Distill – A Local Bar

This Distill location is great. It’s large with a big area for dining. The bar area is very nice. There’s also a great patio too. It sort of all has an old Spanish feel to it. It’s very open and airy and not nearly has dark as other bars. The bartenders were friendly and attentive. Have I said «great» enough yet? It’s great. Come on in here for a drink and a bite to eat.

The atmosphere is really chill, lots of tvs to watch the games and the patio is really nice for brunch on a Sunday. The breakfast burrito is yummy and the service is awesome.

First time impression was decent. Table shared a couple of appetizers which tasted amazing. Wait staff was very knowledgeable about beers/​spirits so way to go on the training.
Only con was sitting outside service is a little slower but the inside bar was very busy. Will try it again because I’m eager to try more from their menu.

This is a place to chill, lounge and just be yourself. Like the saying says, There are no stragers here only friends you haven’t met. Love their string calamari and of course Moscow Mule gotta have. Servers and Service are awesome!

This is right down the street from my house. I love the fact that they serve breakfast. When we get up a bit hangovery this is where we drag ourselves to for some breakfast.
We’ve also been here for… of all things… Christmas dinner. Great deals on their holiday meals. (hey that rhymed!)
We go here for happy hour with friends all the time as well. Their food is tasty, their drinks are good and I really love the décor.
They have an amazing patio off the bar as well.

Nice bar… Bartender was very friendly and offered some samples of new beers. Actually found a beer I have never tried and liked it!
Ordered the Ahi street tacos. very very good.
The bar has several sitting areas for whatever mood your in.
Will be back.

Came here on a whim one night with some friends. The place looked so nice, inside and out. Very spacious inside, and lots of seating. We came around midnight, and seated ourselves in kind of a dead area, so I was concerned that we might be overlooked, or that the server would take a while to get to us, but she was very attentive the whole time. Good pub food. Good portions. They’re open ²⁴⁄₇ too.
Food:
Avocado Eggrolls — Not what we expected. The eggrolls were stuffed with a mushy guacamole, rather than avocado slices or chunks. It wasn’t very enjoyable biting into a crunchy wrapper and having the filling squish into your mouth. Taste was meh, but the ginger dipping sauce was tasty. Wouldn’t order this again.
Biscuits and Gravy — Standard, nothing special. Not great, not horrible. The sausage in the gravy was a nice touch. $ 3 price point doesn’t hurt either.
Potato Nachos — Tasty. Exactly what it sounds like, slices of potato, fried, and topped with the normal nacho ingredients.
Calamari Straws with a Mango Curry Emulsion and Sriracha –My favorite of the bunch. The calamari was soft, and the sauce was interesting; just savory enough and just sweet enough for me. Ask for more on the side, because the drizzle on the plate isn’t really enough.
Bread Pudding — Ok, but not great. Nice and buttery, but too dense.
Overall a good experience, I’d come back some time for the calamari and to try out some other items.

Went here for a quick happy hour after a hike at Red Rock (I know, the irony) and the place is super cute compared to the one on Southern Highlands in my opinion.
I was kind of bummed that they don’t offer buffalo chicken sliders in their HH menu; so instead we ordered Greek fries, chicken lettuce wraps, short rib tacos and chips & salsa. Out of the 4, Greek fries was probably the best. Chicken lettuce wraps was too salty for me and the short ribs tacos was okay — nothing special.
Service was great and our server was attentive. I give it 4 stars since the food wasn’t all that.

This bar is great. There aren’t many local bars in summerlin and my husband and I wanted to check this place out. Ever since our first visit, we are constant visitors. All the bartenders are nice and personable and pour amazing drinks! The food isn’t too shabby either. A lot of their menu items are very good and you can run into some menu items you normally don’t see at a local bar. I enjoy their Cajun chicken wrap or the southwestern chicken salad. On their happy hour menu, the filet mignon sliders are great as well.
It does get really busy and crowded on the weekends and if you’re not sitting at the bar, sometimes the service lacks which is why I rate this place a 4 instead of 5. There has been times where we’ve taken a seat and no one has came by and we would have to get the attention of some of the servers just to get started. My advice, sit at the bar. You’ll get great service there regardless when you go.

