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| - I'm giving the Buffet of Buffets a 3.75-- we'll say 3 points from my wallet's POV and .75 from the taste buds.
I've been trekking from LA to Vegas about once a month since Jan for work... and doing Vegas on a shoe-string budget in an attempt to make a profit still broke my bankroll.
Enter Buffet of Buffets. For 44.99-- w/ Total Rewards card, which is free to sign-up for-- plus tax per person, that's a whole lotta value PROVIDED you eat at least three meals. The boyfriend and I ate four meals at the three highest-rated buffets (for sake of convenience, the buffets located at):
Planet Hollywood
Rio
Paris
PH
We visited each of those buffets in that order, eating twice at PH... not because it was THAT great, but for sake of convenience and timing. Maybe it was reading all of the great reviews about PH that upped my expectations and I'm willing to concede that it might have been an off-day when we went. You will get full, but cold food? I thought that was steam rising from the carving station and the lasagna. I swear they were using dry ice.
I don't think I've ever reached for the salt and pepper at a buffet as much as I have here. Still, they have plenty of options. My suggestion is that you go for their pre-split crab legs and for dessert.
wait time: 15 min and 25 min (4:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. on a Monday)
service: 3 / 5
variety: 3.5 / 5
taste: 2.75 / 5
visit again: probably not
RIO
Yes, it's HUGE-- there's a lot of ground to cover and I highly recommend that you do a walk-thru of this and any buffet to get an idea of what to put on your plate. That said, I don't know if the layout at Rio proves more beneficial to the customer or to hotel.
Being forced to walk and move to get your second and third (and fourth, etc) plate gives you the opportunity to spare your stomach even a few minutes more before you get yo glutton ON. But I saw a lot of lazy buffet goers and elderly that weren't physically able to traverse the distance of the buffet. :( it made me sad.
As for selection, you can't go wrong. There's something for any picky-palette. The food was warm or hot-- unless meant to be served cold-- and my favorite station was probably the mongolian wok / on-the-spot stir fry. Most of the food was tough or bland. Desserts looked a little dry, but you can't go wrong with a scoop or two of gelato to-go.
wait time: 30 min (1 p.m. on a Tuesday)
service: 2 / 5
variety: 4 / 5
taste: 2 / 5
visit again: no
PARIS
My favorite of the three. If you decide to visit the buffet at Paris, be sure to give yourself an hour of time to wait in line (i.e. if you have show tickets and want to eat dinner beforehand, understand you're going to be waiting and surrounded by cranky people).
Aside from the wait, I found the service here to be the BEST of the three. Ambiance was "cute." Though a smaller buffet with an emphasis on French cuisine-- surprise-- I found the food here to be seasoned and cooked the best. I overheard a woman complain that certain items I enjoyed were too salty.
You can't please 'em all, but my boyfriend and I agree that if we ever do Buffet of Buffets again, Paris will be the only buffet of the three visited that we grub at again.
wait time: 50 min (4:15 p.m. on a Tuesday-- we thought our passes were going to expire while we were in line!)
service: 5 / 5
variety: 3 / 5
taste: 4 / 5
visit again: yes (but only with the Buffet of Buffets pass)
Yes, I recommend the pass, but only if you can squeeze three meals in a 24 hour period. If you're a salad connoisseur, stay away-- I mean, you can find cheaper places to eat leaves at. In all seriousness, though, none of the salad stations at any of the three looked tempting.
My vote goes for Paris, and people will disagree on which of the seven buffets is the "best," but I think we all agree that Imperial has the worst... just... stay away...
Okay! Over and OUT.
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