Every year we get a Buffet of Buffets deal when we visit Vegas, and it’s become our costume to go to the Paradise Garden Buffet for a light lunch. I like visiting the Flamingo Habitat, and the buffet overlooks it. Really, the view is the best thing about this buffet. The food is terrible.
The Flamingo is now offering a weekday brunch buffet, instead of separate breakfast and lunch buffets. The offerings are mostly breakfast stuff, pancakes and eggs, sausages and breakfast meats (ham, turkey and sausages – no beef) but they do have made-to-order omelettes and pancakes as well as one cold-cut sandwich, which was rather good. They also have pizzas, which my youngest daughter absolutely loved, and not-bad fried chicken and pork loin. They have made-to-order crepes, but they only offer sweet crepes and the quality of the ingredients left much to be desired. They cannot be compared to those at the Paris’ buffet.
The Flamingo no longer offers a chocolate fountain. It was awful and my daughter doesn’t like chocolate, but she loved seeing it. She wasn’t happy it was gone.
All in all, this is a buffet I would not pay to go to.
Paradise Garden Buffet
3555 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV
website
Weekday/Weekend Brunch 7 AM – 2 PM daily: $22/25, Children 4-9 yo: $11
F-Sa Dinner Buffet 5-10 PM: $30
This review is from our trip to Las Vegas in August 2014.
The Flamingo hotel is one of the cheapest of Caesar’s properties, and its buffet gets some of the worst reviews. However, it has large windows with views of the flamingo habitat outside, and who doesn’t love flamingos? So armed with our buffet of buffet passes, we headed there – via taxi – a Friday around 3:30 PM in August 2014.
The restaurant was open (it now closes at 2 PM), but the server in charge of the section by the windows had not shown up and they didn’t want to seat us there. After quite a lot of pleading and a request to speak with the manager, they made do and sat us in that section. Given that we had come specifically for the flamingo experience, I really was not willing to accept anything else. The first dining room – the closest to the entrance -, where we were seated, has the best view of the habitat as that’s where the flamingos hang out.
Other than the view, there is absolutely nothing to recommend this buffet. First of all, it’s fairly small consisting mostly of American fare. Nothing looked particularly appetizing to me, so all I got was some prime rib and a cilantro chicken wing. The beef was surprisingly good for a buffet – better than the one served at the Paris and Planet Hollywood – in that it wasn’t dry. The chicken was also tasty. So if you do go for the flamingos, these two items are safe to eat.
One of my daughters did enjoy the sushi and the cold shrimp and the other one did fairly well with the pasta, but they are kids. My dad, found both the roast turkey with gravy and the fried chicken very dry.
Desserts were a little better. Skip the chocolate fountain if it’s working. It may look cool but the chocolate syrup tastes like cocoa powder. The cupcakes weren’t a big hit, but the little pudding cups were good. Some of the pastries were also OK. My youngest daughter liked the cotton candy.
All in all, we wouldn’t go back for the food, but the view made it worth it – at least as part of the buffet of buffet deal. I would not pay for it otherwise.