My husband and I were on our way to BJs when we saw Distill. The outside ambiance was amazing, so cute and lights so cute… Pulled us in.
We decided to try it out. Walked in, no one greeted us so I had to hunt down a server and ask if it was «seat yourself» … It was. After we sat ourself we waited for almost 10 mins before our server showed up with water. We knew what we wanted so we placed our order. The service was slow. The food was sub par. The margarita tasted like straight mix. The water was tap so we had to ask for bottle. Nothing about this place would have us coming back… We were better off going to BJs where the food and the service are great!

Simply put: Fun ambiance, always a good crowd, pool tables, games and large adult Jenga game with funny dares. Only downfall is, their cocktails aren’t good at all. First time I came I tried the mule on the specialty cocktail menu, it was terrible. Tried a regular mule and was still a disappointment. Decided to come back and give them another shot, A friend and I tried every drink on the specialty cocktail list and a margarita. None good at all. What’s a bar without good drinks? If you’re a beer drinker or just want to come and play pool, definitely worth checking out.

I love this place. The bartenders are funny, the food is great, and the patio is beautiful to hang out on in the summertime.
Huge selection of alcohol.
Don’t gamble though. The machines refuse to give me money.
The bathrooms could use more attention too :/

Went after work with a few co-​workers on a Tuesday. I frequent the Summerlin area yet had never noticed this gem. I even have been to BJ’s several times and it’s located 100 yards away.
I’ve traveled to Europe a bunch and this place definitely has that local, European bar feel. It’s dark, antique, and friendly. Justin was our server (we sat at the bar) and he was awesome. Kept our drinks on full, and gave top notch service.
I went with the bread pudding. It was a ¹⁰⁄₁₀ and I am quite the bread pudding connoisseur. Large portion that by most accounts would serve 2 people but in my case I could have eaten 2. It even comes with 2 spoons.
Bread pudding was moist and served warm. It has pecans throughout so it had the perfect combination of sweet and savory. Comes with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top and some whipped cream on top of that.
I’ll definitely go back. I can’t yet attest to whether it’s a good spot to take the wife for dinner but it’s absolutely a great place to hang out with the fellas.
I’ll be back and you should check it out too!

On my bike ride last Sunday, I stopped at Distill for breakfast based on recommendations from friends. There was a place to lock the bike outside the front door and it was safe out of view from the plaza’s streets.
I’ve been here when it was a Mexican restaurant and the decorations have changed. There’s a lot of whiskey barrel type furniture with leather/​vinyl coverings. There are also a lot of decorative signs with funny sayings. The room is quite dark until your eyes get adjusted.
There are a couple of spaces at the bar that have no video poked machines built in and I chose one of these paces. Lelaine was the bar hop and she was there with my coffee quickly and a menu. I ordered the Distill breakfast sandwich with sausage, eggs over easy, jack cheese, and English muffin. You can get the sandwich with other cheeses, eggs cooked the way you want, biscuits or bread, and bacon or ham. There are lots of choices.
The sandwich was brought with a nice helping of hash browns and my coffee was refilled. The sandwich was a nice break from the normal omelette I get when I have breakfast out.
I enjoyed my stop here and I’ll try it in the evening to have on of their burgers. Good service and good food.

