On our trip to Vegas a couple months ago, we stayed at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. Saturday evening, not feeling like going out into the hot desert air for food, we decided to stay at Mandalay Bay and look for some good, reasonably priced eats. Yeah, I know, reasonably priced eats at Mandalay Bay, good luck, huh? Well, we didn't find them. We saw Burger Bar in the restaurant list in our room and decided to check it out. Upon arriving, we looked at the menu outside the place and it was a little bit more than we wanted to spend on a late dinner. We left and walked around the shopping area and by the restaurants inside the casino area and confirmed what we already knew, no cheap eats at Mandalay. With no better ideas, we went back to Burger Bar. It was pretty busy, and there was a wait for a table, so we decided to sit at the bar where there was no wait. Burger bar has a pretty wide variety of meats, cheeses, bread and toppings for you to build your own burger. They have a veggie burger, turkey, lamb, Angus beef, Ridgefield Farm beef and Kobe beef. Once you choose your meat and bread, you can add cheese and other toppings as you like (but of course, each topping costs extra). They have the usual topping like bacon, mushrooms, onions, chili and peppers. If you're feeling adventurous (and have some money to burn) you can get some of the more exotic toppings like shrimp ($6.00), lobster ($12.00), foie gras ($12.00) or black truffles (1/3 oz for $30.00). To go along with your burger, they have fat fries, skinny fries, sweet potato fries, zucchini fries or onion rings. Finally, if you don't feel like a burger, they have a marinated chicken breast, a salmon steak or a few different salads. After waivering between the Angus beef burger and the Kobe beef burger, I decided what the hell, I'm in Vegas, I'll go for the Kobe beef. I decided on mozarella cheese, fried egg, mushrooms and jalapeno bacon for my toppings and a side of fat fries to go along with it. Should have been a five star burger, but it wasn't. I would have been way happier with a Fatburger for 1/3 of the price. I haven't had a lot of Kobe beef, and I had high expectations for it, but it seriously let me down. It tasted like angus beef, nothing special. I asked for it medium and it was overcooked too. Kind of crunchy on the outside. The toppings were good, but again, nothing better than what I could have gotten at Fatburger. The fries were good, but that isn't tough to do fries right. Overall, a disappointing over-priced burger. Four stars for the selection, but minus two for the taste and price. The only reason I would come back here next time I'm at Mandalay Bay would be to get a milkshake to go. Sitting at the bar, we were right in front of where the servers made the milkshakes. Whole milk, real ice cream and Hershey's chocolate syrup, the perfect chocolate milkshake!! They also have vanilla, peanut butter, strawberry, and banana. Mmmm...chocolate banana peanut butter milkshake...drool. I sorely regret not getting one. It was, however, enjoyable to watch the cute waitress make them. Darnit, now I have the Milkshake Song in my head...
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negative