Best Buffet for breakfast in the strip
 

I will be traveling to Vegas at the end of January. Which is the best buffet for breakfast in the strip?

Mirage or Bellagio. I favor Mirage.

not to confuse you, but I preferred the Bellagio! I did enjoy the Mirage buffet for dinner though.

I generally dislike buffets, even at breakfast, but Paris is amazing!!

I second the Paris!

And Bellagio is wonderful too, but go on a weekday--the weekends are very crowded.

Another vote for Bellagio, but weekday only. Weekends are a zoo. For Sat or Sun I'd go with Paris.

My wife and I love buffets and have eaten at just about every one on the strip. Granted, nothing is more personal than taste, but here's our ranking: Our favorite for breakfast/early brunch - Paris! Great egg dishes, excellent variety of sausages (even a low fat applewood smoked chicken sausage), made to order crepes, great rolls, great sweet rools, great cheeses, moderate price. Is a bit hard to find - in the corridor/tunnel between Bally's and Paris, a small door on the right as you're walking toward Paris, close to Paris. Ask to be seated in one of the small rooms if you want a bit more quiet, although it's not as noisy as some. Only down side is the line can be a bit long at times.
Bally's Big Kitchen is also great for breakfast, our second choice. It's smaller, quieter, less variety but it's all good. Paris and Bally's are less expensive than Bellagio. We've only done dinner at Bellagio's buffet. They have amazing food - variety and good quality, but it is more expensive, usually busy, and we found it verrry noisy. We actually moved to the smoking section just to be able to carry on a conversation. They had too many hard surfaces. Maybe they've added carpet or sound absorbing material since we were there. Mirage I can only give a C+. For other meals - Wynn's is our current absolute favorite for lunch. Higher price, but not as expensive as Bellagio. Great food, fresh ingredients, easy to get to & through all the different food stations & just about every type of cuisine you want to see in a buffet. It's also a beautiful place. For a fun, less expensive lunch, dinner - the Paradise Garden at the Flamingo has consistently good food, more standard buffet fare than Wynn's for sure, but always something we want. If unlimited giant crab legs and prime rib for dinner are your thing, it's the spot. Service is always good, and they have the most entertaining view of any buffet - we love watching the pink flamingos, swans, other birds, and the koi swimming in the pool. If you go, get a seat by the windows (it's arranged so there are alot of window seats). Have fun!

WOW Braunsky! You DO love buffets!

Great post, Braunsky!

Thnks and yo're welcome. Yes, I really do love buffets - they are one of the reasons I go to Vegas. My patient spouse enjoys them too, just not as much as I do. So long as we go to a good sit down restaurant every once in awhile, she's content. Our favorite sit down restaurant right now is Picasso at Bellagio, but there are many good ones. She also asked me to add that while Paris and Bally's Big Kitchen are her favorite two places for breakfast, she puts Bally's slightly ahead of Paris!

After many trips to Vegas, I was convinced the breakfast buffet at Paris was the best -- until I had the breakfast buffet at The Wynn. My friends and I thought it was fantastic. I still think the Paris buffet is great, but The Wynn was great, too!

Thank you all, but specally to Braunsky, for your advises. Since I will be staying for two days, I will try the Buffets at Paris and Wynns.

Does anybody know how much are the Breakfast buffets that have been mentioned? The Paris one, for example?

Rummaging through my receipts from this last June/July, a breakfast buffet at both Bally's Big Kitchen and the Paris Buffet were $12.95. Brunch/lunch later bumps up to $14.95 I think, I just didn't find a receipt. The lunch buffet at Wynns was $19.95. The dinner buffet at Wynns goes up to $27 or $28 I think, although it might be as high as $33. We liked lunch so much we haven't tried dinner, but I think we will later this week when we fly in for our mid-winter "I gotta get outa town" trip. The Flamingo Paradise Garden is $11.99 for breakfast I believe. It was $13.99 for lunch, and $18.99 for dinner. We also tried the Cafe Lago buffet at Caesars Palace July 2 - didn't think much of it, good but not great food and not much variety, and the food stations were difficult to get to. The servers were strained by the crowd. It was $22.50 for brunch on a Sunday, which is always a bit higher, because you get a glass of champagne. The only meal I don't recommend at Bally's Big Kitchen is the Sunday champagne brunch - higher price for basically the same food plus a glass of champagne. My understanding is that his is not the same thing as the Sterling Sunday Brunch at Bally's which they have in their steak restaurant (or used to). Some poster really like the Bally's Sterling Sunday Brunch, but it's pricy.

