But The Sugar Factory at Paris Las Vegas is much more than just a sweet shop, it's a full service restaurant, lounge, bakery, store, and nightclub dedicated to indulgence. That it is successful at just about everything it does is probably the biggest surprise of the year.

Located right along The Strip in front of the hotel, the ground floor of the new building has a sleek, black on black dining room with giant windows that open up to street. Get a table by the window so you can do some people watching.

There's also a bar, a bakery serving everything from cupcakes to intricate pastries, and a blown up version of their candy store that offers virtually every sugary treat you can imagine including a bunch of retro goodies.

In the back is a chocolate lounge that features fondue heating pads built into the bar and tables so you can drink and dip at the same time.

Upstairs is an outdoor beer garden that feeds into the Chateau nightclub inside Paris Las Vegas.

But the focus, for this particular review at least, is the restaurant and it should be your focus as well.

Open 24 hours, they serve an almost epic variety of food. Seven pages of the menu are dedicated to breakfast style items alone including basics like bacon and eggs or ham and cheese omelets to frittatas (smoked salmon and grilled skirt steak are options), pancakes of all varieties such as red velvet with cherry syrup, breakfast sandwiches, waffles, crepes, French toast, pastries, and more.

Feeling brunch-ish, I sampled the brie and ham crepe, stuffed with gooey, smooth cheese and black forest ham then topped with apples and a balsamic vinaigrette. It was a perfect choice for something substantial yet not too heavy. I left the heavy for the apple pie waffles topped with caramel and maple syrup. Yeah, that's how I roll.

I can't recommend the crepes highly enough and they have a bunch of different choices - turkey club, BLT, chicken Caesar, and even a ratatouille with zucchini, eggplant, and feta on the savory side and chocolate, smores, berry, and soda pop (gummy candies, cotton candy, and pop rocks) on the sweet side.

If you're not in a breakfast kind of mood, that's okay because they have seven more pages of soups, salads, sandwiches, burgers, pizza, pasta, steak, pork chops, seafood, and more. If you can't find something to eat here, you're way too picky.

Other items we sampled included the fried macaroni and cheese pops, which are just as decadent as they sound - basically balls of macaroni and cheese, deep fried, and served with a sweet tomato sauce. Yum. A patty melt on tender rye bread, dripping with gruyere and sautéed onions, and an open faced tuna melt filled out our table and everything was terrific.

Don't forget about dessert! There's another eight pages worth of that including tarts, cheesecake, cupcakes, slices of cake (from carrot to lemon pound), cookies, chocolate fondue, sweet pizzas (chocolate, caramel custard, and raspberry lemon to name a few), sundaes, shakes, malts, floats, hot chocolate, and sweet coffee drinks.

Although tempted to do the King Kong sundae with 24 scoops of ice cream and virtually every topping in the building, we went with a more sensible round of cupcakes. Although the cake part was merely okay, the frosting part was amazing and made us happy with our choice.

Prices are very reasonable, which is also a surprise. Breakfasts are mostly in the $10-15 range although you can get muffins, scones, and fruit for just a few bucks. Most of the appetizers are under $10 and most of the main courses are in the $12-20 range except for the grill entrees but most of those are only a few buck over $20. Desserts are all over the map but figure $10-15 for the really good stuff. This means that you can do a very full, very satisfying meal for under $40 per person easily and a lot less if you don't go too crazy with the sweet stuff.

I was pleasantly surprised and impressed by the Sugar Factory and I swear it had nothing to do with the sugar buzz I had after eating those waffles. And the cupcake. Oh, and the milk chocolate caramels...