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Heart Attack Grill on Vegas Strip Died Fast

The short versionHeart Attack Grill closed its Las Vegas Strip location in early 2017, shortly after moving into the former Pete Rose restaurant space. Its Fremont Street location stayed open, while outposts in Phoenix and Dallas had closed.
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Not sure what happened here, but if you hadn’t paid attention you might have not even known they ever were on the strip. The infamous Heart Attack Grill, which briefly occupied the space of where Pete Rose’s failed restaurant was, came and left almost as fast as a heart attack.

The restaurant has been closed down, and already there is enormous construction going on, and all signs taken down before you could say “coronary.

Yes, actually customers have died eating here, not just of the horrendous food, but perhaps of the excessive spankings of the “Nurses” who force you to eat every bit of food, or will beat you in an edge of your life.

While the one on Fremont is doing well, killing tourists daily, several other locations including the one in Phoenix and Dallas didn’t make it. While the one in Phoenix did exist for years, the one in Dallas seems to have also closed right after opening.

The Grill has been rife with controversy since opening, has made everyone’s list of worst restaurants in Vegas and perhaps the world. One waitress in 2013 claimed she was asked to video tape a passed out customer, to share on social media, to prove that their food actually kills people. Jon Basso, the founder and owner of Heart Attack Grill appeared on Bloomberg Television and unapologetically told viewers that his food causes people to die

“I am probably the only restaurateur in the entire world who is unapologetically telling you that my food is bad for you, that it will kill you and that you should stay away from it,” he said.

Since then. The downtown Las Vegas Heart Attack Grill closed in May 2026 after 15 years.

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