Quick follow-up, Bally's web site is now showing only Brunch and Dinner prices, so perhaps they've stopped the lower breakfast price. More buffets are doing this. The Sterling Brunch is in the steak house, but the web site doesn't show an actually price, just "over $40." (Why do this when there is just one price? It makes some sense if you have a variety of differently priced entrees.) I vaguely recall it's actually about $60.

Many thanks, braunsky!
We are not used to have a heavy breakfast at my country and I was trying to figure out if it was worth to pay for a breakfast buffet.
Really good good info.

You are very welcome, Berri and Filloa. Enjoy your visit!

Filloa, you might want to time it closer to lunch....sometimes the big buffet brunch is my only meal that day!

Good point Melissa. My eating habits change in Vegas from 3 meals a day to two or one and a snack. Of course, depending on the length of their flight, they may be arriving at 8am when their stomachs say it's 2pm.

That is interesting, MelissaHI, because in my country we used to have the strongest meal at lunchtime, even if we must work on the afternoon.
So it would be confortable for us to have a very light breakfast and then a great lunch.
Thanks.

Actually...this last trip, we stood in line for 1.5 hours for the Bellagio Sunday buffet. I got there at 12:30, and by the time we got in it was a little past 2 p.m. so they were switching the buffet dishes over from brunch to dinner. We paid the brunch price, but got to sample items from brunch AND dinner. Good deal. I'd go there again in a heartbeat. The nice thing about it is, the strip is very spread out so you are able to walk it off immediately after gorging yourself!

Braunsky...you are definately King of Brunch! =D>

I have had the Sterling Brunch at Baileys (after I won on slots)...expensive but great!

I am going to Vegas for superbowl weekend...Braunsky thanks for the advice! Think we will try the breakfast brunch at Paris!!!

8-)

cwojo99 - King of Brunch? I like it! Thanks for the coronation. Hope Paris is still up to snuff now that I've touted it. Have a great time Superbowl weekend. Beware the gaggles of cigar smoking super sports betting guys. They travel in bunches and tend to clog up the aisles in the casinos (and make it hard to find a place at the craps tables). It's a hoot just watching the crowds that weekend.

Thanks for the tip Braunsky! We went last year and had a ball!

By the way...I just may partake in a cigar while I am betting on the team to score first, who will call a time out first, over / under, odd or even number jersey to score first, number of field goals in first half, if the first coaches challenge will be successful or not...and I could go on and on and on...so much fun!!!

\:D/

Paris

Has anyone been to the "Santa Fe Station Buffet"? A recent review feels that this is the best buffet in Vegas. It opened December 2006.

Quick update. We just returned from a six day stay in Vegas. The buffets at Bally's Big Kitchen and the Flamingo Paradise Garden seem to have suffered under Harrah's ownership. Both have deteriorated just since June of 2006 when we were last there. We did breakfast/brunch at both this last week. The Big Kitchen is small, but has always had good variety. This time, they had the same hash browns at two stations, the same sausage at two stations, ..., even seemed to have less fresh fruit, The changes at the Flamingo were to the dessert selections. Gone were the cakes and pies we enjoyed, replaced by small, dry torts. I don't think they were trying to be trendy, just cheap.

The Paris buffet, fortunately does not seem to have declined. It was still very good, for all the reasons I cited before. One tip - if you want to try the chicken vol au vent, get there early.

Wynn's was still spectacular. One tip - if you get there about 10:30 - 10:45, you'll pay the breakfast price and get their breakfast items but also get lunch, which they put out at 11:00 am. I had wonderful crab cakes that were only out with the breakfast dishes for some reason.

