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| - As buffets go, not bad. $37 plus tax is pretty steep, but most dishes were well conceived and well prepared, variety was great, and much of the food could have actually stood alone as a dish at a non-buffet. This was a bit of a surprise to me. We ate on a Saturday night, and there was not enough staff to support the crowd, so I did come back to an empty plate more than once, and getting drink refills was impossible, even after asking. It gets knocked down a star just for that.
The braised duck salad was one of the highlights for me, and certainly my favorite salad selection. The "cups" of salads offered near the shellfish counter (I guess people go for the crab legs right off the bat, and can't be bothered to walk to the other end) were ok, but were too tough to eat out of the cup.
The four seviches offered was a nice touch, although the rock shrimp one was nothing special. The squid was nicely done, with strips of squid, cucumber, onion, and tomato all fitting the same form. I opted out of the four soups offered as somewhat standard fare (chicken noodle, clam chowder, red pepper bisque, and a fourth I can't remember), but the "white gazpacho", made from white grapes, parmesan, and some other stuff I could not identify, was one of the best things I ate all night.
The pumpkin gnocchi were of a very nice texture, to my pleasant surprise, and the sauce, while I felt it could use far more sage, was nice. The lamb osso bucco did not seem like it had been braised for long enough, and while the flavor was quite good, the meat was tough and very difficult to remove from the bone.
The item I was most excited about on my first walk through to look at everything was the rack of wild boar. Not so good. I got one chop from the end, which was pretty tough, and one from the middle, which was nicely cooked. The only flavors I picked up were wild boar, salt, and pepper; it would have benefited from a dry rub, marinade, or crust of some sort. The lamb chops were perfectly cooked and seemed better seasoned than the boar, but I would have rather enjoyed better wild game.
The tandoori chicken was well done, and there was nothing special about the fried chicken, but as I was trying to select sections of dark meat from the trays of each, I could not tell for the life of me what cuts I was pulling. They obviously do not butcher their chickens traditionally, and it looked like someone may have just stood at the chopping block waving a couple of cleavers and a bunch of chickens. This made eating around the bones a new and interesting affair, neither good nor bad.
The fish selections did not stand up to the quality of the rest of the buffet. I know it's hard to make fish en masse, but they could have done better. The tuna was actually not cooked totally through (a good thing), but the other three were just hammered.
For $40 a person, I would recommend finding somewhere else to sit down, unless you have your heart set on a buffet. Even for a few bucks more within the Wynn, you could do a lot better.
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