Posted on: December 6, 2024, 05:05h.
Last updated on: December 6, 2024, 05:51h.
Country star Jason Aldean celebrated the grand opening of his fourth restaurant and honky-tonk during kickoff night of the National Finals Rodeo on Thursday.
Aldean cut the ribbon, sang three songs and handed out shots of tequila and whiskey to his adoring VIP crowd.
“This is wild,” he said from the stage. “I started playing in bars, so to have my own bar now here in Las Vegas, right in the heart of the Strip, is amazing.”
Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar is located at 63 CityCenter, just across the Strip and a 10-minute walk south from Blake Shelton’s nearly identical (and so far very successful) Ole Red.
Aldean’s joint, run by TC Restaurant Group, serves Southern-inspired dishes including Grandma’s Pot Roast and Mama Aldean’s Peach Cobbler.
Shelton’s does not serve those specific dishes.
Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar is open daily at 10 a.m. and closes late Thursday through Saturday. For intel, visit jasonaldeansbar.com/las-vegas.
Pardon Our In-N-Outburst
In-N-Out released a rendering Thursday of its upcoming second location on the Strip. As we told you back in October, it will open in 8,000 square feet along with The BLVD. at 3755 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
And that will make it the largest In-N-Out ever built. Because we know that size secretly matters to you.
The thing that trips us out is how much the official rendering looks like the one we asked Google’s Gemini AI to render for our original story, which, despite our clearly labeling it as AI, earned hundreds of thousands of hits for unscrupulous social media accountholders who represented it as official.
Dining Ins & Outs
Yes, it’s awkward, but that’s really the title of this section of happenings that weren’t important enough to make the first two stories yet weren’t unimportant enough to ignore completely. (So sue us, In-N-Out.)
Gjelina, the New York and LA success story, is opening December 26 on restaurant row at the Venetian, according to the resort’s website. The seafood-forward restaurant was founded in 2008 in chef/owner Fran Camaj’s apartment in Venice Beach and named after her mother.
The last day of operation for Señor Frog’s in Las Vegas will be December 31. That’s according to Vital Vegas, which also broke the news that the Mexican chain would be closing the pirate-facing, 23K square-foot space it’s occupied at Treasure Island since 2012.
Villa Azur, a French-Mediterranean restaurant in the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian, will close on December 7. According to Vital Vegas (again!) it is rumored to be replaced by Boa Steakhouse, which operated at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace from 2005 to 2020 and has locations in West Hollywood, Santa Monica and Austin, Texas.
Two Las Vegas locations are coming soon from Swig Drinks of Utah, home of the original Dirty Soda: 1160 E Silverado Ranch Blvd, Suite 100 and 7120 S Rainbow Blvd.
