12/06/2009

BLT Burger – Mirage Hotel


BLT Burger - Vegas
The Mirage hotel is full of many gambling games. Many fine eating establishments as well. BLT Burger is tucked away down one of the many hallways at the Mirage. On a whim, I decided to try it. Since this was a small restaurant, the seating was cramped. The hostess squeezed us in the middle of the floor. A few minutes later our waitress happened by and asked us what we wanted. I hope I wasn't interfering with her busy day. (She acted like I was)

I think It Was Fried Cheese
For my appetizer, I ordered fried cheese sticks and marinara sauce. Dammit, I thought I was in Mel's Diner and Flo was my waitress. After about ten minutes, she sort of tossed my plate on the table and moved on. Flo can "Kiss my grits!"

To top it off, half of the fried cheese sticks were hollow, I mean empty baby. Pretty much fried batter. Three sticks were like this. The others were adequate tasting, a little to greasy.
This Is Famous???
The way the night was progressing, I wasn't holding out for the entree. Being in BLT Burger, I thought it safe ordering a bacon cheeseburger and waffle fries. I would be wrong. Flo returned with my entree, but alas, it was not a cheeseburger, but some sort of chicken. I think it was chicken anyway. I sent it back to the disgust of Flo.

Ten minutes later my cheeseburger arrived along with burnt waffle fries. As you can see, the fries came in a fancy cup, and the bacon cheeseburger was nothing to write about. (Except in a bad way)

The price for this 7 ounce burger was $14 bucks. The waffle fries were $5 dollars.  The hollow cheese sticks were 8 bucks, and the Coke was $4 dollars. That's right folks, $31 dollars for this meal. Top off the shitty ass service from Flo the waitress tops off the evening.

Let's compare. A McDonalds double cheeseburger is $1 dollar. A large fry is $1.49. A Coke is $1 dollar. That's $3.49 for the same at BLT Burger. And you get curtesy at McDonalds as they ask you to please pull around to the second window.

The Grassy Knoll Diner scores 1 out of 5 shots and DOES NOT recommend BLT Burger in the Mirage for dinner.


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Responses to “BLT Burger – Mirage Hotel”


  1. No Way said

    December 6, 2009 at 6:05 pm e
    I was there last year and what do you expect, its a burger place. Did you expect filet mignon or something? Geez, its burgers.
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    • LOTGK said

      December 7, 2009 at 8:50 am e
      If you read my critique, you would understand i wasn’t looking for Filet Mignon. However, I was expecting courtesy and the correct order brought to my table. I don’t think that is asking to much.
      Reply

  2. Gumby said

    December 7, 2009 at 9:27 am e
    Welcome to good burger, home of the good burger, may I take your order!
    Reply

  3. Moominboy said

    December 7, 2009 at 4:26 pm e
    Meh, that’s a shame.
    Oh! I’m gonna post a picture of those swedish MAX burgers I was blabbering about. It’s a swedish burger chain that makes delicious stuff and they are actually buying out McD’s in Sweden.
    Reply

    • LOTGK said

      December 8, 2009 at 10:14 pm e
      Patiently waiting Luke, patiently waiting.
      Reply

      • Moominboy said

        December 15, 2009 at 5:19 pm e
        Alright! Here it is!
        http://yfrog.com/1fphoto2ijj
        This is not a regular MAX burger and fries. I went for something called Hot Meal, which is a burger with jalapenos and fries with bacon, melted cheese and jalapenos. The size is smaller than in U.S. but normal for Europe. What separates MAX from other chains is that they serve free coffee with a menu. The cost was 78 SEK which is $10.80 but this is meaningless because of the dollar exchange rate. Instead we can compare it to a Big Mac menu that costs 68 SEK or a can of Coke that costs 10 SEK. But it was delicious :) The burger was smaller than their regular ones but very tasty.
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        • LOTGK said

          December 15, 2009 at 9:43 pm e
          I have had french fries, french fries with cheese, french fries with cheese and bacon, but not with jalapenos on them. Were they sliced or whole peppers?
          The burger looks standard fare and size for McDonalds and Burger King type food places. Not a bad price for the meal.
          Example, a Whopper burger king is $4 dollars, large fry is $2 dollars, large drink $2 dollars. I would guess it was $1 dollar for the add ons, the cheese and bacon for a total of $9 dollars.
          Thanks for posting the picture and critique.
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  4. Valdunagan said

    December 8, 2009 at 2:09 pm e
    Doesn’t look appealing. In N Out burger looks better.
    Reply

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    December 8, 2009 at 10:08 pm e
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  6. Steve said

    December 12, 2009 at 10:09 am e
    This is a problem in so many places nowadays, whatever happend to the polite service and striving for a decent product of the burger establishments of my youth – I’ve paid similiar in a few places for what I thought was going to be a decent burger eating experience and got bad food, over salted/burned fries and shitty attitudes from the serving drones, If i wanted that I’d stay at home lol
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    • LOTGK said

      December 15, 2009 at 9:13 am e
      That was my thought. I know I was in a burger joint, but a little niceness goes a long way. I can accept that the food was bad, but when the service is also lousy, well….
      Reply

  7. Russ Mcglasson said

    January 3, 2010 at 4:14 am e
    I like blogs like this one, I am sure you put an effort on it to keep it up.
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