Get your belly as well as your pockets full next time you hit the Las Vegas Strip at some of the best restaurants in the country. With diverse buffet spreads including local and foreign delicacies make sure you enjoy the following acclaimed all you can eat joints in the city!

Feast at the Cosmopolitan’s Wicked Spoon

Cosmopolitan’s Wicked Spoon

The Wicked Spoon is home to one of the most incredible buffet spreads in the city, where you can find anything from Korean style squid to Coulotte steaks. They take the concept of cafeteria style buffets and elevate it to a classier level.

The décor makes the restaurant just as lavish the casino floor, and the prices depending on the time of day are reasonable. For between $28 and $49 you can eat as much gourmet steaks as you want. If you’re gambling just for fun and want to get a little festive, for an extra $15 you can have bottomless drinks, and that includes beer, mimosas, wine and more.

The Glorious Bacchanal at Caesars Palace

Bacchanal at Caesars Palace

Unlike the Wicked Spoon’s bizarre menu that happens to include delicacies like dormice dating back to Ancient Rome, the Bacchanal’s menu does offer a staggering 500 mouthwatering dishes ranging across many niches both global and regional. From Atlantic and Pacific oysters to exquisite Chinese food, there’s little missing from their extravagant range of options.

Dubbed by Thrillist as “the standard against which all Las Vegas buffets are judged”, for between $40 and $60 you can book yourself a table. Once again for $15 you can get yourself bottomless drinks (excluding hard liquors), but depending on whether you plan on hitting the tables later or not that may not be the best idea.

Bellagio’s Extravagant Buffet

Bellagio’s Buffet

The Bellagio in another one of the most famous casinos in Vegas that is also known for its award-winning buffet table. In addition to exquisite takes on home cooking, you can fill your plate with crab, oysters, lamb chops, dim sum or any of the 15 chef specialties that are made fresh every single day.

While the restaurant is usually packed, as the Bellagio is one of the hottest gambling spots in Vegas, single diners and couples have the option to skip the long line if there are any free seats at the bar. While it may not be idea, it is well worth a chance to get a taste of the multitude of dishes available. It is, however, a little on the pricier side ranging for about $40 to $58 per person.

The Magical Buffet at Wynn’s Fairy Tale Restaurant

Wynn’s Casino Buffet

The lavish dining experience offered at Wynn Casino’s buffet is something out of a fairy tale. The bouquet’s and ceiling fixtures combine fantasy with elegance, and with over 120 dishes including prime cuts of grilled steak and oceanic delights, there’s little missing from this elaborate feast.

Priced between $30 and $60 per person depending on the time of day, one of the biggest perks of the buffet is access to one of the best dessert buffets in the city. With plenty of warm pastries and even a chocolate fountain you won’t want to miss out on dessert.

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Tapas lovers and lovers of scrumptious, flavorful food have I got a new restaurant for you, 808 Tapas, 9350 W. Sahara Ave.  #150 at corner of Ft. Apache in the Village Square Shopping Center 702-485-3433. 808 Tapas opens this week and I was lucky enough to be invited to try some of their menu items before they open to the public. What they had to offer far exceeded my expectations.  It was the most inventive, delectable, mouthwatering, appetizing, tasty, flavorful, palatable, succulent, luscious, yummy, finger-licking, nummy, lip-smacking, melt-in-your-mouth delicious, food that I have ever experienced.  I know that sounds like an exaggeration, but that’s how much I enjoyed it.

The creative philosophy behind 8o8 Tapas is their East meets West menu.  I like to think of it as Asian, Mexican, Italian, Hawaiian fusion.  Each item I tried was out of this world good. The blending of flavors, each with its own unique twist kept me thinking and talking about how good it was long after I left the restaurant.

Here’s some of the things I sampled;

Crab Stack

The Crab Stack, Snow Crab, avocado, tomato, cucumber, red onion, cilantro, mango, pea sprouts, ginger lime dressing and red caviar. I am here to tell you that this will be a favorite item for salad lovers everywhere.  It is so light, and refreshing and still bursting with flavor. I’ve been dreaming about it ever since I tasted it. I can’t wait to go back and order it again. It is served as a beautifully stacked brightly colored tower topped with a generous portion of snow crab. The photo below shows how it looks once you mix it up to prepare it for eating.

808 Tensai Shooters

Next was the 808 Tensai Shooters, salmon or hamachi, truffle ponzu, pea sprout, avocado, jalapeño, red caviar and ginger juice. So small, yet packed with flavor.  Is it impolite to slurp the shot glass clean? I didn’t care.

Lomi Salmon Buffalo Caprese

Then there was the creative Lomi Salmon Buffalo Caprese, this was their take on a standard Caprese Salad, but instead of tomatoes, onions and garlic they used Lomi Salmon (a Hawaiian staple made of salted salmon, tomato, white onion and scallions), then topped with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Aged Balsamic Vinegar reduction. Outstanding!

Poke Nachos

We were told we must try the Poke Nachos, deep fried Lotus root (their take on the tortilla chip) topped with tuna marinated in a special sauce with avocado. The perfect mix off crunchy and creamy altogether in one ultimate bite.

Victorino Roll

We decided to try their sushi rolls to see if they compared to our favorite sushi restaurants.  The Victorino Roll was amazing. It contains spicy tuna and cucumber topped with tuna and garlic ponzu. Don’t you dare dip this delicious creation in soy sauce.  It’s perfection just the way it is served.

808 Nasu Fries

Next on the list was the 808 Nasu Fries, deep fried panko eggplant accompanied by a tasty wasabi lime mayo for dipping.  My kids would eat this and not even realize they were eating eggplant.  Crispy outside, creamy inside and the perfect dipping pool of sweet, succulent mayo make these fries irresistible.

808 Sliders

And no meal would be complete for my husband without sliders. 808 Sliders, Wagyu burger, sauteed Shitake mushrooms on a slider bun topped with Ginger Wasabi Mayo. Where can I get a vat of that stuff? It makes everything taste fantastic.

Besides the food, 808 Tapas decor is modern and clean, decorated in red, grey and black. They offer sushi bar seating as well as social seating at a long communal table that runs the length of the front section of the restaurant. Individual tables are available as well. Upon entering everyone is greeted with a unified Aloha and Mahalo on your way out. The staff is friendly, knowledgeable and professional.  They plan to offer cocktails including Saketinis and Sake Sangria among other creative concoctions. This will be a hot spot in Summerlin.  Be sure to be the first to try it before everyone else finds out and you have to wait for a table. 808 Tapas plans to open this Wednesday, August 15.

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