Nascar Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube - Las Vegas Motor Speedway
2020-02-21 - 2020-02-23 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
Nascar is easily one of the biggest events that rolls through Vegas on an annual basis. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway is huge, and will fill up with 100,000 party goers once the Penzoil 400 roars into action. If you’ve never been to a Nascar event, get your ass off the couch and make sure you take in a race before the old man in the sky nabs ya. Even if you’re not a racing fan, Nascar events are fun as f*ckkkkk. They’re are loud, the cars are incredibly fast, and most of the crowd is there to get their party on. If you’re looking for the perfect place to lube up while you’re in town for the race, we’ll see you at Hogs! No cover, free motorcycle parking, and the most entertaining bartenders in the world… start yourrr engines!!!

Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N 3rd St. Downtown Las Vegas
21+ w/ID | NO COVER | FREE MOTORCYCLE PARKING

DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
COUNTRY BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
MOTORSPORTS BAR
INFAMOUS BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR
_
THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she continues to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

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Fat Tuesday | Mardi Gras | #HogsLife
2020-02-25 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
Do people really party in Vegas for Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras? Who cares. At Hogs, we’re looking for a reason to party everyday! For those who have never visited New Orleans and the South, you may be wondering what in the f*ck is Fat Tuesday. Since bartenders are usually full of worthless sh*t to talk about, allow us to drop some knowledge on that ass.
Essentially, it’s time to party it up and eat! Fat Tuesday is always the day before Ash Wednesday. Since Ash Wednesday is the beginning of a long fasting period for Christians, most people will stuff their faces with food and drink on this unique holiday. In addition to fasting, Christians also give up something special that they enjoy. So, Fat Tuesday is an opportunity to enjoy that favorite food that one may giving up for the long Lenten season. We don’t serve food at Hogs, but we definitely love adult drinks. Throw the bartenders some beads and who knows what they’ll show you!!

Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N 3rd St. Downtown Las Vegas
21+ w/ID | NO COVER | FREE MOTORCYCLE PARKING

DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
COUNTRY BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
MOTORSPORTS BAR
INFAMOUS BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR
_
THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she continues to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

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Hogs Girls Crash Red Rock Harley-Davidson Leap Year Party
2020-02-29 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Red Rock Harley-Davidson, 2260 S Rainbow Blvd, Las Vegas, Nevada, 89146, United States
Oh! hey there… did you know that you get an extra day to party in the current year of 2020? If you’ve been livin’ in a cave for February, you may have missed that it’s a leap year. By a goofy glitch in the matrix, every fourth year of Earthlings spinning around the sun, we gift ourselves a bonus day – yeahhhhh! Let’s get this additional day started correct by heading to Red Rock Harley-Davidson’s Leap Year Party!! A few female members of the Hogs bartending crew will be on hand to serve up some adult beverages… Bonus Leap Year Day – Beers with Hogs Girls – Surrounded by Harleys – WIN – WIN – WIN!

THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.
Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology.
Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy. Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!
Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar.
The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.
Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she is to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.
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2020 MINT 400 takes over Hogs & Downtown Las Vegas!
2020-03-03 - 2020-03-08 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
The MINT 400 crowd grows every year, and the party at Hogs & Heifers grows with it! Festivities for the Great American Off-Road Race take place from March 3rd-8th. Downtown Las Vegas and Hogs & Heifers will continue to be the place to get your party on while the Mint takes over Fremont Street and the rest of downtown. For the 11th year in a row, Hogs is throwing a party during the MINT 400, but THIS YEAR we’re the Official Watering Hole of the MINT 400, and host to the Official MINT 400 Kick-Off Block Party!! The party is on Wednesday March 4, from 4pm to 2am at the top of our street on Ogden, between 3rd and Main. Check out off road vehicles, meet racers, hang with the infamous Hogs Bartenders! Car from Klock Works, Jessi Combs, and Navy Seals will also be on site!!
Hogs throws legendary kick off parties, CANT WAIT FOR THIS ONE!!!

Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N 3rd St. Downtown Las Vegas
21+ w/ID | NO COVER | FREE MOTORCYCLE PARKING
DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
COUNTRY BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
MOTORSPORTS BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
INFAMOUS BAR
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR
Although we’re not entering in the 2020 MINT 400 Race this year, HOGS & HEIFER SALOON RACING IS REAL and we will be racing again! Since we’re not racin’, we’ve partnered with the team behind the race, to be the official kickoff of the weekend. Join us MARCH 4th at 4pm for our BLOCK PARTY DETAILS IN THE FLYER BELOW!!
The story of Hogs & Heifers Saloon Racing:
“When your friends are bad asses, they always want to do bad ass shit…and when you are a bad ass who owns a bad ass bar…well, you end up doing a lot of bad ass shit with a whole bunch of bad ass people!
So when Liam O’Donnell hit me up just before Christmas last year… “Damon and I are putting together another MINT 400 effort for 2019, can I sweet talk ya into it?” I thought about it for 30 seconds and said “HELL YEAH!”
Who are Liam and Damon?

That would be Lee O’Donnell, the legendary bad ass who in 2018 became the first and only driver ever in history to successfully FRONT FLIP a Monster truck, with over 30 years of racing under his belt including short course, stadium and desert off road racing.
Damon Bradshaw …YES folks, the one and only Motocross & Supercross legend, The BEAST from the EAST! @DamonBradshaw45
In 2016, Liam and Damon, along with me and Tiffany Bennett as their co-drivers, ran our first MINT 400 race as team Hogs & Heifers, coming in 2nd (class 3000) and 52 overall!
This time (2019 Vegas to Reno) we decided to go for broke and have officially launched HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON RACING.”
Michelle Dell
—

THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click the first image below or here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location (1992-2015).

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MINT 400 Block Party Hosted by Hogs | Downtown Las Vegas
2020-03-04 16:00 - 23:30 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
The MINT 400 crowd grows every year, and the party at Hogs & Heifers grows with it! Festivities for the 2020 Great American Off-Road Race take place from March 3rd-8th. Downtown Las Vegas and Hogs & Heifers will continue to be the place to get your party on while the Mint takes over Fremont Street and the rest of downtown.
For the 11th year in a row, Hogs is throwing a party during the MINT 400, but THIS YEAR we’re the Official Watering Hole of the MINT 400, and host to the Official MINT 400 Kick-Off Block Party!! The party is on Wednesday March 4, from 4pm to 2am at the top of our street on Ogden, between 3rd and Main. Meet racers, hang with the infamous Hogs Bartenders! 20+ off road vehicles on the block, including cars from Klock Works, Jessi Combs, and Navy Seals!
Hogs throws legendary kick off parties, CANT WAIT FOR THIS ONE

Here’s a little back history of Hogs & Heifers and our racing team, although we’re not entering in the MINT 400 Race this year, HOGS & HEIFER SALOON RACING IS REAL and we will be entering future races!
The story of Hogs & Heifers Saloon Racing:
“When your friends are bad asses, they always want to do bad ass shit…and when you are a bad ass who owns a bad ass bar…well, you end up doing a lot of bad ass shit with a whole bunch of bad ass people!
So when Liam O’Donnell hit me up just before Christmas last year… “Damon and I are putting together another MINT 400 effort for 2019, can I sweet talk ya into it?” I thought about it for 30 seconds and said “HELL YEAH!”
Who are Liam and Damon?

