The buffet is as synonymous with Las Vegas as casinos and Cirque shows.
It is a time-honored tradition, and it’s only improved over the years as buffets have continuously upped the ante with more and more expensive, exotic, and diverse food offerings.
Nowadays, you can experience real fine dining at some of the best buffets in Las Vegas—artfully-plated, three-bite tastes representing cuisines from around the world, as multicultural in their offerings as the crowds that flock to Vegas.
But because there are a lot of buffets here, it can be hard to figure out where to get the most buffet bang for your buck.
This guide to the best buffets in Las Vegas gives you an overview of some of the top buffets to help you pick the best one(s) for you. Be sure to pack some loose-fitting pants!
Wicked Spoon
https://www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com/restaurants/wicked-spoon
One of the absolute best buffets in Las Vegas, or anywhere else for that matter, is Wicked Spoon inside the Cosmopolitan. While you can expect to see a lot of the same items from one buffet to the next, Wicked Spoon consistently surprises and delights with unexpected items and artful presentations fit for a high-end restaurant, far exceeding the usual expectations of any buffet. You’ll find items like perfectly al dente, fresh gnocchi; hand-carved prime rib; pork belly bao buns; bone marrow served on the bone; oxtail pho; seafood ceviche; and so much more. The buffet is open for brunch and dinner, and bottomless mimosas are available for $20. You can also pay extra for a line pass, or get express takeout for $20.
Sterling Brunch
https://www.caesars.com/ballys-las-vegas/restaurants/sterling-brunch#.XgUZW5NKi1s
The Sterling Brunch, hosted at Bally’s inside BLT Steak, is something of a Las Vegas buffet legend. For more than 30 years, THIS has been the brunch buffet that visitors in the know know to splurge at. Only available Sunday mornings, the seafood-centric buffet-style Sterling Brunch includes Alaskan king crab legs, lamb, lobster tails, caviar, prime rib, sushi, and fresh-shucked oysters. More traditional brunch items like banana bread pudding French toast are also available, and there are a variety of additional items made-to-order. And ALL of it is served with bottomless Perrier-Jouët. Hold the orange juice!
The Buffet at Wynn
https://www.wynnlasvegas.com/dining/casual-dining/the-buffet
Surrounded by the colorful floral sculptures the Wynn is known for and located inside a sunny atrium, dining at the Buffet at the Wynn is a wonderfully whimsical experience and has earned its reputation as one of the best buffets in Las Vegas with its more than 120 artfully presented dishes and 15 live cooking stations. Brunch and dinner are served daily, and on Fridays and Saturdays they offer a spectacular assortment of seafood, including steamed Alaskan snow crab legs, oysters on the half shell, Prince Edward Island mussels, and more.
Herringbone Brunch
https://aria.mgmresorts.com/en/restaurants/herringbone.html#/menu=menu
On Saturdays and Sundays, Herringbone, the stylish sustainable seafood restaurant inside the ARIA, offers an all-you-can-eat brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with “live-action interactive stations,” including a carving station, salt brine and poke bar, farm basket station, kid-in-you station, juice bar, and bloody Mary bar. You can also order a selection of items from the kitchen, and bottomless mimosas and champagne are also available.
Bacchanal Buffet
https://www.caesars.com/caesars-palace/restaurants/bacchanal-buffet#.XgUk0ZNKi1s
There’s a reason the Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace has been at the top of every list of the best buffets in Las Vegas by pretty much every national food and travel publication—the offerings at this buffet are unparalleled, with hundreds of different daily offerings, daily chef’s specials, and nine distinct “restaurants” within the buffet. Items on offer include rosemary-marinated tri-tip, dry-rubbed smoked spare ribs, prime rib, chilled crab legs, oysters, char-grilled T-bone Australian lamb, hand-made dim sum, pho, and baked-to-order chocolate lava cakes. This is a buffet fit for a king…or a Caesar!
Lakeside Jazz Brunch
https://www.wynnlasvegas.com/experiences/Dining%20Experiences/Sunday%20Jazz%20Brunch
Every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lakeside at the Wynn, the Hawaiian seafood restaurant that overlooks Wynn’s Lake of Dreams, throws a jazz brunch party with live Dixieland-style jazz and blues. Many of the seafood items are served buffet-style from an ice-filled canoe and include items like chilled Alaskan king crab legs and oysters on the half shell. There are also sweet and savory brunch specialties like crab cake eggs Benedict and char-grilled flat iron steak frites, as well as a gorgeous presentation of bite-sized pastries.
