Blake Shelton offers a first look inside Ole Red Las Vegas

Blake Shelton has offered an early look at Ole Red Las Vegas, the forthcoming bar, restaurant and live-music venue planned for Horseshoe Las Vegas. The interior preview, reported during an NBC segment, shows a venue spread across roughly 27,000 square feet, with the design leaning hard into the visual grammar of modern country entertainment: oversized screens, multiple bars, balconies and a stage intended to keep the room active well beyond dinner. The project is expected to open in January, according to the original report.

The building’s first floor is designed around a large LED display that can carry broadcast footage and event visuals, with a bar positioned at the front of the room. Higher levels add another bar and a modular space that can shift between restaurant seating and a more lounge-like setup. The arrangement suggests Ole Red is being built less like a conventional Nashville honky-tonk and more like a vertically stacked entertainment complex, with each floor offering a different vantage point on the action below.

At the top, the venue is slated to include a rooftop dining area, semi-private seating and a minimum-spend setup for evening meals. Two balconies are described as facing outward toward the Las Vegas Strip, with views toward the Bellagio and the boulevard. A ground-level gateway is also planned to evoke a honky-tonk entrance. Those details give the project its clearest identity: Shelton’s Las Vegas outpost is selling the room itself as part of the experience, not merely using it as a container for food and concerts.

Shelton is also scheduled to perform at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood on July 27, with the original report tying that appearance to the Ole Red preview. The singer, known for hits including “Austin” and “Country Girl (Shake It for Me),” has spent much of his public career moving between country radio, television and live entertainment. His run as a coach on NBC’s “The Voice” has made him familiar well beyond the country audience, a useful advantage for a venue designed to pull tourists off the Strip.

Ole Red Las Vegas is presented as a place where live music, dining and large-scale production share the same footprint. The revealed spaces include sightlines from both sides of the building, flexible rooms for different kinds of programming and enough screen infrastructure to turn a performance into a visual event. Whether the venue can make all those layers feel coherent will depend on the programming and the crowd once the doors open. For now, the photos show a Shelton-branded room aiming for maximum visibility—inside the venue and across Las Vegas itself.