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Yardbird Southern Table & Bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Momofuki<\/strong><\/a> in New York City, Peter Luger Steak House<\/strong><\/a> in Brooklyn,\u00a0 Joe’s Stone Crab<\/strong><\/a> in Miami, Bourbon Steak<\/strong><\/a> in San Francisco, Border Grill<\/strong><\/a> in Los Angeles, Bouchon<\/a><\/strong> in Yountville, Emeril’s<\/strong><\/a> in New Orleans, Jaleo<\/strong><\/a> in Washington, D.C..\u00a0 These are among the many restaurants on every true gastronome’s bucket list.\u00a0 In addition to being helmed by some of the culinary world’s most celebrated luminaries, these pantheons of deliciousness share another commonality.\u00a0 They all have a presence in Las Vegas casinos where well-heeled guests with plenty of disposable income come to gamble and to eat well.<\/p>\n

Whether celebrity chef restaurants in Las Vegas are as good as their originals is a matter of debate.\u00a0 Award-winning restaurants throughout the fruited plain are similarly scrutinized when they launch satellite restaurants in Las Vegas.\u00a0 \u00a0Many consistently receive high marks for quality.\u00a0 Others are considered overhyped or not worth the cost.\u00a0 A virtual certainty among them is that the big name chefs aren’t at the kitchen preparing meals for every guest who visits.\u00a0 The connection many celebrity chefs have with their namesake restaurants often ends at the name.\u00a0 In most cases, chef glitterati do develop the restaurant’s menu, vision and concept but they’re executed on a day-to-day basis by another talented chef.\u00a0 For the most part, if you want to have a meal prepared by a celebrity chef, you’ve got to visit the restaurant that started it all.<\/p>\n

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One of Yardbird’s Dining Rooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a devoted husband to my much-better-half, I always take her tastes into consideration when determining where we should dine.\u00a0 She knows this and trusts my opinion.\u00a0 Knowing my Kim loves fried chicken more than she loves me, I scoured local and national sources to find “the best fried chicken” in Las Vegas.\u00a0 Yeah, it’s a matter of opinion and tastes vary, but several lists consistently named Miami’s Yardbird\u00a0 Southern Kitchen & Bar as one of the country’s very best purveyors of poultry.\u00a0 In March, 2025, Food & Wine<\/strong><\/a> ranked Yardbird as the seventh best fried chicken in the fruited plain.<\/p>\n

At 39, neither my Kim or I are youthful and cool enough for the Miami vibe, so chances are slim we’d ever visit “Vice City” for that exalted fried chicken.\u00a0 Happily, Yardbird now has locations in Chicago, Dallas, Denver, LA, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C.\u00a0 \u00a0Its Las Vegas home is within the Venetian casino where it’s located within restaurant row.\u00a0 Yardbird isn’t your stereotypical Southern fried chicken restaurant.\u00a0 It’s neither bright nor colorful and you won’t see clucks of chicken artifacts strewn about.\u00a0 Instead, this Yardbird is rather dark, its setting more conducive to the “Bar” portion of the restaurant’s name.\u00a0 In other words, it’s the perfect setting for a Las Vegas restaurant frequented by casino and bar-goers.<\/p>\n

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Biscuits with Butter and Caramelized Green Apple Jam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been a long time since cheap all-you-can-eat buffets defined the Las Vegas dining scene.\u00a0 Most casinos house high-end restaurants where you pay high-end prices.\u00a0 Yardbird is several orders of magnitude more expensive than KFC.\u00a0 Our expectations is that the cost of our meal would be exponentially better than anything the Colonel’s restaurants can proffer.\u00a0 \u00a0Unlike many fried chicken restaurants, Yardbird offers so much more than fried chicken.\u00a0 You’ll find everything from a 44-ounce Tomahawk steak to barbecue.\u00a0 We didn’t pay much attention to anything else on the menu; our goal was to learn what the seventh rated fried chicken in the country tastes like.<\/p>\n

But first–something from the “starters and sides” section of the menu.\u00a0 Few sides are as closely associated with Southern fried chicken as are classic buttermilk biscuits<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Yardbird serves its biscuits with honey butter and a housemade jam.\u00a0 The housemade jam, a caramelized green apple jam was the highlight.\u00a0 Reminiscent of an apple butter, it has a tangy flavor that tastes like autumn.\u00a0 The biscuits themselves aren’t nearly as fluffy and light as true Southern biscuits made with White Lily soft wheat flour.\u00a0 Thank goodness that caramelized green apple jam stole the show.<\/p>\n

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Whole Fried Chicken with Cheddar Cheese Waffles and Watermelon Slices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Food & Wine describes Yardbird’s approach to fried chicken: “Following a 27-hour soak in a sugar-salt brine with a hint of paprika and cayenne pepper, the fantastic chicken here is fried in lard and served with Tabasco-spiked honey<\/em>.”\u00a0 We don’t normally have left-overs when enjoying fried chicken, but we did at Yardbird’s.\u00a0 Perhaps we shouldn’t have ordered the whole bird<\/strong><\/em> (accompanied by chilled watermelon, sharp Cheddar waffles, bourbon maple syrup), an eighty-dollar splurge.\u00a0 The waffles were easily the star of the show with that sharp Cheddar serving as a superb counterbalance to the sweetness of the bourbon maple syrup.\u00a0 The watermelon was a bit out-of-season and not very sweet.\u00a0 As for that seventh ranked fried chicken, well…let’s just say it was better than any chain’s fried chicken, but in our estimation not nearly worth the cost.\u00a0The chicken is cooked using a pressure-cooking method with very little oil. This is different from traditional deep-frying and results in a less greasy, but still “buttery-soft” interior. Despite being pressure-cooked, the chicken has a crispy, golden-brown skin with a crackling texture that is not overly salty. To say we were disappointed is an understatement.<\/p>\n

Back to the question as to whether second instantiation restaurants in Las Vegas are as good as the original, we’ve never visited the original in Miami.\u00a0 After being so disappointed in the Las Vegas version, it’s unlikely we ever will visit Yardbird in Miami.<\/p>\n

Yardbird Southern Table & Bar<\/strong>
\n3355 South Las Vegas Blvd.
\nLas Vegas, Nevada<\/strong>
\n(702) 297-6541
\n<\/span>Website<\/strong><\/a> | Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a>
\nLATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 21 October 2025
\n# OF VISITS<\/strong>: 1
\nRATING<\/strong>: N\/R
\nCOST<\/strong>: $$$$$
\nBEST BET<\/strong>: The Whole Bird, Dr. Brown’s Root Beer, Classic Buttermilk Biscuits
\nREVIEW #1494<\/strong><\/p>\n

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