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| - Basically, the Rio Buffet has two entrances. One is specifically for just their main buffet, the Carnival Buffet, and the other is their Seafood Buffet.
We went to try the Seafood Buffet after hearing so many people rave about their selections! You enter a separate entrance and once you enter, your arm is stamped with an invisible ink. Every time you try to enter the seafood line, an attendant will be checking your arm to see if you've been stamped. You're also seated in a separate section of the dining area, which is closer to all the seafood. They also place a bucket for your table for convenient shell disposal.
With the seafood buffet, you also have access to the rest of the buffet lines. But if you're splurging for the seafood buffet, you're probably just going to spend most of your time focusing on the seafood.
At first glance, it's pretty great. I almost thought this place was better than Bacchanal over at the Caesars when basing it solely on seafood options. They had baby lobsters, snow crab, king crab, variety of shrimp and fish, scallops, and many more. They even had sashimi! (O m g blocks of salmon aka heaven)
But it wasn't that great after all?? The raw seafood tasted fine but all their hot food was pretty low in quality. It had a weird taste and some of them have obviously just been left sitting under the hot lamp for too long. We gave them the benefit of the doubt and enjoyed our meal JUST for our whole party to be faced with hella stomach issues later that evening. Maybe it was the seafood? Maybe it was the hot food? But nope. Never again. For that price, I'm going back to Bacchanal.
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