Las Vegas Sun NewsFlavor Flav’s Las Vegas chicken restaurant reportedly a done deal
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Flavor Flav’s book signing of Flavor Flav: The Icon, The Memoir at the Las Vegas Hilton on Aug. 6, 2011.
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Months after it was revealed that rapper and reality TV celebrity Flavor Flav was planning to open a chicken restaurant in Las Vegas, the venture reportedly has been finalized.
Flavor Flav’s House of Flavor Restaurant will open March 15 at 3333 S. Maryland Parkway, according to a news release issued Wednesday.
The spokesperson listed on the release didn’t immediately return calls, but Clark County online records show that a temporary business license has been issued for the establishment.
Described in the release as a “a celebrity-centric Las Vegas take out restaurant with a quick-service menu specializing in specialty recipe soul food,” the eatery will offer a menu that includes fried chicken, fried shrimp and red velvet waffles.
Flav, whose real name is William Jonathan Drayton, lives in the Las Vegas Valley and makes frequent appearances in the community — including at UNLV men’s basketball games, where he recently played drums with the pep band during pregame festivities.
In December, Flav appeared at a Las Vegas liquor store to unveil a signature brand of vodka — named LeFLAV — that he had developed and licensed.
Flav gained fame as a member of the rap group Public Enemy before starring in the reality TV show “The Flavor of Love.” His father was in the restaurant business, and Flav attended culinary school in the 1970s.
He’d previously started a chicken restaurant in Iowa, but that establishment closed four months after opening amid a management dispute. The Las Vegas restaurant is independently owned by Flav, the release said.
Earlier reports said Flav was hoping to open the restaurant at the Riviera, but later had shifted to a location 320 North Nellis Blvd.
No word yet on whether House of Flavor diners who wear big clocks on necklaces — like Flav does — will get discounts.
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Way to class up the thread nickeljuice! The location isn't the best but if it is successful maybe Flav can move it to a better location in a year or so. Inside a casino would be ideal even an off strip property. That location is going to depend heavily on locals not tourists. My advice to Flav is to consult with some successful restauranteurs in Vegas that have restaurants popular with locals. Don't bring in some MBA who thinks they know Vegas locals. Call the owner of Paymon's or Firefly. Those guys know how to run successful restaurants and they know what the locals like.
I remember Flav going on fox 5 mixing fried chicken in flour with his rings on his fingers totally grossed me out no way I'm buying anything there.
Flav was mixing chicken parts in flour with his hands full of rings as monica Jackson stared at him like a deer caught in the headlights.
This place won't last long
I hope Las Vegas has better luck with Flavor Flav's chicken than Clinton Iowa had. That place closed in less than 4 months with unpaid workers and expired potato salad on the shelf. He is a crazy character though! Grand opening might be a fun event.
How can the county or city give Flavor Flav a business license. His chicken joint in Iowa was close for unpaid salary to workers, fail pay taxes social taxes, and other taxes involved in owing a business. The city or county have better investigate his other closed establishments and those who plan on working for Flavor Flav, beware, the minute you do not get paid or your pay check cannot be cashed, quit.
He picked a real winning neighborhood to put the place though :( NOT!!