Tooling around Vegas late at night one is left with the conundrum...do I want to spend $40/50/person+ and expect great food (being disappointed with anything less), or do I spend less and take a major roll of the dice that my dinner might be better fit for a dog?\n\nDeciding that at least if a buffet isn't that great, you can still really fill up, we found ourselves on line for a couple minutes before entering this buffet at the Flamingo.  Selection was decent, but hardly huge, and even the dessert area, while taking up a lot of space, didn't really have that much variety to offer.  Do we really need 25 feet of \"sugar-free desserts\"?\n\nThe drink service was annoying to say the least, as the soda hardly tasted right, and the servers rarely paid you any attention.  Why no open area to get your own drinks?\n\nThe food itself ranged from marginal at best (lobster bisque, pasta) to forgettable but decent (poultry dishes, other seafood) to fairly good (green beans, fried rice, beef dishes).  The desserts were hit and miss as well.\n\nIn the end, for $25 a person, this was right on the edge of tolerable.  One could fill up on pretty decent food, and that was the saving grace.  However, I'm sure it far from the best buffet or best deal available on the strip.  It was essentially the hand we were dealt, and at least we didn't lose our shirts.