Border Brunch
https://mandalaybay.mgmresorts.com/en/restaurants/border-grill.html
Located inside Mandalay Bay, the sunny, cheerful Border Grill, a modern Mexican restaurant, serves an unlimited small plates brunch every Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Order from over a dozen different menu items including steak and eggs, tres leches bread pudding, Peruvian shrimp and grits, cinnamon roll pancakes, and more—as many as you want, all made hot to order. You can also add on bottomless mimosas for $15 or bottomless mimosas, micheladas, and Bloody Marys for $20. If it’s a nice day outside (and this is Vegas, so your odds are pretty good—better than any table game, at least!), do sit on their lovely patio.
Studio B Show Kitchen Buffet
https://www.themresort.com/dining/studio-b-buffet
At times, the best places to eat are the places you’d least expect and traveling off the beaten path and going where the locals go is often good advice. In Vegas, the locals go to the M Resort. The Studio B buffet at the M Resort can easily hold its own against the top resorts on the Strip as one of the absolute best buffets in Las Vegas with over 300 items on offer, including a build-your-own taco bar, dim sum, calzones, a vegan station, desserts created by their award-winning pastry chefs, and more than a dozen flavors of gelato. On weekends, indulge in all-you-can-eat seafood and prime rib, as well as a Sunday breakfast buffet with bottomless mimosas, champagne, and a Bloody Mary bar, all included in the already low price. Complimentary beer, wine, espresso, and cappuccino are also offered anytime.
The Buffet at Bellagio
https://bellagio.mgmresorts.com/en/restaurants/the-buffet.html
It should come as no surprise that the Buffet at Bellagio is regularly ranked among the best buffets in Las Vegas—this is one of the premiere luxury hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, after all, so there is a certain level of expectation already baked into their presentation of a buffet. The Bellagio does not disappoint. You can dine on fish eggs at their caviar bar, snow crab, fresh-rolled sushi, Ahi tuna cones, chilled shrimp, prime rib, Kalbi brisket, and paella, and on “Gourmet Nights” (every Friday and Saturday) they serve steamed and chilled Alaskan king crab legs, leg of lamb, and dim sum. You can also add on a bottomless beverage package for brunch or dinner.
The Buffet of Buffets
https://www.caesars.com/las-vegas/restaurants/buffet/FAQ
Why choose just one or two buffets during your visit when you can visit half a dozen? The Buffet of Buffets pass is offered by Caesars Entertainment and gets you discounted access to multiple participating buffets at different Caesars’ properties for one 24-hour period. Participating buffets are: Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace (upgrade fees apply); Paradise Garden Buffet at Flamingo Las Vegas; Flavors, The Buffet at Harrah’s Las Vegas; Le Village Buffet at Paris Las Vegas; Spice Market Buffet at Planet Hollywood; and Carnival World Buffet at the Rio. Come to Vegas hungry and travel the world and the Las Vegas Strip by buffet!
Feast Buffet at Palace Station
https://palacestation.sclv.com/Dining/Feast-Buffet
The Palace Station is a local favorite, located just off the Strip, so it’s much more affordable while also offering many of the same experiences that you’ve come to expect from a Las Vegas casino-resort. The Feast Buffet is one of the locals’ favorites. Significantly less expensive than its on-the-Strip counterparts—and even cheaper when you sign up for the Station Casinos’ Boarding Pass, the local casino franchise’s player’s club that’s free and has no spending minimum for discounts—Feast Buffet offers a wide selection of favorites for breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner, including staple American, Chinese, and Italian items, as well as carving stations serving prime rib, smoked salmon, roasted turkey, baked ham, and rotisserie chicken. They’ve even got a boba bar!