I give the server Jessica 5 stars. She is on fleek. Which to those of you not hip to lingo… on point.
Ambiance and décor another 5 stars. It’s like medieval modern with a Moroccan twist. I want to decorate my house like this.
Food. NEGATIVE 8 STARS. Barfaroni. Let’s see here my dude has a big appetite so we decided to order almost everything on the happy hour menu. Words of advice: Steer clear.
Bruschetta: it has onions in it. Who does that? On warmish soggy-​ish bread. No mozzarella either, just some shredded Parmesan. Thumbs down.
Potato soup: okay if you like to eat things the approximate temperature of lava.
Buffalo chicken sliders: edible but unspecial. They do come with fries which are delicious. Think McDonald’s fries, only thicker.
Chili cheese fries. Same great fries ruined by something claiming to be chili. Topped with cheese and lightly microwaved. (I am starting to think I should write descriptions on menus!)
Fried artichokes: if despair had a taste it would be this. Here is the recipe: go to the dollar store. Buy canned artichokes. Drain. Flop in flour. Deep fry them. Serve with a side of ranch dressing. Call it a happy hour appetizer.
Cheeseburger sliders. Hope you like pepper. We asked Jessica if the burgers were seasoned. She said just with salt and pepper. Okay… if you have to season your burgers so much that I think I am eating pepper on a bun you are serving sub par meat. They were so dry that my dude actually injured himself while eating it. ‘Tis true. He cut the roof of his mouth on the meat portion.
Because we hadn’t gotten enough bad food… I mean it’s probably better than prison food. Neither of us has been to prison so if prison food is better I sincerely apologize. Anyway we decided to throw caution to the culinary winds and get dessert.
Dessert. Pretty darn good. We shared the brownie sundae. We would recommend more chocolate and caramel sauce. My dude doesn’t like nuts and it’s rare to find a brownie in a restaurant without nuts. NO NUTS! brownie nice and warm, tasted homemade.
Drinks. The best part of our meal! Jessica kept them flowing. This place does Pepsi and Diet Pepsi right! Nice carmel coloring. Good effervescence.
If you are looking for a place with good service and the best part of your meal is going to be your soda and you don’t give a flying donkey about the food then this is your place! If you want to spend $ 37.00 on food then I STRONGLY recommend skipping this place!
I might come here in warm weather to drink outside if I am not hungry because the outside patio just looks amazing! But I would rather starve than eat here. I could not in good conscious recommend this establishment to anyone I wanted to keep as a friend.

We wanted to check out the hype on this Cure Burger, so that’s one of the items we ordered…
I ALWAYS order my steaks/​burgers medium rare, but this was a time where I couldn’t because it wasn’t an all beef patty, the cure burger is a mix of beef and pork, so we ordered it medium. We also ordered Their steak sandwich (forgot the name) and split both. I think it was kinda like a French Dip.
Our Server was great, offering suggestions and answering questions we had about anything on the menu. Our orders came out rather quickly and dug right in. The steak sandwich was very tasty, meat was well seasoned and the roll was nicely toasted. The Cure Burger was love at first bite, and is as good as everyone raves about! A bit messy in a good way, and the Jalapeño Jam gives it a nice kick. We enjoyed every bite.
I don’t know about you, but after having something savory, I crave something sweet, so we took a look at the dessert menu. Their Bread Pudding sounded good, so we went with that.
When our server brought it to our table, our initial reaction was WTF??? This BEAST could seriously feed 4 – 6 people and pretty much covered the entire plate almost! The gooey nut topping part was good, but the custard part needed a little more love. After a couple of stabs, we were done.
Great visit, and a good spot for late night drinks and bites, but the kids aren’t allowed… ALOHA!!!
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LOUD! TOO LOUD! My guy and I came here with another couple because our friends have been wanting to check out this «local bar». The music was so loud, that we had to speak in raised voices the entire time we were there and STILL could barely hear each other. Clearly, everyone else in the place had a hard time hearing each other as well. Most of the people were leaning in to talk/​yell to/​at each other. All those people yelling over the unnecessarily loud music just makes the entire bar/​restaurant even noisier.
We sat at a nice four top, which was clean and were greeted very quickly. Our poor waitress was very sweet and smiled a lot as she yelled «HI CAN I START YOU OFF WITH A DRINK!!!» I had the «Mad Mule», a specialty house cocktail. (Citron vodka, mixed with «fresh lime juice», simple syrup, orange bitters, and ginger beer.) With this kind of ingredient list this cocktail should be awesome, but it was just ok. I will have to try something else if we ever go back.
Distill has a big variety of sliders to try, but we went with something simple. The «Bacon Cheese Burger sliders». Sadly, not much to write about, they were just average.
The best thing we had all night were the «Mashed Potato Bites». They take mashed potatoes and mix them with cheddar, pepper jack and parmesan cheeses then add a «blend of spices». They roll them into bite sized balls, then bread crumbs and fry them. I recommend trying those if you eat here.
I’m giving our server 5 stars as she somehow got our order completely correct over all the noise. She was attentive, smiling, easily split the check for us between two cards AND said «I HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN!!» Maybe… maybe not.

