The Las Vegas Strip’s Best Value Restaurant Just Abruptly Closed
Ocean One Bar & Grille. | Ocean One Bar & Grille The home of the $4 cocktail shut its doors on Friday Ocean One Bar and Grille is by no means the best restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip, but it’s probably the cheapest. The value restaurant inside the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood routinely has a wait list due to its all-day cheap offerings and wallet-friendly drink specials. On Friday, September 20, the budget hot spot appears to have abruptly closed. As of September 20, Ocean One has been removed from the Miracle Mile website. A mall employee who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that its last day of operation was Thursday, September 19 and it will remain closed until further notice. Representatives from the Miracle Mile Shops did not respond to requests for comment. Every lunch item at Ocean One was $5.99. That included starters of crispy calamari and tuna tartare, sandwiches like chicken clubs and Mediterranean wraps, chicken fajitas served with rice and beans, grilled salmon with mashed potatoes, and skirt steak with cabernet sauce. Equally popular was the drink special: three cocktails for $12. On a boulevard where one can easily spend upwards of $18 for a cocktail, the $4 cocktail special was unheard of. And the special included drinks like margaritas, gimlets, and tequila sunrises with name-brand liquor like Ketel One, Jack Daniels, and Bacardi. Dinner options ran from $6.99 for a burger up to around $28 for surf and turf. But that drink special was available all day, every day — from 7:30 a.m. until 11 p.m. or midnight. The closure isn’t a significant loss for the city’s culinary landscape; the offerings were notable for their prices but not much else. But Ocean One has been a staple among budget-conscious travelers who will be hard-pressed to find as reliable a deal. Tourists staying at or near Planet Hollywood can still find food and drink specials — even if they’re not available all day like at Ocean One. Blondies Sports Bar & Grill, for instance, runs a happy hour on weekdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. for $20 all-you-can-drink domestic draft and well drinks. Ketchup Burger Bar has a happy hour at the same time with $8 cocktails. It's the latest shake-up for the mall inside Planet Hollywood. In July, the property announced that it’s getting in on the food hall action with plans to open Miracle Eats this winter. The food hall will have locations of Fat Sal’s, Tacotarian, Carnegie Pizza, Dave’s Hot Chicken, Lobster Me, and Fat Tuesday. But unless one of the quick-service stalls plans to offer an entree and a cocktail for 10 bucks, it will make a disappointing stand-in for Las Vegas’s budget tourists.
Tomas Kauer - Las Vegas Syndicated News 
The home of the $4 cocktail shut its doors on Friday
Ocean One Bar and Grille is by no means the best restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip, but it’s probably the cheapest. The value restaurant inside the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood routinely has a wait list due to its all-day cheap offerings and wallet-friendly drink specials. On Friday, September 20, the budget hot spot appears to have abruptly closed.
As of September 20, Ocean One has been removed from the Miracle Mile website. A mall employee who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that its last day of operation was Thursday, September 19 and it will remain closed until further notice. Representatives from the Miracle Mile Shops did not respond to requests for comment.
Every lunch item at Ocean One was $5.99. That included starters of crispy calamari and tuna tartare, sandwiches like chicken clubs and Mediterranean wraps, chicken fajitas served with rice and beans, grilled salmon with mashed potatoes, and skirt steak with cabernet sauce. Equally popular was the drink special: three cocktails for $12. On a boulevard where one can easily spend upwards of $18 for a cocktail, the $4 cocktail special was unheard of. And the special included drinks like margaritas, gimlets, and tequila sunrises with name-brand liquor like Ketel One, Jack Daniels, and Bacardi.
Dinner options ran from $6.99 for a burger up to around $28 for surf and turf. But that drink special was available all day, every day — from 7:30 a.m. until 11 p.m. or midnight.
The closure isn’t a significant loss for the city’s culinary landscape; the offerings were notable for their prices but not much else. But Ocean One has been a staple among budget-conscious travelers who will be hard-pressed to find as reliable a deal. Tourists staying at or near Planet Hollywood can still find food and drink specials — even if they’re not available all day like at Ocean One. Blondies Sports Bar & Grill, for instance, runs a happy hour on weekdays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. for $20 all-you-can-drink domestic draft and well drinks. Ketchup Burger Bar has a happy hour at the same time with $8 cocktails.
It's the latest shake-up for the mall inside Planet Hollywood. In July, the property announced that it’s getting in on the food hall action with plans to open Miracle Eats this winter. The food hall will have locations of Fat Sal’s, Tacotarian, Carnegie Pizza, Dave’s Hot Chicken, Lobster Me, and Fat Tuesday.
But unless one of the quick-service stalls plans to offer an entree and a cocktail for 10 bucks, it will make a disappointing stand-in for Las Vegas’s budget tourists.
