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| - What's more American than a juicy quarter pound burger and a good ol' fashioned milkshake? Add some contemporary culinary sweet and savory delectables into the mix and you got Stripburger.
Located at the Fashion Show Mall, seated right on the Strip (hence its name "Stripburger"), one is immediately welcomed to sit in the covered patio area. Since the whipping winds were not in effect on this particular day, my co-workers/fellow foodies and I gladly took a table on the patio. Although I had studied the menu a few days before our burger lunch date, I still reviewed it thoughtfully once we were seated. I hadn't changed my mind, I still wanted to give that Mexican Burger a day in court and oh, what the hell, the peanut butter and chocolate milkshake. It's Friday after all, I figured, live a little. Then one of my burger buddies piped up and asked, "Do you want to order some fries?" Yeah, I'm living today and then some. We couldn't decide between the sweet potato fries and the garlic herb fries until our very sweet and accommodating server responded that we could get half and half. Let's do this.
While the three of us waited for our food, two of us got our milkshakes. My fellow milkshake mate got a cookies and cream that looked amazing. My shake was deliciously thick, not overly rich or peanut buttery, but just the right amount of both peanut butter and chocolate. Noticeably, neither one of us shared with the other. Perhaps that's a very telling thing: those shakes were just so damn good, who wants to share? Then our food arrived and was picture perfect...kind of like the website photos. The basket of fries was put down in front of me and I just dug into those before I even touched my burger. It was a nice equal amount of both sweet potato and garlic fries. Note: the sweet potato fries are sprinkled with what one of my lovely cohorts referred to as "sugary goodness." I say it was sugar and spice and everything nice about those sweet potatoes. The garlic fries were as amazing topped with fresh pressed garlic and herbs. I finally switched my attention to the main event by cutting into my burger.
Topped with a jalapeno pepper, my burger was beautifully cooked medium rare to my specification. It was filled with cotija cheese, cilantro, pickled red onions, jalapeno, tomato, lettuce and chipotle mayo and not a drop crumbled onto the plate, my lap or tore in half when I bit into it. With most designer burgers or even those double stacked types piled a mile higher than a mouth can actually open, the filling usually bursts out, leaving a smooshed mess in its wake. At the risk of being Goldilocks here, this burger was not too stuffed and not too under-stuffed but just right.
And that sums up my experience at Stripburger. I walked away not too stuffed and definitely not under-stuffed, but just right and completely satisfied. The service was great, the ambience for a Friday afternoon on the Strip was lovely, and the food was excellent. I will be back to try a different burger and a different variety of fries (the atomic cheese fries piques my interest). Perhaps next time, I will try an adult beverage with my burger (hello beer mojito).
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