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| - Last night, the wife and I were debating what to get for dinner. She always wants Asian food (doesn't dent my hunger in an affordable manner usually) and didn't want Mexican (a staple in my diet). Remembering there was a burger place inside Wildfire Casino, I figured we could stop by there, as I heard good things. We make it to the 42+" TV Screen menu and figure out what we want. Before we were fully decided, the cashier girl came over to greet us in a very perky and genuine way. We ordered, she clarified some questions we had and off we went to find a place to sit.
We walked past the one table there, three guys having a very boisterous conversation about things boisterous guys tend to speak too loudly of in public. Rather than sit too close so they could hear our pre-food/eavesdropping commentary/mocking, we moved off to the side, with no fewer than 6 TVs in view. Each one had something different on, unfortunately though, there were no subtitles, so we had to make up our own lines for the shows.
While looking for a seat and waiting for our food, we noticed that just about every table was dirty and still had the number tag on or under them.
Our food came out and WOW that burger looked and smelled amazing. Did not expect a burger as grandiose to be set before me. The basket of fries and sturdy steak knife filled the rest of the table. Luckily, there were no other people sitting near us, so it was easy to slide to another table and steal their condiments, as the ones on our table were all empty.
It took some time, but the food was consumed, hands and face were messy (Carls Jr would be proud, it was ALL over the place, so it definitely belonged in my face) and my stomach was satisfied.
I enjoy dipping my fries in 1000 Island dressing and their 1000 had a lot in common, flavor-wise, with tartar sauce. Which is also good to dip fries in, just not what I was expecting.
Would have been 5 stars if I was only judging the food quality itself. However, $21 for two burgers and one drink is a little high, in my opinion. It was a high quality burger, competing with Badger Cafe for my favorite build your own burger, burger. Badger still edges them, as my built burger at BC is the base price for a bare burger here.
Also, the disaster that was dirty tables EVERYWHERE was a bit disappointing. However, with only one front of house person and possibly a huge rush before we got there, it wasn't like a hurricane of food was left everywhere, just crumbs, numbers, smears on the tables, etc.
On our way out, we had no less than five people from our table to the door of the casino greet us and wish us a good evening. It was getting a little disconcerting having friendly, courteous staff in Vegas establishments that were not Mom & Pop owned. In a good way, for sure though!
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