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| - Holstein's was one of the first restaurants that my husband and I tried in Las Vegas and at the time, I remember being absolutely wow'ed. Unfortunately, after living in the city for a few years and trying a lot of wonderful food that this city has to offer, we returned for a visit and I was less than impressed.
Previously their burgers came sans fries and there were a few different fries that were offered. We tried truffle fries (I think...) and I was excited to try them again when we returned last night! Unfortunately now the fries come on the side of your burger, and they don't offer anything other than regular, sweet potato and onion rings (which are just some lamely pedestrian offerings for a burger place on the strip). I tried the regular fries with my burger and was pretty unimpressed. In my opinion, if you are serving 15$ burgers you better be offering some pretty amazing fries to go with them. Sadly, this was not the case.
I tried the Nom Nom burger and it was really good. The meat was actually cooked the medium rare that I asked for, which I always appreciate. The cheddar was good, the 1000 island was a nice flavor, and the chips were fantastic. I would have much rather preferred a side of the chips (which tasted like they may have been made in house?) rather than the fries that I got with my burger! The burger was huge, while the portion of fries wasn't insane, the size of the burger was! I couldn't even finish half of the burger.
If you check in and order a burger they give you a free 12 oz of their house lager, which wasn't spectacular, but it's always nice to get something free for a yelp check in! It looked like they had a few rotating taps with craft brews, and they had a nice selection of bottled beer to offer! I really liked looking at their hard cider offerings, they even had a few that I hadn't tried before!
The service was very good, and it was incredibly fast. It was almost too fast, we probably could have sat and chatted a bit more. The restaurant wasn't busy at all, though.
The only reason I would be back would be to try one of their boozy shake flavors - they looked very interesting, and I'm bummed that I was too full to try one!
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