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| - I'm sorta embarrassed that I've eaten at this crappy buffet so many times, and I feel like I need to explain myself. Look, the Rampart sends us free coupons every single month. Yes, completely 100% FREE buffet coupons. I'm a Vegas local and eat at buffets weekly, and who am I to turn down a free meal?
Admittedly, this buffet is one of the worst in town. The food is just pure crap and mostly fried, breaded or overly carby stuff. Be prepared for fried shrimp, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, french fries, baked potatoes, egg rolls, more potatoes....you get my drift. If you are lucky they'll have a tray with pre-mixed peas and carrots or steamed broccoli. Obviously an afterthought but at least there are SOME veggies. Most of the food is soft, mushy, easy to chew and mildly seasoned to appease the palates of their senior citizen customer base. This place was heavenly after I had my root canal because I could eat just about everything at the buffet and not hurt my recovering tooth.
That being said, the buffet does have a decent salad bar with good dressings and a good assortment of fresh fixings (including fresh crumbled bacon). When we get a free coupon, we usually go and drink soda, eat prime rib and have the salad bar. For how cheap this place is anyway, it's a pretty decent value even if you only eat the salad bar (soda, tea, coffee, juice, milk, etc. is included in the price). You can't get a decent prime rib dinner, including a drink, salad and dessert, for less than $10 anywhere else.
The New York Deli Night (every Thursday) has much higher quality food, but it's way too expensive ($19 per person). On regular nights you can find crappy Chinese food, Italian food, American food and a dessert station. Sometimes they'll have fresh strawberries at the dessert bar which is a big plus. They also have huge New York style pickles at the salad bar and they are always good. There's not a big difference between the lunch and dinner buffets.
The weird thing about this buffet is that 95% of the time the food is just awful but there's a rare 5% of the time when the food is really super good. It's a strange phenomenon for sure but it does happen. Sometimes the prime rib is INCREDIBLY delicious (I'd say every 2 out of 5 visits the prime rib is crazy good; they obviously know how to cook prime rib). One night they had really delicious freshly made shrimp scampi with huge shrimp. This has only happened ONE TIME, though. It's just very hit or miss. The pizza is sometimes okay and other times inedible.
If you want to fill up on mediocre lunch room school cafeteria food and your standards aren't too high, go here. If you just want a cheap meal with a salad bar and soda, go here. If you are looking for one of Vegas' best buffets, avoid this place.
And yeah, all the comments about the old people "regulars" is right on! This place looks like a retirement home cafeteria. I love old people and I'm not an ageist at all but watch out, they will knock you over with their walkers and canes if they think you are trying to cut in front of them in the fried shrimp line! You have been warned!
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