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Skriven 2009-04-22 08:30:42 av MANNY ROTHSTEIN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Viva Las Vegas?
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->  MR> enjoyed that night at the Paris. Of course, I did the buffet, and
->  MR> since they had a crepe station for dessert crepes, I was able to
->  MR> kill two birds with one stone. The braised lamb that was very good,
-> 
-> RH> We saw the line for the buffet across from te crepe place.  IMO, 
-> any place that has to put out that much food can't maintain a super 
-> high quality of most of the choices.  That, and having to let it 
-> sit on a steam table for who knows how long tend to make anything 
-> lose quality.
-> 

In my experience, Las Vegas hotels have plenty of high end 
restaurants, but they are not quite as good as the equivalent 
high end restaurants found in major cities and usually cost a 
bit more. To me, the iconic Las Vegas meal is either a buffet
or one of those silly (but fun) 99 cent shrimp cocktails and 
a $3.95 steak and eggs. Vegas buffets come in all kinds of 
price points and levels of quality. If you want to try a good
buffet the next time you are in Las Vegas, go to the buffet 
at the Rio. It has about 8 or 10 serving stations and each
is like a separate ethnic restaurant where they actually 
cook some or all of the dishes on an on-going basis. The 
food quality is very good, better than most neighborhood 
restaurants. Are they super high quality? Nope, but thats not 
the point. The variety, the free form grazing, the fun of 
sampling, the freedom to start with dessert and end with soup, 
if thats your pleasure, that is the point. At least it is for 
me. I understand that the Wynn is even better, but they 
charge almost twice as much. Also they have a free 10 min. 
show every hour, over and around one of the casino halls.
Try the Rio and tell me what you think.
 
->  MR> but everything else was strangely off. All the veggies were way
->  MR> under cooked including the potatoes. Even the marinated mushrooms,
->  MR> for example, were under pickled. I mentioned this to a friend after
->  MR> I got back, and she told me that she wasn't happy with a meal she
->  MR> had at coffee shop in the Paris last year. All my other meals were
-> 
-> RH> French food as done by minimum wage employees?  As far as I 
-> know, the Paris has no "Name" chefs.
-> 

They have some very good professional chefs. With the volume of 
food that they serve, they can easily afford good executive and 
lead chefs. Unfortunately, at some hotels they handicap them 
with stingy food budgets and challenge them to make the best of 
it. A few years ago, I was given a perfunctory tour of the 
kitchen at the Excaliber, one of the cheapest and worst of the 
strip buffets. They served about 5000 meals on a good day. The 
kitchen was amazing. I remember free standing soup kettles (yes, 
kettles plural) that cooked 20 or 30 gallons of soup at a time 
and used steam as the heat source. 

->  MR> good to very good and I saw a couple of good shows. Since my hotel
->  MR> bill for 4 nights was only $28 and my gambling losses were about
->  MR> $3.00, I left for home at the end of my little vacation with the
->  MR> smugly satisfying feeling of having beat the system.
-> 
-> RH> Sounds like you had a good time. We would have had neither 
-> a hotel bill nor gambling losses but a good visit with our 
-> daughter, son in law and grand kids. (G)

Sounds like you are a winner every time you go to Las Vegas.

Manny
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