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| - Breakfast Buffet
Price: $5.00 with Player's Club Card
Rating: ****-with Card ** 1/2-without
Bill, the daughter-in-law's Dad, invited me to this Breakfast Buffet the day after watching the final game of the World Series last week.
Frankly... I hate Buffets... that's with each letter capitalized, with exclamation marks HATE!!!! Why? Long lines. Over-heated or Over-cooked Food. Food that is dried out, that has been sitting for a long time. And even longer lines at desirable food areas. A LOT of waste by people whose Eyes are larger than their Stomachs.
Bill has Breakfast with three other retired Gentlemen at this Buffet. Their tactic, which he recited to me, was to arrive BEFORE 8:30am when not very many people have awaken yet. The right side of the Cashier's station is where Hotel Guests and / or Player's Club members queue up to enter Feast Buffet. At 8:30am... the length of the line was about a third of the left-side of the Station... Ha! Envy from the Left!
BUT, the wait to be assigned a table is longer than the wait to pay for your meal... a person uses finger gestures to signal to waiters at the Left and Right side of the Buffet the number of guests at the front of this next queue.
The most popular area was the Hand-Made Omelet areas... which there were two at either ends of the Buffet area. At 8:30am, the lines were five to seven deep.
I hadn't been to a "real" Buffet in quite awhile... it's interesting to see how a Buffet tactically fights waste by it's patrons... Some in-house prepared items such as Quiche, Bear Claws, and Filled Empanadas are only one-fifth the size of similar items found in the real world. If you like these items... be prepared for numerous trips. The Coffee, which we both wanted, came in a stainless steel thermos which could only hold less than four cups of Coffee in total. If you want more... just ask for another thermos.
Externally provided Pastries such as Donuts, Maple Bars and such were dry, very dry... as though they had been sitting for quite awhile. I don't know when the Feast Buffet opens, but I guess 8:30am is not early enough for these items.
At the end of the meal... it was interesting to do some "people-watching". The majority of people looked like they had a hard night of gambling... with a "Not another Buffet!!"-look on their face. The only people that looked like they were even remotely enthusiastic were kids running around the Buffet. Still... a lot of waste by people at neighboring tables - unfortunately. As for me... my plate was clean!
As we were leaving, after our meal, I could see why Bill recommended that we get here before 8:30am... the general Buffet line snaked close to the entrance of the Casino itself!
There sure are a LOT of "Feast Buffets" in Las Vegas here at Red Rock & Green Valley Ranch AND at the Station Casinos. Have some Casinos out-sourced their Buffet service to a separate entity that only specializes in Buffets? Seems like it...
Bill thought the Breakfast was also Average, at best. But, at Five Bucks (with Player's Club Card), you can't find a better bargain anywhere else. If I had to pay full price... I'd Seriously think of looking somewhere else...
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