That would be Lee O’Donnell, the legendary bad ass who in 2018 became the first and only driver ever in history to successfully FRONT FLIP a Monster truck, with over 30 years of racing under his belt including short course, stadium and desert off road racing.
Damon Bradshaw …YES folks, the one and only Motocross & Supercross legend, The BEAST from the EAST! @DamonBradshaw45
In 2016, Liam and Damon, along with me and Tiffany Bennett as their co-drivers, ran our first MINT 400 race as team Hogs & Heifers, coming in 2nd (class 3000) and 52 overall!
This time (2019 Vegas to Reno) we decided to go for broke and have officially launched HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON RACING.”
Michelle Dell

—

THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!

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First Friday | Downtown Las Vegas | No Cover | Free Motorcycle Parking
2020-03-06 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
We don’t have an official First Friday show, but we do see art wanderers make it to the saloon after their gallery touring ends, and the consuming of cheep beer begins. Box wine sucks anyways. Ya know nothing goes better with warm Merlot than a chilled shot of $3 Hogs Piss.
If you’re out on First Friday bar hoping in Downtown Las Vegas, make a point to stop at Hogs & Heifers! At 3rd and Ogden, we’re less than a mile from the center of the Arts District … that’s fuckin’ close folks, even for your lazy ass. Maybe you can ride one of those rental bikes and park it in front of Hogs? The weather is nice this time of year, the sidewalk and benches out front offer some of the best places to people watch in all of downtown. Now shut the fuck up and let’s have a drink!
Please don’t ask for wine when ordering a drink at Hogs because we don’t fuckin’ have any… and no fucking whining.
The picture of the Hog & Heifers art below was created by our good friend Albert Chailosky, who is still creating life-like sculptures similar to this Hogs piece… we love you Albert!!
From 12 noon – 4am daily | 21+ w/ID | No Cover | Free Motorcycle Parking

THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she is to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

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Con Expo-Con/AGG - North America's Largest Construction Trade Show
2020-03-10 - 2020-03-14 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
It seems like every trade show that comes through Las Vegas is the largest of something. The Con Expo-Con/AGG is North America’s largest construction trade show. This brings thousands of people to Las Vegas, and whenever Vegas is busy, you can expect big crowds to Hogs! Need to blow off a little steam after going to the show, Hogs & Heifers Saloon in Downtown Las Vegas may be the best place in Sin City to do it! Plus if you’re a lady, you can dance on the bar!!

Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N 3rd St. Downtown Las Vegas
21+ w/ID | NO COVER | FREE MOTORCYCLE PARKING

DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
COUNTRY BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
MOTORSPORTS BAR
INFAMOUS BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR
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THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she continues to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

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***CXL'D*** 8th Annual St. Patrick's Day Firefighters Parade & Block Party - Downtown Las
2020-03-17 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
As of Monday March 15th, Hogs & Heifers will be closing our doors for at least two weeks due to the threat of Covid – 19. This will cancel our annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration. We’ll keep you updated via our blog and website in regards to when H&H will reopen. Thank you for your patronage – we can’t wait to party again with you soon.
The St. Patrick’s Day parade in Downtown Las Vegas has grown into an awesome holiday tradition. The parade runs mostly on Fremont Street, and then stops on 3rd and Fremont. Once the parade ends, the street party continues on 3rd and Ogden with the Firefighter’s Fun Challenge!
Hogs & Heifers Saloon opens at 11am on St. Patrick’s Day. Every year drummers and bag pipers play in our saloon. If you don’t get goosebumps from hearing this inside a small environment like Hogs, you may not have a pulse!! HOGS IS THE PLACE TO BE IN DOWNTOWN ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY, WE LOVE THIS HOLIDAY!!!
*INSIDE OUR SALOON IS RESTRICTED TO 21 AND OLDER. EVENTS ON THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS ARE ALL AGES. THIS IS A HOLIDAY PARADE AND CELEBRATION FOR THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS AND THEIR FIREFIGHTERS – FAMILIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND!
Thank You Truly Hard Seltzer, Deep Eddy, and Bud Light for supporting this event and Las Vegas Firefighters.

HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
201 N 3RD ST. DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS
12 NOON – 4AM DAILY | NO COVER
FREE MOTORCYCLE PARKING | 21+ W/ID
DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
COUNTRY BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
MOTORSPORTS BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
INFAMOUS BAR
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR
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THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
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HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON IS CLOSED THROUGH MAY DUE TO COVID-19
2020-03-23 - 2020-05-31 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
To Our Valued Customers
On March 13th, 2020 the United States declared a National Emergency in response to the Coronavirus global pandemic, (COVID-19). As this disease continues to increase exponentially around the globe with no present cure or vaccine, we must all take action in an attempt to mitigate the spread in the United States.
Flattening the curve is a measure being used by other countries overwhelmed by Coronavirus, to stretch out the number of people impacted over a longer period of time so as NOT to completely overwhelm our health care system; and social distancing is the ONLY way to effectively flatten the curve.
The hospitality industry relies on a network of employees that continually work in close proximity and further engage and interact with customers in the same fashion. The Food and Beverage Industry sells consumables and is built on social engagement with the coming together and close interaction of people, both customers, and employees. Bars and clubs, in particular, are designed to create shared experiences for crowds of people to gather at once, in close proximity and for sustained amounts of time.
Our first responsibility is to the health and well-being of our employees and our community overall, outweighing any financial benefit to continue to operate at this time. Due to the shortage in sanitizing products, we are unable to get the supplies necessary to maintain a safe and sanitized environment for our staff and customers; and as cases in the United States rise, we feel it is imperative to take the initiative to do our part in the effort to flatten and stabilize the current, rapidly increasing number of people contracting COVID-19.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon will be temporarily closing its doors at the end of our night shift today Sunday, March 15, 2020, for several weeks. Our sincere hope is that if our country can become quiet for two to three weeks, we may actually be able to stem the spread and get back to the lives we love to live and the people we love to be with.
Hogs & Heifers will be providing immediate financial support to our 48 employees with additional accommodation made for our 22 tipped employees. We are working on an assessment of our present financials to determine our ability to provide further possible financial assistance to our employees for an extended period of time. Additionally, Hogs & Heifers will be absorbing the full cost of health insurance of all of our covered employees through April 30th. On March 3rd, we held an emergency staff meeting to prepare our staff for the possibility of closure and to assure them that we would remain a source of assistance, to the best of our ability and continue to provide them with detailed information as to the public services and emergency funds that will be made available to them after the Senate passes the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
We have read the FFCRA in its entirety and are prepared to quickly provide more specific information and direction to all of our employees once it is passed and have informed them that it includes, but is not limited to emergency unemployment, medical costs incurred due to Coronavirus, Veterans Affairs, financial and food assistance on an individual and family level, and WIC.
We are as hopeful as anyone that such closure of our business will only be for a period of 2 to 3 weeks, but we feel that it is important for us to be prepared, and to prepare our employees for the possibility of a longer closure and ensure that they have clear information to navigate the Government resources that will be available to them and to continue to keep them updated as to additional areas of support as it becomes available.
Our office and administrative team will remain operational in order to secure and maintain the establishment and remain a source of information and support to our 48 employees. In the coming days, we will inventory our supply of basic essentials such as toilet paper, paper towels, bottled water, and disposable products. We will determine what we need to maintain our facilities with limited staff and distribute the majority of the remainder to our employees.
We are looking forward to the day in the near future that we can reopen our doors, but in the meantime, we encourage everyone to consider their own responsibility and our combined one as a Nation, in recognizing the growing loss of life and impact on our world, which Covid-19 has wrought. Because of its heightened degree of transmission and rapid spread we are guaranteed the further loss of life for a large portion of our population which includes anyone’s relative, friend, neighbor, co-worker and even ourselves. My own mother is 77 and lives in an apartment building with 2 dogs that she walks 3 times daily, in New York City where the outbreak is spreading quickly and a lock-down is likely. I am grateful that she is presently well, but I worry daily and hope only for her safety.
The life-threatening problem we face as a Nation is one of limited health services and equipment necessary to manage a pandemic of this magnitude, let alone continue to service our population in response to the normal and often high volume of regular medical practices and daily non-pandemic related medical emergencies, illness, surgeries and so on. With the annual storm season upon us, the lower southern states will likely experience a number of weather-related emergencies which will only further tax our Nation’s emergency response systems, medical facilities, resources, and funds.
Political blame is an argument best saved for another day.
We cannot rely on our Government to solely manage this event and our Healthcare System to be able to address the needs that will soon be required, without our responsible participation in the effort to stop the rapid spread.
These circumstances are upon us TODAY and we have a responsibility to respond HUMANELY with compassion, decency, and respect for life, whether it be across the globe, within our own Nation, right here in our City, in our smaller communities, or in our own homes.
May you all be well. We look forward to reopening and welcoming back our team in its entirety and our customers, all in good health and ready to kick off the re-opening with a Bang as only Hogs & Heifers can.
Sincerely, Michelle Dell
March 15, 2020
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ONLINE SHOP IS OPEN - WEB ORDERS GET MAILED EVERY FRIDAY
2020-04-01 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
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Facebook Live - Kayla & Madi - Get to Know the Infamous Bartenders of Hogs & Heifers
2020-04-01 20:00 - 21:00
Our Facebook Live series continues Wednesday April 1st at 8pm with Kayla & Madi! This is no joke 😉

