Friends With Benefits Davey Galvan

Comedy is a calling for this club manager

With vision boards being all the rage lately, one must wonder if they really work. Well, Davey Galvan, assistant general manager and head of food and beverage for Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club at The Linq Promenade, is proof they do.

“During COVID, my wife was telling me about vision boards, so I did one and I put on mine, ‘I want to work and retire in a comedy club’ and it just so happened a few months later this job became available.” Galvan is now living his vision and dream at JKCC; he joined the comedy club last fall. Galvan grew up loving stand-up comedy, thanks to his dad, who let him listen to George Carlin. Since then, he’s added to his list of top comedians, including Chris Rock, Mitch Hedberg and Ralphie May.

It was thanks to Galvan’s career background that he landed his current job. The California native has more than two decades worth of experience in food and beverage in Las Vegas, working behind bars and helping run venues across the valley and at MGM Grand, where he even helped launch the city’s

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Jimmy Kimmel himself helped create the cocktails on the menu, and the Jimlet is his favorite— it’s mixed with Grey Goose vodka, Chambord, raspberry simple syrup and lime juice. Stop by JKCC’s lounge in the mornings for its “Roast and Toast” events, with coffee cocktails, pastries and comedy roasts playing on the TVs. –KM longest-running dayclub, Wet Republic. But it’s at Kimmel’s comedy outpost that Galvan has found home.

He helps oversee the food and beverage offerings at the club, noting that the offerings are not what one would expect. The food is all fresh and madeto-order (and absolutely delicious, he says), and the spirits are all top-shelf selections. It’s also Galvan’s duty to interact with all the guests that come through the door. “I love it; every day I meet new people that love comedy, just like me,” he says. –Kiko

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a city that sees sunshine the majority of the year, winter can get a little tiresome. But at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, you can capture that outdoor vibe even on a cloudy day at Kassi Beach House. That Mediterranean seaside feel pervades this restaurant, conceptualized and brought to life by Nick Mathers, an L.A.-based restaurateur who has opened a number of SoCal hot spots.

With Kassi, you’ll enter through an archway that leads past large vases and through an intimate bar with booths and seating on one side and a bar top on the other. As you exit the bar, it’s as if you’ve entered the patio area of a large home. During brunch and lunch, the main dining room of Kassi Beach House is a sun-washed paradise, with several “rooms” and different types of seating throughout. Some rooms seem to be in the shade, while others look out at floor-to-ceiling windows and the pool complex beyond. A small area for DJs faces the windows, too. There are several long wooden tables, while an abundance of seating puts you in comfy seats and couches throughout. During dinner, subdued lighting helps extend that beachy scene.

On the opposite wall from the windows is a huge oven, from which the fragrance of freshly baked bread and pizzas wafts through the dining room, and a pass-through that yields peeks of the busy staff. Tucked in the center of the room opposite the kitchen is an additional bar, perfect for sitting