A Reader Leader alerted us to the great scene and good affordable food at the venerable Chicago Brewing Company in the back of Four Queens. Though we’ve had drinks and watched games at this venue’s bar many times since it opened in 1999, we couldn’t recall eating there and a search of the archives turned up no review. Given the attention that Terry Caudill, the owner of Four Queens and Binion’s, has given us over the years with coupons (plus a recent two-part Question of the Day interview), we were happpy to give it a try.
In the far corner of the casino, you walk up a short staircase and enter the bar. With its brick walls and picture windows overlooking the slots, it’s a classic brew-pub and sports-bar scene, with numerous screens filling the walls, all showing sports.
It’s open 24/7, serves breakfast all hours, and boasts a non-smoking taproom. Cigars are available for the smoking section. The beer brewed on the premises has won awards at the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup. Ales include golden, brown, and pale; you’ll also find American amber, Bavarian wheat, and Irish stout, among other small batches and specials.
The food, as our LVA correspondent insisted, is good at great prices from a big menu.
Appetizers start at $6 for garlic knots and include meatballs, quesadillas, fries, chicken tenders and jumbo wings, calamari, and shrimp cocktail ($8-$16). Soup, chili, and side salads are $5-$6. Numerous sandwiches and burgers (including filet mignon sliders) go for $10-$15. Thin crust and deep-dish Chicago-style (natch) pizzas come in 9-, 10-, and 16-inch pies from $10 to $15 with various toppings at $1, $2, and $3 extra. Desserts are $4-$6. As you’d expect from the same casino with Magnolia’s and Hugo’s Cellar, it’s big food at reasonable prices. There’s also a happy hour Sun.- Thurs. 3-6 p.m. and 11 p.m.-1 a.m. with $2 off drafts and 50% off house wines and well drinks.
We tried the raspberry-pear-almond salad and chicken club with onion rings, both excellent and filling.
Best of all, we had the pleasure of lunch with our very old and dear friend and best-selling author Jean Scott. It was appropriate that we ate at Chicago Brewing with her; this reviewer first met Jean and her husband Brad in a room upstairs (comped, of course) way back in 1992. She was here on a visit from Georgia to play in a mahjong tournament, her new passion. We’re happy to report that she’s still as vital, frugal, and, as you can see from the photo beautiful, inside and out, as she was 32 years ago.
Love Chicago Brewing Company. My wife and I like to play video poker at their bar(a great option if the bar downstairs is full), get free, comped good beer and use our 4Q comps for a deep dish pizza. Bartenders are friendly and the pizza is good! Another plus is that I’ve hit royals 2 out of my last 3 trips there. Can’t beat that!!
“It’s open 24/7, serves breakfast all hours, ” Where does this come from? I’ve been going to Four Queens for many years, and even pre-Covid, Chicago Brewing wasn’t open 24 hours and never served breakfast. Their own website says “Open Daily 11:30 am – 1:30 am”, and there are no breakfast items on the menu.
Kim the bartender is fantastic. We use our comp dollars for take-out at least twice a week. Love their thin crust pizza and cowboy bites.
I love the cigar bar half of the Chicago Brewing Company. It’s a super friendly place to enjoy a cigar while watching a sporting event.Sitting at the hi-top tables you can look down and observe casino action from its second story perch. It’s a great place to people watch. The craft beers and pizza are excellent as are the garlic knots and beef sliders. The service is top notch too with very energetic and friendly bartenders. It’s a great time and a great value.
Chicago Brewing is a “must go to” every time we visit. Hard to get away from the Filet Minion Sliders although we have tried other things off the menu and all were delicious!!
I immediately doubted the statement that this eatery was open 24/7. It never had been in the past. I just called (July 18 2024) and the operator checked and then told me that the hours were 11am to midnight. Maybe the hours are a bit later on weekends, but I don’t believe they open any earlier. And I confirm that there are no breakfast items on the menu; this is lunch and dinner and bar food only.
The 24×7 is a mistake. I assume they were referring to Magnolias. However it is open afternoons and evenings, and I agree it is good fare at a good value. We eat there at least once every trip, and particularly like the thin crust pizza.
My opinion, you can’t give Terry Caudill’s businesses enough plaudits. He runs a good operation with great value and excellent offerings. I believe he is the epitome of what LAS looks for in Las Vegas.
LVS, not LAS
The 24×7 is a mistake. I assume they were referring to Magnolias. However it is open afternoons and evenings, and I agree it is good fare at a good value. We eat there at least once every trip, and particularly like the thin crust pizza.
My opinion, you can’t give Terry Caudill’s businesses enough plaudits. He runs a good operation with great value and excellent offerings. I believe he is the epitome of what LAS looks for in Las Vegas.