***Jean Philippe Patisserie offers expensive and fancy individual cakes; while I did not love mine, I could see that some of the cakes here might be really good***\n\nLocated in Aria, Jean Philippe Patisserie is a gourmet patisserie and gelato bar that is located right next to the casino floor.  The desserts here are very enticing.  The gelato bar looks pretty run-of-the-mill, but Jean Philippe Patisserie has a huge glass display counter that shows off nice looking chocolates and individual, arty cakes (that remind me of the individual cakes at Jin Patisserie in Venice).\n\nI went through the cakes and while many of them looked good, the actual ingredients and descriptions did not excite me that much.  I finally went with a tart that was topped with pistachio cream, raspberry cream and fresh raspberries.  The raspberries were fresh.  The abundant use of raspberries here made the dessert here quite tart, but the pistachio cream was cool and mild and that helped.\n\nWhile I enjoyed the topping (even though I would not say it was great), I was not a fan of the tart base (it looked cake-like, but it almost pie crust-like).  It was very hard and dry.  I would have preferred a lighter cake base or a flaky puff pastry.\n\nService was okay.  The server was not that knowledgeable about the desserts here, which made ordering difficult.\n\nPrices for the individual cakes were a little high, but I think that is to be expected given the arty presentations and the fact that the shop is in Las Vegas.  While I did not get a good look at the prices for the gelato, from what I saw, the gelato seemed to be reasonably priced compared to other Vegas spots.\n\nJean Philippe Patisserie has a lot of attractive desserts.  The chocolates here looked like they would make good gifts.  I would consider coming to Jean Philippe again to try other things.  But based on this one experience, I would have to say that I enjoyed the desserts/sweets more at Vosges (Caesars Palace) and Bouchon Bakery (Venetian).\n\nAria has complimentary valet parking.  I imagine that they also feature complimentary self-parking.