Stop into Fired Pie for a fast-casual make-your-own pizza or salad.Ĭost: $64.95 - adults, $34.95 - children 10 and youngerĮnjoy a Thanksgiving buffet with chilled seafood (Penn Cove mussels, snow crab claws, clams, shrimp), vegetable and pasta salads, cheeses and fruits, braised turkey osso bucco, sweet potato mouse with shallot whipped potatoes, prime rib, turkey breast, smoked pork loin. Menu items include Japanese-style fried turkey, braised turkey rice hot pot with mountain greens, robata grilled sweet potato casserole, homemade stuffing with roasted shishito peppers and miso dashi, and pecan pie for dessert. Reservations: 48 or Roka Akor is offering a Japanese twist on the traditional Thanksgiving meal. Whether that's the reason, or you just don't feel like forcing a tornado through your kitchen this year, there are a bunch of Valley restaurants that would love to see (and seat) you.ĭid I miss one? Send an email to and I'll look into adding it. It's even more daunting of a task if you're maybe, perhaps, not the best cook. There's the turkey, the stuffing, the casserole, the potatoes and, of course, the desserts! Nowadays, options are more limited, though these buffets remain favorites among tourists.It's no joke that cooking for Thanksgiving is a lot of work. El Rancho Vegas’ Buckaroo Buffet only charged a dollar for all-you-can-eat fare when it opened back in the day.īefore the pandemic, Las Vegas had more than 70 buffets inside casinos, spanning from Aliante to Henderson, Summerlin to the Strip, serving gourmet fare at various stations. Those early chuck wagons might have served some hot dishes along with cold cuts. It may have seemed like no big deal at the time, but the casino buffet would become a Las Vegas signature restaurant.” Knowing that the hungry gamblers would be happy with good, plentiful meats and snacks, the El Rancho Vegas’s managers created the all-night chuck wagon. “The buffet filled a need for the casino, which wanted to keep its late-night gamblers happy, but didn’t want the expense of keeping a full restaurant open all night. As UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research writes, “quantity was usually emphasized over quality.” El Rancho Vegas, the Strip’s first resort, came up with the chuck wagon, the earliest version of the modern-day buffet to turn up in Las Vegas.

Culinary trailblazers back in the 1940s found a way to keep gamblers inside the resorts with cheap food, and lots of it.

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