Fatburger

My company flew us out to Mandalay Bay on the strip in Vegas this weekend! Naomi's parents were super happy to take our 2 month old for the weekend too! We had a good time in all. The hotel room at Mandalay Bay was sweet.  It had an indoor aquarium and resort complete with palm trees and everything. Here's the view out of our window!

We rented a car (we got a Fiat). My wife loves Fiats (probably more than she should). She used to live by a Fiat factory in Italy and would see them all the time. We drove over to the M&M store and mall. After we parked we planned out where we should go for dinner. We settled on Fatburger this diner type burger place a little ways up the strip.
Much like Vegas, it was pretty crowded.

Their menu's a little different in that you only have one burger to choose from. You choose the size, what you want on it and with it. You could have the standard ketchup or BBQ sauce or even steak sauce on it. We got a couple of burgers, some onion rings and their Oreo cookies and cream shake. We were pretty exited with their international footprint in places like Beijing and Calgary so they had to be good! 

As a side note they seemed super helpful and

offered to get us some extra sauce, but it turns out 

that they confused their BBQ sauce with steak sauce ... 

On top of that I asked for some BBQ sauce and they didn't even bring it ...

The food was ... okay. The onion rings had pretty small pieces of onion in them and ended up being mostly batter. I got a large Fatburger and it was pretty good, but the patty fell apart while I was eating it! I understand when you have to worry about stuff falling out of your burger, but you shouldn't hafta worry about the meat and bread falling apart when you eat it. (Side note: their burgers go up to a pound and a half, so if you're really hungry this is the place.) Also, if money is no object then you can order anything; this place was kinda spendy. (But for being on the Strip in Las Vegas it is understandable.)



















So turning our attention to the milkshake.

For presentation, it did pretty well. They asked us if we wanted it with whipped cream. Apparently some people don't like  whipped cream. It came in a fancy-ish cup too so that was pretty cool. For that we gave it a 4 out of 5.

The price was less than satisfactory. It was 5 bucks for a shake, and it wasn't even that big ... I can see this at like a sit down restaurant for a shake in a fancy glass cup, but this shake was nothing to write home about so it scored a 1.5 because after all it is Vegas and everything seems to be crazy expensive ...

Taste was pretty good. As evidenced by it's darker color it was Oreo all the way through. It way pretty good, especially with the whipped cream so we gave it a 4.5.

Texture was alright. It was an interesting shake in the fact that it was intended to be eaten through a straw, but still had some large pieces of Oreo. That was cool, until you realize that the pieces get stuck and make it hard to get any shake ... It got a 2.5 out of 5.

The final score for Fatburger was:

Presentation - 4

Price - 1.5

Taste - 4.5

Texture - 2.5

Overall - 3.125

Check out our full list to see where this shake sits on the list of all the Oreo shakes we've had.