"All in preparation for M's famous buffet, we\n\n1. skipped dinner the night before,\n2. skipped breakfast the morning of,\n3. stopped by mickey D's for a butt load of coffee (caffeine pumps up my appetite and cravings for all foods fatty and sweet).\n\nAnd all this for nothing worth remembering. Boy was I disappointed. \n\nThe hot crab was too salty, not warm enough, and not worth the hacking and cutting into that tough exoskeleton. The international cuisines were dry, dull and lazy-looking. The meats (prime meat, turkey) looked so juicy and delectable, only to arrive bland and become monstrously wasteful on my plates.\n\nNothing was a favorite...maybe the free, unlimited drinks but that's about it.\n\nI can say all this after I was starving.\n\nNonetheless, I gobbled up everything my eyes could devour, and had more than 5 servings of gelato, the only good thing on the dessert bar, and I am a sucker for buttery sweets (which means everything anyone could conjure up at a buffet sweets section). The gelato is worth the wait, although the wait happens because there's one person scooping the gelato as well as serving the lattes. Understaffed? Inconceivable at a time like this.\n\nBut for $30 for the weekend, this sure beats the buffets on the strip."^^ . "2"^^ . . "2010-07-13T00:00:00"^^ . "3"^^ . "3"^^ . . "1"^^ . .