I hear ya, and maybe I have gone to the wrong kinds of buffets, but I swear when they say “oh, the seafood was flown in today,” I’m like “yeah, I can tell this spent a lot of time on a plane.” I think I have gone to fairly decent buffets at the main casinos on the strip, so perhaps I have just had bad experiences those particular times. I would maybe consider lobster at Mix or something like that, but no more buffet seafood for me.
HOWEVER, if there was a restaurant called “Vegas Bob’s glutton buffet w/ loobster,” I would go to it because it was such a great name! I bet they would serve a mean mac-and-cheese.
I eat what I want, with an emphasis on variety. I really don’t like all-carnivore meals, so I would miss out without fries or mashed potatoes or whatever. Also, the world’s best steaks/shrimp/etc. don’t usually wind up on buffets. Not to say never, but often you are getting cheaper cuts of stuff.
I go for flavor. Sometimes that means a nice chunk of glazed salmon. Sometimes that means chicken with rice and some interestign sauce over it. At the Chinese buffet, I always lay down some rice on my plate to catch the flavor of whatever I put on top. The rice is cheap, but mmm, tasty.
A good General Rule of Life is to never eat seafood where you can’t see the sea from the restaurant. There are always exceptions, of course, and as noted, Vegas seems to be one of them.
Anybody who wants to start a “Vegas Bob’s”…I can scrape up a little cash for a capital investment.
THAT reminded me of that scene in “LAS VEGAS VACATION”!: Chevey chase asks buffet attendent: “Is that the chicken ala king?”-“NO” (plops sign into vat of yellow glop) “THAT’s the chicken ala king!”
Preach it, Little Nemo. I hate picky eaters. Don’t get me wrong, I understand some reluctance to try something unusual off of a regular menu: sounds sucky, but ya give it a try…and it’s sucky. But at a buffet, where you have your choice of 100 different things, I say go nuts. Personally, if I went to a buffet in an area in which it was normal to sip donkey piss out of the eyesocket of a monkey’s skull, I’d give it a go… Life’s too short, man.
I’m a vegetarian, so at most buffets it’s more of a “well, at least I can eat my fill” thing than “oo, fill up on the expensive goodies!” Still, if I have a good selection, I’ll consider things like how infrequently I eat an item for whatever reason (price or rarity), how difficult it is for me to make a dish myself, etc. So price might come into consideration but it’s more of a factor of the food’s nutrition and rarity rather than getting my money’s worth.
I always eat what I want, but it’s never what’s served first on the buffet table.
They aren’t dummies. They start with the cheap stuff to fill your plate.
So, I eat what I want but it still ends up being more of the expensive stuff.
This used to be me. I used to eat all the time in this chinese buffet until I learned that they had a take-out buffet option. I now always get that because it allows me to put more into the carton they give you then what I’d normally eat when I dine in.
I realize a lot of buffet-style places don’t allow take out but the two chinese joints around here do and man is it a great deal. You can overload that thing and eat it for two days afterward.
To answer the question, I tend to eat what I like as opposed to getting the most expensive things. They have crab legs at the one I go to the most but I rarely get them because I don’t care much for seafood. I’m more of a sweet’n’sour pork type of guy.
I also realize this topic is almost a month old, so apoligies for bumping it up.
I do to the extent of I won’t pay fifteen bucks and eat the cheap stuff I normaly do at home. I eat the better things I don’t eat at home, or I’d save money eating stuff I’m sick of at home. I wouldn’t Waste $15 dollars, if all I ate was jello at the place either. I never eat the expensive stuff though because I don’t like stuff like lobster. I take small portions of everthing only half filling the plate, and go back four times trying something new and still hot or cold. I never make up for the price of a buffet.
I tend to usually eat the cheaper stuff, so when I go for food I don’t usually have, it ends up being expensive stuff. But unusual takes precedence over expensive.
I hate picky eaters. Don’t get me wrong, I understand some reluctance to try something unusual off of a regular menu: sounds sucky, but ya give it a try…and it’s sucky. But at a buffet, where you have your choice of 100 different things, I say go nuts. Personally, if I went to a buffet in an area in which it was normal to sip donkey piss out of the eyesocket of a monkey’s skull, I’d give it a go… 