CLICK ME FOR DIRECT LINK TO OUR HOGS FACEBOOK PAGE or go to https://www.facebook.com/HogsandHeifersSaloon

Rules of Hogs Facebook Live:

The 1st Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – nobody talks about Hogs Facebook Live
The 2nd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – no talking about Hogs Facebook Live
The 3rd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – all Facebook Live Events Start at 8pm PST
The 4th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – behave
The 5th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – If this is your first Hogs Facebook Live, you have to drink

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Wednesday Live Line-Up

April 1 – Kayla & Maddie
April 8 – Alex
April 15 – Lexi
April 22 – Diyona

Friday Live Line-Up

April 3 – Tiffany
April 10 – Ari
April 17 – Sal
April 24 – Arianna

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Facebook Live with Tiffany - Get to Know the Infamous Bartenders of Hogs & Heifers
2020-04-03 20:00 - 21:00
Our Facebook Live series continues Friday April 3rd at 8pm with Tiffany!

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Rules of Hogs Facebook Live:

The 1st Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – nobody talks about Hogs Facebook Live
The 2nd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – no talking about Hogs Facebook Live
The 3rd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – all Facebook Live Events Start at 8pm PST
The 4th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – behave
The 5th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – If this is your first Hogs Facebook Live, you have to drink

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Wednesday Live Line-Up

April 8 – Alex
April 15 – Lexi
April 22 – Diyona

Friday Live Line-Up

April 3 – Tiffany
April 10 – Ari
April 17 – Sal
April 24 – Arianna

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Facebook Live with New Bartender Alex - Get to Know the Infamous Bartenders of Hogs & Heifers
2020-04-08 20:00 - 21:00
Our Facebook Live series continues Wednesday April 8th at 8pm with Alex 😉

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Rules of Hogs Facebook Live:

The 1st Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – nobody talks about Hogs Facebook Live
The 2nd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – no talking about Hogs Facebook Live
The 3rd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – all Facebook Live Events Start at 8pm PST
The 4th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – behave
The 5th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – If this is your first Hogs Facebook Live, you have to drink

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Wednesday Live Line-Up

April 8 – Alex
April 15 – Lexi
April 22 – Diyona

Friday Live Line-Up

April 10 – Ari
April 17 – Sal
April 24 – Arianna

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Facebook Live with Ari - Get to Know the Infamous Bartenders of Hogs & Heifers
2020-04-10 20:00 - 21:00
Our Facebook Live series continues Friday April 10th at 8pm with Ari 😉

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Rules of Hogs Facebook Live:

The 1st Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – nobody talks about Hogs Facebook Live
The 2nd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – no talking about Hogs Facebook Live
The 3rd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – all Facebook Live Events Start at 8pm PST
The 4th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – behave
The 5th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – If this is your first Hogs Facebook Live, you have to drink

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Wednesday Live Line-Up

April 15 – Lexi
April 22 – Diyona

Friday Live Line-Up

April 10 – Ari
April 17 – Sal
April 24 – Arianna

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Facebook Live with Lexi - Get to Know the Infamous Bartenders of Hogs & Heifers
2020-04-15 20:00 - 21:00
Our Facebook Live series continues Wednesday April 15th at 8pm with Lexi 😉

CLICK ME FOR DIRECT LINK TO OUR HOGS FACEBOOK PAGE or go to https://www.facebook.com/HogsandHeifersSaloon

Rules of Hogs Facebook Live:

The 1st Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – nobody talks about Hogs Facebook Live
The 2nd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – no talking about Hogs Facebook Live
The 3rd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – all Facebook Live Events Start at 8pm PST
The 4th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – behave
The 5th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – If this is your first Hogs Facebook Live, you have to drink

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April 15 – Lexi
April 22 – Diyona

Friday Live Line-Up

April 17 – Sal
April 24 – Arianna

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Facebook Live with Sal - Get to Know the Infamous Bartenders of Hogs & Heifers
2020-04-17 20:00 - 21:00
Our Facebook Live series continues Friday April 17th at 8pm with Sal 😉

CLICK ME FOR DIRECT LINK TO OUR HOGS FACEBOOK PAGE or go to https://www.facebook.com/HogsandHeifersSaloon

Rules of Hogs Facebook Live:

The 1st Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – nobody talks about Hogs Facebook Live
The 2nd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – no talking about Hogs Facebook Live
The 3rd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – all Facebook Live Events Start at 8pm PST
The 4th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – behave
The 5th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – If this is your first Hogs Facebook Live, you have to drink

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April 22 – Diyona

Friday Live Line-Up

April 17 – Sal
April 24 – Arianna

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Facebook Live with Dioyona - Get to Know the Infamous Bartenders of Hogs & Heifers
2020-04-22 20:00 - 21:00
Even though our doors our temporarily closed, we’ve been partying pretty hard in Hogs world. Our Facebook Live series continues Wednesday April 22nd at 8pm with Dioyona 😉

