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Las Vegas Restaurants: Bellagio Buffet |
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Bellagio Buffet
By Ted Newkirk
 We went for lunch on the advice that the more expensive
dinner was pretty much the same fare. This is not your average buffet. The theme centers
around a softly lit Italian village with different rooms, cobblestone streets, and a
park-like atmosphere. While you help yourself to the food, the service is very attentive
with drinks and plate removal. However, there is no formal dress code and we saw plenty of
t-shirts and fanny packs so don't let your tourist attire deter you.
Any one area of this buffet is worth the price of admission. The salad bar had numerous
kinds of fresh salads, cheeses, strawberries, delicately cut melons and more. Enjoy bread
with your meal? What kind? You name it, they had it.
Forget paying $8-10 for a shrimp cocktail appetizer in a restaurant for a few shrimp.
Laid out at Bellagio were tasty gulf shrimp, four kinds of smoked salmon, mussels, cevich
and creamed herring. All you care to eat.
We have all had "buffet" vegetables. They open a big can of some generic
brand mix in the back and stick it on the warmer. Not here they don't! Available were
minted snow peas, creamed mushrooms, garlic potato puree, broccoli, oven roasted tomatoes,
and steamed zucchini. All looked freshly prepared and inviting.
If pizza is more your style, the pizza station had a full compliment of gourmet
California Pizza Kitchen style pizzas to suit every desire. Antipasta? How about herb
fusille, tomato linguine, mushroom fettuccine, goat cheese rigatoni and a full compliment
of toppings! If you dislike Italian food, a nice selection of both Mexican and Asian
dishes are just a few feet away.
The carving station featured a great cut of prime rib or turkey. I suspect that the
selection is broader at dinner.
The deserts were phenomenal. Both the quality and presentation were flawless.
Specifically the cheesecake of which quality would run you $5 or more just by itself for
one slice in any nice restaurant.
We always try to judge for value -- what you get verses what you pay. The Bellagio
lunch buffet? An A+, and that's coming from someone who doesn't part with a dollar easily.
We strongly suggest treating yourself to lunch there on your next visit. Be prepared for
it to be your "big meal of the day", though. You won't leave hungry.
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