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I'm normally not a fan of buffets. Mostly because, while I eat a lot, I don't eat *a lot*, and I always feel like I'm wasting my money because I don't gorge myself at every station.
It's also been a while since I've gone to any buffets in Vegas, so my recollections of the food offered bordered on blah. From what I remembered, you weren't going to have any outstanding culinary experiences, so I preferred to spend my money at sit-down restaurants with fancy menus and, you know...portion sizes.
Of course, our most recent trip out to Vegas turned everything around. We were there with my Vegas-loving, Vegas-knowing cousin, who pretty much planned every meal of every day, with the bulk of our meals happening at various buffets around town.
We came to Le Buffet for our pre-race morning meal, hoping to get our protein and carb fixes while sampling some of the other, non-racer-approved food items.
The wait wasn't terrible, which was a huge bonus. We really didn't want to stand in line for an hour or more a few hours before we were supposed to run 13.1 miles. I'd say we waited about half an hour before we were shown to a table.
The food was impressive - they had a good array of breakfast and lunch items, as well as desserts - and I enjoyed pretty much everything that I got. I only had issues with two food items: the cream cheese that I put on my bagel (with smoked salmon and capers) and the egg dish that I chose. The cream cheese had a strange flavor to it - almost like a "dusty" flavor, for lack of a better term. The egg casserole dish had ham and cheese in it, but was very runny and had a very sweet note to the base that I didn't expect and didn't like.
But everything else was good. I ate way too much, and then went back for more. How I thought that was a good idea, I'll never know.
I'm removing a star for our waitress and for the missing food labels.
Our waitress was terrible. I mean, *terrible*. We each ordered a drink (OJ for my cousin, coffee for my husband and a glass of water for me). She brought back the two cold drinks, and put the pot of coffee on the table, then walked away. Did she have a coffee mug for my husband? No. We kept waiting for her to come back with one, or to just swing by anyway, but she never did. We finally had to poach a coffee cup AND a pot of creamer from the table next to us, since she was basically a no-show.
She never came by to check on us, or to refill my (rapidly emptied) water glass. She DID, however, stop by with another glass of water towards the end of our meal. She totally could have completely changed my opinion of her by saying, "Here's a water refill for you", or something along those lines. Instead, she said, "I have this extra glass of water that nobody wants. Do any of you want it?"
Stellar!
The missing food labels were confusing. The buffet had been open for a few hours by that point, but the labels were either all wrong, or they were missing completely. It's not too big a deal, but when you're trying to figure out if that hunk of meat is beef or pork, a label would be handy.
Still, we enjoyed our meals and left feeling (overly) full. I think it's a good deal, for the amount of food offered and the price you pay. And I'd absolutely go back just for the macaroons alone!
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