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Good Cheap Eats
Good Cheap Eats
Casinos use cheap food to draw traffic. Once you are in, they hope to entice
you over to the profit making games. This provides a great opportunity for the
hungry visitor to cash in, once again, on their offers. In keeping with the
Vegas tradition of overdoing everything, most casinos now offer all you can eat
buffets for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Besides the buffets, Las Vegas offers
some extremely cheap meal bargains. Generally, the best deals are offered late
at night and earlier in the morning, with prices increasing as the day grows
longer. Also, consider the downtown or off strip 'locals' casinos for the best
meal deals. I will only touch upon them in general terms because the specifics
change over time. You will, however, get a good idea of what the bargains are,
where they are, and you will not go away hungry.
The Wild Wild West
Casino sometimes offers a free lunch deal (including beer) in exchange for a $20
buy in at the video poker bar. This is actually a comp, but hey you have to eat,
and, you're here to gamble anyway.
Arizona
Charlies is a well known off strip 'locals' casino that gives excellent food
deals. Each month a new $3.99 All-You-Can-Eat Dinner Special is featured on the
menu at the Sourdough Cafe. Also on offer is a $2.49 breakfast of sirloin steak
& eggs or ham-steak and eggs served 24 hours daily. A $6.95 porterhouse steak or
prime rib dinner special is also served 5 to 10 p.m., seven days a week. These
prices are tough to beat.
The Holiday Inn
Boardwalk Casino, on the South Strip, has a New York style deli with good
cheap food. They serve shrimp cocktails for $1.49, three castleburgers (White
Castle?) for $1.29 and a 24 hour bacon and egg breakfast for $1.49. They also
offer an inexpensive buffet.
Besides great cheap rooms, the
Gold Spike Casino
also has great food deals. Some of the deals on offer include 50 cent shrimp
cocktails, and a roast beef or ham dinner for $2.50. This is not really a family
place, however.
Off the strip, but worth the trip, the
Orleans Casino
offers an excellent buffet for the price. Running only $3.45, $4.45, and $6.95
for breakfast, lunch, and dinner respectively, the Orleans specializes in Creole
and Cajun fare. The price and quality of their breakfast buffet make it one of
the best in town. Besides the ethnic fare, the buffet has an excellent salad and
dessert selection. The breakfast buffet is excellent
Another off strip jewel is the
Gold Coast Casino.
The buffet here is a little smaller and a little quieter. Diners can sit in
booths for some measure of privacy. Prices are reasonable at $4.45, $6.45, and
$8.95 for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The Imperial
Palace is a good, inexpensive place to fill up at the center strip area.
Their Emperor's Buffet is a little pricey for breakfast at $4.99 but lunch for
$5.99 and dinner for $7.99 are reasonable for a strip casino.
The Fiesta serves
one of the best buffets in town. At $3.49 and $6.99 for breakfast and lunch, you
will not be disappointed. Dinner at $8.99 is served from twelve live serving
stations and is guaranteed to please.
If you happen to be downtown, with a little more money to spend, slip over to
the Main Street Station. Arguably one of the best buffets in town at $4.99,
$6.99 and $9.99 for dinner. They also have an onsite brew pub.
If you have a car, drive out I-15 to Jean, near the California border. There
you will find the
Gold Strike
Hotel & Gambling Hall, and the
Nevada
Landing Hotel & Casino. Both of these venues offer good meal deals. The
Nevada Landing offers: Prime Rib (10 oz.)@ $4.99; Bacon & Eggs @ $1.99; Giant
Shrimp Cocktail @ 95¢; Steak and Lobster @ $9.99; New York Steak (12 oz.) @
$4.99 and a 99 cent 3 egg breakfast special. Gold Strike's buffet runs only
$3.99 for lunch and $4.99 for dinner (more on Friday and Saturday).
The 99 cent shrimp cocktail is a Las Vegas original and is still a big
attraction. The first, and maybe still the best, is offered by the
Golden Gate,
downtown on Main and Fremont. The Golden Gate is a real small place but very
friendly and worth the trip.
Rib lovers absolutely have to partake of the superb rib dinner offered six
nights a week at
Ellis Island on Koval Steet, just behind Bally's. For only $9.99 they serve
a whole strip of back ribs with the fixin's. This special is offered in the brew
pub only. It begins at 5PM and the few tables soon fill up so be prepared.
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