Summerlin takeout spot Wild Fig BBQ’s reputation is growing

Thu, Nov 14, 2024 (2 a.m.)

Barbecue joints aren’t similar different restaurants. This nutrient is made to beryllium enjoyed unneurotic successful ample groups, perchance astatine location and preferably successful your ain backyard—that’s wherefore “dining rooms” astatine barbecue restaurants consciousness truthful homey.

Those acquainted expectations person allowed Summerlin-area eatery Wild Fig to flourish, adjacent though it’s not a full-service restaurant. It’s chiefly a takeout spot, though there’s a comfy patio with a fewer tables. But portion the paper is stacked with favorites similar beef brisket, pulled pork, spareribs, mac and food and coleslaw, this quiet-but-mighty room besides serves up specialties similar house-cured and smoked pastrami, poblano chili and food sausage, Mexican maize crockery and regular specials that’ll marque your caput spin.

“Tomorrow is burger day, and we’re doing truthful galore briskets now, we person a batch of trim, truthful we grind it up for hamburgers. We bash benignant of a smashburger, Oklahoma-style with grilled onions,” proprietor Steve Cook says. “Another [burger] we bash is fried successful beef tallow. We support expanding the magnitude of burgers, and we support selling out.”

So that’s however a barbecue associated becomes a burger joint, astatine slightest connected definite days. Others, you mightiness find an authentic shepherd’s pie—“That’s a large 1 for Thanksgiving,” Cook says—or an Asian-style crispy pork belly, oregon possibly a brisket melt sandwich with horseradish pick oregon Filipino lumpia.

The specials travel from each implicit due to the fact that Cook has been successful the manufacture for 45 years. He started what became Wild Fig astatine this determination successful 2017, fundamentally operating a commissary room for the nutrient motortruck mentation of beloved section chickenhearted associated Farm Basket. When the utmost vigor of Vegas summertime dampened appetites for fried chicken, helium threw immoderate briskets connected the smoker andcharted a caller course, creating a catering cognition that expanded and volition apt request an existent eating country successful the coming months oregon years.

“We each consciousness it,” Cook says of his team, partners Daniel Schneider and Erica Joyce. “We could amended service a batch much people, and I don’t deliberation we’ll beryllium capable to propulsion that disconnected successful this location. It comes down to wherever we tin enactment it. I’ve got realtors calling maine [with locations] but with our smokers, you person to beryllium cautious wherever you spot this thing. You don’t privation to marque atrocious neighbors.”

Speaking of being neighborly, Wild Fig and its customers person been lending immoderate needed assistance to Cook’s erstwhile neighborhood. Throughout October and apt continuing until Thanksgiving, the concern is donating its profits to victims of Hurricane Helene done the Polk County Community Foundation. Cook lived successful Greenville, South Carolina earlier moving to Las Vegas and regularly bicycled done immoderate of the areas hardest deed by the grounds tempest successful September.

“We’ve had dozens of customers travel successful conscionable to donate,” helium says.

WILD FIG BBQ 9555 Del Webb Blvd., 702-575-9515, wildfigcatering.com. Wednesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

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