Desktop snaps do not appear in the dash/menu on gnome in 17.10 final beta

Yup, looks like there is some bug somewhere in context with your setup …

The generated .desktop files for snaps live in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications and should be found there by your system (snapd enhances the search path for .desktop files with this dir, see /etc/profile.d/apps-bin-path.sh which should apply to every login by default)