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Favorite Sites
Early Vegas
Great old publicity pics
Quotes
"The urge to gamble is so universal and its
practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must
be evil."
~Heywood Broun
"If you must play, decide upon three things
at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes,
and the quitting time."
~Chinese Proverb
"Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier
gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then
rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his
oar I would have stayed."
~Mark Twain
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Vegas Restaurants on the CHEAP!
The first thing you are going to notice in Vegas is
the Plethora of Places to eat. And the first place
we found off the strip is a place we still hit a
couple of times a month.. It is not the most
beautiful place in town, but it is CHEAP and
the food is GOOD and
PLENTIFUL. The people are very friendly too.
Gold Coasts "Ports O' Call' Buffet
The Gold Coast is next to the Rio on Flamingo. The Rio is renown for its MASSIVE International buffet - and for good reason, the food is fabulous! But the price is high and the lines are horrific to get in. Well here is a little clue. Hop next door to the Gold Coast, wait 3 minutes for a table, and eat the same food they are serving up at the Rio. Yep- they share the same kitchen. Now the Gold Coast does not have the same space as the Rio so of course there is not as large a selection, but I swear they just bring over the best dishes from what the Rio has prepared for the day.
Don't EVEN tell anyone I told you this.
| Breakfast |
7:00am - 10:00am |
$6.45 |
| Lunch |
11:00am - 3:00pm |
$7.45 |
| Dinner |
4:00pm - 10:00pm |
$11.95 |
| Sunday Brunch |
8:00am - 3:00pm |
$11.95 |
Thursday Dinner - Seafood Buffet $16.45
Sunday Dinner - Steak Buffet $12.95 |
TERRIBLES
Casino is another option. located on Flamingo at
Paradise about four blocks East of the strip.
The first meal we had at Terribles Bouganvillea
Restaurant was the unforgettable 'Triple
Play' breakfast, served after 11pm. The Triple
Play consists of 3 HUGE fluffy pancakes, 3 bacon or
sausage and 3 eggs as you like 'em. All for
only $1.99. Yep. very few can eat all of
this humongous breakfast.
There are other great specials as well, including
a $3.99 Steak and Egg breakfast (featuring a
huge T-bone steak), and the biggest bisquit and
gravy platter you have ever seen for $2.99.
The bisquits are as big around as a cup saucer. Monstrous.
Sometime over the past couple of months the 'Triple Play' was downgraded to a
'Double' - with 2 of everything. But it is
still more than nearly anyone can eat.
If you sign up for Terribles Players Club you get
a book of coupons that include many 2for1's for
their Buffet. That makes a buffet for 2 for only
$6.99 except for on Seafood night when it is
$12.99. It's not the best Buffet in town but
decent food and the place is always clean with very
friendly wait staff. So its a GREAT deal!
You can read more about Terribles Breakfasts
at
Mr. Breafast.com .
Big Juicy Vegas Burgers-
on the CHEAP!
One of the Best Burgers in town can be
found at The Recovery Room. We happened on
this little place (at the corner of Tropicana and
Eastern in the 'Pet Smart' shopping center)
and decided to try the $2.99 1/4 lb burger with all
the fixings plus fries. It was one of the best
charcoal grilled burgers I have ever had. Ask for a
side of the chefs 'special' sauce..a sort
of spicy honey dijionaise. If you realy crave a
great burger- its worth the drive from the
strip.
Key Largo
on the Update
One of our favorite places for cheap burgers and
beer has fallen victim to the encroaching market
forces of private condos and time-share
properties. The Key Largo has officially
closed it's doors as an off strip casino and is
refitting for private ownership condos.
It was nice while it lasted.
Meanwhile, we will be looking for a replacement for the $1.99 hamburger platter and .50 draft beer.
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Terribles Hotel and Casino
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Paradise Buffet at the Fremont Casino...
It is paradise.
You will be surprised when you walk into the Fremonts Paradise Buffet. It is all very subdued lighting, masses of beautiful tropical plants, huge salt water aquarium and very private wrap-around booths along with a beautifully designed Buffet Serving area. They designed it to make you feel as if you are at a lovely, upscale private restaurant. And they succeed. They also feature table service if you wish.
Now add all that to the fact that the Paradise has some of the best food in town at a great price and you have got a Winner!
My husband grew up on an island off of San Francisco, and I spent a number of years living only 5 minutes away from some of the major shrimp docks on the Gulf Coast of Florida. We know shrimp. We were shocked at how good the Paradise Buffets shrimp was.Over 6 months we went back over and over to load up on shrimp till my husband started making whale sounds in his sleep. The rest of the food is just as fabulous and this Buffet is a MUST for any visit to Las Vegas. The Paradise is located
just steps away from the Fremont Street Experience at 200 Fremont Street.
| Breakfast |
7:00am - 10:30am |
$6.25 |
| Lunch |
11:00am - 3:00pm |
$6.98 |
| Dinner |
4:00pm - 10:00pm |
$9.99 |
| Weekend Champagne Brunch |
7:00am - 3:00pm |
$9.99 |
Seafood Fantasy Dinner - Wednesdays $17.19
Steak Night - Sunday,Tuesday & Friday $13.99
Open until 11:00pm On Friday & Saturday. |
The Cheap
the Bad and the Ugly!
A
South Strip place we stopped at once was the
Boardwalk. We never saw any reason to
return. The Boardwalk features 1/4 lb hotdogs that
are about the biggest I have ever seen. The price
is just about right if you are drunk, starving and
so long as you don't think about how much rat
hair can fit within the casing of a half-pound
wiener.
**AVOID the Buffet**. We never braved the
place but heard stories relating to a new form of
fungal life that sprang up full blown and ate a
tourist.
The Cheap:
from Bad 2 Worse!
You would think that that Grande Old Dame of the
Strip- The
Sahara- would have a great buffet.
Unfortunately we DID eat here.
FIRST of all you have to walk through this paen to
neanderthalianism and toxic particle pollutants
called 'NascarLand" to get to the
escalator going up to the Buffet. It should have
gone down- like, past Hades itself.
WHAT were they thinking??
We thought that maybe the Sahara
was suffering financially at one point for having
obvious 'middle eastern' connections (even
though it is owned by Americans) and decided to
stick something in the middle of it that would
appeal to people who commonly call middle
easterners 'rag he*ds' and other abominably
vicious monikers. Problem is- most Nascar fans are
not known to be realy big spenders.... I am
sure whoevers idea this was is already wearing new
cement boots. It was a friday night and the
place was as deserted as the the Mojave
Desert in July.
When we got up to the buffet it was nearly as
deserted. We soon figured out why. There was not
one edible item on the buffet. There were two types
of chicken- one of which I tried and nearly spit
out my first bite. Then I tried the roasted
potatoes- how can you screw up potatoes? They did -
it tasted HORRIBLE. And it only got worse from
there.
I figured ok, I will fill up on dessert. The bread
pudding,, amazingly, tasted more like fish than the
completely dried out salmon they served. I guessed
that they either did not clean out the serving
trays well enough or were not changing the water
wells from the steam trays- and the steam had old
food tastes and smells in it.
When we finally fled for our lives we stopped to get a bottle of
whiskey to ward off whatever possible botulinum
we may have picked up and to sink into a blessed haze of forgetfulness.
There is NO excuse for the Sahara to have a
putrid- and I mean PUTRID buffet.
SHAME on you.
Be sure to get...
Las Vegas FREEBIES Part 1
and the continuation...
Las Vegas FREEBIES Part 2
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