CLICK ME FOR DIRECT LINK TO OUR HOGS FACEBOOK PAGE or go to https://www.facebook.com/HogsandHeifersSaloon

Rules of Hogs Facebook Live:

The 1st Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – nobody talks about Hogs Facebook Live
The 2nd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – no talking about Hogs Facebook Live
The 3rd Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – all Facebook Live Events Start at 8pm PST
The 4th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – behave
The 5th Rule of Hogs Facebook Live – If this is your first Hogs Facebook Live, you have to drink

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April 22 – Dioyona

Friday Live Line-Up

May 1st – Arianna

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3rd Annual Rebel Run | First Ever Hogs Virtual Rally! Sponsored by Main Street Moto & Makeshift Union
2020-04-24 - 2020-04-25
FACIAL HAIR COMPETITION FAN VOTE CLICK HERE!
The Laughlin River Run isn’t what it was – that’s why this year’s Rebel Run is gonna be lit. Let’s drink some beers, hang with rowdy bartenders, listen to rock and roll, and fill up the front of Hogs with some bad-ass bikes… ALL VIRTUALLY! whatttt?
We’ll have a virtual bike night sponsored by Main Street Moto featuring an online motorcycle show.
This show features these categories voted on by fans:
Best Paint Job – Best Rat Bike – Best Picture of a Bike in Front of Hogs!
CLICK ME TO VOTE FOR BEST PICTURE OF A BIKE IN FRONT OF HOGS
CLICK ME TO VOTE FOR BEST PAINT JOB
CLICK ME TO VOTE FOR BEST RAT
Best in Show will be judged by the fans, Main Street Moto, and Hogs & Heifers
CLICK ME TO SEE EVERY MOTORCYCLE THAT ENTERED THE VIRTUAL REBEL RUN MOTORCYCLE SHOW –
EVERY BIKE IN THIS GALLERY WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR BEST IN SHOW!
Winners will be announced on Hogs Facebook Live Saturday April 25th – the show starts at 7pm! Prizes include swag bags from Hogs and Main Street Moto! Plus we’ll be giving away a keg so you can throw your own party at Hogs. You read that right, we’re giving away a KEG OF BEER!!!
BEER BEER BEER TIDLLY BEER BEER BEER
ALL ONLINE AND ALL VIRUS FREE!
BY HOSTING A VIRTUAL RALLY – WE CAN MUTUALLY GIVE A BIG HOGS SALUTE TO THE VIRUS AT THE SAME TIME 😉
Prizes include swag bags from Hogs and Main Street Moto! Plus we’re giving away a keg of beer to throw your own party at Hogs!!
We’ll also have a best beard/mustache contest judged by the folks at Makeshift Union – enter by e-mailing your favorite hairy photo to cameron@hogsandheifers.com – include your first and last name, and where you’re from, and try and send a front facing picture, along with a profile shot. Winners announced on Hogs Facebook Live Friday April 24th.. the show starts at 730pm. Prizes include swag bags from Hogs and Makeshift Union.
FACIAL HAIR FAN VOTE CLICK HERE!
ALL ONLINE AND ALL VIRUS FREE! BY HOSTING A VIRTUAL RALLY –
WE CAN MUTUALLY GIVE A BIG HOGS SALUTE TO THE VIRUS AT THE SAME TIME 😉

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Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N 3rd St
Downtown Las Vegas

DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
MOTORCROSS BAR
COUNTRY BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
INFAMOUS BAR…
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR
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THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!

Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!

ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she is to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

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Virtual Rebel Run | Hogs TV | Beard-Mustache-Facial Hair Competition Sponsored by Makeshift Union
2020-04-24 19:30 - 21:00
FAN VOTE CLICK HERE! FAN VOTE CLICK HERE! FAN VOTE CLICK HERE!
To kick off our virtual party, we’re hosting a best beard/mustache/facial hair contest judged by you, and the folks at Makeshift Union. You can enter by e-mailing your favorite hairy photos of yourself, your man, or your crazy mother-in-law, to cameron@hogsandheifers.com. Include your first, last name, and where you’re from. Try to include a front facing picture, along with a profile shot, anddd something fun for the creative category!
Categories include best overall (judged by Makeshift Union), and most creative (judged by YOU!).
CLICK HERE FOR FAN VOTE!
Winners announced on Hogs Facebook Live Friday April 24th… the Show starts at 730pm. Prizes include swag bags from Hogs and Makeshift Union!
ALL ONLINE AND ALL VIRUS FREE! BY HOSTING A VIRTUAL RALLY –
WE CAN MUTUALLY GIVE A BIG HOGS SALUTE TO THE CORONAVIRUS AT THE SAME TIME 😉

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CLICK THE STICKER BELOW – THE ONLINE STORE REMAINS OPEN, WEB ORDERS SHIP ON FRIDAYS

Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N 3rd St
Downtown Las Vegas

DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
MOTORCROSS BAR
COUNTRY BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
INFAMOUS BAR…
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR
—
THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!

Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!

ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she is to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

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Virtual Rebel Run Motorcycle Show Sponsored by Main Street Moto
2020-04-25 19:00 - 21:00
Welcome to our first ever virtual bike night, featuring an online motorcycle show!
This show will feature four categories:
Best Paint Job – Best Rat Bike – Best Picture of a Bike in Front of Hogs –
These categories are 100% judged by the fans through Facebook Galleries
CLICK ME TO VOTE FOR BEST PICTURE OF A BIKE IN FRONT OF HOGS
CLICK ME TO VOTE FOR BEST PAINT JOB
CLICK ME TO VOTE FOR BEST RAT
BEST IN SHOW WILL BE JUDGED BY THE FANS, MAIN STREET MOTO, AND HOGS & HEIFERS
CLICK ME TO SEE EVERY MOTORCYCLE THAT ENTERED –
EVERY BIKE IN THIS GALLERY WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR BEST IN SHOW!
Winners will be announced on Hogs Facebook Live Saturday April 25th – the show starts at 7pm! Prizes include swag bags from Hogs and Main Street Moto! Plus we’ll be giving away a keg so you can throw your own party at Hogs. You read that right, we’re giving away a KEG OF BEER!!!
BEER BEER BEER TIDLLY BEER BEER BEER
ALL ONLINE AND ALL VIRUS FREE!
BY HOSTING A VIRTUAL RALLY – WE CAN MUTUALLY GIVE A BIG HOGS SALUTE TO THE VIRUS AT THE SAME TIME 😉

_______
WANT TO SUPPORT HOGS & HEIFERS NOW?
CLICK THE STICKER BELOW – THE ONLINE STORE REMAINS OPEN, WEB ORDERS SHIP ON FRIDAYS

Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N 3rd St
Downtown Las Vegas

DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
MOTORCROSS BAR
COUNTRY BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
INFAMOUS BAR…
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR
—
THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!

Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!

ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she is to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

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Facebook Live with Arianna | Get to Know the Infamous Bartenders of Hogs & Heifers
2020-05-01 20:00 - 21:00
Our Facebook Live series continues Friday May 1st at 8:00pm with Arianna!

