Vegas Diner Hiding a Serious Champagne Obsession
· Las Vegas · Restaurant · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · August 25, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Diner Ross’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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You come in expecting milkshakes and a jukebox, and then the wine list lands on the table — 59 labels, almost exclusively Champagne. It's a diner. In Las Vegas. With Krug and Cristal on the menu. We didn't see that coming.
This list is essentially a Champagne monograph with a few outliers scattered in. The depth within the category is real: grower producers like Camille Saves, Mousse, Roland Champion, Waris-Larmandier, and Gaston Chiquet share space with the usual prestige cuvées — Dom Pérignon, Cristal, Krug Grande Cuvée 172nd Edition. The Armand de Brignac presence is heavy to the point of feeling curated for a specific clientele — five different expressions of Ace of Spades is a statement. If you want a still wine, a Burgundy, or literally anything red, this is not your stop.
No by-the-glass information was available from our research, which is a gap that matters on a list this focused. A rotating grower Champagne program by the glass would be a natural fit here — if that exists, we couldn't confirm it. Ask your server before committing to a bottle.
The Bottom Line
Diner Ross is doing something genuinely weird and kind of wonderful — a Champagne-forward list inside a Vegas diner is a wild card move that mostly works. Just don't show up expecting range beyond bubbles, and go for the growers before you default to the celebrity bottles.
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Crowd Pleasers
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Set & Forget
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