Went for the 1^st Anniversary red carpet party. They did indeed have a red carpet out front, and another in front of the photo backdrop inside.
How Summerlin is that! We did enjoy the photo shoot, as we dressed for the theme, although not many other people did.
Also a free buffet which was pretty decent. The salmon, rice and grilled veggies on the buffet were good. They had a raffle, and my friend won a basket with wine & other kitchen accoutrements. We liked the $ 5 drink specials, and I also finally redeemed the Unilocal check-​in offer of a free whiskey (cinnamon) shot!
I still miss the previous décor that Agave had, it’s just too dark inside now. The patio is still nice, though more subdued. We sat outside briefly, and the fireplaces kept us warm.
I think one year is longer than the previous tenant, Dos Caminos, lasted here.

I went here specifically to try the «Cure» burger. I saw some legit reviews, and also was on the hunt for the best burger in Las Vegas.
Cure burger — 2 star.
I was unfortunately disappointed. The burger tasted as though it was missing something. I found the meat patty itself to lack flavor, the other additions in the burger fell a bit short. There was some sweetness to it, but it was needing either a tad bit more, or some contrasting flavor to bring it out, which I didn’t experience.
The only assumption I can make is that, it was a busy night with a major game, and happy hour time. I don’t know if it was cooked differently than if I had come at a less busy time. I hate writing this review, since I was looking forward to this burger.
Chipotle Chicken Nachos– 3 star. Average nachos. The chips though, were delicious, and I’d probably come back and get the chips and dip or the chips and salsa as the salsa was VERY fresh and delicious.
I do want to note that I LOVE the interior design of this place. The outside patio is gorgeous, and if the weather isn’t too hot or too cold, it’d be such a great place to sit and dine with friends. Inside, there was an area where there was a huge couch, and a tv right in front, almost as though you are watching a game from home. So brilliant! Service was a 5 star.
For some drinks and game days, this place is ideal.

Thrillist ranked Distill’s Cure burger among the top 15 in the nation for 2014, describing it as «a combo of beef AND pork, [that hits] so many flavor notes with Fontina, spicy-​sweet jalapeño jelly, a hot mayo, and crisp-​fried parsnips layered on with a heavy hand.»
That burger completely fulfilled my burger desires and then some. It amazes me that this bar and this particular burger are not more popular, as it is a fantastic amalgamation of all the best flavors a burger should have: savory, cheesy, just a bit of spice. It’s stuffed and juicy without falling apart, and every ingredient successfully harmonizes with the others. It’s a hefty patty, and when assembled with all the fixings it’s so tall it’s difficult to bite into, and you will make a mess. But it will be worth it, because this is a damn good burger. And a unique one, at that!
I am going to make a bold statement and declare this THE best burger in Las Vegas… for now. It’s a competitive city for this title, but the Cure comes out on top.
Excuse the god-​awful blurry photos, my haste to devour this amazing meal apparently affected my picture-​taking abilities. You’ll have to see (and taste!) it for yourself.
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