Le Village Buffet, Las Vegas

This is the worst place i have ever eaten and paid so much money for, this is especially a place for tourist, and their fast food mentality, this is not a place for a discerning palaate, it is bad, tough prime rib, dried overcooked beef ribs, and the walnut calke still ahve walnut shells in it almost broke a tooth,, bad bad place,,

Favorite Dish: the cake was good, except for the walnut shells

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The feel of an outdoor french setting under the sky or a cozy fireplace inside a french cottage are your choices for seating that make the ambiance of this Las Vegas Buffet restaurant. You will find the tastes of the five Provinces of France at different stations throughout the large village like setting, as well a grilled food station. All the dishes were excellent in quality of taste . As for quantity, well you can enjoy small bites of everything, generous portions of some, or pig out. All you can eat buffet, but with a french twist.

Open for Breakfast at 7 am, Lunch at 11:30 am, Dinner at 5 pm with Sunday Brunch, including unlimited Champagne, from 11 am till 4:30 pm. Le Village Buffet has been voted "Best of Las Vegas" for three straight years by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. I agree.

Favorite Dish: Most of the dishes were excellent. Being at a buffet, I was not sure that the quality of world renowned french cooking was going to be in some of the dishes. The most detailed of chefs would give the dishes high grades for being sensory pleasing. From the breads to the pastries, every type of french tastes were included in this buffet. There are many good, some great buffets in Las Vegas, but to me, Le Village Buffet stands out.

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Las Vegas is renowned for their buffets and with very limited time, it was tough to pick one to go to. In the old days, it was all about free or cheap but this has been very much replaced with better and more interesting choices. We opted for Le Village in Paris. It got stellar reviews and was packed the two times we walked by it. Since we had eaten dinner at the Hofbrau Haus on our first and only evening, we went for lunch which is a third less expensive at $17.95. It was a bit of a splurge for us as our budget was $75 per day for both of us but it turned out to be well worth it. Though it's all a bit Disney and you don't actually feel like you are in France, they have five stations which are each themed like a "Departement" (Provence to us ignorant Americans) there, each with their own architecture and foods of the region. You walk up and either self-serve items that are already prepared or ask for things that are prepared per order.

Favorite Dish: Alsace serves traditional chicken mushroom vol-au-vent, stuffed croissants, grilled Alsacian sausage and salmon scrambled eggs. Burgundy features prime rib, ham, rotisserie chicken, veal stew and pork chops. These were my favorites. D loved the Brittany station which specializes in crepes and La Raclette which features melted cheese, cured meats, steamed potatoes, assorted vegetables and French bread. Normandy appropriately serves fish and seafood, perhaps the weakest area due to the food needing to be prepared more freshly. The dessert area was heaven though we had already stuffed ourselves to the gourd by the time we got to it. We nonetheless managed to taste a few things, the best of which was a very nice crème brûlée. We were so stuffed after all this, we were kind of glad our car was a good walk away!

I think I spent about 40 minutes in line to get inside. Paid breakfast price and got to eat lunch. Conclusion: skip breakfast, it is as usual as can be anywhere. When the lunch dishes arrived I was full and could not even try anything else leaving room for sweets. And I was right: the sweets (lunch sweets) were incredible. Better than anywhere else.

Favorite Dish: cakes

Reviews, including the recent Best of from the Review Journal stated that the buffet was exclusively
French food. I found that not to be the case. I was so looking forward to some nice French pastry
but if you want those, you will need to go to another of the outlets in Paris. The buffet had cannolis and biscotti. The cheese bar only had 4 cheeses, a dill havarti, smoked gouda, pepper jack, and a greek goat cheese. No brie. No camembert. What gives? The pesto pasta was good, but really hoped for French food. Maybe just some french bread.

Favorite Dish: The onion soup was good. They could have put some cheese near it

I think we lucked out and got a pretty short line. The food was good with plenty to choose from. We were seated quickly.

Favorite Dish: The crepes were very good. I liked most of the food. Like all buffets in Vegas, there were a few foods that looked much better than they were. But most of it was good, and the waitress kept the coffee coming.

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Well it's "french", I guess. Nothing special for foodies, but a good place for lots of food to keep you going all day. Lots of choices!!! Be prepared to stand in line for food stations.

Also be prepared to stand in line to get in for about 2 hours. Try to get there as early as you can.
$15 for breakfast, $30 for dinner

Enjoying one of the fabulous buffets at lunch time (which can be anywhere from 11 am to 4 pm) saves bucks and the buffets at mid-day are just as delicious as dinner time. We ate at Le Village Buffet in Paris around 2 pm. The variety was amazing. . . included seafood, beef, chicken, pork all the usuals, but also included fondue type choice with breads and 3 choices of sauce for dipping. The desserts were out of this world. The buffet was $17.95 at lunch time and significantly higher at supper, but can't quite remember how much.