Seasons1992 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 On 8/1/2019 at 9:26 PM, mrags said: The drinks? Easy fix to that. Go to a bar. Any bar in the casino that has video poker. Drop $10 in the machine. Make sure the bartender sees you do it. He will serve you your $9 drink. As soon as you get the drink, cash out and walk away. True, but out in Vegas last year, they limited me to 3 beers per hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Pretty sure that Covid has made buffets go the way of the dinosaur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Holmes Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 On 8/1/2019 at 9:53 AM, teef said: i feel like you're eating at too many casino buffets for a young man. Better than Applebee's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Just now, Sherlock Holmes said: Better than Applebee's... soup kitchens serve better food than applebees. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Holmes Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 On 8/1/2019 at 9:07 AM, Halloween Land said: Who doesn't love buffets? Here are my rankings for the best casino buffets in the Upstate/Western New York area: 1. Seneca Niagara Casino (Niagara Falls, NY) Prices: $15 for breakfast, $17 for lunch, $19 for dinner (*$2 off with players card) With your player's card on hand, this is pretty good price. Also all new members that sign up at any of the Seneca casinos can get a free buffet. They have a wonderful selection of foods, including chicken wings, burgers and many different pizzas. Their desert bar is the best one that I have been to. Everything tastes great! Making this buffet number one on my list. Overall Grade: A+ 2. Seneca Allegany Casino (Salamanca, NY) Prices: $15 for lunch, $19 for dinner, $21 for weekends (*$2 off with players card) They offer the same promotion as above since it's also a Seneca casino. A pretty decent price, a little more pricey on the weekends. A wonderful section of foods with great taste. A great variety of shrimp for all you shrimp lovers. They also have wings and ribs which is cool. Their desert bar is pretty solid, although there could be more of a selection. Overall Grade: A 3. Turning Stone Resort (Verona, NY) Prices: Ranges from $15 to $26 (*$2 off with players card) Turning Stone has a fancy atmosphere. This buffet might be the most expensive. A good selection of food and a huge selection of desert. Their desert bar is the biggest of all the casinos on my list. You name it, they got it. They offer custom requests sometimes like burgers and fries. Overall Grade: A- 4. Del Lago Casino (Waterloo, NY) Prices: $14 for breakfast, $18 for lunch, $24 for dinner (*$2 off with players card) Del Lago has a great selection of foods and deserts. Their pizza has the best tasting pizza. They have giant size meatballs that taste great! They have a great selection of cakes and cupcakes along with an ice cream bar. They even have gelato. It's best to go at lunch time for a solid price. Overall Grade: B+ 5. Batavia Downs Gaming & Race Track (Batavia, NY) Prices: $13 on Wednesday's, $19 on Friday's, $22 on Saturday's (Buffet served only on race nights) Batavia Downs has the smallest selection of foods and deserts out of all these casinos listed. Now that doesn't mean that it's a bad buffet. All the food taste great! Depending on the night you go, there is a different theme of food. Wednesday's are italian nights, Fridays are seafood nights, and Saturday's are prime rib and crab leg nights. The atmosphere is great cause you can eat and watch horse races at the same time. The prices are a little high for the lack of foods but you do get freeplay money with each buffet. Overall Grade: B- 6. Finger Lakes Gaming & Race Track (Farmington, NY) Prices: $15 for lunch, $19 for dinner This buffet has a good variety of foods and deserts. It serves the usual buffet food. The problem with this buffet is the taste.. Not horrible tasting but just not great. Average taste and the desert bar wasn't good besides the ice cream. That's why this buffet is low on my list. Overall Grade: C 7. Saratoga Casino (Saratoga Springs, NY) Prices: $14 for lunch, $16 for dinner Ranking dead last on my list, the taste of the food is poor. The selection of food is also poor. A weak desert bar and the price ain't worth it. Overall Grade: D On 8/1/2019 at 9:53 AM, teef said: i feel like you're eating at too many casino buffets for a young man. On 8/1/2019 at 2:15 PM, Nextmanup said: There is no such thing as a good or "best" casino buffet. On 8/1/2019 at 4:40 PM, Augie said: I too hate buffets.......but if I ever find myself in Las Vegas again, I’ll be looking into the amazing one at the Aria. I swear I hate buffets (quantity over quality, a challenge to eat too much, impossible to feel you got your money’s worth unless you’re a glutton, etc.), but it’s really incredible! Friends who live in Vegas took us there. I was skeptical but didn’t want to say”I hate buffets.” I’m glad I kept my mouth shut. I've got a banging buffet going in back of my illegal basement penny casino... You haven't lived until you try it? 2 minutes ago, teef said: soup kitchens serve better food than applebees. This is true...I know, I was a soup kitchen connoisseur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halloween Land Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 1 hour ago, teef said: i wonder how the op's heart disease is going. Yeah I got to eat better, I eat fast food and junk food all the time. Even being only 26 years old, it will catch up to me. 1 hour ago, ChevyVanMiller said: Pretty sure that Covid has made buffets go the way of the dinosaur. Yeah it's over, thanks Covid! Honestly places might try to do them again but it probably won't work out. But if a buffet was open today I would go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 I am the Director of Tourism for a major hotel. Since Covid our breakfast buffet has been replaced with an a la carte menu. Both our Italian and Brazilian restaurants, which had been partial buffet, are now offering the buffet items on a paper menu where diners can order 3 at a time to be brought to their table by their server. That's the new reality. