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*This buffet is currently closed
Mandalay Bay's never thought of its own buffet as anything special, and neither has anyone else. The Bayside Buffet has always been fairly pedestrian, a step up from Luxor's and Excalibur's, which isn't saying much, especially given MBay's otherwise good food options. Though our review (click on the LVA Review link to upper right) is from 2010, it still sums up the mediocrity of this spread, especially at the prices.
| Buffet | Hours | Price | Club |
| Breakfast | Mon-Thu 7am - 11am | $19.99 | n/a |
| Brunch | Fri-Sun 7am - 4:30pm | $25.99 | n/a |
| * Add $7 for champagne (Price $32.99) | |||
| Lunch | Mon-Thu 11am - 2:30pm | $21.99 | n/a |
| Dinner | Sun-Sat 4:30pm - 9:45pm | $32.99 | n/a |
| * Unlimited beverage package $10.99 (Dinner only) | |||
This buffet was reviewed in the February 2010 LVA; some of the information contained in the review may no longer be accurate.
You can pay 94¢ less ($26.99) than you do for dinner at Aria for Mandalay Bay’s underwhelming Bayside Buffet dinner. Yes, it has cold cracked king crab legs (and hot uncracked snow crab) and jumbo shrimp, but that’s where the similarities dead end. Lots of breaded fare, such as calamari, shrimp, and veal chops; stuffed chicken leg in cream sauce; and “Airline turkey breast” (perhaps the worst name we’ve ever seen) weren’t particularly inspiring a day after the Aria extravaganza. It wasn’t all blah: The crusted salmon, shrimp-stuffed sea bass, short ribs, and grilled lamb chops brought the quality up a notch, and the desserts were decent. But for the extra buck or so, Aria’s buffet is like Joël Robuchon to MBay’s Colonel Sanders.
