Best Buffet

Downtown Buffets
The Main Street Casino's Garden Buffet is the nicest looking of the inexpensive buffets in downtown. If you go twice in one day, it is still cheaper than the all day buffet prices on the strip. The four craps tables permit 20X free odds and are usually crowded.

Very much the same deal can be gotten at the Fremont casino, but physically Main street is much prettier.

(1) Main Street Casino (Garden Buffet) - Boyd property [500 seats]


(2) Fremont Casino (Paradise Buffet) - Boyd property [450 seats]


(3) The buffet at the Golden Nugget is the priciest by about 30%, but the food is a little better. As the only buffet not on the ground level, it has the best view. The weekend champagne brunch is $17.99 during the day vs. $10.99 at Fremont casino nearby. Weekend seafood buffet (3:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.) is $20.99 which is the maximum buffet price downtown. [250 seats]


(4) Stuffed Buffet at the Plaza is the lowest priced buffet with the most limited hours (44 hours/week). The desert selection is particularly pathetic.It feels like my Jr. High School cafeteria. Easy access to the bus station.
Thu – Mon 4pm-10pm for $8.88 with Players Club Card (lowest
Sat & Sun 7am-2pm for $9.99 with champagne.


(5) Final choice for buffets is the Courtyard Grill and Buffet at Fitzgerald's casino. Buffet is very loosely defined here. It is more like an all you can eat salad bar with a custom made pasta plate for dinner. However, if you want pasta, this may be your better choice since it is not sitting out in a warming tray. You can still pick from a limited choice of greens, wet salads, and cookies and brownies. It looks like standard stuff you would find at the deli counter.

(X) The Chinese buffet at El Cortez has been discontinued in favor of some Chinese entree selections at the coffee shop.


Tuesdays and Fridays after 4PM at Fremont.

Agreed. All the Boyd properties do good buffets. I've heard the same thing about the Stations properties but have yet to try any of them.

Edit: Don't forget to get your 2-for-1 coupons for Main Street and Fremont buffets here: http://www.vegasexperience.com/coupons

Quote: boomdog

I know this is probable a dumb question but does anybody have lobster on their buffets. Again, thanks for all the tips for I have no clue.

At the Mirage buffet you can add a one-pound Maine lobster or a porterhouse steak for $10.

I had lunch at the Mirage buffet in April and thought the Chinese foods were the best options. Sushi was good too. I was disappointed in the dessert selection, although I did enjoy the banana pudding. Also there were no fresh berries (at least the day I went), failing one of the Wizard's tests of buffet excellence!

Lots of useful info in this thread. I am heading to LV next month and appreciate the advice.

Roghaltz

I tried the Fremont last year. It was fine for the price. I also tried the Golden Nugget, which was better but doesn't justify the price difference. The Fremont, as I recall, had a larger than average selection of no sugar added deserts.

Quote: Nareed

I tried the Fremont last year. It was fine for the price. I also tried the Golden Nugget, which was better but doesn't justify the price difference. The Fremont, as I recall, had a larger than average selection of no sugar added deserts.

The Golden Nugget adds a few specialty items like locks for your bagel and a shrimp dish. The sugared deserts are a little more ambitious. Coffee is excellent. It's not radically better, but it is only an additional $3. The champagne price on weekends does not seem justified.

Fremont does have a huge selection of sugar free deserts. No seafood, but it does have baked fish. They will make omelets special for you in the morning.

Does anyone know which buffets have REAL sushi? I don't mean the rolls with the seaweed wrapped around it. I mean the kind with a dollop of rice and a big honkin' piece of raw fish slapped on top of it. I was shocked to discover this at the Motor City Casino buffet in Detroit. It really made the buffet for me. (I should add that to my Detroit casino reviews). They also had just the raw fish, without the rice. I believe this is called sashimi. Salmon and Yellowtail, plus shrimp. Pots of wasabi, soy sauce, and pickled ginger as well.

Quote: pacomartin

The Golden Nugget adds a few specialty items like locks for your bagel and a shrimp dish. The sugared deserts are a little more ambitious. Coffee is excellent. It's not radically better, but it is only an additional $3. The champagne price on weekends does not seem justified.

Fremont does have a huge selection of sugar free deserts. No seafood, but it does have baked fish. They will make omelets special for you in the morning.

I went to dinner on both occasions. As I don't eat either fish or seafood (or, if you believe my parents, neither anything that has ever been within 100 miles of the sea), I tend to judge buffets differently from the average person, I guess.

I don't recall the prices, but I've the distinct impression the Nugget's was around $5 more than Fremont's (this was a year ago). It's not much, but for similar quality it's not worth it.

Quote: teddys

Does anyone know which buffets have REAL sushi? I don't mean the rolls with the seaweed wrapped around it. I mean the kind with a dollop of rice and a big honkin' piece of raw fish slapped on top of it. I was shocked to discover this at the Motor City Casino buffet in Detroit. It really made the buffet for me. (I should add that to my Detroit casino reviews). They also had just the raw fish, without the rice. I believe this is called sashimi. Salmon and Yellowtail, plus shrimp. Pots of wasabi, soy sauce, and pickled ginger as well.

Todai in the Miracle Mile shops surrounding Planet Hollywood.

I doubt that an all you can eat buffet will serve sashimi, as it would cost them too much.

Gunkanmaki (warship rolls) round sushi which is wrapped with seaweed and topped with ingredients such as salmon roe.
Grilled Salmon
Ikura
Masago
Mayonnaise Shrimp
Salmon Skin
Seafood Dynamite
Seaweed
Shiitake
Spicy Octopus
Spicy Scallop
Spicy Shrimp
Spicy Tuna
Tako Salad
Tobiko
Uni

Nigiri (ordinary sushi)
Albacore
Ama Ebi
Anago
Avocado
Ebi
Hamachi
Hirame
Hokkigai
Ika
Inari
Izumidai
Kanikama
Maguro
Roasted Bell Pepper
Sake
Salmon Skin
Shime-Saba
Smoked Salmon
Suzuki
Tai
Tako
Takuan
Tamago
Torigai
Unagi

Maki (rolls)
Baked Salmon
Chicken
Dragon
Futomaki
Garlic
Grilled Salmon
Hosomaki
Kappa (Cucumber)
Mixed Fish
Negihama
Oshinko (Takuan)
Spicy Tuna
Spicy Salmon
Tamago
Tekka (Tuna)
Tempura Crunch
Tempura Shrimp
Unagi

Western style (rolls)
Alaska
California
Caterpillar
Philadelphia
Rainbow
Salmon Skin
Spider
Vegetable