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I have to that, in a lifetime of eating in buffet restaurants, from cruise ship buffets to hometown smorgasbords, this is the single worst experience I've ever had.
We pulled into Vegas exhausted and hungry after an 8-hour drive, and decided to just do the buffet at Caesar's Palace, where we were staying. We'd heard it was good, and, as we both have dietary restrictions, we thought it would be a pretty good bet. Usually we have no trouble finding enough that we can eat on a good buffet, and we were too tired to plow through restaurant listings to try to find something better that could accommodate us.
Before I go on to the food, I do have to mention the price. Yes, I get that everything in Vegas is expensive, but $116 for a buffet meal for two people that doesn't even include a beer is pretty OTT. I don't like most soft drinks, so that meant water for me (or pay more on top of the already outrageous price for something drinkable). We probably should have backed out at that point, but we were starving and we were on vacation, so...
Still, it would have been OK if the food had been decent, but it was just horrible. In fact, It's difficult to describe just how terrible the food was. The salad greens were dried out and wilted. The salad dressings were completely mixed up, and dressings from one container dribbled into others. This was a serious problem, as my husband has a dangerous seafood allergy and one of the dressings was Caesar. None of the employees seemed to know which dressing was which, or what was in anything. We finally had to ask for a separate bowl of ranch dressing to make sure he didn't get something that had been contaminated with seafood.
On the pizza bar, the only vegetarian choice was plain cheese, and it was bland and tasteless. I've had better pizza from the freezer compartment at Safeway. The rice and beans on the Mexican bar were also dried out and next to tasteless. Even the pita in the Mediterranean section was dry. I have, seriously, had better food in a high school cafeteria.
To make things worse, the steam table in the carvery section was badly in need of cleaning. I couldn't stand to walk past it, the smell was so bad. Really nasty!
Finally, to add insult to injury, the dish of pistachio ice cream I got in the hopes of finding SOMETHING worth eating for that kind of money tasted more like vanilla than pistachio.
Suffice it to say we won't be back. If we want another buffet meal in Vegas we'll walk over to Mirage...it's pricey too (though not this pricey!), but at least the food is edible!
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