The best new casino on the Vegas Strip is not on the Vegas Strip. The Red Rock Resort & Casino opened its doors this week in Summerlin, which is about 15 minutes east of all the other major casinos. So why am I blogging about a casino built to cater to Vegas locals rather tourists like you? Well, for starters it's a billion-dollar casino! (That's right, construction costs hovered around the "billion" dollar mark... with a "B"!) And to paraphrase Eric Stoltz in "Pulp Fiction," when you experience it, you will know where the money went.

There are more than 400 luxury rooms, nine restaurants, a killer, wide open casino and a new nightclub called "Cherry" which is owned by Cindy Crawford's hubby Randy Gerber.

Let's get one thing straight: Toby Keith is one of the coolest guys around. "Extra" was the first to interview the country music star when his restaurant, "I Love This Bar & Grill," opened last fall at Harrah's Casino on The Strip. Some themed restaurants in Las Vegas "have no soul," as Toby puts it. Well, "I Love This Bar & Grill" has soul to spare, thanks to the man, himself. Can you imagine the scene when Toby met with his world-renowned head chef to show him how to make a fried bologna sandwich? ("I told the guy the bologna had to be that thick," Toby revealed to me, holding his thumb and finger about a half-inch apart.) Now that same fried bologna is the restaurant's best seller.

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