Beloved Project BBQ at Circa is Getting a Refresh
Project BBQ, a permanent food truck outside Circa, is getting an overhaul.
To answer your first question: Yes, Project BBQ beloved. We know because we love it, hence it being beloved.
The menu has our personal recommendation of the BBQ Chicken Flatbread on it, so the love is reciprocal, which is the very best kind of love, unless you’re into “rejection kink,” a form of “humiliation play,” which we didn’t know exists until we wrote this sentence.
We also had no idea about Erotic Humiliation (erotolagnia), Findom (financial domination), Machochistic Rejection or fetishes related to being ignored (ignorophilia).
How a story about a refresh of a food truck at Circa turned into you talking about eroticized trauma, we may never know.
We got our hands on a planning document for the work being done at Project BBQ through our extensive network of contacts, tireless research and a time-honored investigative technique known as “asking the owner what’s up.”
Rob Baker is the owner of Project BBQ (Chef Rex Bernales is no longer involved) and he passed along the project’s “scope of work,” ruining his chances of an exclusive with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which is just one of the reasons we love Rob Baker.
Baker is also the field operations manager for Tre Builders, the company that does most of the work for Derek and Greg Stevens, along with lots of other construction projects.
Anyway, Project BBQ is getting two new ordering kiosks with beer taps, food displays and condiment areas; new back coolers to be built into food truck; a new exterior railing with drink/food rail; a new retractable canopy; misters and heating units overhead; built-in outdoor patio lights; lit signage to highlight entrance and the food; new wall finish and potentially new digital menu; a brisket smoker and new prep table.
This all serves to make Project BBQ more like a proper restaurant rather than a food truck, without losing the original charm.
Project BBQ started as an old-school food truck serving workers who demolished the Lady Luck and built Circa. A food truck was needed because the footprint of demolition and construction change frequently. The mobility of the Project BBQ truck was key to its early success.
Now, the eatery is a permanent fixture near the Fremont Street Experience’s Main Street stage (at the west end of Fremont Street Experience, closest to Plaza).
It goes without saying it’s a prime spot for a restaurant, as the foot traffic is in the 20 million-plus visitors a year range.
The meat is great, but our stamp of approval appears on the menu for the flatbread, also known as “pizza.”
We formerly hated BBQ chicken pizza, but have a heart on for this one. @CircaLasVegas @ProjectBBQLV pic.twitter.com/48e5LWHgNH
— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) May 12, 2025
No, we do not have any affiliation with Project BBQ or any Las Vegas restaurant or other entity. Also, no, we do not always pay for our pizza. Baker put our photo in their point-of-sale system and employees have been instructed not to let us pay. We have so many Circa players club points, we wouldn’t have to “pay,” anyway, but we appreciate the appreciation for our recommending this solid Fremont snack.
We’ll pop in at Project BBQ again when the retooling is completed.
Project BBQ is closed temporarily, but will reopen by the end of September 2025.
We will take the opportunity to express to management (any anyone else who will listen) that we’d enjoy the food even more if the band nearby wasn’t playing at decibel level comparable to a jackhammer or an jumbo jet taking off. Don’t get us started.
Derek Stevens “owns” this part of Fremont Street, and if you’ve ever visited one of his casinos, you know he’s all about volume driving energy.
Many visitors seek refuge from deafening volume on Fremont Street inside the casinos. Where are the gambling happens. Pure coincidence.
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