Go big or go home, they say. Well, Hash House A Go Go pretty much takes care of the going-big part of your Las Vegas vacation. Since it started in San Diego in 2000, the chain has expanded operations to Chicago, Florida, Connecticut and, of course, Nevada. There are three in Las Vegas, with another planned at the Rio for spring.
Sage fried chicken and waffles
In The Quad, Hash House’s bright diner is open 24 hours. One of the most popular times to hit Hash House is during weekend brunch. Start with a latte, or indulge in a kiwi watermelon lemonade, then get ready for the “twisted farm food,” as the chain bills its vittles.
Fried green tomatoes are arranged in an artful stack, layered with chicken salad. You might want to think a little outside the box, like the folks at Hash House do, and order something which might be considered a little unusual for an appetizer. We did, and the banana brown sugar flapjack came out hot, fragrant and huge, with caramelized sugar and bananas. It will easily feed eight to 10 of your closest friends. Delicious and deceptively simple, it leaves you thinking, “I could make this at home—if I had a 2-foot frying pan.” It’s hard to pull back from, but you must, in preparation for the feast to come.
Hash House A Go Go’s signature sage fried chicken and waffles, brings a mountain of food skewered with a steak knife and crowned with a sprig of rosemary and fried leeks. You’ll want to just get right in there and grab the chicken, with the deep golden brown crust encasing a juicy breast, in your hands. The sweet, Belgian-style waffles come with bacon cooked in, and as one diner observed, “Bacon inside waffles is a good thing.”
It’s true that there’s a lot of meat on the Hash House A Go Go menu, but if you are a vegetarian, you certainly won’t miss out. The HH quesadilla, stuffed with griddled mashed potatoes, eggs, mushrooms and jalapeños, seems like a quesadilla in name only. A spicy chili cream sauce liberally covers the whole thing.
Hash House has a separate breakfast menu section for their Farm Benedicts, with ingredients such as roasted chicken, smoked salmon hand-hammered pork tenderloin—staples on the other menus. The HH Original splits a fresh biscuit and layers it with spinach, tomato, smoked bacon and basted eggs—and griddled mashed potatoes. Potatoes are big here at Hash House A Go Go, with many entrées accompanied by, stuffed with or otherwise accoutered with the tuber. In fact, one classic burger finds two beef patties sandwiching griddled mashed potatoes and applewood-smoked bacon.
Even brunch isn’t complete without dessert. The enticing Andy’s bread pudding adds vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce to a Snickers-like dessert. Cobbler and cheesecake round out that section, but those flapjacks could easily serve as everyone’s dessert. So, if you’re starting to see the big picture, you know where to go to finish the development.
The Quad, 24 hours daily. 702.254.4646
