Las Vegas Mixtape v44: Where To Go Now: Classic and Modern Vegas

Track #4 (of 5) Las Vegas Floral & Sweets @Chinatown

A bouquet in a handbag. (Image: Vegas 411) 

People will sometimes ask me: what’s the best way to explore Chinatown? Easy. Pull into one of the plazas—some of which are massive—park your car and walk around. There’s so much to miss if you just do a drive-by.

It’s been a minute since I revisited The Center at Spring Mountain, the shopping center with an array of restaurants—including Asian, French, and Mexican—plus the magically eye-popping 24/7 Golden Tiki bar, which is one of the happiest places on earth.

Dropping in to the plaza recently, I wandered into the relatively new retail shop known as Las Vegas Floral & Sweets. The Rolls Royce golf cart in the window (from 1984, I would learn from the store owner) immediately tips you off that this a luxury gift shop, the kind you’d find at a high-end hotel.

Affordable luxury in Chinatown. (Image: Vegas 411)

But mostly everything here is moderately priced starting with the gorgeously prepared floral bouquets which you can also have customized and delivered. There are also cookies, specialty coffees (like M & M’s and Twix), and mini bottles of strawberry champagne. Conveniently, the store sells ready-made gift baskets—it's the kind of place you can run into and grab a last-minute gift that should impress anyone, particularly with Valentine’s Day around the corner.