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| - I'm usually leery of buffets, but having lived in Vegas for nearly 9 years, I've tried quite a few of them. The Rio's Carnival World buffet does a very good job all around.
It's huge with food from different parts of the world including: Asian (with a Mongolian barbecue station), the U.S., with heavy focus on down-home Southern goodness. Don't miss the mashed red potatoes - I had three helpings! Italian, Mexican as well as breads, salads, pizza, seafood (snow crab, cold shrimp, fried shrimp, fried fish and baked fish) with drawn butter and cocktail sauce, and a carving station with pork roast, roast beef, prime rib, turkey and ham. I camped out on the prime rib - it is deliciously seasoned and they have little cups for au jus.
Enough about the food. Let's get to the real point: dessert. These people know their way around sweets! They have at least 10 varieties of gelato in every flavor imaginable, apple and raisin bread pudding with vanilla sauce (I'm a bread pudding lover, and as anyone who eats it knows, it's not always made well - the Rio has it on point), little cakes, tiny pies, eclairs, cheesecake in a chocolate shell, custards and cookies... even sugar-free items.
If you heed nothing else I write, you must believe me on this: get a cup of their (very good) coffee, a plate of bread pudding and some of their bananas foster (fresh bananas in a warm bath of butter, sugar, spices and rum) and forget everything else you ate. Take a forkful of the bread pudding with a piece of banana and make sure you put as much of the rum sauce as will stay on the bite, close your eyes, thank your maker for taste buds and enjoy.
You're welcome :)
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