{"id":856275,"date":"2024-03-30T10:42:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T17:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=856275"},"modified":"2024-03-26T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:19:19","slug":"eat-your-heart-out-food-hall-at-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/eat-your-heart-out-food-hall-at-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Your Heart Out Food Hall at Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


We revisited Durango to take a closer look at the Eat Your Heart Out food hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EYHO is, actually, a hybrid space comprising both fast-food counters with common-area seating and sit-down restaurants with fairly expensive menus. The restaurants justify, we suppose, the description of the 25,000-square-foot food hall as \u201celevated,\u201d the latest buzzword indicating fancier and more sophisticated than usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fast food includes Irv\u2019s Burgers, Uncle Paulie\u2019s, Prince Street Pizza, Nielsen\u2019s Frozen Custard, Vesta Coffee (with its own 10-seat counter), and the center bar, Drink. You order and pick up at the counters, like any fast fooderies, then sit in the common area or outside on the patio (it can be windy out there; we almost got blown away both times we visited in March).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sit-down restaurants are Ai Pono Caf\u00e9 for Hawaiian street food, Shang Artisan Noodle, Yu-or-Mi Sushi, and Fiorello Italian (which has a take-out window); the Oyster Bar is at an 18-seat counter (and is open 24\/7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We tried a burger from Irv\u2019s and a sub from Uncle Paulie\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irv\u2019s traces its history back to 1946 when it opened in West Hollywood on Route 66, as Queen\u2019s Burgers, one of the first roadside burger stands in the U.S. It was renamed Irv\u2019s himself when Irv bought it in 1970; it was sold a couple times since then, though the name hasn\u2019t changed, and the chain now has four locations in southern California and this one in Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irv\u2019s serves breakfast starting at 7 (till 11 a.m.) and continues with the burger menu till midnight, 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. The least expensive burger is the Just for You; at $4.50, it\u2019s also the cheapest prepared food you can buy at Durango. Great L.A. reputation notwithstanding, you get what you pay for. It\u2019s a sesame-seed bun, a patty, and a slice of American cheese; that\u2019s it, folks. To us, the best thing about it were the sesame seeds. <\/p>\n\n\n

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To be fair, you\u2019re supposed to build your ultimate burger from the Just for You and the add-ons: lettuce, tomato, pickle, raw or grilled onions, and\/or hot honey mustard (.50 each), egg or hatch chile ($2), chili ($3), bacon ($3.50), even pastrami ($5), along with a choice of sauces (.50 to $4). But we wanted to go as cheaply as we could at upscale Durango. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fries ($4), on the other hand, were the quality of In N Out and the quantity of Five Guys, making them perhaps the only bargain in a joint that proudly proclaims there are no bargains. With tax and tip, we were outta there for a bit more than $10. Next time, we\u2019d probably try the Original Roadside Burger with lettuce, tomato, pickle, and Irv\u2019s sauce for $8. That said, there\u2019s an In N Out only a couple of miles away and we\u2019d go there any day instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uncle Paulie\u2019s is another southern California brand with three outlets and this one at Durango. They call it a \u201cdeli,\u201d but even an Italian deli is a stretch. It\u2019s really a sub shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We got the cold Italian sub with unnamed cold cuts, provolone, roasted red peppers, lettuce, and vinegarn to compare it to the sandwiches at All\u2019Antico right across the street. At $16, it was a buck or two less than All’Antico’s average price and it was a big sub, no arguing there, but that\u2019s where the similarities end. It\u2019s like the difference between Boticelli’s Primavera <\/em>fresco in Florence and a velvet Elvis at the Bonanza gift shop. Why buy generic American at a casino when you can get celebrated Italian with just an eight-minute walk across Durango?<\/p>\n\n\n

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We didn\u2019t try any Prince Street Pizza; frankly, it didn\u2019t look like anything special. If we find ourselves at Durango sometime in the future, we\u2019ll sample some Nielsen\u2019s Frozen Custard, but don\u2019t hold your breath for a review.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We revisited Durango to take a closer look at the Eat Your Heart Out food hall. EYHO is, actually, a hybrid space comprising both fast-food counters with common-area seating and sit-down restaurants with fairly expensive menus. The restaurants justify, we suppose, the description of the 25,000-square-foot food hall as \u201celevated,\u201d the latest buzzword indicating fancier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":856288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1446,1453],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/eat-your-heart-out-food-hall-at-durango.jpg?fit=660%2C721&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}