MAJOR TOURIST TRAP ALERT!!!
So yes, for those familiar with Shake Shack you can find many locations within New York and all over the East Coast...us West Coast peeps don't have this CHAIN RESTAURANT. So of course, we want to try it out...
I can appreciate the burger is made with quality ingredients (no hormones in their beef) but as far as flavor and taste of the burger goes, there's much left to be desired! Even with their "Shack Sauce" it was very plain tasting and could have been seasoned a lot better.
I had the signature "Shake Stack" (single patty cheese burger with fried portebello mushrom) and the "Smoke Shack" (bacon cheese burger)...and although both burgers tasted just fine...it was lacking that punch to make me go OMG...very overhyped in my humble opinion!
Price-wise...well I think Shack Shack is popular because you're not gonna find many places that will serve you anything for under $10 on the Las Vegas Strip! The burgers at Shack Shack range from $7-$10 (depending on what kind and how many patties you get). However, the size of the burger was disappointing as I finished the Smoke Shack burger in a couple bites. For the Smoke Shack (single patty), Shack Stack, and an order of fries...I spent $21!! In this case, I rather would pay a lot less to eat at In N Out or pay a couple extra dollars to eat at a sit down restaurant like BURGR at Planet Hollywood or Holstein's in the Cosmo.
As an additional note, the Summerlin (also in Vegas, in the Summerlin neighborhood) location has a lower rating then the Strip location...like I said...TOURIST TRAP!
Shake Shack didn't live up to the hype in my opinion and as a true California kid...I rather have In n Out or Habit Burger if we want to talk chain restaurants!
Final Piece of Dirty Donovan Life Advice - Keep in mind where New York New York Casino is...take an UBER or a CAB because it's a LONG walk from the majority of the casinos on the Strip. Not the business on a hot day!!!