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| - Vegas Pizza Crawl 2016: Being from NY I normally would never bother with "NY style" pizza in Vegas but after giving up on a multi-hour line at Oyster Bar in Palace Station we wanted something relatively fast and cheap, and that devolved into deciding to try ALL the pizza at NY, NY.
Was skeptical about a Nathan's that served pizza as well but it was shockingly not terrible! I've had MUCH worse pizza in Vegas, namely Grimaldi's in the Palazzo, which I had (mistakenly) thought would be fairly safe as it's an institution (though not my favorite) in Brooklyn where people line up around the block in below freezing temps for a pie. In fact, I've (on rare occasion) even experienced worse pizza in the real NY, NY. In fact, even the crust was edible and better than my favorite pizza shops in LA (Mulberry St Pizza - the one in the valley, not the Beverly Hills one - and Abbott's).
I was also missing Nathan's crinkle fries so gave that a whirl too. It's weird that here you can only get no-cheese, chili cheese, or bacon cheese fries instead of just cheese fries. Got the bacon on the side so I could test the authenticity of the cheese fries first, and was pleasantly surprised to find that they're pretty much the same. Good QC on your outposts, there, Nathan's. Was also happy to discover that the cheese fries were just as good with bacon. They gave us 2 condiment cups full of fatty bacon swimming in its own grease, more than enough to cover a serving, and I happily fished the rest of the bacon out of the cups of liquid fat using the weird but signature Nathan's "fry trident" ("fry-dent"?) and polished them off by themselves. I hope Nathan's has added this to their menus in NY/NJ because this was a winner, but I do hope they haven't done away with the traditional ovo-lacto option.
Everything was of course twice as expensive as it would be in NY (it's an expensive city but cheap eats abound).
Now I'm sad I didn't get a hot dog to fully relive my childhood.
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