Caesars bets $17 million on the Strip's biggest buffet

bubba approved........i'm there in december

I was able to try the new buffet at Caesar's and it was good. Much better than their old one. I don't think that for the price it was worth it though since I still think Bellagio and Wynn are better. Also paying $39.99 for brunch on a Saturday afternoon is quite high to me. I was lucky since I had a friend in town who actually paid and I only did the tipping.

I really enjoyed their prime rib it was great. Their shrimp was good too. The big minus is hardly any salad items for salad fans (my friend was dissapointed in that) and no creme brulee anywhere!

Worth a try once to see if you like it though. Food was fresh, wait service for drinks was terrible, and we sat with empty glasses a couple of times due to the slowness of our server who wasn't too busy just never around.

Main Street Station has got to be the best value buffet in LAs Vegas. I treated 5 friends from New York who I just happen to run into in Vegas for SUnday Champagne Brunch. 6 of us feasted for under $100 with my Boyd card and took the champagne count under to the point the waitress just brought us bottles and glasses with a carafe of pineapple juice (Hawaiian Mimosas). They tipped the lovely lady $100. She choked back tears. Its a shame LVA lost the Boyd coupons. I liked the Main Street and Orleans 2 for 1 buffets.

Don't go there expecting prime rib, crab legs and shrimp, but some good old comfort food in multitudes. On a Friday, it may cost you $15.00 for the seafood buffet. My advice, get a players card and hit the uncharacteristically loose $1 machines. No jackpots, but they keep you playing forever chasing your tail. You can walk with $200 or $500 if you sit there for an hour and start with $50. Fried chicken made better than most buffets, wood fired rotisserie chicken and ribs, carved beef and turkey, some shrimp with crab stuffing, the best breakfast items in town including old school corn beef hash, different kinds of breakfast meats, omlettes, waffles, biscuits and white sausage gravy, mexican section, asian section, deli station, and all at such fresh quality. Yeah. Main Street is definitely top 5 and you can get a coupon from the hagglers in FReemont.

We tried the new Caesars buffet and in both of our opinions it was fair at best. Now we may have made the wrong choice of times we tried the lunch buffet and the busiest section was the Chinese section. In my opinion only the watermelon juice sucked. The rest was just so-so. M has gone downhill a little as well. We have always have like the buffet at M for Sunday Brunch. It was a little disappointing in both the presentation as well as the selections. They left several items untouch for long periods of time. Example the whipped yams were empty so long they had a burnt crust on the pan that was empty. Called it to the attention of the Chef (he introduced himself) he said it would be corrected right away. Well it was like that 10 minutes later when I checked back. The really sad part was it was not busy as we have seen in the past. If this continues it will just destroy what use to be one of the best buffets in Las Vegas. In the future we hope to stick with either Wynn or Bellagio they fair out much better than the two listed above.

We tried the new Caesars buffet and I don't think the price is worth it at all. They are up to 28.99 for lunch. I would recommend the Bellagio buffet at 19.99 for lunch. If someone has a car, I would recommend the M buffet for lunch. I'm not sure how much it is but it is always available via comp if you earn a certain number of points in a day.
We try to have buffet for lunch only. The dinners everywhere are more expensive (obviously) and for the good buffets, they can't be that much better at dinner.

Tried the new buffet for lunch the first week of Nov. and were not impressed. Maybe we should have waited for supper, because there wasn't much that impressed us. The food all looked good, but was surprisingly tasteless. My wife likes to try all the Chinese food, and she didn't like any of it. I tasted a couple of her Chinese selections, and it was all very bland, - tasted just like your averange $5.99 Chinese lunch buffet. They had prime rib at the carving station, but it was not prime at all - done medium, but very dry and tough. The brisket can only be described as awful, with very little smoke taste and not juicy either. They also had artisanal sausages, but who wants to eat sausage at an upscale buffet! Many of the seafood items were good - the highlight of the meal, along with some good desserts. We got in at 1:15 pm with no line, and were hungry when we got there, but I can only give it 1 1/2 forks out of five.

Roy

Thanks to everyone for posting these first-hand accounts. The consensus seems pretty luke-warm, in spite of all the opening hype. Good to know.

went in october and was completely disappointed, line seem short, line moved forever, after getting in, u had to wait a line for each station, they actually ran out of utensils so another wait for that.....no comparsion to my favorite wynn

I went the first week of December -- the first time I tried to go was 2:30 on Saturday and the wait was two hours. Came back on Tuesday to take another shot, also at 2-ish, and the wait was 90 minutes. So I got suckered into the $15 line pass (thanks to the Great Race, I have plenty of comp dollars, so didn't mind too much).
Then waited about 20 minutes after getting in the "express" lane since any D/SS cardholders who showed up were still seated first (as well they should be).

Found the food to be perfectly fine, but nothing worth the hype. It's actually very hard to maneuver around the lines of people waiting at the seafood station and the Chinese food area and frankly, I found the selection to be much smaller than that at Wicked Spoon, Bellagio or Wynn, all of which I still prefer.

I also found it odd that several items weren't marked -- I expect that at Paris, as I experienced this week, since it seems to go downhill with every visit -- but not at the high-falutin' new Caesars!

As I am a big dessert fan, I was really looking forward to trying the soufflés, but alas, they were not being made on this day/time. So I got a crepe instead. Part of me appreciates the novelty of filling my own crepe, but the other part of me was irritated that I had to do it in front of a line of people and felt like I was holding everyone up. I don't need that kind of pressure at a $40 buffet!

Oh, and side note...was in Vegas over New Year's and thought I'd bring hubby to try it New Year's Day for dinner. That is, until we found out that holiday price was...$74.99. Are they freaking kidding??! Then add tax, tip and the obligatory line pass on top of that and you're talking $100 for a dinner buffet. That's just obnoxious.

The food was described to me as bland by someone who recently tried it