AIRLIFT YOUR VEGAS DINING EXPERIENCE TO NEW HEIGHTS

With a multitude of culinary options, and more appearing every day, it’s only natural to want to dine at as many of Las Vegas’ restaurants as you can. But there are only so many meals in a day — and only so much you can eat.

Now, a one-of-a-kind food tour not only lets guests sample the signature fare at five of the Strip’s premier restaurants, but also serves up breathtaking views of the city’s dazzling lights on a post-dinner helicopter flight.

Offered select nights at 6p.m., Lip Smacking Foodie Tours’ Savory Bites &Neon Lights experience begins in front of Aria Resort & Casino. Guests on the five-hour tour walk to five nearby restaurants: Bardot Brasserie and Sage at Aria, Estiatorio Milos and Scarpetta at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, and Cucina by Wolfgang Puck inside the Shops at Crystals. They’re seated immediately and served three or four of the restaurant’s most delectable dishes. After about 30 minutes, guests head to the next stop on the itinerary, led by a knowledgeable tour guide who shares interesting facts about the properties along the way. With five restaurants under their belts, literally, guests take off for a 12-to15-minute Vegas Nights flight over the Strip with Maverick Helicopters, taking in bird’s-eye views of iconic landmarks like the Stratosphere tower.

Priced at $299 a person, which includes shuttle service to Maverick Helicopters’ terminal and back to any hotel on the Strip, the tour is perfect for budding foodies: The variety of items offered on the tour — like escargots at Bardot Brasserie and grilled octopus at Estiatorio Milos — makes for lots more sampling that guests could get ordering off regular menus.

After-dinner aerobatics have your stomach in a knot? Lip Smacking Foodie Tours offers tours sans helicopter flight, too. They include a downtown dining tour on Friday and Saturdayat5p.m. Priced at $125 a person, the tour includes stops at three of downtown Las Vegas’ most popular restaurants — Carson Kitchen, Therapy and Turmeric Flavors of India — as well as an alcoholic drink on the rooftop patio at Inspire. Not only will guests learn about downtown Las Vegas’ culinary resurgence during the two-and-a-half-hour experience, they’ll also step inside Turmeric’s kitchen to watch the chef make some naan bread in the restaurant’s clay oven.