ok, so now I HAVE to win a ticket to the wsop....

TimFoil

Carnival World Buffet
Rio - 3700 W. Flamingo Rd.
Las Vegas, NV, 89103
(702) 777-7777

Cuisine: Buffet
Average cost: $15 to $25


Review: Reputed to serve a mind-numbing 5,000-plus meals on a good day, the Carnival World Buffet offers just about anything anyone could want, at prices almost anyone can afford.

Entering this buffet almost feels like going to sea, being faced with wave after wave of hot and cold food, a veritable tsunami of carbs, fat and protein.

The dim sum station features dishes such as char siu bao, bread dumplings with a sweet, barbecued pork filling; and a toothsome shrimp dumpling called ha gow. At the noodle bar, another Asian station, you order your noodle of choice by number. The noodles are diverse, things like the flat rice pad Thai, Vietnamese-style pho, and various Chinese pastas. The chef will then place your noodle in a delicious broth, and you will embellish it at a nearby condiment bar. The possibilities are endless.

The hummus here is just fine. So is a raft of Italian pastas, with sauces to match, all sitting in their respective trays at a steam-table station. An impressive array of dishes such as chile verde, quesadillas, enchiladas and carne asada is the ticket at the beautifully stocked Mexican station, with condiments, hot sauces and leafy green herbs to match.

There are three kinds of peel-and-eat shrimp, all differently spiced, by the first-rate seafood section, which also features a stainless steel wall into which portholes filled with blue water have been etched. Also in this station are assorted fried fish, like scallops, halibut and shrimp.

Hand-rolls and sushi are available at a well-stocked sushi and Japanese food station, which also features pop-out-of-their pods edamame (salty, green, boiled soybeans), plus teppanyaki, meats and veggies cooked on a grill, Benihana style.

And of course, there are the desserts. A wonderful hot crêpe suzette server is filled with citrusy, butter-drizzled crêpes, as good a version of the dish as you would have had in an old Vegas gourmet room. A gelato bar serves eight different flavors of the dense, creamy Italian ice cream, and tiramisu in little chocolate cups is a treat, as well.

Dub13

the poker should also be good...

ionapaul

Nah, you all have it wrong - the real, the best, THE ONLY attraction worth talking about in Vegas is Big Elvis, who performs (FOR FREE!!!!!) in the Barbary Coast (on one of the corners of the intersection beside the Bellagio / Ballys / Caesars) on Thursday afternoons. The man is 500lbs of Graceland-inspired heaven, the voice of an angel sent down by Po-Kar to uplift the masses! Take it from me, better than Cirque du Soleil, better than the Blue Man Group, damnit, he's even better than Siegfreid und Roy No white tigers though, what can ya do?

califano

Theres no mention of the Cobb Salad?.
If you ask and they dont do it but you want it does the chef make a face, because if he does just forget it and i will order something from the menu.



Original Cobb Salad

Serves 4 to 6

I know this from my own cooking, and all good cooks will identify: It is most often the dish you slap-dash together out of desperate necessity (and usually leftovers) that is the biggest triumph. How many times have I berated myself for not writing down exactly what I did when throwing dinner together from what's lurking in the back of the refrigerator and cupboard? (On the other hand, I have, indeed, written many down and they are collected in "What To Cook When You Think There's Nothing in the House To Eat," to be re-published by HarperPerennial in February.)

Which brings me to Cobb Salad: One of the most famous dishes in American culinary history was created on the spur of the moment.

Cobb salad was created at the Brown Derby in Hollywood. Here's the official story ... or legend, if you will ... as recorded by the Brown Derby itself:

"One night in 1937, Bob Cobb, then owner of The Brown Derby, prowled hungrily in his restaurant's kitchen for a snack. Opening the huge refrigerator, he pulled out this and that: a head of lettuce, an avocado, some romaine, watercress, tomatoes, some cold breast of chicken, a hard-boiled egg, chives, cheese and some old-fashioned French dressing. He started chopping. Added some crisp bacon -- swiped from a busy chef.

"The Cobb salad was born. It was so good, Sid Grauman (Grauman's Chinese Theatre), who was with Cobb that midnight, asked the next day for a 'Cobb Salad.' It was so good that it was put on the menu.

"Cobb's midnight invention became an overnight sensation with Derby customers, people like movie mogul Jack Warner, who regularly dispatched his chauffeur to pick up a carton of the mouth-watering salad."

Since 1937, more than 4 million Cobb salads have been sold at Brown Derby restaurants, according to the Brown Derby Restaurant Group, which, now that the two original Hollywood restaurants have closed, is what the company calls itself. It licenses the restaurant name for merchandise (including bottled Cobb salad dressing), as well as to Disney, which opened a reproduction of the original Brown Derby in Orlando, Florida, in 1989 and, in 1990. signed a 20-year agreement for Brown Derby restaurants in Tokyo, Paris and Anaheim, California. You can read all about The Brown Derby and its glamorous customers in The Brown Derby Restaurant: A Hollywood Legend, which includes many of the Derby's recipes.

Footnote: There's also a legend about how the Brown Derby got its name: One night, Herbert Somborn, an ex-husband of Gloria Swanson, remarked -- speaking of the mood of Hollywood in the roaring 20s -- that "You could open a restaurant in an alley and call it anything. If the food and service were good, the patrons would just come flocking. It could be called something as ridiculous as the Brown Derby." Hence, a restaurant shaped like a hat opened near Hollywood and Vine in 1926.


1/2 head lettuce, about 4 cups

1 bunch watercress

1 small bunch chicory, about 2 1/2 cups

1/2 head romaine, about 2 1/2 cups

2 medium peeled tomatoes

6 strips of crisp bacon
2 breasts of boiled chicken

3 hard cooked eggs

1 avocado

1/2 cup crumbled Roquefort cheese

2 tablespoons chopped chives

1 cup (approximately) Original Cobb Salad Dressing


Cut lettuce, half the watercress, chicory and romaine in fine pieces and arrange in a large salad bowl. Cut tomatoes, bacon, chicken, eggs, and avocado in small pieces and arrange, along with the crumbled Roquefort cheese, in strips on the greens. Sprinkle finely cut chives over the Cobb salad and garnish with the remaining watercress. Just before serving mix the salad with the Cobb salad dressing.


Original Cobb Salad Dressing
Makes 1 1/2 cups

1/4 cup water

1/4 cup red wine vinegar

1/4 teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice

2 teaspoons salt

3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
3/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

1/4 teaspoon dry English mustard

1 small clove garlic, finely minced

1/4 cup full-flavored olive oil

3/4 cup salad oil



Blend all ingredients together, except oils. Add olive and salad oils. Mix well. Blend well again before mixing with salad.

A note from the Brown Derby: "The water is optional, depending upon the degree of oiliness desired in the dressing."

Krusty_Clown

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