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| - If you see signs "Do not eat the food while self serving" everywhere in the buffet, what do you think of the place?
This place is one of the most expensive buffet in Vegas, $44.99 when I was there Sat night. On the Rio's website, they are promoting an all-seafood buffet. You would think with this price, there are big lobster tails, fresh oysters, abalone salad, big crab legs, 4-5 kind of fishes, etc. Am I expecting too much?
Guess what? Not only this is not an all -seafood buffet, this is one of the worst (if not the worst) buffter in Vegas!
First of all, only less than half of the dishes contain seafood. The seafood they serve is the ordinary cheap stuff: medium size shrimp with shells, medium size crab legs, small clams and mussels. Oysters? dry and ugly. I would not eat them raw.
Thinking about lobster tail? There is none. There are extra small crawfish (small as your thumb), and medium size crawfish tails cooked Chinese style (chopped in half vertically). I am very sure these so called "lobster tails" are crawfish as it is illegal to catch lobster in such small size.
Interestingly, there is no tag on any dish indicating what it is. Does it indicate something?
About 1/6 of the counter space is for Mexican food, actually looked OK, except nobody is there. Another 1/6 is dedicated to Italian with only shrimp as seafood. The Italian station looks so bad that no one is hardly there.
The Chinese station? Oh man, the food looks like from the night before and no seafood there either. Some roast duck/chicken and some pork buns. Looks very dry due to "aging".
Besids cold seafood (clams, mussel and oyster), most cooked seafood are havey breaded shrimp and mussel. Nowhere near the quality from Bellagio's buffet.
The prim rib? Looks extremely low quality and has funny looking color. No one was taking it on Saturday night. I was hoping enough people would take that prim rib so that I can see what the next piece would look like. No luck after an hour.
They did not even have whole chicken or turkey in the carve station. Only fat chicken wings!
The only bright spot is the grilled octopus. They are big and good. The source is also pretty tasty.
The salad station is extremely small, next to the fruit station. The desert station is OK, with home made ice cream.
In summary, this is a buffet which should be priced no more than $20. Their child pricing is only up to 8 yrs old ($25), which is strange also.
My guess is their marketing trick is to lure you in just for once. This is first and last time I am in Rio.
There are really only 3 buffet worthy to try in Vegas on the strip: (1) Bellagio's: cheaper at $36.99 on Sat, extremely high quality food, also very very good coffee; (2) Mandalay Bay's: about $30, quality is consistent, main stream stuff; (3) Wynn's: usually long lines and expensive, but food is in high quality.
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