The Buffet
At: The Bellagio

This is one of the most expensive buffets in Las Vegas, and also one of the fanciest. They have the widest variety of dishes, and some of the most out-of-the ordinary preparations you've ever seen at a buffet.

However, that works against them. They have Kobe Beef roast, for instance, but Kobe does not handle sitting under a heat lamp very well. It may be expensive, but that doesn't help prevent it from turning dry and overdone. Other dishes were just really bad and hard to eat. Beef Wellington is one of my favorite dishes, but at this buffet the dish they name Beef Wellington is just plain disgusting. A tip to the head chef: if the foi gras you top the Beef Wellington with tastes like cat food, you got cheated, and so did your customers.

The main attraction of this buffet (based on the plateloads I saw walk past me) is the crab legs. If you don't eat crab legs (as I don't), its simply not worth the cost..

The lines for this buffet can be horribly long. There is no meal in Vegas worth an hour and a half wait.

Breakfast is servicable, and not terribly expensive, but for $15 you can eat better at a Denny's.

Service was not nearly as good here as it was anywhere else in The Bellagio, no matter how thirsty we looked it was tough to get the waiter to bring another drink.

The one high point of this buffet is the desert selection, but if you really like desert I'd suggest the various bakeries at the Paris hotel instead.

I've been here for breakfast and dinner, and neither was really worth the cost. I won't be back.