A CIA Graduate Who Left the Strip
Todd Clore graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and spent years opening restaurants for corporate hospitality groups on the Las Vegas Strip — the kind of work that teaches a chef how to manage large-scale kitchens, complex supply chains, and menus designed for volume. It is also the kind of work that rarely lets a chef cook what he actually wants to cook. Clore eventually left the corporate circuit to open his own restaurant, choosing Henderson rather than the Strip — a deliberate move toward the neighborhood dining model where the chef sets the menu, knows the regulars, and controls every plate that leaves the kitchen.
Todd’s Unique Dining opened in 2004 at 4350 East Sunset Road in the Whitney Ranch area of Henderson. The restaurant serves globally inspired steak and seafood, with creative seasonal menus that rotate based on what Clore sources — fish flown in daily, cuts selected by the chef rather than dictated by a purchasing department. Over twenty years, the restaurant has built a following that treats it as Henderson’s answer to the kind of chef-driven fine dining that the Strip packages for tourists at three times the price. The room is intimate, the service is personal, and the menu reflects Clore’s range rather than any single tradition. Todd’s Unique Dining holds a 4.9-star rating on OpenTable across more than two thousand reviews — a consistency of execution that is difficult to maintain for two decades.
Todd’s Unique Dining in the Las Vegas Valley
Henderson’s Sunset Road corridor, running east from Stephanie Street through the Whitney Ranch and Green Valley neighborhoods, has matured into one of the valley’s more reliable stretches for independent dining and professional services. Todd’s Unique Dining sits in a commercial pocket near the intersection of Sunset and Mountain Vista, surrounded by the residential density of Whitney Ranch — a neighborhood where most of the restaurant’s regulars live within a ten-minute drive. For a city that often measures restaurants by spectacle, Clore built his reputation on the opposite: consistency, craft, and the kind of loyalty that comes from twenty years of feeding the same community without cutting corners.
- Owner
- Todd Clore
- Founded
- 2004
- Address
- 4350 E Sunset Rd, Henderson, NV 89014
- Phone
- (702) 259-8633
- Website
- toddsunique.com