{"id":1568,"date":"2017-08-01T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T03:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2017-08-02T02:28:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:28:35","slug":"review-paradise-garden-buffet-at-the-flamingo-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2017\/08\/review-paradise-garden-buffet-at-the-flamingo-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Paradise Garden Buffet at The Flamingo, Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year we get a Buffet of Buffets<\/a> deal when we visit Vegas, and it’s become our costume to go to the Paradise Garden Buffet<\/strong><\/a> for a light lunch.\u00a0 I like visiting the Flamingo Habitat, and the buffet overlooks it.\u00a0 Really, the view is the best thing about this buffet.\u00a0 The food is terrible.<\/p>\n

The Flamingo is now offering a weekday brunch buffet, instead of separate breakfast and lunch buffets.\u00a0 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. \u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The Flamingo no longer offers a chocolate fountain.\u00a0 It was awful and my daughter doesn’t like chocolate, but she loved seeing it.\u00a0 She wasn’t happy it was gone.<\/p>\n

All in all, this is a buffet I would not pay to go to.<\/p>\n

Paradise Garden Buffet<\/strong>
\n3555 Las Vegas Boulevard South
\nLas Vegas, NV
\nwebsite<\/a>
\nWeekday\/Weekend Brunch 7 AM – 2 PM daily: $22\/25, Children 4-9 yo: $11
\nF-Sa Dinner Buffet 5-10 PM: $30<\/p>\n

Marga’s Restaurant Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0This review is from our trip to Las Vegas in August 2014.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

The Flamingo hotel is one of the cheapest of Caesar’s properties, and its buffet gets some of the worst reviews.\u00a0 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<\/a>, we headed there – via taxi – a Friday around 3:30 PM in August 2014.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0After quite a lot of pleading and a request to speak with the manager, they made do and sat us in that section.\u00a0 Given that we had come specifically for the flamingo experience, I really was not willing to accept anything else. \u00a0 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<\/span> hang out.<\/p>\n

Other than the view, there is absolutely nothing to recommend this buffet. \u00a0First of all, it’s fairly small consisting mostly of American fare. \u00a0Nothing looked particularly appetizing to me, so all I got was some prime rib and a cilantro chicken wing. \u00a0The beef was surprisingly good for a buffet – better than the one served at the Paris<\/a> and Planet Hollywood<\/a> – in that it wasn’t dry. \u00a0The chicken was also tasty. \u00a0So if you do go for the flamingos<\/span>, these two items are safe to eat.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 My dad, found both the roast turkey with gravy and the fried chicken very dry.<\/p>\n

Desserts were a little better. \u00a0Skip the chocolate fountain if it’s working. It may look cool but the chocolate syrup tastes like cocoa powder. \u00a0The cupcakes weren’t a big hit, but the little pudding cups were good. \u00a0Some of the pastries were also OK. \u00a0My youngest daughter liked the cotton candy.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0 I like visiting the Flamingo Habitat, and the buffet overlooks it.\u00a0 Really, the view is the best thing about this buffet.\u00a0 The food is terrible. The […]<\/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":[159,156,323],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-buffets","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-buffets","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}