SPEND LESS, SAVOR MORE WITH VEGAS’ HIGH-END LUNCHES

Don’t want to spend big bucks on dinner at a fancy-schmancy Vegas establishment? Try lunch instead. Many high-end Vegas joints offer midday menus featuring the same fabulous fare but at a lower cost and in a more laid-back atmosphere. Here is just a sample.

For a casual lunch that’s très chic, head red onion, apple, bleu cheese, roasted to Giada at the Cromwell, a shrine to the shallot vinaigrette; and a hearty romaine Food Network star. Giada — which serves salad with the option of adding chicken Italian cuisine with California influences Milanese or shrimp on top. There’s also a — glows with natural light from retractable variety of sandwiches à la Giada, include-windows and has a patio with greating lemon pesto grilled cheese, tenderloin views of the Bellagio Fountains, making sliders and lobster rolls. It a perfect daytime dining space. In One of the hottest joints on the addition to its regular dinnertime dishes, Strip is “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro’s Giada’s lunchtime menu includes meal sized Buddy V’s at the Venetian. The menu is salads like Waldorf Panzanella — styled after the home cooking Valastro raisin walnut bread, spinach, basil, celery prepares for his own family. Indeed, with a rustic interior that’s covered with framed family photos, you’ll almost feel like you’re part of the extended famiglia.

Dine with the beautiful people at Daniel Boulud’s French eatery, Db Brasserie at the Venetian. Choose from a slightly discounted à la carte lunch menu of updated bistro classics, or go for the two- or three-course lunch prix fixe (at about half the cost of dinner!). Start with watermelon gazpacho, salmon rillettes or heirloom beets, and move on to an entrée of steamed mussels, curry chicken salad or the Yankee burger. Finish up with something so Boulud — caramel fondant, cherry almond sundae or an artisan cheese plate.

Who knew lunch could be so good?