Las Vegas is a city that never sleeps, so Bon Appétit stopped by Pepper Mill, an iconic 24-hour restaurant, to get to know the customers that keep the establishment busy night and day. From festival goers and girls' trips to Vegas locals, every customer has a story to tell.
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00:00We missed a reservation at STK so we came to the Peppermill because it was the first
00:26place my father took me on my first trip to Las Vegas, so it's a special place.
00:34A rich old guy.
00:35Yeah, so you're at a restaurant in St. Felix in Hollywood.
00:40The Peppermill is authentic, neon.
00:43If you want old school Sin City, Las Vegas, this is the spot.
00:48There's a traditional diner up front, but in the back there's this neon palace with
00:52this fire pit that's so unique.
00:54The service industry, people that service this town, come to this place and have been
00:59coming for years, so we're the real cats that do Las Vegas, service Las Vegas, come to.
01:05I'm a bar back at one of the resorts on the strip.
01:09I was just getting off work and I like the vibe here, just wanted to have a cocktail
01:14and get something to eat.
01:16I did the fettuccine alfredo.
01:19We took forever getting ready.
01:20Yes, they took forever getting ready.
01:22He was waiting for us.
01:24Yeah, I was sitting on the bed waiting for two hours, roughly.
01:28Everyone in Las Vegas is just off at all hours of the night, there's no curfew or anything.
01:34Long day.
01:35It's been a long day, you've been up for a while.
01:37In Vegas there is no set time, you can take a nap and stay up as you please, so there's
01:41always a time and an hour for whatever you desire.
01:44But you have to have good company and good people with you to enjoy it.
01:51We may not go to bed tonight.
01:52I think we're going to be on the poker table, roulette for sure.
01:56I actually come to Vegas not to go to sleep.
01:58Like I would be asleep if I was at home.
02:00If I was at home right now I'd be jerk tight.
02:02But for whatever reason Vegas makes you stay up.
02:04Vegas after midnight, expect anything.
02:07It's fun, it's open, it's energetic.
02:09We're in Las Vegas, Sin City.
02:11So you know what I've been doing?
02:12I've been sinning.
02:13I do not think I'm going to sleep tonight because this is the city that does not sleep
02:17and it's about 3 o'clock in the morning and look at me man, I'm turned up.
02:22I'm awake.
02:23Oh the room, oh my god.
02:25I don't know where I'm at, to be honest.
02:27I get like Grand Theft Auto vibes, I'm not going to lie.
02:30It's a vibe though, the ambiance, we got the crystal ceiling.
02:36I feel like I'm in a movie.
02:37I feel like I'm Don Perignon right now.
02:39That's why I've got all these shots because I just feel like I'm the man tonight.
02:43You guys make me feel welcome.
02:47So that's why we're here, we're having fun.
02:49Next question.
02:51This part back here kind of makes us feel like connected.
02:54It makes us feel kind of like close, like if we were in a hotel room.
02:58I really enjoy this place because it feels very homey.
03:01We're just going to have fun tonight and wherever the night takes us, we're going to have fun.
03:05That's all that is.
03:06I love the social experiment.
03:08Everybody's out, whatever their vibe is.
03:13They came to party and some people may have got deterred, some are exactly where they
03:20needed to be and they're here to have a good time, despite what is going on.
03:25Do you feel optimistic overall about your time in Vegas?
03:28I definitely do.
03:30I am being just blessed.
03:33The night was going okay.
03:45The music festival I came here for was canceled, but I'm starving, so we came here.
03:51We arrived, found out that the Lovers and Friends Festival is canceled and came straight
03:58here for delicious food and drinks.
04:02Oh, 100 percent.
04:04I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking, maybe six feet.
04:11It's so far.
04:14It's tough.
04:16We're not going to sleep.
04:18We're staying up until 12 p.m. today.
04:21It sucks.
04:22I feel like just crying in the home because it doesn't make sense.
04:25We spent damn near three racks, three racks for this concert and they're not coming due
04:30to several days of bad weather.
04:32I'm never recovering.
04:33F*** them.
04:34I'm not.
