Country crooner Jason Aldean is opening a bar in Las Vegas this fall. Located at 63 CityCenter, the 22,500-square-foot, two-story venue called Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar will have a restaurant, seven bars, a large patio overlooking the Strip and two music stages that will host regular live performances.
This will be Aldean’s fourth location (Pittsburgh, Nashville and Gatlinburg, TN are the others). The announcement comes just months after fellow country superstar Blake Shelton opened Ole Red; he’s piggybacked on the success of the bar with a residency at Caesars Palace next year. And we can expect a similar one-stop restaurant, bar and entertainment concept from Garth Brooks soon. The Brooks bar, which has not been officially announced, will occupy the former Margaritaville space at the Flamingo.
As for Aldean’s, the menu is strictly Southern comfort food. Be on the lookout for cheese-covered short rib totchos, grandma’s pot roast, a fiery chicken diablo pasta, 32-ounce tomahawk rib eye and one mean mac and pepper jack cheese dish. Peach cobbler and a bread pudding drenched in a salted caramel sauce highlight the dessert menu.
Aldean fans will surely appreciate the personal memorabilia as well. The joint will be decorated with plaques, guitars and photos, and there’ll be a vintage 4020 John Deere Tractor on display, a nod to Aldean’s hit song, “Big Green Tractor.”
The venue will also feature an iHeartRadio studio that gives performers coming to town a place to go for interviews or impromptu performances to air on KWNR 95.5 and on the iHeartRadio app.
An Aldean bar in Las Vegas comes with a bit of controversy, however. Some on social media have remarked negatively to the announcement due to the singer’s immediate response to the Route 91 Harvest mass shooting that killed 60 and injured hundreds of others on October 1, 2017. Aldean was performing when the gunman began firing and in the early moments there was confusion, with many festival goers thinking the gunshots were fireworks. Though he posted condolences soon after, some still feel the miked up singer could have warned the crowd to run and take cover.