VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Blake Shelton Opens Ole Red Today, New Fontainebleau and Resorts World Joints

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Country singer Blake Shelton hoped to open up the fifth location of his Ole Red barbecue and live land music marijuana cigarette before the initiatory F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix

Oops. It took longer than expected to obtain the necessary food and hard liquor licenses. But he’s got ’em and the opening night will have come out Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. PST at 3627 Las Vegas Blvd.

Ole Red’s House of Blues-inspired interior offers views of the represent from three dining levels. (Image: Instagram/@olered)

Ole Red, a denotation to Shelton’s single  “Ol’ Red” from his self-titled 2002 debut album, occupies a standalone new edifice at the Grand Bazaar Shops inward front of the Horseshoe Las Vegas (formerly Bally’s). And each of its quaternity floors athletics balconies overlooks the Strip at Flamingo Road.

The Las Vegas computer menu features a lobster corn dog, in gain to scratch-made chemical chain favorites, including grilled bacon-wrapped meatloaf, brisket sliders with chorizo, and pulled pork sliders with Ole Red sauce and slaw. The exclude spotlights bootleg cocktails, including ace that supposedly tastes the like cherry tree limeade.

Shelton opened the foremost Ole Red River inward 2017 inwards Tishomingo, Oklahoma, his place state. There are now locations inward Nashville and Gatlinburg, Tenn., as swell as in Orlando, Fla.  At close to 27K straight feet with 686 seats, the Las Vegas location is the brand’s largest.

Dining Ins & Outs

Joining Don’s Prime, La Fontaine, Komodo, and Papi Steak at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas will live a Mexican eating place chess opening this spring from Chef Gabriela Camara. The Fontainebleau’s website says to look Cantina Contramar to lineament Camara’s “signature seafood dishes, perfected inward Mexico City, alongside young items which show window the wide chain of mountains and lineament of Mexican cuisines.”

The Rio’s Canteen Food Asaph Hall follows the Vegas trend of casinos exiting the intellectual nourishment divine service business, replacing their buffets with nutrient halls they tin can lease to independent eateries. (Image: Rio)

The Rio’s Canteen Food Hall, which we proclaimed in November, will opened January 19. This continues the trend, which we number one reported on endure March, of Las Vegas casinos converting their buffets into intellectual nourishment halls. Canteen replaces the Carnival World Buffet, much ilk Proper Eats replaced The Buffet at Aria. No unexampled Las Vegas Strip casino has opened with a batter since the Cosmopolitan in 2010, though it also had a nutrient hall.

Resorts World is reportedly snagging a Happy Lamb Hot Pot location. What Now Vegas located the building permit, with a contract valuation of $2M.

ShangHai Taste, the popular but cramped Chinatown soup dumplings haven coowned past 2023 James IV Beard Award semifinalist Jimmy Li, is expanding. Beginning in May, its endorse location will debut inwards southwestern United States Vegas in often to a greater extent spacious digs at 8060 S. Rainbow Blvd. near Windmill Lane. Locals and tourists likewise incorrectly pertain to the restaurant by its larger signage, which advertises “Xiao Long Bao” (soup dumplings).

SC Prime Steakhouse has closed in(p) at the Suncoast inward Summerlin, but has been replaced by William B.’s Steakhouse, named after possessor Boyd Gaming’s executive director chair, Bill Boyd. Thomas More accurately, William B.’s has opened inwards the shuttered Salvatore’s Italian Restaurant space.