Crystina Nguyen is the Executive Chef and culinary heart behind Durango Social Club, a neighborhood restaurant located in Las Vegas, NV. With years of experience in the Las Vegas food and hospitality industry, Chef Crystina brings a deeply personal approach to the menu — Vietnamese comfort food rooted in family tradition, refined through decades of professional kitchen experience.

Her cooking draws from the dishes she grew up with, the techniques she mastered over a career spent at some of the city's most respected tables, and an unwavering commitment to honest, ingredient-driven food. Every dish on the menu tells a story — and most of them start at home.

At Durango Social Club, Chef Crystina isn't just running the kitchen. She's building something permanent. A neighborhood spot where the food has roots, the hospitality is real, and the door is always open.

To her guests, her regulars, and the Las Vegas hospitality community that's known her for years — she's not Chef.

She's Mama.