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Facebook Live with Brandi | Get to Know the Infamous Bartenders of Hogs & Heifers
2020-05-08 20:00 - 21:00
The Hogs Facebook Live series continues with Brandi! Tune-in Friday May 1st at 8:00pm PST!

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***Postponed due to COVID-19*** 15th Annual HOG WILD FOR KIDS Motorcycle Ride Benefiting Camp Cartwheel!
2020-05-17 08:00 - 16:00 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
***This event has been postponed due to COVID-19. Since this is one of our most popular annual events, we will due our best to plan this for a future date in 2020***
Our annual Hog Wild Motorcycle Ride rocks. Over the years, friends and patrons of Hogs have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars helping send over 1000 kids to Camp Cartwheel! 1000 KIDS!!! We get over 100 riders a year on this one, let’s keep a good tradition going on year 15!
CLICK ME FOR PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR 2018 HOG WILD MOTORCYCLE RIDE

About Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation: The mission of Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation is to provide social, educational, financial and psychological support services and programs to families of ALL children diagnosed with life-threatening or critical illnesses such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell, renal, blood and immunologic diseases and to provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer, as well as to chronically ill children and their caregivers.
About Camp Cartwheel: This event is designed to generate donations and create awareness of the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation and Camp Cartwheel. NVCCF’s Camp Cartwheel at Torino Ranch is an outdoor three-night camp experience designed to help children with cancer or other critical illnesses as well as their siblings overcome the physical, mental and emotional obstacles posed by childhood disease. Camp Cartwheel provides a relief from the stress of hospitals and the trauma of fighting disease.
Beneficiary: Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation for Camp Cartwheel
Cost to send 1 child to Camp – $250.00

HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
201 N. 3RD ST. DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS
21+ W/ID | NO COVER | NO F*CKIN TIES
FREE MOTORCYCLE PARKING
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THE HISTORY OF MICHELLE AND HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar and that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
MORE ON OUR OWNER MICHELLE:

A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitreSsed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she continues to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

BIKER BAR
DIVE BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
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GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR

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Virtual Hogs Hoedown | Punk Rock Save Lives | ALL DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL ON FACEBOOK LIVE
2020-05-30 09:00 - 20:00
*2020 PUNK ROCK HOEDOWN*
ALL DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL STREAMING ON HOGS & HEIFERS FACEBOOK LIVE
***10AM-9PM MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME*** SATURDAY MAY 30TH
***9AM-8PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME (WEST COAST)*** SATURDAY MAY 30TH
It sucks that we can’t party together in person, but holding this event online has allowed us to bring you more music in one day than we ever have!
Check out the list of bands and musicians who will be joining us for this year’s hoedown!
*Authority Zero, Jason DeVore (of Authority Zero solo), Jim Lindberg of Pennywise, Justin Sane of Anti Flag. Chris Number 2 of Anti Flag, Nathen Maxwell of Flogging Molly, Shelby Maxwell, Jaret Reddick of Bowling For Soup, Stacey Dee of Bad Cop/Bad Cop, Trever Keith of Face To Face, Pulley, The Attack, Counterpunch, Reno Divorce, 1916, Jon Gazi, Lady Gang, Dirty Femmes with Brian Richie of Violent Femmes, Rami Krayem of Cigar, Dennis Jagard of Ten Foot Pole, Joe Sib, Buster Shuffle, Bar Stool Preachers, Gregory Lee of Hepcat, Ken Bonsall of Ferocious Dog, Brian Walstrom of Bandaid Brigade, Bishops Green, Homeless Gospel Choir, Sniper 66, Brick Top Blaggers, Rabib Assault, Low Volts, Taking On Water, Oceanside Soundsystem, Venomous Pinks, Quel Bordel, Kaleido, Lucky Eejits, Unsteady, Simplex, Let Me Downs*

Our friends at Punk Rock Saves Lives are the people behind this event – check out www.punkrocksaveslives.org for more info about on our non-profit partner in crime!

CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO PUNK ROCK HOEDOWN HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2018

CLICK HERE FOR PUNK ROCK HOEDOWN HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2019
2020 Punk Rock Hoedown is a production of Hogs TV and Punk Rock Saves Lives

Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N 3rd St. Downtown Las Vegas
Free Motorcycle Parking

DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
MOTORCROSS BAR
INFAMOUS BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR…
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR

—
THE HISTORY OF MICHELLE AND HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar and that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
MORE ON OUR OWNER MICHELLE:

A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitreSsed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she continues to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon. Click on the images below for more stories of Michelle in Vegas!

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Hogs is temporarily closed due to COVID19 - When will we Reopen?
2020-06-19 - 2020-07-31 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
06.17.20
We know everyone is waiting for us to announce when we are re-opening. Yes, bars are now allowed to open in Las Vegas, but the restrictions presently in place limit us to an extent that we cannot deliver an experience that is true to our brand.
In addition, we felt it was in the best interest of our employees, that we err on the side of caution and wait at least two weeks after Phase 2 began, to ensure that the required health safety procedures and social distancing measures thus far put in place were adequate and realistic to implement and maintain both physically and fiscally.
We were hoping that the results of the first weeks of Phase 2 reopening in Nevada would be positive and the imposed restrictions would become more flexible so that we could reopen, confident of our ability to deliver our services in the manner that is true to our brand and certain we could offer sustainable income for our employees.
We are concerned about the sudden increase in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations throughout the U.S., including Nevada and several neighboring States, with Arizona being among the top 6 States that have seen record highs in the last 7 days. Yesterday in Nevada we had our largest daily spike since the pandemic began. The overwhelming majority of cases have been and continue to be right here in Clark County.
Given the alarming increase in Covid-19 cases, we feel it would be irresponsible of us to rush to reopen. We are shooting for a reopening date in the last week of July or the first week of August. We want nothing more than to get back to work and welcome our customers back to celebrate with us once again.
We are grateful for the continued support of our community near and far and wish the best for everyone.

