Destination: Las Vegas- Day 1 + Buffet Review

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As some of you may know Mike and I went on Vacation to Las Vegas, with a side trip to California, to visit a friend currently doing her Clinical Fellowship in Speech Language Pathology at a hospital right outside Vegas. This trip also happen to coincide with our 3 year anniversary and to be the first major personal trip I have taken after going gluten free. Let me tell you it was an experience! I am going to break our vacation into several posts so I can share some photos of our trip, a brief idea of our adventures and some comments on traveling gluten free to these destinations. Any reviews of restaurants will be in italics if you wish to scroll and read them only. So without further hesitation:

Day One: The first Las Vegas Experience 


For our departure I packed raisins and enough Lara bars to feed a kindergarten class for snack time, or two. Jet Blue has introduced a new gluten free snack which I was delighted to see, POPCORNERS! So I also ate those up like a fiend. My snacks and the Popcorners definitely came in handy as we left at 6am Eastern time and did not to eat a meal until 1pm Pacific time. We checked our bags at a local hotel, where we were not staying and hit the strip. Las Vegas is definitely an interesting place to say the least:

View from the overpass between the Tropicana and Excalibur 

Hungry as we were our first actual destination was to check out the Buffet at Excalibur:

‘Not So Locally’ Gluten Free: Part I 
Round Table Buffet- Excalibur Casino and Hotel
http://www.excalibur.com/restaurants/roundtable_buffet.aspx



This was my first buffet experience since going gluten free. The staff there was very friendly and called out the chef to me. The chef gave me a tour of the buffet options, pointing out rather quickly what I could eat. Unfortunately, he was unsure of some things and seemed too rushed to clarify for me. That being said, only the obvious were safe for my consumption although there were a lot of those options so I wasn’t left hungry. The food quality was unfortunately poor for what I ate and while we left full we were not please with the food choices.


Overall Roundtable Buffet scores:
Gluten Free Options: .5

Atmosphere: .5
Price: 1
Hospitality: .5
Food Quality: 0

 


After lunch at the Roundtable we finally met up with my friend, Liz, who got off work early! We enjoyed the strip until the evening:

Mike and Liz in the entrance way of Caesars:
The Current floral display at the Bellagio:

 Fountain show in front of the Bellagio:

Sun setting over the Venetian Hotel and Casino:
Mike and I :

We then hit up a Local P.F Changs for Dinner, which was of course delicious and quick service (I’ll save you a review of this as we all know the chain is great and GF dedicated!)! At this point mike and I were exhausted so we called it an early night in preparation for tomorrow’s adventures! All in all a good arrival and first night! 

Stay Tuned for the remainder of our trip! 
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