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| - Before you guys question why the hell am I eating buffet at Palace Station, let me preface by saying that I do not like buffets! Those of you who know me know I would not choose to eat buffet. However, when your child tells you that he would really like to have breakfast buffet before we leave Vegas, you try to comply.
So it was 10am and I called around to see which places were still serving breakfast buffet. I wasn't gonna go to the Bellagio because I only eat a few items and it's hardly worth it for me to spend $20-$30 bucks to eat bacon, sausage, peel and eat shrimp and maybe 2 pieces of toast.
I was told that this place was serving brunch and even as we were driving there, I'm hearing 'I had dinner buffet here once when I was wasted and I thought it sucked". Everything in my body should've told me to STOP and not go there, but, we went anyway.
The brunch buffet on weekends is $10.99 for adults and $8.99 for kids between 4 and 10 years of age. If you get their players card it's $2 less, so that's what I did. I went to get the players card and we ended up paying $8.99/adult and $6.99/kid.
I wasn't hopeful at all. In fact, I had such low expectations that I was actually pleasantly surprised! The buffet was clean and laid out spaciously. The place just looked neat and tidy (unlike the Orleans' French Market Buffet which I now have to knock down a star after coming here).
The sausages were very tasty (unlike those at Orleans) and the bacon cooked perfectly. The young man and I started with that. They have an egg station where omelettes and fried eggs are cooked to order. When I ventured further, I was really happy to see that they had peel and eat shrimp as well and they were far better (fresher!) than that at the Orleans. The cocktail sauce here was also a hell lot tastier!
I ended up trying the bratwurst with sauerkraut -- really good even though it didn't look as good as it tasted. I even tried the menudo -- bleh, tasted like water, no flavor at all. I liked that they had both grits and cream of wheat although the grits were too clumpy and thick to my taste.
There was a ham carving station, Mexican food comprising of beans, rice, tortillas, toppings (killer spicy grilled jalapenos), hash browns were nicely cooked -- crunchy on top and soft under. The food was regularly replaced so it didn't have that messed up look about them. That is my biggest issue with buffets, when the trays of food look like they'd been tampered with.
I was highly impressed that they lifted out the trays of food, cleaned out the sides and replaced the trays -- and did this often enough so everything looked really clean.
By the time we were done, they were firing up the grill for hamburgers, which were made to order! Too bad we were too full to try one. They also had desserts and ice cream, but no, I didn't try any of that either.
The weekend brunch also offers you champagne, but I'd be a bit wary drinking champagne at a brunch that costs you less than $10. However, if you're like me and don't really dig the myriad items they lay out at high end buffets, then perhaps, this is the right place for you! I know that next time, I will not raise my nose in the air and look down upon these cheap buffets because this one really exceeded my expectations. But then again, considering the only foods I eat at buffets, maybe it's not really having expectations at all!
For the price, I thought it was pretty damn good! And don't get upset with me for giving them 4 stars. I'm not comparing this place to your high-end buffets! In its own class of buffets, I'd say this is pretty good! Far better than the Orleans buffet lunch which was $7.50 -- but their shrimp wasn't as fresh and their cocktail sauce nowhere near as good as the one at Palace Station!
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