The Smashed Pig Gastropub

Great food. The crisp deviled eggs were well worth the visit. Friendly service. Walked right in at lunch and was immediately seated. Will be a return patron.
If your in Vegas stop by and check it out.

This is a really fun place, especially considering there was no wait and everywhere else around was an hour and a half wait! We wish we’d seen the specials on the board when you first walk in because there was a lot more to offer than what is on the menu (Standard British pub fare) The staff was awesome, yummy food, prepared beautifully!

Chase, the bartender is amazing and a gem in the Vegas hospitality industry! The BEST starters are their tempura green beans and sashimi. Don’t forget to end your meal with sticky toffee pudding! I was in town for business and ate here 3 days in a row. When it’s good, it’s good.

Went in for lunch today and had an awesome experience. Chase was friendly and knowledgeable about the menu and Las Vegas. My girlfriend and I had the Lamb Tacos, which were the BOMB! Make sure you load up the chutney for the full sweet and savory experience. Next we had the crispy deviled eggs and seared tuna sashimi with alvacado. The fish was fresh and delicate and the eggs were a twist on deviled eggs I have never seen before. The sliced cornichon’s added the perfect dill compliment. We had the Yorkshire popovers, light and rich with an awesome onion gravy… amazing. Finally we finished off with the desset cheese plate with derby sage, double crème brie, a stilton blue, and a chevre. All were served with a homemade fig jam and crusty baguette. The chef came out and offered us sticky pudding and we chatted about the menu and some of the offerings we should come back and try (the butcher’s board). Everything was wonderful, a great experience in an exciting and changing neighborhood. I look forward of all the great things to come for this quaint pub with a marvelous menu. The service was top notch and the biggest asset this pub has is the obvious passion the staff has for food and service that can be seen in all that they do.

Food is to die for, recommend The Bangers & Mash save room for the Sticky Toffee Pudding yum. Ask for Kief (yes correct spelling) great server.

Came here last night absolutely fabulous food and our bartender Chase was awesome he made my husband one of the best old fashions he’s ever had we will be back tonight x

I have seen TSP a few times, and considered stopping in. I did on Friday night, and was soooo glad I did. The concentration on Hansel’s face and in his demeanor translated to my delicious dinner. Melt in your mouth is how I would describe my steak frìtes. It is obvious to me, upon observing Hansel whip up his delicacies, that he loves creating them as much as diners love enjoying them. I was very pleased, and will be back soon.

Just stopped here for a few drinks. Menu was a little weak but the bartender hooked us up with something we liked. I’ll look forward to getting back here to try some grub soon!

We found this restaurant thanks to a Unilocal review.
Located off East Fremont Street just past the Slotzilla & Fremont experience.
We were greeted at the door and told the lunch specials. We ordered the Chicken Tacos special, Two Smashed Pig Burgers, a Salmon Salad, Fried Deviled Eggs and Tempura Green Beans. We ordered at the bar and they served us at the table. The food was excellent and the service was good.
The French Bean Tempura ($ 7): was «crack,» has Unilocalers have noted. Tempura with chipotle mayo and toasted almond slivers. We ended up ordering two more servings and ate all of i
Crispy Deviled Eggs ($ 8): lightly fried served with tiny sweet pickle slices and dusted w/​paprika. They were OK. The ones at EATS are better IMO
The Smashed Pig Burger ($ 14): was good. Cooked they way I like it and juicy, served with Sea Salt fries that were warm & crispy.
I definitely recommend this restaurant and I will go back on my next visit to Las Vegas.

Nice atmosphere. Bland bland bland flavorless food. I got the fish and chips. Boring. Heavy greasy. Fries — said garlic and sea salt – I did not taste either flavor. My friend got a steak sandwich special – steak was fatty and cold – ice cold. Staff was pleasant and service was decent.

