Wicked Spoon Buffet at Cosmopolitan re-visted April 2014!

During my April Trip to Las Vegas for the Slot Fanatic's Message Board's annual Spring Meet, I somehow ended up eating at more buffets in one trip then I usually visit in a year. I'm blaming it on Ken (CennPennTraveler), that's my story and I'm sticking with it. Anyway due to Ken (ahem) we ate breakfast at the Wicked Spoon Buffet on Thursday before leaving for tours of Bally Technologies and Aristocrat Slots.

My last review of Cosmopolitan's Wicked Spoon Buffet was back in 2011 and here's a link to it in case you want to compare.
http://www.lasvegasdaze.com/2011/02/wicked-spoon-buffet-at-cosmopolitan.html

Prices vary for Wicked Spoon according to what day of the week it is and which meal. We went around 9:30am or so for breakfast on a Thursday.  Because I'm gold level with Cosmopolitan's Identity Player's Club we had the 2 for 1 price for the buffet plus I was able to pay for it with points from my play by just handing the cashier my Identity card and driver's license. There's a new tier for Identity called Sterling that only takes 5000 points to earn for the year and it also gets the 2 for 1 deal at the buffet.

The previous morning we had breakfast at Le Village Buffet at the Paris hotel and we thought their selection of food choices was very limited and with the exception of the made to order crepes our opinion was the food quality wasn't that great. Wicked Spoon in comparison had about 4 times or more the selection of dishes and the food quality was higher.

The presentation at Wicked Spoon remains as in years past with a lot of the food being plated in individual portions, which I personally prefer.

One of the stand out selections for me was the Watermelon Sriracha pictured below! So simple but very refreshing and just the right amount of spiciness, at least for me. The other dish was a panna cotta with ginger that I also liked.

I'm a fan of beets so I loved their selection of multi-colored sliced beets and salad.

For salad lovers the selection is great and the asparagus salad is excellent. I also enjoyed the artichoke and Greek salads.

There's a wide variety of ethnic foods to select from in addition to the usual buffet type dishes of fried chicken, beef, ham, and pork roasts.

I'll let the photos speak for themselves since everyone's taste is different. Remember to click on the photos to enlarge them if you want close ups.

Wicked Spoon Buffet at Cosmopolitan

I'm standing in front of one of the walls as you enter the Wicked Spoon Buffet at Cosmopolitan.

We usually avoid buffet's in Vegas but have at one time or another tried most of the higher rated ones. We enjoyed the Wicked Spoon enough to return to it the next day and both times were for lunch so the dinner buffet likely has some different or additional offerings.

Current price for the lunch buffet at Wicked Spoon is $19.00 and I felt that was a great price considering that the large selection of mini desserts they offer alone would cost about $3 or $4 each at my local Whole Foods.

Quite a few selections are served in individual containers which I thought was a great idea both for sanitary reasons and to avoid the waste that happens at buffets all too often due to people loading up on items they later can't finish. The dish on the right is their chili with a topping of cornbread and my husband says it was outstanding chili.

At the two lunches we ate at there was a lot of pasta selections and short ribs were featured in several dishes from Korean style ribs, in small pasta casseroles and small slices of the boneless meat served in those individual containers.

A lot of the salads were in separate dishes. They had shelled medium sized shrimp and cocktail sauce together in a separate dish though you could take as many dishes as you wanted.