Just SMASHing!

I’m Baa-aack! And hungrier than EVER! Hope you are too if you’re in the mood for high quality burger foods. If you are, head over to SMASHburger at the corner of Lake Mead & Buffalo here in Vegas. Now this place has been getting a little bit of hype since opening just a few weeks ago. Most of it was marketing on the radio with a contest for a local band to play their grand opening. (Nice touch, btw.) So I decided to check out the if this place lived up to all the hype as I haven’t found a burger place in Vegas to replace Five Guys in Tampa. Well here’s what I think…

I FOUND A NEW BURGER JOINT! Right now I am in total lust with the food!

I had a 1/3 lb. BBQ, Bacon & cheese burger with haystack onions. Now, I don’t like onions so I swept them off but tasted one and promptly added some back to the burger. Yep, I like the onions! The burger was juicy and full of beef flavor. It wasn’t over-the-top sloppy with the BBQ sauce at all but still had the BBQ taste. The bacon was delicious. Now, it wasn’t the best bacon I’ve ever had but for a burger place it was definitely up there and brought a lot to the burger. The fries were a little heavy on the salt for me but other than that they were not thick but not shoestring (Though they call them shoestring), a nice in-between and cooked perfectly. Crisp outside, nice and soft and warm on the inside. Just delicious!

My lovely lady had the mushroom and swiss burger and had nothing but good things to say about that. (I didn’t try it, mushrooms just aren’t my thing. What she did have that I was diggin’ was the sweet potato SMASHfries. What makes them “SMASH”? Rosemary, olive oil and garlic! Daaay-um! The balance between the sweet potato and the seasoning was just awesome! You gotta try those!

Big B had a scrumptious grilled cheese. We were all trying that one and wanted MORE! Seriously it was THE BEST grilled cheese I’ve had in I-don’t-know-how-long. It was just delicious. It was a good deli-style grilled cheese. Thick bread lightly grilled to a gold-yellow with a nice light flavorful cheese. These are on the kids menu but belong with the big boys. Next time I’m gonna see if I can get their bacon on it.

And bringing up the back-end was Doodle and his Kids Dog. It was a delicious beef dog with a toasted poppy seed bun. So simple but so good. I just wish it was a bit bigger like a good deli dog in Chi-town. (I wish they would wrap this thing in bacon and put cheese on it…mmmmm.) This is for EVERYONE not just for the kids. Outside of just the kids menu, they have the Classic, Chicago & Chili Cheese Dogs and I am really wanting to try them all!

Do yourself a favor, get over there and get SMASHed. You’ll thank me for it.

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