03.15.2020
To Our Valued Customers
On March 13th, 2020 the United States declared a National Emergency in response to the Coronavirus global pandemic, (COVID-19). As this disease continues to increase exponentially around the globe with no present cure or vaccine, we must all take action in an attempt to mitigate the spread in the United States.
Flattening the curve is a measure being used by other countries overwhelmed by Coronavirus, to stretch out the number of people impacted over a longer period of time so as NOT to completely overwhelm our health care system; and social distancing is the ONLY way to effectively flatten the curve.
The hospitality industry relies on a network of employees that continually work in close proximity and further engage and interact with customers in the same fashion. The Food and Beverage Industry sells consumables and is built on social engagement with the coming together and close interaction of people, both customers, and employees. Bars and clubs, in particular, are designed to create shared experiences for crowds of people to gather at once, in close proximity and for sustained amounts of time.
Our first responsibility is to the health and well-being of our employees and our community overall, outweighing any financial benefit to continue to operate at this time. Due to the shortage in sanitizing products, we are unable to get the supplies necessary to maintain a safe and sanitized environment for our staff and customers; and as cases in the United States rise, we feel it is imperative to take the initiative to do our part in the effort to flatten and stabilize the current, rapidly increasing number of people contracting COVID-19.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon will be temporarily closing its doors at the end of our night shift today Sunday, March 15, 2020, for several weeks. Our sincere hope is that if our country can become quiet for two to three weeks, we may actually be able to stem the spread and get back to the lives we love to live and the people we love to be with.
Hogs & Heifers will be providing immediate financial support to our 48 employees with additional accommodation made for our 22 tipped employees. We are working on an assessment of our present financials to determine our ability to provide further possible financial assistance to our employees for an extended period of time. Additionally, Hogs & Heifers will be absorbing the full cost of health insurance of all of our covered employees through April 30th. On March 3rd, we held an emergency staff meeting to prepare our staff for the possibility of closure and to assure them that we would remain a source of assistance, to the best of our ability and continue to provide them with detailed information as to the public services and emergency funds that will be made available to them after the Senate passes the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
We have read the FFCRA in its entirety and are prepared to quickly provide more specific information and direction to all of our employees once it is passed and have informed them that it includes, but is not limited to emergency unemployment, medical costs incurred due to Coronavirus, Veterans Affairs, financial and food assistance on an individual and family level, and WIC.
We are as hopeful as anyone that such closure of our business will only be for a period of 2 to 3 weeks, but we feel that it is important for us to be prepared, and to prepare our employees for the possibility of a longer closure and ensure that they have clear information to navigate the Government resources that will be available to them and to continue to keep them updated as to additional areas of support as it becomes available.
Our office and administrative team will remain operational in order to secure and maintain the establishment and remain a source of information and support to our 48 employees. In the coming days, we will inventory our supply of basic essentials such as toilet paper, paper towels, bottled water, and disposable products. We will determine what we need to maintain our facilities with limited staff and distribute the majority of the remainder to our employees.
We are looking forward to the day in the near future that we can reopen our doors, but in the meantime, we encourage everyone to consider their own responsibility and our combined one as a Nation, in recognizing the growing loss of life and impact on our world, which Covid-19 has wrought. Because of its heightened degree of transmission and rapid spread we are guaranteed the further loss of life for a large portion of our population which includes anyone’s relative, friend, neighbor, co-worker and even ourselves. My own mother is 77 and lives in an apartment building with 2 dogs that she walks 3 times daily, in New York City where the outbreak is spreading quickly and a lock-down is likely. I am grateful that she is presently well, but I worry daily and hope only for her safety.
The life-threatening problem we face as a Nation is one of limited health services and equipment necessary to manage a pandemic of this magnitude, let alone continue to service our population in response to the normal and often high volume of regular medical practices and daily non-pandemic related medical emergencies, illness, surgeries and so on. With the annual storm season upon us, the lower southern states will likely experience a number of weather-related emergencies which will only further tax our Nation’s emergency response systems, medical facilities, resources, and funds.
Political blame is an argument best saved for another day.
We cannot rely on our Government to solely manage this event and our Healthcare System to be able to address the needs that will soon be required, without our responsible participation in the effort to stop the rapid spread.
These circumstances are upon us TODAY and we have a responsibility to respond HUMANELY with compassion, decency, and respect for life, whether it be across the globe, within our own Nation, right here in our City, in our smaller communities, or in our own homes.
May you all be well. We look forward to reopening and welcoming back our team in its entirety and our customers, all in good health and ready to kick off the re-opening with a Bang as only Hogs & Heifers can.
Sincerely, Michelle Dell
March 15, 2020
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Hogs is temporarily closed due to COVID19 - When will we Reopen?
2020-08-13 - 2020-09-01 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
8.13.20
Is an update updated if the updated update is the same as the update that was updated before?
Say that out loud really fast 100 times in a row with a beer deprived dry mouth every day until you can say it without messing up once.
We bet we’ll be open again before you can get it right!
Unfortunately, only bars that sell food in our County of Clark here in Las Vegas have been allowed to open. We tried to argue that we sold a wide variety of caloric consumables…but apparently liquid diets don’t count!!
Tell that to our beer-bellied, whiskey breathing customers who are losing weight at an astonishing rate because they can’t go drinking at Hogs & Heifers.
Never fear…we ARE still here, and one day we will all be able to laugh over a cold beer and a shot of whiskey and say, “Hey, remember that time Hogs was closed for almost 6 months”? Oh, to be underage again, so to never have known such suffering!
WE MISS YOU ALL and WE WILL BE BACK!!
Until then, hang tight, stay healthy, and be sure to get plenty of rest, because we’ll all have to put in some serious overtime drinking hours to make up for all those lost calories!

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9th annual 9-11 Patriot's Day Parade | Las Vegas Firefighter's Benefit Association | Downtown Las Vegas
2020-09-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
In year’s past on September 11, the Las Vegas Firefighter’s Benefit Association and fellow firefighters, policemen, friends, family, neighbors, politicians, and supporters would join together in Downtown Las Vegas to march in honor of those who fought to keep us safe in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. And then following the march, Hogs would invite everyone back to the saloon for a drum and bagpipe performance inside the bar. Since bars in Vegas must still remain closed due to COVID-19, and outdoor gatherings are limited, we can not have our annual 9-11 event at Hogs. This is always a special day for us, so it’s with saddened hearts we can’t come together this year. Please take a moment at home to honor our fallen heroes, we will never forget.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N. 3rd St. Downtown Las Vegas
21+ w/ID | NO COVER | FREE MOTORCYCLE PARKING
***The 9-11 Patriot’s Day Parade is held on the streets of Las Vegas – It’s an all ages event and families are encouraged to join!***
THE HISTORY OF MICHELLE AND HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar and that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
MORE ON OUR OWNER MICHELLE:

A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitreSsed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.
Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.
Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she is to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

DAILY FROM 12 NOON – 4AM
DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
COUNTRY BAR
MOTORSPORTS BAR
INFAMOUS BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR

