standards, it’s pretty mediocre.
Vegas is celebrity chef brand management. You’re not getting anything remotely close to the quality of the flagship restaurant where that chef made their name. It’s not bad. It’s just like watching a minor league baseball game compared to an MLB game. It’s baseball but not with the top players.
I voted for Las Vegas because many famous chefs and restauranteurs have a Vegas outpost-the result is genuinely good food. But that's more for special occasions and weekend getaways.
For everyday life, going out, trying new places, authentic ethnic cuisine etc. An actual dining scene I'd go with Boston.
This is about the same logic I used but I chose Boston. Boston is not a hot spot for celebrity chef outposts. Vegas is probably one of the top 2 or 3 markets in the country for such places. So if that's what you define as Foodie, it's Vegas and it's a no brainer.
For every day stuff, Boston is the pretty easy choice. Restaurants are only a piece of it (and Boston has great restaurants, even without a L'Atelier outpost), and I'd also argue that Boston has a lot more local food stores, ethnic markets, and unique groceries that give people better options for cooking at home.
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