Expect to see less borsch and beetroot at the hotel buffet with everyone from the concierge to the butler honing their hospitality skills to international standards.

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Two friends and I decided to go for a Sunday buffet at a hotel on the coastal area.

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Wicked Spoon, the all-you-can-eat operation at the relatively new Cosmopolitan (every casino hotel in Vegas has a buffet restaurant) actually changed the paradigm of this pretty standardized dining style.

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An extreme alternative is Niji, a Japanese Restaurant inside the Hyatt Hotel which offers an opulent lunch buffet and a view of the ocean waves.

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If a good breakfast is important to you, call ahead to determine what will be offered because the buffet can vary widely from hotel to hotel.

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Over there on the couch was Warren Buffet in bright blue pajamas and a white hotel robe.

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As one hotel adds an amenity, say free Internet or a breakfast buffet, customers begin to expect it at all hotels.

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Up the street, at the hotel where most of the strongmen were staying, the breakfast buffet was provisioned like a bomb shelter.

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After feasting on a buffet, the ministers took to the dance floor, outside the elegant pool gardens of the hotel, next to the golf course.

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