Gas Monkey Las Vegas, a bar, restaurant, and venue from reality Star Richard Rawlings of the Discovery Channel’s Fast N’ Loud, is on its way to Las Vegas in the middle of 2022.
The restaurant will serve an eclectic selection of dishes chosen by Rawlings, who is famous for his reality TV show, which featured Rawlings and his crew at Gas Monkey Garage, a custom hot-rod shop in Dallas, TX, and for his Youtube channel, which boasts 800,000 subscribers.
The menu will draw from Tex-Mex and country cuisine, with a few surprises along the way, in an atmosphere of “live music and lots of fun.”
“Gas Monkey is a worldwide brand,” Rawlings told What Now Las Vegas in a Wednesday morning phone call. “We’re in 100 countries, translated into 20 languages. There’s nowhere better for us than Las Vegas.” He described the move to the city as a “no-brainer.”
The chain had nearly closed a deal for a Las Vegas location just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rawling said—a story by now all too familiar to anyone working in the hospitality industry.
“We’re actively looking for locations in November,” Rawlings said. “hoping to close before the end of the year.”
The brand traces back to Gas Monkey Live, in Dallas, which closed in 2020, also due to the pandemic. The rebranded Gas Monkey Dallas is also expected to open sometime in the middle of next year, as part of an expansion in Texas and beyond, according to recent coverage by Eater Dallas.
