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| - On the first night of my bachelorette party, my friends and I came back to Holstein's for a dinner of burgers and booze. I repeated some favorites from my first visit - the spicy bloody mary, the fried pickles, The Rising Sun, and the Frozen Grasshopper - and all were as remembered. In fact I'm mostly updating this just to document my bachelorette party in full, so if you want to see a full useful review, please see the original and ignore this post, which is basically for my diary use only.
We came at around seven o'clock and were told they were so backed up they were turning people away. We put our name and number down anyway, expecting to wait at least an hour and a half. I guess a lot of people were discouraged enough to bail, because we were seated after something like forty minutes.
Service was good, polite and moderately quick. A few of my friends and I use FourSquare (sorry, Yelp), and we each got a complimentary Holstein's Spacial (not a typo on my end) Lager. It was tasty, refreshing, and free, and I'm sorry to admit that we were too full to finish them and felt pretty bratty. We did leave a nice tip.
I did try a couple new things this time around, and I'll just note those here. The Fun-Ghi (hey, you know that joke, don't you?) was a great burger with a beef patty, roasted portobello, caramelized onion, truffle oil, gruyere, frisee, and aioli. The mushroom was great, and went really well with the beef. All the other accompaniments took a back seat, letting the two top players have their day. For dessert, we supplemented our Frozen Grasshopper with a Campfire Smores shake - Smirnoff marshmallow vodka, chocolate, marshmallow, and a graham cracker crumble. I mean please I will never stock Smirnoff marshmallow vodka in my home bar, but it worked here. The shake tasted like s'mores, and it was delicious.
My girls got my dinner, for which I am very grateful. Holstein's was fun and full of tasty things, a great start to an epic bachelorette weekend.
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