Kid Rock’s Big Honky Tonk

About Kid Rock’s Big Honky Tonk

Kid Rock’s opened in 2018 on the corner of Third and Broadway, built at a reported cost of around twenty million dollars. The full name is Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse, which signals the scale and the attitude before you walk in. It holds close to two thousand people across five floors, with four stages, six bars and a fifth-floor rooftop. The first floor and the mezzanine both look down onto a two-story main stage.

The music here leans toward rock and Southern rock more than traditional country, which separates it from a place like Robert’s or Tootsie’s a few doors down. The crowd is overwhelmingly tourists and large groups, and it stays loud and busy. There is a full steakhouse if you want to sit down and eat, which is not something every honky-tonk on the street offers.

It is operated by Steve Smith, the same local figure behind Tootsie’s and Honky Tonk Central, so it is a professionally run room and not a celebrity vanity project. Drinks are priced like the other celebrity megabars, well above what you would pay off Broadway. Come here for a big, high-energy party floor with rock in the mix and a steak dinner on hand. Skip it if you came to Broadway for traditional country or anything close to an intimate room.

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