Walking the east side of Fremont St in downtown LV, my hubby and I decided to pop in and I’m grateful we did. This charming gastro pub is clean, the staff is super friendly, menu has something for everyone.
We had to try the tempura green beans, chicken lettuce cups, shrimp sliders with fries and their burger that should be famous soon. I appreciate fresh ingredients since that is how I cook at home. I also appreciate food made with fresh cooking oil. It was obvious to me that the chef takes tremendous pride in creating every dish. It was obvious in the generous portion sizes, food presentation, quality of ingredients and most importantly, the flavor.
We just stopped in for lunch and we’re looking forward to coming back for a lovely dinner soon. Thank you to the staff, chefs and the owners of The Smashed Pig. Can’t wait to come back!!!

Recently opened and downtown on Fremont Street a great new spot with some exciting food and specials. Mini Yorkshire Puddings, Meat Pie (only when the Chef wants to make them), Bangers and Mash, Fish & Chips! Dessert Sticky Toffee Pudding, Lemon Pudding Cake and I always love a Cheese Plate. They offer some specialty cocktails the Sooie Smahs, Tow Rag, Black Cab, Crown Jewel and Down Town Pimms!
Drop by and tell them Chef Sandra sent you

Great food and friendly service at this little pub that is just to the east of Fremont Street. The crowd seemed ever so slightly hipster (but the place is located across the street from the El Cortez) so it’s to be expected. I will definitely return.

I had a blast at this place — very interesting signature cocktails – (I had the DOWNTOWN PIMMS– yummy & garnished with aniseed & cinnamon stick) the GREEN BEAN appetizer I found great– but then again, I just let our server bring us stuff. Dasia, nailed it with the FISH & CHIPS, though I also had s bite of the Burger (really good), the Steak (herb buttered & well seasoned) the Bangers & Mash (flavorful & lean) as well as the Daily Special — a Stew for Two (meaty & perhaps a titch too salty)
The batter on My FISH was amazing, Lacey, lite & beautiful. Fries seasoned & crispy… But the ketchup was DELICIOUS! And the side of MUSHY PEAS were very memorable, at least for me.
The owner visited the table, the service was so FUN & then, we received a Dessert Storm — one of each to share & sample — all very good.

Love this little pub! Came here with my friend from Hawaii and we had a blast. I had the Crowned Jewel (a yummy fruity sweet type drink), the Black Cab (made of everything I dislike… And I loved it!). The Black Cab tasted like Bath and Body Works warm vanilla sugar… but as a drink!
My friend had a cocktail called Downtown Pimms it was amazing and tasted like the remains of a slurpee! :)
The staff were attentive and our bartender Chase was great all around (even chased me down to return my credit card I left at the bar). It’s very cutely themed and they have a good food menu. They also have a vegetarian option every day… We didn’t try the food but saw what everyone else was having and it definitely looked good. Especially the dessert.

«This is a poor man’s Carson Kitchen,» my boyfriend groused, as he paid our $ 40 bill for four great-​sounding apps that failed to wow us. I expedited my visit here based on a friend’s recent rave review (Chris V), and ordered several similar dishes, only to find most options underseasoned with a better version merely on the other side of the block.
FRENCH GREEN BEANS: Tempura beans with spicy mayo and toasted almonds. I like the cooking method and these were solid, and admirably light on grease. But the nearby CK has a larger portion with a great dipping sauce that this version can’t hold a candle to.
TODAY’S SASHIMI/​TARTARE (TUNA POKE): This was just okay. Poke was oddly seasoned with large chunks of onion and a lot of spice, rather than the citrus-​garlic-​ponzu punch I’d been anticipating. It was really fresh though.
LAMB TACOS: The dish I was most anticipating, with a clever concept of crafting a taco shell from fried eggplant. I really enjoyed the sweet pepper chutney, which was reminiscent of a ratatouille. But the lamb itself lacked the familiar, meaty flavor. Seemed to lack any sort of seasoning whatsoever.
CRISPY DEVILED EGGS: A fried egg white with nicely fried crispy texture, topped with a bland but creamy egg yolk filling, and entirely too much paprika. I had anticipated a version similar to a Thai hard-​boiled egg, yielding a barely-​cooked yolk. This just didn’t work for me. Other that the paprika, there wasn’t much going on… and for $ ⁸⁄₄ pieces, CK’s version with caviar is the better option.
I was dying to try their sticky toffee pudding, but my BF refused to order anything else and experience additional frustration. Around this time, our server disappeared for a solid 20 minutes and eventually the super-​sweet food runner settled our bill for us. This spot has great décor and the menu all sounds like food I’d love, but the execution and/​or consistency are just not there at this time– perhaps Chris and I had different chefs working on our visits? I’m too hopeful not to give them another try sooner or later, but right now I’m underwhelmed.

