Step Inside Jason Aldean’s Honky Tonk Las Vegas Country Bar

Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar. | Mikayla Whitmore The “Try That in a Small Town” singer is the latest to join the Nashvillification of Las Vegas Country music is having a moment in pop culture, and nowhere is that more apparent than in Las Vegas. For years, all things honky tonk were relegated to just a couple of bars — but now, the Las Vegas Strip is getting its own slice of the Nashville music scene. (The NashVegas jokes finally run both ways.) This latest entrant comes from country singer Jason Aldean, who opens his new honky tonk Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar next week. Aldean’s live-music venue will open this December with multiple bars, a restaurant that serves Southern comfort food, a celebrity-ready recording studio, and a terrace that overlooks the center of the Las Vegas Strip. Aldean’s fourth location will occupy 22,500 square feet across two stories inside the 63 City Center building, one floor beneath the Ocean Prime steakhouse. The first floor can accommodate about 500 people with tables and booths facing a stage where bands and soloists will perform live music daily. The main bar on this level is the Tractor Bar, built around a full-size vintage John Deere tractor as a nod to Aldean’s song “Big Green Tractor.” A staircase leading upstairs positions visitors to look up at the oversized guitar that looms over the Guitar Bar. Next to it is a second live-music space anchored by a stage that will become more of a club-style dance floor on weekends when a DJ takes over for the live band. Other areas include a cozy VIP area decorated with Aldean’s personal photos and memorabilia, a total of six bars, an iHeartRadio studio where country station 95.5 the Bull will air music and, occasionally, live interviews with talent — and that patio space that offers sweeping views of the center of the Strip. Mikayla Whitmore Tractor Bar at Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar. Mikayla Whitmore Guitar Bar at Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar. Food offered on both levels includes dishes like a pot roast with mashed potatoes, a peach cobbler with vanilla bean ice cream, “Jason’s Mac and Cheese,” and a 36-ounce tomahawk steak — plus bar fare like burgers and chicken sandwiches. The bar menu will have a dozen or so signature cocktails and draft beer. And the plan is to eventually offer a weekend brunch. TC Restaurant Group Grandma’s Pot Roast at Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar. Aldean will be on-site on Thursday, December 5 for the bar’s grand opening. The Kitchen + Bar opens the same year as the Vegas outpost of Blake Shelton’s Nashville-based, brick-laden Ole Red, which debuted on the other side of Las Vegas Boulevard in January — the two bars join the city’s budding country scene, one that for years has really only included Losers Bar, Gilley’s Saloon, Dance Hall & Bar-B-Que, and Stoneys Rockin Country. One hallway on the second level of Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar has a remembrance mural for the victims of the shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Aldean was performing on stage on October 1, 2017, when a gunman began firing into the crowd, resulting in 60 deaths and hundreds wounded. Aldean expressed his condolences on Instagram following the mass shooting. The mural expresses thanks to the first responders and bears a modified version of the Route 91 logo that includes the names of the victims. Mikayla Whitmore Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar. Mikayla Whitmore Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar. There is clearly an appetite for country music in Southern Nevada. Some of 2024’s biggest Vegas residencies have included Carrie Underwood’s multi-month stay at Resorts World and Garth Brooks’ three months at Caesars Palace’s the Colosseum. Shania Twain recently extended her residency at Planet Hollywood through February 2025. And Aldean’s bar will open just in time for the National Finals Rodeo to kick off — one of the year’s biggest events every December. The Las Vegas Strip may be on its way to becoming the new Honky Tonk Highway. Mikayla Whitmore. Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar. Mikayla Whitmore Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar. Mikayla Whitmore Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar Mikayla Whitmore Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Bar