Hash House A Go Go Closes at Rio, The Kitchen Table Up Next
A longtime fixture at the off-Strip Rio resort has closed.
It’s Hash House A Go Go. We put it in the headline, so we shouldn’t have to repeat ourself.
Next up in the space, a new concept called The Kitchen Table. We haven’t seen that in any other news outlet, so we’re claiming the scoop until we hear otherwise, at which point we’ll just ignore whoever tells us that because it messes with our narrative. Or as we like to call it, Saturday.
Anyway, Hash House still says it’s at Rio on their official site. Awkward.
Hash House A Go Go opened at the Rio in 2007.
This seems like a good place to add a perfunctory paragraph about Hash House.
Hash House A Go Go was founded in San Diego in 2000 by chef Jim Rees. It is well-known for its huge portions and twists on comfort food, including its well-regarded Sage Fried Chicken and Waffles. Like many of the dishes at Hash House A Go Go, this one is served on a plate the size of your standard helipad.
The chain has locations across the U.S., including in California and Illinois.
There’s a location at Plaza downtown, as well as at the Linq casino. Another location in Vegas-adjacent Henderson closed recently. Here are more.
Wasting no time, Rio has another restaurant concept already in the chamber for the Hash House space.
The new concept, The Kitchen Table, opens Dec. 29, 2025 at 7:00 a.m.
Who in the name of Maximus Decimus Meridius’ tunic gets up at that ungodly hour? These freaks need to be under constant surveillance, in our opinion.
The new restaurant hasn’t been officially announced yet, but we’ve been told reliably it will be “breakfast and lunch with a modern spin and a strong beverage program.”
Recently, we’ve enjoyed asking A.I. what it thinks the logo for a restaurant like this might look like.
Need something simpler and more versatile?
Sorry, human graphic designers, you had a good run. A.I. can crank out this crap 24/7, and this logo only used 7.8 million gallons of water to cool its data center servers. Totally worth it! Almond farmers use much more water than A.I. In fact, almond cultivation in California alone consumes more than four times the water used by all data centers in the entire U.S. combined annually. We got that fun fact from ChatGPT, so grain of salt.
Big thanks to @iLikeAza on Twitter for the tip about the closure of Hash House A Go Go.
Rio will be sharing more about the restaurant on Monday, and we’ll update our story accordingly.
If you are one of those mutants who gets up early and eats breakfast, check the new place out and we pray for mercy upon your soul.
Update (12/27/25): Our friend Ryan S. informs us he had the scoop a week ago. We are ignoring him and claiming “parallel creation” as we were not aware of his post and acquired the scoop on our own. Parallel creation in copyright law provides protection by ensuring that two creators who independently arrive at similar works without copying each other are both shielded from claims of infringement, as long as their creations are original expressions of their ideas. This is what Johnny Kleptometes of the Las Vegas Review-Journal says every time we point out he stole our intellectual property. The difference is he’s a thieving asshat and we are not.
Update (12/27/25): We were reminded there was a Kitchen Table restaurant in Vegas-adjacent Henderson, for about a decade. That restaurant closed in May 2024 and has no affiliation with The Kitchen Table opening at Rio.
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