New restaurant on Fremont street, worth a try. Our dinning experience started with oysters and ahi tartare, which were both lovely, but to me for a gastropub kinda of surprising. Round two, was the Yorkshire pudding, light airy bits of bread with a yummy gravy for dipping. Main course split for two was the house made beef bangers and mash. Pretty amazing! Thanks Martin for the wonderful night!

Sometimes, you don’t need a picture to support a review of a business that’s really good. Or at least that’s my story after another phone battery outage during a restaurant visit…
(Sorry about that. I did get some photos courtesy of a friend who finally made time for lunch during a return visit to Vegas, I was originally going to introduce him to a certain new sushi burrito place but our mutual local buddy said that we should try this new place downtown called The Smashed Pig. I can be a bit of a sucker for brand-​new places these days, so I agreed.)
(Oh, and that sushi note? Interestingly, Nobu Matsuhisa-​trained chefs Linda Rodriguez and Martin Swift formerly ran a Red Rock Resort restaurant called Hachi, no relation to the new Hachi on Jones near Spring Mountain. That explains some of the Japanese influence in a simple one-​page food menu otherwise easily mistaken for that of a British pub.)
This self-​proclaimed gastropub opened a couple weeks ago in a former tattoo parlor, which is just a hop, skip, and a jump away from Las Vegas Blvd. Interestingly, they’re only open 2−11pm on the weekends right now. As I recall, the bartender/​server mentioned that morning traffic has been slow on the weekends in this cold season. That all said, we were fortunate to arrive after opening, and we seated ourselves at the bar after being told that the restaurant section would be unavailable until the server’s scheduled start time at around 4.
I could go on and on about the comfortable atmosphere and the bartender’s menu knowledge and friendliness, but let’s get to the food already.
French Bean Tempura ($ 7): wholly ordered off the bartender’s recommendation. She called it «crack,» and I can’t disagree. It’s pretty straightforward tempura with chipotle mayo and toasted almond slivers, but I could hardly stop eating it. I’d get it next time in a heartbeat.
Lamb «Tacos» ($ 9): not the most beautiful colors ever seen in a dish, but a nice spice profile somewhere in the vicinity of the Middle East or India, some serviceable sour cream, an sweet pepper chutney that’s addictive on its own, and a crispy eggplant that substitutes for a hard shell. Overall, another fantastic appetizer. I considered ordering a second helping, but I wanted to try other items instead.
Crispy Deviled Eggs ($ 8): served with cornichons (tart, mildly sweet pickle) and dusted w/​paprika. Lacked the oomph of the other two appetizers, especially in the hard boiled white. It’s good, but not exceptional.
(I skipped the $ 3-​a-​piece oysters based on the bartender’s description of their small/​medium size, verified by my observation, and they weren’t particularly impressive per my friend.)
The Smashed Pig Burger ($ 14): seems like all beef to me, ironically. Ordered medium and without cheddar (+$ 1) per my visiting friend. It’s served with sea salt garlic fries, which may be a tad underseasoned and not so potent in garlic but are otherwise perfectly textured (you know, the whole crispy/​fluffy thing) and go well with either ketchup or the burger sauce (a mixture of ketchup, mayo, sriracha, and a sauce whose name escaped the ‘tender but may be the «HP» brown sauce). This sauce really helps out the burger too, which is not great until the sauce is added.
Fish and Chips ($ 16): two large cod fillets with tartar, hot mushy peas (not joking, almost burned my fingers), and malt vinegar. I have had much less experience with fish and chips than I’d like, but even if this dish isn’t done the proper way, it’s done the right way. You can’t go wrong with really moist fish inside a crispy batter, and all the condiments work, including the very palatable peas. Oh, and the same fries from earlier serve as the chips here. Maybe a little pricey, but I was happy enough even if my wallet wasn’t.
Sticky Toffee Pudding ($ 5): this was somehow at least as wonderful as the toffee pudding that I recently tried at the now-​closed David Clawson Restaurant. This moist, delicious cake topped with whipped cream and a caramel sauce that’s less viscous that anticipated is, dare I suggest it, destination-​worthy. It was certainly a worthy end to a marvelous meal
While the gastropub experience might be considered incomplete without particular beverages, I abstained from alcohol due to DD duties. I will note that my friends seemed to enjoy the canned craft beers, such as the Back Home gingerbread stout. Maybe I’ll try it next time, or I could pick a beer pairing specific to each menu item.
With a disclaimer that I haven’t visited nearly all of the other Downtown Las Vegas restaurants, I currently can’t recommend another nearby restaurant over The Smashed Pig. I’d say that Carson Kitchen (NOTE: based on an old visit) isn’t as good, and Park on Fremont across the street should just shut down now and save themselves the agonizing death. Whether you want a full meal or a quick bite, you should definitely stop here the next time you’re in DTLV. Better yet, make this the focal point of your visit.

