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Finding the Right Las Vegas Buffet in 2025
From the $1 chuckwagon of yesteryear to today’s epic all-you-can-eat extravaganzas, the buffets that have stood the test of time are better than ever.
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For many, no trip to Las Vegas is complete without a meal at a buffet; in fact, the all-you-can-eat feasts seem baked into the city’s DNA. They date back to at least 1946, when the El Rancho Vegas put out some cold cuts and a few hot dishes to keep guests in the casino through the late-night hours. They called it the Chuck Wagon Buffet, and it was priced at just $1.
Buffet offerings evolved and expanded over the next few decades. But the classic Las Vegas buffet remained a quick, casual and inexpensive experience through the 1980s.
Things began to change in 1993, when the Rio Las Vegas ushered in the era of “super buffets” with its (now closed) 200-item Carnival World Buffet. Five years later, Bellagio upped expectations again with a gourmet buffet that fit right in with its groundbreaking restaurant collection. And the opening of Wynn Las Vegas brought a luxurious high-end buffet that quickly had diners waiting in line for hours.
Las Vegas’ emergence as a world-class food city over the past two decades has forced buffets to up their games to remain relevant. And they’ve met the challenge—usually by growing larger and offering more diverse options, while reducing wait times through line passes and reservations. When Caesars Palace opened the Bacchanal Buffet in 2012, with its nine show kitchens, it set a new standard for what a buffet could be.
Today, despite competition from food courts and food halls, buffets continue to thrive. Because, let’s face it, nothing compares to the thrill of piling your plate high as with many delicious dishes as you like, without thinking about the price tag.
So while it’s no longer a prerequisite for every casino to offer a buffet, or for every buffet to serve three meals a day, there are still plenty of amazing all-you-can-eat feasts on and off the Strip. Here are a few of the most popular:
Brunch and dinner, daily
A.Y.C.E. takes guests around the world with delicious dishes from seven food stations, morning through night, seven days a week. But the real excitement revolves around their specialty nights: Lobster Dinners on Wednesdays and Thursdays; Prime Rib and Snow Crab night on Fridays; and theme nights scheduled at the end of every month. Lobster nights (hosted by a costumed lobster mascot) are by far the favorite, serving 900 whole lobsters and another 1,750 tails each night, and presenting one lucky table with a massive five-pound lobster. To cut down on lines, the Palms now offers A.Y.C.E. reservations for Wednesdays and Thursdays only.
Dinner daily, brunch Thursdays – Mondays
The only remaining buffet in the Caesars Entertainment portfolio is the largest buffet in Las Vegas, offering over 250 dishes in a beautiful 25,000-square-foot space that underwent a year-long renovation in 2020 and 2021. Caesars often refers to Bacchanal as nine restaurants in one: Mexican; Italian; Chinese; Japanese; American; Seafood; Pizza; Deli; and Dessert. Dinner is available seven days a week, with brunch every day except Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Dinners include extensive seafood offerings and carving station options like porchetta, quail, truffle-roasted chicken and wagyu beef. And those who want unlimited crab with brunch can get it on weekends, or from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. only on Mondays and Thursdays. Reservations are available through OpenTable.
Brunch daily, seafood dinner Friday & Saturday
While Bellagio offers an amazing brunch buffet seven days a week, it’s most notable as the only MGM Resorts property currently offering a dinner buffet, which is available only on weekends. But Saturday and Sunday “dinners” start early enough to serve as lunch, coming online at 1 p.m. A typical menu includes shucked oysters, steamed clams, dim sum, prime rib, pastas, stir-fry and more, with an amazing dessert selection. And the optional beverage package includes unlimited mimosas, screwdrivers, margaritas, bloody Marys and a dozen different domestic, imported and craft beers. Skip the line with prepaid priority entry.
Open daily, brunch only.
Located near the Superfrico restaurant and adjacent Ski Lodge lounge, Wicked Spoon is worth the short walk for its grill station alone, which offers a choice of prime rib, roasted beef loin and short rib with bone marrow. And seafood fans aren’t left out, as they put out 800 pounds of snow crab every day. The Cosmopolitan team has been a leader in trying to reduce food waste at buffets, by offering pre-plated servings of most dishes. But don’t worry, you’re still free to take as many as you like. Avoid a wait by reserving a spot in advance.
Brunch and Dinner, daily
Wynn’s buffet offers an early gourmet brunch (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.), and an eight-hour seafood dinner service (1 p.m. - 9 p.m.), seven days a week. Offerings from the 16 separate kitchens include pastas, sushi, wok-fried dishes, tacos, carved meats, barbecue, and diverse selection of seafood from Maine, the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii and Japan. Pull out all the stops with the Ultimate Buffet Experience, which adds priority seating, an endless pour package and a 1-pound platter of Golden King Crab legs delivered tableside by the staff. That staff will also guide those with dietary restrictions through the stations to explain what dishes fit their needs.