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Tired of using your Vacations Hawaii food coupons? Want to venture out beyond the typical Las Vegas buffets? Here’s a list of places you may want to consider. Email us if you have recommendations! Cravings --- You'll be craving better food after eating at Cravings. At $22.50 (adult dinner), it's one of the more expensive buffets, and you except better quality food. The offerings were plentiful -- there are 11 different stations, including Chinese, Japanese (sushi), Latin, Italian, barbecue, raw (shrimp cocktail, crab), salad (make your own), prime rib and turkey (carved), pizza and desserts (including banana fosters, gelato, bread pudding). The food was not "bad," but it was only average, considering the price. Plus it was a little cold. The service was excellent, and the decor was beautiful. The buffet wraps around almost the entire perimeter of the room. In a nutshell -- plenty of variety, but a little average on taste; therefore making it a tad expensive. Shell out a couple of dollars more and go to the Bellagio buffet. -- submitted by Jean K., Kaneohe Crustacean Note: Crustacean has closed. Cypress
Street Marketplace Upon entering, each adult is issued a magnetic card. You can order at any of the dozen or so eateries and you "pay" for your food using the card. You take your food to the dining area where workers will assist you with any of your needs. When you're ready to leave, you present your card to the exit cashiers, where they provide you one bill for your meals. The offerings include pizza, made-to-order salads, Chinese, burgers, deli sandwiches, po' boy sandwiches, soups and more. The food is a step above those offered at food courts (e.g. Panda's Express, anyone?) and a little more pricier, but worth the price. We ate some po' boy sandwiches while we were there, and boy, were they good. The sandwich was big; the meat was tender and the sauce tangy. It was a nice break from our gambling! -- submitted by Cindy G., Salt Lake Note: The Marketplace no longer uses the magnetic card to tally up your meals. You pay at the station you order the food from. Fatburger So what can you eat at Fatburger? Hamburgers, turkey burgers, chicken sandwiches and hot dogs with toppings of your choice, including the standard condiments plus, cheese, egg, bacon and chili! They have great onion rings, and I love their fat, wedge french fries! Fatburger needs to get a better location on the Strip. It’s located in a strip mall and seating is pretty limited, but the workers make it fun, delivering the food to your table.
In-n-Out Burger What’s so great about In-n-Out Burger? Everything is made to order –- fresh! No frozen hamburger patties or french fries! The french fries are made at the restaurant from whole potatoes and the shakes are made from ice cream! In-n-Out Burger’s menu is pretty simple –- they serve burgers and fries. No chicken sandwiches, no salads. Here’s the menu from the official website. What you may not know is that there’s a “secret menu.” A friend of ours told us about it, and the first time we ordered a “four-by-four animal style,” we were a little nervous since we weren’t sure if our friend was playing a joke on us. But the order taker took our request without a blink of his eye and we ate a delicious meal! Here’s a couple of links to the secret menu: Secret
Menu at Zenlemur.com Here’s a couple of location near the Strip:
Krispy
Kreme Doughnuts Some stores make the doughnuts right in the facility. If you see the “fresh doughnuts” neon sign lit at these locations, buy a dozen or so with some coffee and let them just melt in your mouth! Our favorites are the regular glazed, the chocolate glazed and the maple glazed. Ono! Krispy Kreme Doughnuts can be found at these places and more:
Makino Sushi and Buffet Prices vary, depending on whether you're going for lunch or dinner, and what day of the week it is (the most expensive meal is $21.95 for an adult dinner buffet on the weekends). They also have some funky pricing for kids -- price depends on how tall they are. Senior citizens get a 20 percent off discount with a valid ID. It’s best to go early as the restaurant fills up quite soon after opening. Makino recently opened a location in Downtown, in the new Las Vegas Premium Outlets. Big and spacious, this Makino is just as good as the original. Makino also opened up a restaurant in Honolulu, in the old King’s Coffee Shop location on King Street (in McCully). We haven’t tried it yet, but friends tell us it’s not strictly a sushi buffet since you can order from a menu.
Nobu The decor is beautiful and the service is fast and excellent; although the restaurant itself is quite noisy. The food was average, considering the price. I ordered the shrimp tempura dinner ($28), which came with six pieces of shrimp and a lot of assorted vegetables. The shrimp was very, very lightly battered with panko and the tempura sauce was very mild. I also ordered the sushi dinner ($27), an assortment of sushi (nine pieces in all), including maguro, salmon, salmon eggs, shrimp, squid . . . you know, the basic stuff. Everything that my dining partner and I ordered was either a little bland (e.g., the tempura sauce and green tea ice cream) or what we would normally expect, making it a very expensive meal for something that didn't "wow" us. The fish was fresh, though. If prices were lower, it would be your typical Japanese restaurant; but since prices were so high, I expected more. Maybe I should have ordered the Chef's Special and have eaten the more "exotic" stuff. By the way, the omakase dinners start off at $80. Although I knew the restaurant was "high end," I did experience a little sticker shock. When we first sat down, the waiter asked us if we wanted to start off with some Fuji water and edaname, which we agreed to. The water cost us $6 and the large bowl of edamame was $5. The green tea ice cream, which consisted of three small scoops, was $12. We also ordered miso soup with our meals, and I was surprised that they didn't charge us for that. -- submitted by Steve G., Salt Lake Top
of the World Restaurant & Lounge
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