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| - I have a girlfriend who is a gambling devotee, so, knowing she would jump at the chance to eat a good meal, since she quit cooking and loves to gamble, I got her to go with me to Wandering Horse.
First off, I have never been to Talking Stick before despite several meetings that I wanted to attend but couldn't for one reason or another. So, this was my first visit to Talking Stick.Talking Stick was a nice surprise: no smoke smell. Love it!
Architecturally it is quite beautiful, clean--even the ladies' room is super clean--and, since this was a weekday, there was no problem getting a close parking space to the elevator in the parking garage. If you don't get into the garage you can also park in their huge parking lot.
The food is a pretty decent quality, gobs of selections and it appears that everything is made there as I saw a guy making pizzas and another grilling steaks on some huge George Foreman looking-type grill.
I had various treats like smoked salmon, steak, tri tip steak, raw shrimp fajitas and the carmel gelato with sea salt which is my favorite...yummo!
You can eat so much as you want, you can drink so much as you want. This is just a fat girls' dream I said pinching myself!!! I love this place!
So, I ate and ate and ate till I was stuffed, which made walking out of the place difficult since I've been on a diet and my stomach is pretty shrunk.
But I was in heaven, anyway, even with a stomach ache.
The service was great, and we had a small Asian gal offering to bring us drinks every time she came even within 5 feet of our table, so no complaints about the service. She was really great, deserved a big tip and she got it when we left.
The neat thing about eating here is that you can gamble a little if you want after gorging on their food--and we did. We played the slots for a few hours, too, which was alot of fun especially since we both won.
This was a really fun day! Granted, I ate one 100 calorie dietary ice cream bar for dinner cause I was so stuffed from early lunch (and I even had to choke that down), but I sit here with memories of a really great meal and fun time at the slots.
I am definitely going back here when I feel like pigging out on alot of good food again.
For the $15+ for lunch, this place is a realllly great deal!!!
UPDATE: Breakfast here, to me, was a big letdown considering the lunch buffet. A few bucks cheaper and loads of wonderfulness down.
The lunch buffet is great...breakfast not so much. Won't do it again.
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