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Announced last August and still officially aiming for a fall debut, the Sahara Las Vegas has recently filed new paperwork to begin transforming the former home of Beer & Bets into the first Las Vegas location for Philadelphia's famed Chickie’s & Pete’s crab house and sports bar.
Allocating an estimated $657,041 for the next phase of construction costs, the original footprint was large enough to mount over 50 flat screen TVs and accommodate 195 seated customers inside.
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Work will soon begin adding new walls, floor finishes, ceilings, furnishings, and kitchen equipment. A sports book operated by William Hill was also referenced in the original plans and early renderings reveal booth seating, a DJ console, fireplaces, and two bars.
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The second casino expansion for the East Coast chain, Chickie’s & Pete’s opened a two-story restaurant inside Atlantic City’s Tropicana Casino back in 2013.
Proudly partnered with the Philadelphia Eagles and devoted to the Phillies, Flyers, and Sixers, Chickie’s & Pete’s is equally famed for its pub grub menu as its hometown loyalty.
Diners should expect cheesesteaks, Dungeness crabs, mussels, and clams, chowder, lobster pizza, and the house specialty crabfries, crinkle-cut French fries sprinkled with crab-infused spices and served with creamy white cheese sauce.
Also on the way to the resort, a fourth local restaurant for chef Guoming “Sam” Xin, the founder of The Noodle Man restaurant and a menu focused on hand-pulled Chinese noodle dishes. Yet to update its progress, signage on early renderings provided by the Sahara named the venue Jade Noodle Kitchen.
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