04:35We actually came down here for Lovers and Friends, but we're going to go party with
04:40Luda.
04:41The party that Ludacris is throwing starts, I think, at 10.30 and it ends at 5 a.m.
04:46What time is it now?
04:49It is 3.41 a.m., so as soon as we get our food, we're going to go party.
04:56We were supposed to have gone to Lovers and Friends and they canceled it.
05:00I was looking for a good time because God knows I need it.
05:08I am normally studying for my boards at 3 o'clock in the morning, so no.
05:12I'm kind of an introvert and I like to do my own thing and I like to read books, but
05:17I'm really happy that we ended up here because it's very nice and that we can hang out with
05:21our friends and family and be in a place that we're comfortable.
05:25I came to celebrate my girlfriend's birthday.
05:33She's turned 20 and it's just been super fun.
05:36Yeah, I'm here with the entire family.
05:38I'm happy I was invited.
05:39It's a weirdly familial vibe around here.
05:43Six days away from children, for sure.
05:46We've been married for 10 years and we don't get time away.
05:49My wife is refusing to tell me what she's going to order because then she knows I'm
05:54going to plan it so that we can split both things.
05:56See, I don't want to tell my husband because he'll probably steal it from me, but I am
06:01going to order the Conquest.
06:03It was some type of Philly cheesesteak thing, but if I say it, he's going to want it and
06:10then I'm going to switch my order.
06:11I mean, I want to share it.
06:13Yeah.
06:14I think that's fair after 10 years of marriage, right?
06:17We should share everything.
06:19We are definitely here for our girls' trip and it's time to get away and do something
06:22a little bit different.
06:23Living it up just a little bit.
06:24He's doing Vegas the way it should be done.
06:26All night long.
06:27All night long.
06:28Don't stop.
06:29My sexy boobs, which is really not a good thing to say as a mom of three, but they make
06:34me feel cute.
06:35We're down here because we have a family funeral, so we're just here having dinner.
06:42Close family.
06:43Getting like this makes a lot of memories.
06:46Before I got here tonight, I was at Cirque du Soleil with my sisters and my wife.
06:51I would compare Peppermill to Cirque du Soleil on a one to ten.
06:57Cirque du Soleil was a nine.
07:00Peppermill, nine and a half, just barely because I'm a foodie, so.
07:10This is actually a weird drink that we tried to have them replicate and it came out pretty
07:14okay.
07:15It's an Aperol Spritz, kind of with vodka, basically.
07:18I ordered a Coronarita.
07:20The Coronarita is a margarita with a corona.
07:24I ordered like a fish bowl.
07:26I don't know, this is very strong.
07:28I want to try some.
07:29Actually, six shots are in the string, apparently.
07:32How do you think that's going to go for you?
07:34I'm a regular alcoholic, so it's going to go terrible, but I might have a good time
07:40for the next couple hours.
07:43The famous scorpion bowl.
07:46You share it with friends, I think, or if you want to drink it yourself, you totally can.
07:51We went to Fremont Street, I think, like old Vegas, found a bar called The Nerd, and it
07:57has, instead of riding a bull, you ride a **** and you ride it like you would ride a
08:04bull.
08:05And that's where we went and that's what we did.
08:08It's definitely giving like Eden, like Eve and Adam vibes with trees and stuff and good
08:14lighting.
08:15This is definitely the end of the night.
08:17This is definitely late.
08:19No, no, it's not really late.
08:21This is about the normal time.
08:23We just left the club.
08:25I just try to water, drink, water, drink.
08:28I don't do, you know, heavy drinking, but I can't be here too long because I have to
08:32go to the gym in the morning, so I'm going to be wrapping it up as soon as I'm done eating.
08:37So it is 3.50.
08:38It is almost four in the morning.
08:40Oh boy.
08:41Yeah, it is strange to be eating this late.
08:45Or early?
08:46That's an interesting conundrum.
08:48Well, looking around, I mean, Vegas with all the bright lights, everything feels very distorted,
08:52so it's hard to tell time in general.
08:55The Peppermill is definitely like its own miniature casino with the reflection and the
09:00neon lighting.
09:01Like, it's really cool here.
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