Richard Rawlings, celebrated hot rodder and owner of the famous Gas Monkey Garage in Dallas, is opening a new Gas Monkey Bar & Grill in Lewisville that will feature a restaurant, bar, and entertainment.
This will be one of two planned new locations for his massive restaurant and live music venue. The first location, Gas Monkey Dallas, is set to open in Dallas in spring 2023 at the Boardwalk at Mercer Crossing, and this second location will be located at 1951 N. Summit Ave., Lewisville, Texas.
The Lewisville venue is planned to be 40,000 square feet and will include not only a restaurant, bar, and live music venue, but also putt putt golf, go cart racing, classic car displays and amusement rides.
Rawlings founded Gas Monkey Garage in 2004, then gained national fame after Fast N' Loud debuted on Discovery Channel in 2012. The show subsequently spawned spinoffs such as Demolition Theater, Misfit Garage, and Garage Rehab.
Rawlings created the first Gas Monkey Bar & Grill, with a companion venue called Gas Monkey Live, in 2013 and both were closed during the pandemic.
In a statement, Refined Hospitality Concepts CEO Robert Hall expressed his enthusiasm about the partnership. "Working with Richard to reinvent Gas Monkey Bar & Grill has been such a great creative exercise," Hall says.
