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| - I remember coming to the Buffet at the Bellagio several years ago for Sunday Champagne Brunch and being blown away. It was one of the best brunches I had ever eaten. Alas, my most recent trip did not make nearly as stellar an impression. I brought my mother here for her birthday dinner last month, wanting to share with her the wondrous buffet I remembered.
Well, we got off to a bad start. My son fell asleep in the car on the way over (he's five and had been in the pool all day) and I carried him into the restaurant. At the register, I discovered that there was no children's price and that I would be paying more than $30 to enter with my sleeping child. Because it was mom's birthday, I went with it, but I was annoyed. No child is going to eat $30 worth of buffet food. They want the pizza and dessert and not much else. Of course he didn't want to wake up at all and refused to eat much of anything, so I paid for him to sit there and be cranky. My bad.
As for the adult meals, the food was fine. I had prime rib, which was only OK, but the mashed potatoes were awesome. My mother had the crab legs which she loved. We must have sampled every dessert they served and each one was better than the last. The waitress was kind of lazy and had to be waved down to refill our water.
Really the food was pretty good, so maybe it is just my son's behavior that's coloring my opinion on our meal, but I just can't help but feel like we over paid. There was nothing remarkable offered. The service was iffy, the food was unexceptional. Well, dessert was pretty great, but I don't need to pay almost $100 for my family to eat dessert. I'm just not feeling the love for this place this time.
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