Las Vegas Airport Opens A Vegas Golden Knights Themed Eatery

Anyone who’s ever flown into Las Vegas knows the first thing they usually see when they land at Harry Reid International Airport (formerly known as “McCarran”) is slot machines.

Just in case you can’t last the short Uber ride to your hotel on the strip feel free to begin gambling early. What else would you expect from Las Vegas?

How about being welcomed by the Vegas Golden Knights? Well, we mean the brand, not the players. Now open at gate D51 is Vegas Born Bar & Grill, a Golden Knights themed eatery.

The restaurant opened this past week with a celebration that brought out the Golden Knight dancers, showgirls, drum line, and their mascot Chance. No Golden Knights players were at the grand opening. Maybe that was for cap circumvention reasons (we’re joking…maybe).

Vegas has a new Golden Knights themed resrteraunt in town

Vegas isn’t the first airport to have a sports team-themed bar. A 2017 article from “Stuck At The Airport” mentions special themed bars at the hometown airports of the Montreal Canadiens, Minnesota Wild, San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks, Anaheim Ducks, and the Vancouver Canucks.

The Chicago Cubs of MLB opened up a restaurant at Chicago’s O’Hare airport in 2012. On a recent trip to Orlando, I found a pub themed to the city’s MLS and NWSL franchises as well.

In their short history, the Golden Knights have become as quintessential Vegas as penny slots, cheap buffets, and Siegfried and Roy. A Golden Knights-themed eatery might seem too touristy, but it proves how much the team has meant to the Vegas community as a whole.

The NHL.com article mentions that the Golden Knights are Vegas' only “Vegas-born” (non-relocated) team. That’s a great source of pride to fans and something they’ve brought up many times on my trips to the city.

Of course, the new restaurant has a bar, but here’s a fact you probably didn’t know. Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley owns Foley Family Wines. Their website even advertises the FFWS (Foley Food and Wine Society) luxury box at T-Mobile Arena for certain games.

The restaurant is owned by HMSHost who already owns several other restaurants at Harry Reid. The restaurant is decorated with plenty of gold and a mural from the 2023 Stanley Cup championship. Just for an added touch, the menus are hockey rink shaped.