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| - Okay, so last Friday we decided to try out the Famous Seafood Buffet the Lariat Grill at Carefree Resort and Conference Center puts on the first Friday of every month.
Well. Stick with the Saturday night prime rib special.
Seriously, what a disappointment. First off, cold. The dining room was cold, the food was cold, and the food that was supposed to be cold, like the peeled shrimp and crab legs were literally icy. It was cute how they had the soups sitting on these little stacks of brick with a burner hidden inside, but the heat wasn't getting to the soup.
The Caprese salad was good.
DH doesn't do seafood, so he ordered a filet mignon, medium rare. It arrived so well done the meat was a dark taupe. And it and the baked potato were...cold. Yeah, he sent it back but in the meantime, I am dutifully eating (but not enjoying) the seafood buffet because that cost $33. DH's filet was $36. The server did say DH could go hit the buffet for anything he wanted while they re-fired the filet, but the reason he didn't order the buffet in the first place was because he doesn't like seafood!
It took (I timed it) almost 17 minutes to get the re-fired filet back out. By that time, I had moved on to the desserts. They were okay, tasted better then the fish, but they were all commercially prepared. And all heavy, dense chocolate. I would say the little mousse cakes (sort of like those Philly cheesecake/Nilla wafer things) were the best. A lighter dessert option would have been nice.
We would never, ever go back for the seafood buffet. And frankly, was this our first experience with The Lariat, probably never go back at all! But that prime rib we had a couple of Saturday nights ago was really good. So we'll try the Saturday night special again and see if the quality is maintained. Was it's goodness that night an anomaly---or was the horridness of our experience this past Friday? Enquiring minds want to know....
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