VEGAS DINING NEWS: World’s Largest In-N-Out Almost Done, Heart Attack Grill Drops Dead

New construction photos of the soon‑to‑be world’s largest In-N-Out burger hit social media this week, and salivating burger fans are reacting like someone announced a second secret menu.

There’s no official opening date yet, but construction is moving fast enough that a summer debut feels likely.

The restaurant will feature 8,000 square feet of indoor dining and another 2,500 on a terrace overlooking the Strip. What it won’t feature is the chain’s trademark drive-thru, since cars will find it difficult to navigate up to the third-floor roof deck of the BLVD retail complex.

It will also have a dedicated merch shop. Simply because its Vegas.

Heart Trouble

Heart Attack Grill has shuttered after 14 controversial years at downtown’s tourism-challenged Neonopolis mall. According to Vital Vegas, this monument to cholesterol was on financial life support for a full year before the plug was finally pulled May 18.

Blurring the line between satirizing bad life choices and being one, Heart Attack Grill was where customers wore hospital gowns while eating “Quadruple Bypass” burgers, servers dressed as nurses, and anyone over 350 pounds ate for free after proving it on a scale out front.

When one customer had an actual heart attack mid‑burger in 2012, restaurant owner Jon Basso celebrated the tragedy as a marketing opportunity.

Before pronouncing time of death, Basso — who went by “Dr. John” at the restaurant — delivered a blistering social-media screed accusing Las Vegas of pricing out regular people and replacing the city’s old‑school indulgence with corporate sterility.

“The honest, heavy-duty calories that build our reputation are now considered gauche by a city that has excluded the middle class and lost its swagger in the process,” his statement declared.

Also not helping matters any: the deaths of so many of Basso’s regulars.

Dining Ins & Outs

Three new restaurants are planned to open this year in the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood. They include Te’Amo Boba & Dessert teahouse and confectionery, scheduled to open this summer, and Pizza Rodizio, an all-you-can-eat concept coming this fall.

Opening specifically in the Miracle Eats food court will be a soup, salad, and sandwichery called Sourdough & Co. It joins SoulBelly BBQ, added last month to the collective created out of part of the space formerly occupied by the late, great (and cheap!!!) Ocean One. (R.I.P., double frowny-face)

Beard Papa’s, the Japanese cream‑puff chain, is shutting down its only Las Vegas shop on South Rainbow. After seven years of shells, fillings, and sugar‑fueled joy, the bakery posted a goodbye on Instagram, thanking locals before its May 21 closure. The brand continues nationwide.