I like dinner theatre; you can enjoy a leisurely meal and watch a show at the same time. Recently I took in Avenue Q at Stagewest. The show was great, the characters were well cast. The food at Stagewest is served buffet style and at best average.
You have the requisite peel and eat shrimp station, a sushi station, and 2 stations of hot food serving the same dishes and prime rib station, a salad station and cheese and dessert station. The food at Stagewest would be average. There was really nothing great about it. The peel and eat Shrimp were my favourite as the shrimp were larger than most places. The sushi looked good but there was nothing out of the ordinary served. The prime rib was overcooked and tough. The hot dishes were mostly over salted. Desserts were a good selection of cakes, fruit and they had hot desserts like crepes filled with banana and topped with whipped cream. The beauty of buffet is that you can usually find something that you think is good and you can stick with it.
The service is excellent and efficient. The dessert buffet remains open till the end of intermission so you can pace yourself and enjoy your entrees with a break before heading out to get dessert.
The overall event was enjoyable but I would definitely not go to Stagewest just for the food. The food is not as good as it was when Stagewest first opened its doors many years ago. We went on a special groupon deal and paid $70 and it was definitely worth that.