One of our team dinners was at Holsteins Shakes and Bun
at the Cosmopolitan, another behemoth hotel-casino next door to the Aria. You
approach Holsteins from a mall and on their floor were other stores and
eateries. One of them was Milk Bar. I’d never gone to a real Milk Bar but I
have their recipe book and I’d tried the corn cookie via their mix from
Williams Sonoma. I was a little early at the meeting spot (and my coworkers
were a little late) so I had time to line up and buy a corn cookie from the
outer Milk Bar stand. I know I’d had them from the mix but I wanted to see how
the real thing tasted straight from a Milk Bar location.
We were about to have dinner and I’d just eaten the AlmondBrioche from Jean Philippe almost 2 hours before so I tucked the corn cookie
away for later (side note: it was good but I think I prefer making it from the Milk Bar mix) and joined the rest of the team for
dinner.
As you can surmise from the name, Holsteins is a burger
place. It was fairly large and we had the back room entirely for our group.
They accommodated us with a price fixe menu that was a subset of their regular
menu. Our event coordinator had ordered the appetizers ahead of time but we
each selected our entrees.
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| Tuna Tartare |
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| Caesar Salad |
I have a love/hate relationship with burger joints. I
love burgers. But since I’m a very plain eater, I hate all the extra stuff that
burger places put on their various burger offerings. Seriously, I’m just all
about the burger, bun, maybe cheese and when I’m really letting my hair down, a
leaf of lettuce. No condiments, no tomato, no onion, no mushrooms, no pickles;
don’t touch my burger with that stuff.
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| Nom Nom Burger |
Holsteins wasn’t exactly a plain burger kind of place so
I settled for the plainest burger I could find, the Nom Nom Burger, but hold the dressing. A normal person who
would order the Nom Nom Burger would get a burger, cheese, potato chips (on the
burger) and dressing. Dressing. Ugh. Why do that to a burger? So I had them
hold the dressing and ended up with, as my coworker sitting next to me
helpfully pointed out, “a cheeseburger with potato chips”. Why, yes. And that’s
fine with me.
I will admit it’s a little odd to bite into a nice, juicy
cheeseburger and crunch into chips under the bun. I’m sure it was Holsteins’
way of not being a typical burger place. There were a lot more exotic
combinations than my cheeseburger-with-chips. But that was fine because it was
a good burger.
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| Vanilla Milkshake |
They made even more excellent milkshakes. I rarely have
milkshakes – I love them but I don’t love the calories so they’re a
sometimes-treat, not an everyday thing. But I’m not in Vegas every day so….
Someone ordered a cookies and cream milkshake and holy cow (bad pun intended),
when Holsteins does a cookies and cream milkshake, they really mean COOKIES and
(ice) cream. The milkshake came with a jumbo-sized ice cream cookie sandwich on
top of the milkshake. My eyes ate it up but I was happy to stick with my
regular milkshake. I was full enough. Overall thumbs up for Holsteins –
friendly atmosphere, good burgers, fabulous milkshakes.
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| Cookies and Cream Milkshake |
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