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| - Convenient, get what you pay for buffet!
Let me start out by pointing out what factors were NOT added into the rating. These will be talked about at the end of the review:
Beverage service
Other diners / atmosphere
Dining room seating
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Buffet is not as pricey as Bellagio, Aria, but more than Circus Circus, Excalibur. I came for breakfast, which saw a constant flow of patrons; most likely due to this time of year being Spring Break for folks in the country, and the perfect weather to visit for those outside the country.
Food had good taste to it, and is what you expect from a self-service buffet line. Food sits out for awhile and until mostly empty. Some buffets will remove the dish, place a new one out, and dump the remains of the first dish onto the new one to give it more of a chance to go through. This one places new food on top of the existing food so that the bottom of the serving plate likely has food from the start of the morning. There is a wide selection from what you would normally expect from a breakfast, but key things I noticed was an omelette station, breakfast pizzas, and Nutella pancakes.
The serving space is relatively small and too many times while waiting my turn to a dish, some people would push past me to get further down or to another station. Some patrons combatted this push past by waking across the dining room floor to get to another station. Serving area was not as clean as I expected but it was not filthy either. The only obvious point is that someone does not walk the front side of the stations and wipe spills very often. When it comes to the ground, spills are cleaned up pretty quickly.
Drinks are self-serve, as is starting to become common with a lot of Las Vegas buffets, most recently noticed at Bellagio.
I was a bit surprised of the waitresses that roam the floors. Normally, they would come around and refill drinks. Since Mirage's buffet has self-serve stations, this duty was eliminated. There was no one that came by during my experience to ask how things were going. I did notice waitresses walk around constantly, but some are preoccupied talking to other co-workers to talk to the diners. Also, they peer over your shoulder and keep walking. I saw this with about 5 of the waitresses walking the dining room grounds. None of them said a word to a diner unless they needed something, like silverware or napkins.
All in all, you get what you pay for. The quality is better than half of the Strip's buffets, but it does have their downsides. I do intend to visit for a dinner to see how the experience may differ.
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Factors to Discuss (Not part of rating)
This buffet does have what seems to be a full service bar! Beer, wine, cocktails, hard liquor all seen.
I was put off by one person's act of reaching in and grabbing food with her hand because she didn't see the serving spoon on the holder dish 2" away. I did tell a staff member, who was very quick to replace it with a fresh set of food and even a new serving spoon and holder dish. This was a nice gesture and it makes me wonder if this always is the case both here and at other locations.
A warning: dining room floor is fairly cramped. Tables are put closer together with other tables that make navigating the floors a bit daunting due to the close proximity to other tables and diners. A few times I was brushed accidentally by other diners or staff. However, I chose not to include this in the rating because as expected, the buffets want to get as many people in and out as possible, and I can understand the logic behind this. The tables are strategically placed in a cross-diagonal pattern instead of checkerboard so you have less of a chance to bump directly into some other diner's back when scooting your chair out.
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