Paris!

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I have to endorse the Sterling Buffet in Bally's. I don't care how much it is...IT'S WORTH IT.

If you appreciate fine food, you will love the Sterling Buffet. It's not a bad value when you consider the price of the food alone and figure that you may not have to eat the rest of the day.

It's only on Sunday's so plan ahead.

For fear of sounding like a pig, I must have had $200 worth of broiled lobster tails!!

In fact, I had almost $100 worth of Champagne! The Sterling Brunch serves Perrier-Jouët Grand Brut($45/bttl).

If you are into Caviar, it is available upon request at the Sushi Bar. The rack of lamb was amazing, it's only downfall was that it was taking up space in my stomach that could have been occupied by the lobster!! The shrimp were huge and delicious! The crab, the oysters, filet, desserts and on and on! Even the fresh juices and bottled water!

I would also put the sushi up against most restaurants here in Denver.

And the service! Our glasses never came close to being empty! Don't miss the Lobster Omelette! If you are there next weekend we may see you there!

After many trips to Vegas, I always thought the breakfast buffet at Paris was the best. That was until I had the buffet breakfast at The Wynn - it was fantastic!

Paris is excellent, but The Wynn is even better. Quite honestly, you can't go wrong with either.

Just my two cents, of course.

Yet another update to a very old message. I wonder if anyone reads these older posts? Anyways, we just returned yesterday from yet another short trip to Las Vegas. We did the lunch buffets at the Flamingo and Wynns, and breakfast buffet at Paris. The Flamingo has improved a bit, which was a pleasant surprise. We go there for the view - the water, the flamingos and other views - and because it's our traditional first meal in Las Vegas. Wynns is still excellent, our favorite. The Paris breakfast buffet has declined, and they were also having a bad day. The chicken vol au vent, our favorite dish, is gone (confirmed this with the server). The variety is not as great. They had left the signs/labels from dinner on the glass in front of/over every dish, so the signs did not match the food. It was not too difficult to figure out the scrambled eggs and bacon, but it would be nice to know what kind of quiche, what was in some of the egg dishes, and what the different types of sausages were (still good variety there). It was a disappointment. Still good, but not great.

So sorry to hear, Braunsky!! We will probably give it one more try next time we are in LV. It is the only buffet we go to and may now have to forego even that one. :(

Can I ask which buffet breakfast (or dinner), out of the good ones, has the shortest lines please?

Socialworker - let us know what your experience is with the Paris buffet. Perhaps they were just overwhelmed with convention business or were short of help that morning.

Wildblueyonder - all of the good buffets can have long lines at times, unless you have a line pass as an invited (VIP) guest, or belong to a higher tier of the casino's players club. For example, "Platinum, Diamond or Seven Stars" players in the Harrah's system have a separate entrance with no line or shorter lines. The Paris Buffet sometimes has short lines but can be very long. We have line jumping priveleges there so my recollection is somewhat hazy. In our experience, the Wynn's buffet, which is our favorite, has very short lines no matter when we go - and we have no line pass or line jumping priveleges there. The Bally's Big Kitchen Buffet is small, but good, and the lines seem shorter there, possibly because it is small and they serve any conventions separately in ball rooms. Hope this helps.

I have also found that the Paris buffet has been declining for a while, both for dinner and breakfast.

My first time at the Paris breakfast buffet was wonderful, which prompted me to try the dinner buffet, which was equally wonderful.

On a subsequent trip I found the buffet to be not as great, but still good.

The last time I was in Vegas was in August 2007, and the buffet quality had declined even more. It was ok, but nothing great. I was rather disappointed and doubt I will return unless I hear that it has improved.

Thanks Braunsky - will bear all this in mind.

Went to Paris Buffet for lunch last week and it was really terrible. Large selection, but poor quality ingredients. Our worst meal of the trip.

Nici, sorry to hear that about Paris and thanks for the heads up. We are going in 2 weeks and would be interested in places that you enjoyed eating at.

Thanks