This has got to be the most massively overpriced eatery ever, and remember, I've just been to Las Vegas. 15 bucks for a tiny crab sandwich that's made out of canned crab? 2 extra bucks for really poorly made curly fries? 11 bucks for an appetizer? This is crazy criminal. The sandwiches come standard with 'chips and pickles' - plain chips out of a bag, and somewhat funny-tasting pickles. This is the kind of low quality food I can get in a campus cafeteria; I'm not thrilled about eating it on campus, but at least it's cheap student food. The very idea that it's priced at 12+ dollars per sandwich is pretty much offensive. Their food is outright poorly constructed, and their ice cream is just not that special. Think about it. For 15 bucks, you can buy three
jugs of high quality ice cream and create the biggest sundae this side of God. You do not need Fentons to put it in a tiny dish and then claim they're giving you "huge" scoops.
The place was packed, and it's arranged as you'd expect a creamery to be arranged, and therefore, there's absolutely no sound barriers. My throat is hoarse this morning from having to shout to be heard all night, and singing happy birthday to other patrons no less than 4 times in one hour? I felt like I was working harder than the servers.
Fenton's must be another California dream like In and Out. It's like they've never had real, home made ice cream, and the taste of 'just okay' ice cream just impresses the heck out of them and it develops a wholly undeserved reputation. Look, guys. You can get real ice cream for less than half of that price. You can make your own concoction for less than half of that price. The crowds, the atmosphere, the endless fake birthdays, no amount of ice cream can be worth that. And especially not a $15 dollar ice cream.