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Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas Reopening - 15 Year Anniversary
2020-09-30 16:00 - 2020-10-01 02:00 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
Hello Everyone! Spread the word, Hogs is back!!
We officially reopen at 4pm Wednesday, September 30th. We will be opening the doors to Hogs & Heifers Saloon for the first time after a long 6 month closure due to C0VID mandates. It just so happens that Wednesday would have been our annual Anniversary Party and kick off to Rally in the Alley. We will still be celebrating our 15th Anniversary by opening the doors and having a beer and a shot with you all!
Since we can’t host our annual Rally in the Alley this year, we’re giving a “nod” to Rally by supporting our past rally vendors by sending our customers their way with our first ever Hogs & Heifers Partner SHOP HOP. This is NOT an organized ride or event, but an activity for all our customers to get to know our local small businesses. This is an effort to bring our community back. Multiple shops will be participating over a 3 day period – Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 2, 3 & 4th.
Each rider/driver to visit at least 7 partner shops in the 3 day period will win a free Hogs & Heifers 15th Anniversary T-Shirt, a raffle ticket for swag bags gifted from each partner shop, and a free year subscription from our friends at Quick Throttle Magazine!!
Here are the details of the Shop Hop:
Activity goal: Visit as many of our vendor’s shops as possible Friday, Saturday and Sunday in order to win a free 15th Anniversary T-Shirt.
How it works: All riders/drivers will be given a “Shop Hop Card” that lists a schedule of shops to be visited Friday, Saturday and Sunday (October 2, 3 and 4). These cards will be handed out in the merch store by Penny or Emily on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday only.
Riders/Drivers will receive a sticker on their Shop Hop card at each shop they visit. If they receive 7 or more stickers, they will receive a free Hogs & Heifers 15th Anniversary T-Shirt upon their return at Hogs, and a raffle ticket. Riders/Drivers that get 5 stickers will also receive a raffle ticket.
The Shop Hop cards must be handed in at the Hogs merch store in order to receive their free Anniversary shirt or Hat. Emily or will be available to disperse the shirts.
Raffle: Most all Shops have donated raffle items for our reopening. All customers that pick up a Shop Hop Card will receive a raffle ticket and winners will be picked Saturday night. Winning tickets will be posted at 4pm on Sunday. You do NOT have to be present to win.
Here is a list of participating Shop Hop shops:
FRIDAY
Bradshaw
Leather Headquarters
Trip Ink Tattoo
Evil Empire Designs/TOL
SATURDAY
Main Street Moto
Livin’ Dirty
Red Rock Harley-Davidson (Also offering a Bikini Bike Wash from 10am-2pm)
SUNDAY
Dainese
MOB Museum
Pizza Rock
This is NOT an organized ride. All riders may visit these shops on these days at their leisure.
Also donating raffle items:
Quick Throttle Magazine (1 Year Subscription) – Michael Cupp
Faces Behind the Helmets – Candice Cooley
Cool Rider Marketing – Candice Cooley
USA Parts Co
Ricky Bongos
You MUST participate in the Shop Hop to get your raffle ticket!!

During the past six months our staff worked hard to reorganize and disinfect the entire bar to create a healthy environment for you.
We ask that when you come visit us and our partners that you PLEASE wear your masks and practice social distancing.
We want you all safe and we do not want to close again!
Thank you for your support throughout the years. We can’t wait to see you all!!

Thanks to our Yearly Sponsors for Continuing to Support Hogs in 2020:
Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys
Klock Werks
Deep Eddy
Bud Light
Truly
Leather Headquarters

THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she is to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.
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Hogs & Heifers Saloon 1st Ever SHOP HOP
2020-10-01 - 2020-10-04 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
Hello Everyone! Spread the word, Hogs is back!!
Since we can’t host our annual Rally in the Alley this year, we’re giving a “nod” to Rally by supporting our past rally vendors by sending our customers their way with our first ever Hogs & Heifers Partner SHOP HOP. This is NOT an organized ride or event, but an activity for all our customers to get to know our local small businesses. This is an effort to bring our community back. Multiple shops will be participating over a 3 day period – Friday, Saturday and Sunday – October 2, 3 & 4th.
Each rider/driver to visit at least 7 partner shops in the 3 day period will win a free Hogs & Heifers 15th Anniversary T-Shirt, a raffle ticket for swag bags gifted from each partner shop, and a free year subscription from our friends at Quick Throttle Magazine!!
Here are the details of the Shop Hop:
Activity goal: Visit as many of our vendor’s shops as possible Friday, Saturday and Sunday in order to win a free 15th Anniversary T-Shirt.
How it works: All riders/drivers will be given a “Shop Hop Card” that lists a schedule of shops to be visited Friday, Saturday and Sunday (October 2, 3 and 4). These cards will be handed out in the merch store by Penny or Emily on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday only.
Riders/Drivers will receive a sticker on their Shop Hop card at each shop they visit. If they receive 7 or more stickers, they will receive a free Hogs & Heifers 15th Anniversary T-Shirt upon their return at Hogs, and a raffle ticket. Riders/Drivers that get 5 stickers will also receive a raffle ticket.
The Shop Hop cards must be handed in at the Hogs merch store in order to receive their free Anniversary shirt or Hat. Emily or will be available to disperse the shirts.
Raffle: Most all Shops have donated raffle items for our reopening. All customers that pick up a Shop Hop Card will receive a raffle ticket and winners will be picked Saturday night. Winning tickets will be posted at 4pm on Sunday. You do NOT have to be present to win.
Here is a list of participating Shop Hop shops:
FRIDAY
Bradshaw
Leather Headquarters
Trip Ink Tattoo – WE ARE RAFFLING A $600 TATTOO SESSION FROM TRIP INK!!!
Evil Empire Designs/TOL
SATURDAY
Main Street Moto
Livin’ Dirty
Red Rock Harley-Davidson (Also offering a Bikini Bike Wash from 10am-2pm)
SUNDAY
Dainese
MOB Museum
Pizza Rock
This is NOT an organized ride. All riders may visit these shops on these days at their leisure.
Also donating raffle items:
Quick Throttle Magazine (1 Year Subscription) – Michael Cupp
Faces Behind the Helmets – Candice Cooley
Cool Rider Marketing – Candice Cooley
USA Parts Co
Ricky Bongos
You MUST participate in the Shop Hop to get your raffle ticket!!!

During the past six months our staff worked hard to reorganize and disinfect the entire bar to create a healthy environment for you.
We ask that when you come visit us and our partners that you PLEASE wear your masks and practice social distancing.
We want you all safe and we do not want to close again!
Thank you for your support throughout the years. We can’t wait to see you all!!

Thanks to our Yearly Sponsors for Continuing to Support Hogs in 2020:
Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys
Klock Werks
Deep Eddy
Bud Light
Truly
Leather Headquarters

THE HISTORY OF HOGS & HEIFERS SALOON
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar, that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
Click here for a virtual tour of our original New York City Location!
ABOUT MICHELLE DELL
A third generation New Yorker, Michelle grew up in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village in the early 70’s, and was raised by her ever determined mother Susan, and her brother Greg. Divorcing shortly after Michelle’s birth, her mother went against the grain of the time choosing to raise her children as a single mother. She waitressed to pay the bills, and in 1976 she and one of her co-workers, opened a restaurant called Sabor. Thus, began Michelle’s education in the service industry.

Susan wasted no time in putting her children to work, both as a means to keep them by her side and to provide them with the tools of consciousness and appreciation for the value of a hard earned dollar, and earn it they did, from setting the tables, to washing the dishes. Michelle would prove that even as a child, she was as capable (and in most cases more so) than most adults. At the age of nine, Michelle could be seen riding her blue bicycle with mini ape hangers and a banana seat through the streets of Manhattan with, unknown to any onlookers, thousands of dollars in Amex chits in her pockets, furiously pedaling her way to the bank to cash them in.

Over the years, Susan would go on to open several more successful restaurants in Manhattan and she would later spend 13 years working for Martha Stewarts Living magazine where she became a VP and Food Editor. Today she is a respected and sought after food stylist, working with magazines such as Oprah, Bon Appetit, Essence & Domino to name a few.

Michelle attended public schools in New York City, and was accepted into the High School of Performing Arts where she spent her teenage years as a student in the Drama Department. She went on to attend SUNY Purchase, where she spent her first year of College before transferring to Bennington College in Bennington Vermont, on scholarship where she double majored in Literature and Psychology. Bartending and waiting tables throughout her college years, Michelle managed to finance her education and make ends meet, but she left Bennington in her senior year, before completing her thesis, due to a family tragedy.