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 1 hour ago, Halloween Land said: Yeah I got to eat better, I eat fast food and junk food all the time. Even being only 26 years old, it will catch up to me. you'll be alright. just say off the drugs son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy KGB Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 2 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said: Pretty sure that Covid has made buffets go the way of the dinosaur. negative. Golden Corral is back. And so are it’s loyal customers. Drove by a packed one the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 20 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said: negative. Golden Corral is back. And so are it’s loyal customers. Drove by a packed one the other day. It appears they are no longer buffets, they are serving the food cafeteria style. https://www.daytondailynews.com/what-to-do/golden-corral-restaurants-are-starting-to-reopen-with-a-twist/D2LCQASMVJGPXJ2EMDZKMBCHYQ/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 i think people should be able to sit at a table, cover themselves with a tarp, and have the servers throw food into their mouths. i could get behind that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 55 minutes ago, teef said: i think people should be able to sit at a table, cover themselves with a tarp, and have the servers throw food into their mouths. i could get behind that. I was thinking buffet food delivered table side by slingshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy KGB Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said: It appears they are no longer buffets, they are serving the food cafeteria style. https://www.daytondailynews.com/what-to-do/golden-corral-restaurants-are-starting-to-reopen-with-a-twist/D2LCQASMVJGPXJ2EMDZKMBCHYQ/ Nice. I heard rumblings of gloves was the only new wrinkle. Still buffet style. A long time ago when they were half sit down and half mini salad/potato bar it used to be okay. Edited August 4, 2020 by Teddy KGB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 23 minutes ago, ChevyVanMiller said: I was thinking buffet food delivered table side by slingshot. i wouldn't even mind a small catapult. 7 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said: Nice. I heard rumblings of gloves was the only new wrinkle. Still buffet style. A long time ago when they were half sit down and half mini salad/potato bar it used to be okay. you're starting to make me wish the ponderosa was still open. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsPride12 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 As a kid I used to think Ponderosa was fine dining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RochesterRob Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 5 hours ago, Teddy KGB said: negative. Golden Corral is back. And so are it’s loyal customers. Drove by a packed one the other day. Bob's Country Bunker now has a chicken wire divider at the bar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apuszczalowski Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 7 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said: I am the Director of Tourism for a major hotel. Since Covid our breakfast buffet has been replaced with an a la carte menu. Both our Italian and Brazilian restaurants, which had been partial buffet, are now offering the buffet items on a paper menu where diners can order 3 at a time to be brought to their table by their server. That's the new reality. ? I had been to a few places that were like that. Years ago when I was off on some training for work, a Hooters in the area had all you can eat wings and they gave you rules before you started. You would get 8 at a time and could only order more when you finished the last ones. Another play did something similar too. There are also some sushi places here that have 'All you can eat' and they have a menu you pick and choose from and they continue to bring you whatever you want until your done. These were all pre-Covid, but I would expect most places would go this route for All you can eat until things can go back to 'pre-Covid', if ever. As a kid I could do buffets and feel like I got my money's worth, now forget about it. I will fill a plate and struggle to finish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 8 hours ago, Teddy KGB said: negative. Golden Corral is back. And so are it’s loyal customers. Drove by a packed one the other day. Ours is not, which is funny because they were open for curbside pickup during the lockdown. 8 hours ago, ChevyVanMiller said: It appears they are no longer buffets, they are serving the food cafeteria style. https://www.daytondailynews.com/what-to-do/golden-corral-restaurants-are-starting-to-reopen-with-a-twist/D2LCQASMVJGPXJ2EMDZKMBCHYQ/ That fits with what I was thinking for buffets, you'd go down the line with the plate and they'd place the food on it. 5 hours ago, teef said: i wouldn't even mind a small catapult. you're starting to make me wish the ponderosa was still open. The one in Pulaski, NY (north of Syracuse) has reopened. https://ponderosapulaski.com/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 8 hours ago, Just Jack said: Ours is not, which is funny because they were open for curbside pickup during the lockdown. Any Rob Ryan sightings in your area? Ponderosa possibly looking to avoid a feeding frenzy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halloween Land Posted August 5, 2020 Author Share Posted August 5, 2020 17 hours ago, teef said: you'll be alright. just say off the drugs son. I never took any drugs in my life or never smoked anything before, or never got drunk, so nice try buddy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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