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| - I've been here over a dozen times over the years for lunch and dinner, and I just realized I've never put in a review for this place! Probably because I get distracted by the beer over at Triple 7 next door.
Garden Court Buffet is located in the Main Street Station Casino in Downtown LV. I'll go with many Yelpers here and say that this is probably the best Downtown has to offer so far as to buffets. Case in point: Hawaiian food offerings!
I'll start off with what I like the best. Being from Hawaii, I often miss simple Hawaiian dishes. Would it kill buffets out here to cook white Calrose rice properly?? None of this Uncle Ben's long grain, rice pilaf junk. Sticky...white...rice! Buffets out there would make a killing if you just made white rice, sautéed SPAM, scrambled eggs, and laid out a big bottle of furikake. Feed dozens of people with little off your bottom line!
Garden Court Buffet has a little corner section on the far side of the buffet that hides these Hawaiian goodies. It's basic in terms of Hawaiian cuisine, not always made the way locals would make it, but at the very least it's there. On many days at the buffet you'll see:
-Sticky white rice
-Kalua pig and cabbage
-Oxtail stew (mainly at dinner but YES!)
As soon as I pay, I'm off to that little corner of treasured eats! On the days I'm lucky I get treated with oxtail stew. OMG...OMG! One of my favorite comfort eats of all time! You see me, and I'm sucking on the cartilage of a divine oxtail? Leave me alone! I will give you my autograph at some other time. It's not the best oxtail stew I've ever had (that would go to ME) but dang is the one at Garden Court Buffet delicious. Big, pretty meaty pieces of beef oxtail that has been simmering for hours in a stew mixture of carrots, celery, potatoes, tomato sauce, and other spices. It has to be HOURS in order to make the meat of the oxtail fall off the bone tender. A chewy oxtail is not a happy oxtail! I'll be honest, the last time I made oxtail stew it took me a total of TWO (yep..TWO) days to finish the dish. My guess is the oxtail stew over at the buffet is made with the help of a pressure cooker, which will drastically cut down on cooking time (but still deliver tender meat). I will set there the entire time at the buffet with multiple plates of white rice, drenched with their oxtail stew. By the end, my mouth and fingers will be sticky from the beefy tendon juices. Oh, the horror! The succulent, gelatinous horror!
Yes I just wasted an entire paragraph on oxtail stew. But no other buffet in Las Vegas has it right now. Garden Court Buffet does have other sections of course for gluttony:
-Asian
-Mexican
-Italian
-American
-Salad Bar (very meh)
-Dessert
They also do have theme nights like all-you-can-eat prime rib, or seafood, but I really only pay attention to these areas when there is no oxtail stew. And when there is no oxtail stew I'm a grumpy boy! Really, because majority of their other food is just OK. Not bad, but nothing to write to Bon Appetit about. It is average to what you find in your local Station Casinos buffet.
I was so into the oxtail that I totally forgot to take a picture of anything for this review. Sorry! Maybe next time after I wipe the drool off my chin.
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