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| - You should let the hype wear off a bit. It's so popular right now they packed the place to the brim with tables. It's hard to get around and tell where the food is. The plates come in two sizes: small and less small. Many dishes are on single serving dishes. Three fit on a plate. So I transferred my food over to my plate leaving behind the dish. I felt like a jerk leaving a stack of tiny dishes behind, but it's so hard to get through all the tables to my table that I wanted to minimize the amount of times I walked back and forth. The major con of this is my food got cold. My food got cold because the buffet is so busy that you have to wait at each station. It is true that many items were indeed mislabeled or not labeled at all. But the food was great! And the people that work there, despite being pushed to the limits of being busy, provided excellent customer service.
Now on to the food.
Must have:
Both varieties of Mac & Cheese- it's sinful, oily, rich. One with crispy cheese on top. The other with crunchy bread crumbs.
Prime Rib with the Sauce- the meat was red and juicy. Make sure you eat the fat. Beware, I had to wait many minutes to get to this station.
Sliders- cooked to medium, oozing cheese. Looks like some were not as good as others though so choose wisely.
All the Dim Sum- I could eat a million sesame balls.
Flavored Honeys- Get a piece of bread (it's everywhere) and dip. The vanilla honey was the bees knees.
Overhyped:
Crab Legs- They are cut in half and still frozen. I don't know if it's just me, but every time I have them cut in half they taste way too salty. Try to find the claw pieces. At least they are sweet.
Shrimp and Grits- The grits seemed undercooked and flavorless. The flavor combo is more impressive on paper.
But the thing that really made my experience was the DESSERT section. No other place can compare. I should have eaten dessert all night. PHENOMENAL. It's far better in terms of variety AND quality than Studio B.
Macaroons in many flavors. Perfect, the way the outside caves in to a chewy mild flavor. I ate 3.
Gelato flavor like no one else. I had one scoop each of 3 flavors because it was offered to me (what a nice guy). The butter caramel is rich, but didn't compare to my other two flavors. Balsamic and Fig had chunks of sticky fig, harmonious. The best was the Aztec Chocolate. Spicy, chocolate, complex flavor that pleasantly lingers on the tongue.
Soufflé made fresh. It was still rising when she handed it me. You have to find the sign on top the bar and ask for it. I thank the kind stranger who guided me to it. The soufflé was hot and gooey inside with a subtle banana flavor.
Real marshmallows! Totally not obnoxious. They were light and sugary. I had a single pink one.
Some tiny cone filled with chocolate pudding? On a stick. Whoa, dunno what it was, but delicious. It tasted like they snuck a tiny bit of salt in it.
Three varieties of Crème Brulee: vanilla, chocolate, and hazelnut. I chose hazelnut. I couldn't taste the hazelnut, but the texture was spot on.
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