The Buffet at ARIA
https://aria.mgmresorts.com/en/restaurants/the-buffet.html
The Buffet at ARIA exemplifies Vegas’ next-generation buffets, serving a global mix of cuisines that are plated and served with huge visual appeal (the views from the dining room, overlooking the resort’s pools, are also among the better ones you’ll see at any of the buffets—most of which don’t even have windows). This buffet has its own Tandoor oven where they churn out fresh-baked naan throughout the day as well as Tandoori chicken and vegetables. It also features a build-your-own poke bar, pho and ramen bar, and a fresh seafood bar that includes assorted crab legs (King crab is available on weekends), oysters, shrimp, mussels, and seafood paella. There’s also a carving station with a 75-pound beef steamship, sausages, and free-range turkey breast all carved to order. Diners can add a generous unlimited drinks package for $19.99, and it includes mimosas, Bloody Marys, rum punch, margaritas, and beer and wine on tap.
A.Y.C.E. Buffet
https://www.palms.com/eat-and-drink/ayce-buffet
The newly revamped Palms Casino Resort has a newly revamped buffet too, appropriately named A.Y.C.E. (all-you-can-eat), and it is a modern, stylish reimagining of the tired old buffet—think more along the lines of a trendy food hall. Serving breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner, this location also has the advantage of being slightly off the Strip and thus significantly less expensive. And its re-imagining includes items most other buffets lack—think wood-burning grills, full rotisseries, a central smoker, and everything made from scratch. There are ample options for the wellness inclined (especially considering healthful eating and buffets don’t typically align), like rainbow chard hash, zucchini noodles, and fresh-pressed juice. The Sunday brunch buffet includes bottomless champagne, and the prices are even cheaper if you sign up for the Station Casinos’ Boarding Pass for free. The stylish décor, variety, and quality of options, newness and cleanliness of the place, and affordable prices make this hands-down one of the best buffets in Las Vegas.
Le Village Buffet
https://www.caesars.com/paris-las-vegas/restaurants/le-village-buffet#.XgUzFJNKi1s
Le Village Buffet, located inside Paris Las Vegas, brings together the five provinces of France in French village settings with live-action stations and items cooked to order. Each province’s “cottage” dining room is decorated for its region, or diners can also choose to sit in the “town square” or by the fireplace in the casual dining room. Enjoy prime rib, snow crab legs, truffle mac and cheese, and customized crepes. The Champagne Brunch includes bottomless bubbly, and bottomless beverage packages are also available during other meals.
Garden Court Buffet
https://www.mainstreetcasino.com/dine/garden-court-buffet
If you’re out and about in downtown Las Vegas, the Garden Court Buffet at Main Street Station is one of your best buffet bets. Open for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch, the Garden Court Buffet is set in a brightly-lit, charming space and offers a variety of cuisines including Mexican, Southwestern, and Asian, as well as pizza and their popular rotisserie chicken. They also have specialty nights, like seafood night on Fridays, prime rib and scampi on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and a champagne brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. Popular items include fried chicken, crab legs, oxtail stew, and Kalua pork.
Feast Buffet at Red Rock Hotel and Casino
https://redrock.sclv.com/Dining/Feast-Buffet/Menu-Sp
Red Rock Hotel and Casino is another property owned by Station Casinos, and while the various Feast Buffets at each of the Station Casinos are pretty similar (like the previously mentioned Palace Station), Red Rock is widely considered the best buffet of the bunch. Located about 20 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, the Red Rock Resort is just minutes from the breathtaking Red Rock National Conservation Area, and being located a bit farther means the prices are even cheaper and include unlimited champagne in their “Champagne Brunch” on Saturdays and Sundays.
Seasons Buffet
https://mohegansun.com/poi/dining/seasons-buffet.html
Seasons Buffet inside the Silverton Casino is easily one of the best buffets in Las Vegas, on or off the Strip, based on its variety, its weekly specials, and its affordability. The Silverton Casino is located just a few miles from the Strip and is a favorite with locals and budget-conscious tourists, and they have excellent dining deals throughout the property. At Seasons Buffet, lunch is just $11.99 and dinner Sunday through Thursday is only $16.99, and they’re even cheaper with a Silverton Rewards card. On Saturdays they serve a Polynesian dinner buffet that includes ahi poke, sushi, suckling pig with crispy skin, pork lau lau, lomi lomi, chicken curry, and more, but on Fridays it gets fancy with the “Lobster Feast Buffet,” serving oven-roasted lobster tails, crab cake-stuffed lobster tails, lobster tacos, lobster mac and cheese, stuffed crabs, shrimp scampi, Cajun broiled oysters, crawfish boil, and so much more. They’ve also got “Bellini Brunch” Sundays with bottomless Bellinis and mimosas.
