{"id":1564,"date":"2015-01-22T04:56:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2015-01-22T04:56:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:56:26","slug":"restaurant-review-carnival-world-buffet-at-rio-hotel-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2015\/01\/restaurant-review-carnival-world-buffet-at-rio-hotel-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Review: Carnival World Buffet at Rio Hotel in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am putting together a Las Vegas with Kids<\/a> webpage, containing all my reviews for Las Vegas.\u00a0 Some of those reviews never made it to my blog, so I’m adding them now.\u00a0 This one is rather old, from July 2012, but as I’m not planning to return to the Carnival buffet, it will have to do.<\/em><\/p>\n

We were not impressed with the Carnival World dinner buffet<\/a> at the Rio.\u00a0 The buffet offered tons of choices, I don’t think we tried even a fourth of what was available, but none were dishes worth going for a second helping.\u00a0 The only exception to that was the steak with mushroom sauce.\u00a0 It was thin, but tender and had a great beef flavor.<\/p>\n

My daughters were not impressed with any of the child friendly items and ended up eating a lot of shrimp.\u00a0 Hey, they have protein, but not worth the price of admission.\u00a0 The crab legs, which they’ve enjoyed in the past, were very small and not worth the trouble of eating.<\/p>\n

I can’t quite remember what I tried (which tells you something).\u00a0 I know the prime rib was OK while the chicken parmigiana tasted like chicken nuggets (yuck!).\u00a0 The pork ribs were tough, the beef ribs were better and had a nice BBQ sauce.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can’t remember anything else.<\/p>\n

The desserts we tried, OTOH, were uniformly good.\u00a0 The kids loved the gelato, and I enjoyed the cheesecake and flan (though dig in for the caramel as otherwise it’s not sweet enough).\u00a0 The one disappointment were the eclairs, as tends to be the case in most buffets.<\/p>\n

In all, I wouldn’t go back to this buffet.\u00a0 In particular given the wait – 45 minutes on a Tuesday night in July.\u00a0\u00a0 People who are paying full price (not using coupons or the Buffet of Buffets deal) do get in much faster as they have an express line for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am putting together a Las Vegas with Kids webpage, containing all my reviews for Las Vegas.\u00a0 Some of those reviews never made it to my blog, so I’m adding them now.\u00a0 This one is rather old, from July 2012, but as I’m not planning to return to the Carnival buffet, it will have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[360,361,156,323],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-buffet","tag-buffet-of-buffets","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-buffets","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}