I’ll tell you what I want. What I really really want. I want fish and chips with a zigazig-​ha! What exactly is a zigazig-​ha? I hope it’s food-​related and not something offensive.
We sat next to the kitchen which was cool so, we can watch the magic in the kitchen… we ended up smelling like oil and food after dinner but it’s alright. Their dinner menu is small. A few appetizers, burgers, garlic fries, mashed potatoes, fish and chips, trifle, sticky toffee pudding, butcher’s block for 2, and a few other items. Their drink menu is much longer. They feature special items for lunch.
Yorkshire Pudding:
Warm balls of light and airy bread drizzled with sticky sweetness. The gravy you dip them in is wonderful. ⁵⁄₅
Crispy Deviled Eggs:
I’ve been having deviled egg cravings a lot lately and I’m not even a fan of egg yolks. This version has the usual paprika but with crispy bits and cornichons. Creamy egg yolk, soft egg white and crispy bread crumbs. ⁴⁄₅
Fish and Chips:
Two decently-​sized fish that have been lightly breaded and fried until golden. The chips that they came with were crispy and flavorful. I asked our server to substitute my chips with garlic fries but I think she forgot — I’m glad she did though because it might’ve been too much goodness for me to handle.
Sticky Toffee Pudding:
Warm pudding with toffee sauce and cream on top. The portion is not ginormously humungo — it’s good for two people. It’s sweet but what sticky toffee pudding isn’t?
The service was very friendly. From the server, bartender, and the chef. They were playing songs by Brits: The Beatles, Everything But the Girl, Adele, Rollin Stones… I didn’t stick around long enough for Spice Girls. I’m happy that there’s a proper British pub in town that isn’t on the Strip.

Since my brother is in town he wanted to try something I haven’t tried before so I decided to try Park on Fremont. We sat outside and reviewed the menu and neither of us were really thrilled but decided we could swing it. I was pointing out some of the newer places when I saw The Smashed Pig and said «When did that open?» Since no one had acknowledged us at Park yet we got up and crossed the street to check out the menu. The front bar guy sold us on the two person beef hanger steak butcher block and told us they had opened two days ago. So we came on in to give it a try. That was an excellent choice.
We started out with the lamb tacos which had nicely spiced and tender lamb in a crispy fried eggplant shell topped with sweet pepper chutney. Then our main arrived and it was glorious. The beef was cooked perfectly and the seasoning was superb. The Sakai sauce that came with it was a perfect accompaniment to that and the greens. The mashed potatoes had to have had at least a stick of butter in them; that was a very good thing. And the simple field green salad that accompanied it had a ginger dressing my brother loved. It was quite simply one of the best meals I have had in Vegas. We also had the sticky toffee pudding which was good, but couldn’t live up the main course.
I also ordered their Tow Rag cocktail which was quite refreshing and not very sweet at all. My brother tried the Tenya Creek Hefeweizen which was so good we both got another. Brandon was our server and he was informative and attentive. Martin, the owner, even stopped by the table to make sure everything was fine. I will most definitely be stopping back in to give lunch a try one Friday.