>>22016805 Did you know companies are allowed to give you up to half of your "official" salary in per diem? I think the IRS defines it as no more than 1/3 of your total monetary compensation (bonusus but not insurance or retirement) can be per diem. If your company regularly issues per diem you should ask if they would be willing to just start paying you 1/3 of your current salary in per diem. Because it's tax free. Truckers invented the strategy I think but lots of people use it.
>>22016805 I live in Las Vegas. Here you go. >Yui Edomae (tasting menus under $200, outstanding, reserve a seat at the counter) >Lotus of Siam (original location just reopened, only go to original location, if you can't just go to Lamaii) get a nice bottle of wine >Bouchon >Cipriani's >Bazaar Meat (might be over $200head for the tasting menu, order a la carte) >Sparrow & Wolf >Cote and there's lots of really good places you can eat for under $200 >Lamaii (better than Lotus imho) >Milpa (this is not close to the strip, but it is the best Mexican food in Vegas, if you're from California or the Southwest I honestly wouldn't bother with Mexican food in Vegas) >Trattoria Nakamura Ya (italian-japanese fusion) >Chamon (Tempura house) >Chengdu Taste >Shanghai Taste >SK Seafood (Cantonese) >Bar Boheme (sit at the bar and get oysters and a bottle of wine) and after you can march around the arts district and go bar hopping I would pass on all the Buffet under $200, the only Buffet worth going to is the one in Caesar's and it's over $200