Intending to finish her thesis in absentia, Michelle quickly set about finding work in Manhattan in order to pay her rent often holding several jobs waiting tables and bartending. Making ends meet, quickly became Michelle’s priority and completing her thesis fell to the wayside…

Michelle returned back to New York to stay. In early November 1992, Michelle walked into what would soon become Hogs & Heifers Saloon while the bar was still under construction. Wearing blue jeans, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, a cropped denim jacket and a long white duster, Michelle met Allan Dell, who upon meeting her said “You’re pretty and you’ve got the look I want and if you steal from me, I will throw you in the fucking river”. He hired her on the spot. Laughing about it both then and now, Michelle says it was love at first site!

Allan moved in with Michelle that December, they were engaged to be married within six months and foregoing a huge wedding, they eloped in Reno Nevada and were married on November 16th, 1993 on a cliff overlooking Lake Tahoe by the esteemed Nevada Reverend, Dr. Love.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon opened for business on the day after Thanksgiving in November 1992 with Michelle behind the bar. The early days were tough, mostly because there were no customers, and therefore no money. That being said, there was also no heat and Michelle would come to work wearing tiny little leather halter tops in the dead of winter, and with the always wet floor (rubber floor mats were not in the budget yet) Michelle’s motorcycle boot clad feet were cold, wet and covered in cement! Alone in the bar and freezing, Michelle started dancing on the bar as a means to keep warm. She says that her clogging on the bar was inspired by a scene from the movie A Coal Miner’s Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek. Michelle had a love for country music and immediately felt at home at Hogs & Heifers. She would walk to work in the morning from her West Village apartment, through the Gansevoort Meat Market and invite all of the meat packers and construction workers to come visit her at the bar, and they did! Hogs & Heifers had a bustling day business, long before the night time business caught on. On any given day you could walk into Hogs & Heifers before 6PM and find a bar full of meat packers, iron workers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, operating engineers, dock workers, city workers and so on.

Following Allan’s death in 1997, Michelle continued on as the sole proprietor of the New York City location until it tragically closed August 23rd, 2015.

In 2003 the city of Las Vegas came knocking at our front door looking for a diamond in the rough to help launch its’ Downtown revitalization project. Loving the odds, Michelle rolled the dice, opening H&H in Vegas in 2005, and she is to be the heart and soul behind the daily mayhem, madness, and the sheer magic that is Hogs & Heifers Saloon.

Hogs & Heifers Saloon
201 N 3rd St. Downtown Las Vegas
21+ w/ID | NO COVER | FREE MOTORCYCLE PARKING
DIVE BAR
BIKER BAR
HONKY TONK BAR
ROCK & ROLL BAR
PUNK ROCK BAR
COUNTRY BAR
MOTORSPORTS BAR
YOUR FAVORITE BAR
INFAMOUS BAR
GIRLS ALWAYS ON THE BAR

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Poker Run Hosted by Ground Up Professional Home Inspections - Hogs is the Last Stop!
2020-10-24 09:00 - 17:00 | Hogs & Heifers Saloon Las Vegas, 201 N 3rd Street, Las Vegas, NV, 89101, United States
Ground Up Professional Home Inspections is excited to host their First Annual Poker Run benefiting the Injured Police Officer Fund.
Join the run Saturday, October 24th starting at Red Rock Harley at 9 am!
There will be a total of 3 stops – Coffee Cup Cafe, Rush Hour Bar & Grill, and Hogs & Heifers Saloon – $500 in prizes up for grabs!
Register today at: http://tinyurl.com/grounduppokerrun
***In addition to the prizes offered by Ground Up Professional Home Inspections, Hogs & Heifers Saloon will also be doing a raffle with numerous prizes! No purchase needed, all people participating in the Poker Run, automatically receives a raffle ticket!***

History of Hogs & Heifers Saloon
The idea for opening a bar and calling it Hogs & Heifers was conceived in, of all places, a bar. Allan Dell was a self-proclaimed functioning alcoholic and figured he spent enough time sitting at a bar and that he might as well make some money while he sat there. Allan’s two friends and drinking buddies were a Master Carpenter and a Graphic Design Artist and he talked them into helping him build a bar. They would all drink for free and get laid regularly and for three broke guys in their early to mid twenties, who could ask for anything more. Allan’s father agreed to finance his project if he could find an experienced bar owner to “father” him in the business. Enter Tom McNeil, legend in the Dive Bar business. McNeil owned the Village Idiot in Manhattan’s East Side, which was the Boys’ favorite watering hole, where they could sit for hours drinking ice cold Pabst Blue Ribbon for a $1.75 a can. Allan knew that he wanted to open a bar that had to do with motorcycles and women and the original logo did, in fact, include an illustration of a chopper. The Boys were trying to come up with a name, while sitting in the Village Idiot one afternoon…”Hogs & something”. On the wall above the bar was a sign for a Heifer Auction, and a heifer being a cow that has not yet been bred, is essentially a virgin cow. The name Hogs & Heifers was born. The fact that the bar ended up being in a real meat market was simply due to the affordable rent at the time, but it was a perfect match and had a great deal to do with the success of the business.
Hogs & Heifers Saloon was to be an all American classic country and southern rock-n-roll dive bar. Allan knew he wanted it to have the look and feel of a gin mill and that he wanted to hang “stuff” all over the walls. Other than that, there was little else that he had thought about. He had a lot of friends who liked to drink and planned on throwing a party for them every night. Allan may never have imagined that it would turn into the famous bar it is today, but it was absolutely his pride and joy and he considered it his greatest achievement and reveled in its quick success.
Having entered the picture prior to its opening, Michelle Dell was the first bartender to be hired. The routine performed and style of dress worn by the bartenders behind the bar, which has made Hogs & Heifers famous, was born from Michelle’s heart. Hogs & Heifers opened in November of 1992 during an unseasonably cold winter. There was literally no heat source of any kind in the bar and it was so cold you could often see your own breath. Both Allan and Michelle believed in the notion of less is more when it came to dressing behind the bar and it was always freezing; did we mention the bar had no heat? Finally, Allan bought these little space heaters that did next to nothing to provide heat and with Necessity being the Mother of all Invention, Michelle began dancing on the bar–in the empty bar–as a means to keep warm. She would throw a few dollars in the jukebox and just get up on the bar and dance. Little did she know it would become the trademark theme of Hogs & Heifers and lead to countless celebrities dancing on the bar and donating their bras. The Julia Roberts photo was seen around the world and her bra still hangs there today, albeit hidden beneath some 18,000 bras! Michelle’s famous routine has inspired a Major Motion Picture and a league of copy cat Bars.
Essentially, Allan and Michelle, and their friends, were just a bunch of kids with nothing to lose and they threw a party that they enjoyed. They were fortunate and blessed that so many others would love to come to their party and would do so repeatedly. The two were married in Reno, Nevada, on November 16th, 1993. Allan Dell passed away on June 7, 1997. Hogs & Heifers continues to be run by Michelle Dell who was the sole proprietor of the New York City location. She now lives in Las Vegas, close to her favorite saloon!
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