Food is outstanding! Very delicious! Our family enjoyed the experience! All of us were smiling when we left The Buffet! We will definitely be back here!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Cody Cardin
Beautiful space, terrible service (LT) never once came back to our table to provide refills or check on us. Also, the lobster lady on (10/21/2024) would not cut your lobster tail in half if you didn’t tip her. Shady practices.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 1
Ricco AKB
Very dry food was disappointed how they allow it to sit out and just dry up for instance, the lobster tails were so dry the meat wouldn't even peel off and I wanted to try it but that ruined my meal probably wont be back
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
David Choi
The Buffet at the Monarch Casino is awesome! From the service to the food to the atmosphere, they got it all down! The price is a bit steep at ~$60/person for dinner on the weekends, but the quality and variety of food is decent for the price.
First off, the queen of the buffet, or any buffet in my opinion, are the lobster tail and snow crab. When you pay, 2 redemption coupons are handed per person; one for a lobster tail and one for 2 snow crab clusters. Although this may seem like it is not much, it really is plenty of food unless the plan is to only eat lobster and snow crab (please refer to attached picture). The pho station is ok and the prime rib was very salty, but other than those two, everything else tasted great.
Service is top notch. Our server checked in on us and cleaned up our discarded lobster/crab remains very quickly and frequently. Make sure to tip your servers even at buffets!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
JustACat
Spent $117 for 2 people on a Tuesday. Got 2 tickets each for crab legs or lobster. The lobster was so dry, wish we got double crab. Overall the food was probably the best buffet I've personally had. But I usually go to golden coral so that's not saying much. Service was quick and friendly. Id say the highlights were the prime rib and dessert bar. The fresh gelato was awesome!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Snow Crab Legs
Kisses Chiu
Went here for a farewell dinner for our friends. We ask to seat together but was told there was no seat available for our group. We ask if they could put us on a table next to each other to no avail. We are willing to wait anyway if they had just told us. And also they told us that they could do that but after a minute or two they told our friends to follow them and was put on another table very far away. We didn’t go there just to eat but to bond and talk to our friends over dinner cause we might not see them again.But they made no effort at all and we saw a lot of empty tables .
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
Ed Armstrong
Visited the buffet at The Monarch with high expectations as we have visited similar high-end buffets. The most disappointing items were almost everything other than the crab and lobster which were very average at best. The preperation quality of the lobster was lacking. The other items were what you would expect at a low end buffet in Vegas. Desserts were average but very limited.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
Christopher Thomason
Definitely not the Bacchanal or Wynn. I would not recommend. Honestly the Golden Corral has much better options for the price. I’m embarrassed to eat here at “the buffet” monarch again. It’s not exclusive enough and their are to many ghetto people and other riff raff. Monarch should raise the price to $180.
Kid-friendliness: Definitely not kid friendly. Trashy and ghetto.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Floyd Ancheta
Amazing Choices the Best Buffet in Black Hawk. The staff was great. Give em all a merit raise.
Parking: Go through Valet
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Adults, Snow Crab Legs
Deidre White
At 6pm we were told we would have an hour wait. That seemed fair so we gave them our number to text when it was our turn. They txted us at almost exactly an hour. They told us to get in line where we waited another 55 minutes! We were seated and attended to right away. We got up to get our food, it was very crowded and slow. We had tickets for lobster and got those. The lobster were terrible! Not edible. They were way over cooked and over salted. It’s seafood, it comes from a salted sea, it doesn’t need that much salt! The only things that were excellent, were the salad bar, very fresh and the steamed rice. You can’t screw that up. My husband and I were extremely disappointed with the money we spent and the terrible meal we got. We will NEVER eat at this buffet again.
As a side not to management. This is a terrible business model. Think about the additional time all of this people just stood in the line. They could have happily been dropping money in your casino. Instead, they are unhappily standing in your poorly thought out line and not spending a penny.
When we got to the buffet we were put on a waiting list and told the wait is 45 min and we will get a message on the phone when ready. After waiting 45+ min we received a message that our table is ready. When we came over to the buffet we were directed to line for another 45+ min. Very hard to enjoy your meal after 2 hrs. They should be honest and say at the outset what the real wait time is.
Ekaterina Epshtein
The waiting time is just crazy. The host take your name and call you in about 45-55 min saying your table is ready, but when you come to the restaurant there is another waiting line and another 45-50 min...?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Snow Crab Legs
April Moody
We had dinner one night here at our stay in Black Hawk. The Mongolian dishes were delicious. My husband got crab legs and lobster tail which he very much enjoyed. It is $58.99 per person. I was very pleased with the food taste and choices. The desserts weren't great but the main course options were delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Adults
Melody T
So we decided to eat here while staying at the monarch hotel and I must say that we will never go back to the buffet. So every single dish we tried was bland so bland that even salt and pepper didn't help the flavor. We all picked different dishes and the only thing we liked was the Elk sausage and as a chef I need to say that I don't think that the sausage was elk at all or maybe 5% elk was in there and it was not detectable whatsoever. Anyway, long story short, avoid the buffet! It's just a waste of money.
Food is outstanding! Very delicious! Our family enjoyed the experience! All of us were smiling when we left The Buffet! We will definitely be back here!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Beautiful space, terrible service (LT) never once came back to our table to provide refills or check on us. Also, the lobster lady on (10/21/2024) would not cut your lobster tail in half if you didn’t tip her. Shady practices.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 1
Very dry food was disappointed how they allow it to sit out and just dry up for instance, the lobster tails were so dry the meat wouldn't even peel off and I wanted to try it but that ruined my meal probably wont be back
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
The Buffet at the Monarch Casino is awesome! From the service to the food to the atmosphere, they got it all down! The price is a bit steep at ~$60/person for dinner on the weekends, but the quality and variety of food is decent for the price.
First off, the queen of the buffet, or any buffet in my opinion, are the lobster tail and snow crab. When you pay, 2 redemption coupons are handed per person; one for a lobster tail and one for 2 snow crab clusters. Although this may seem like it is not much, it really is plenty of food unless the plan is to only eat lobster and snow crab (please refer to attached picture). The pho station is ok and the prime rib was very salty, but other than those two, everything else tasted great.
Service is top notch. Our server checked in on us and cleaned up our discarded lobster/crab remains very quickly and frequently. Make sure to tip your servers even at buffets!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Spent $117 for 2 people on a Tuesday. Got 2 tickets each for crab legs or lobster. The lobster was so dry, wish we got double crab. Overall the food was probably the best buffet I've personally had. But I usually go to golden coral so that's not saying much. Service was quick and friendly. Id say the highlights were the prime rib and dessert bar. The fresh gelato was awesome!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Snow Crab Legs
Went here for a farewell dinner for our friends. We ask to seat together but was told there was no seat available for our group. We ask if they could put us on a table next to each other to no avail. We are willing to wait anyway if they had just told us. And also they told us that they could do that but after a minute or two they told our friends to follow them and was put on another table very far away. We didn’t go there just to eat but to bond and talk to our friends over dinner cause we might not see them again.But they made no effort at all and we saw a lot of empty tables .
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 4
Service: 1
Visited the buffet at The Monarch with high expectations as we have visited similar high-end buffets. The most disappointing items were almost everything other than the crab and lobster which were very average at best. The preperation quality of the lobster was lacking. The other items were what you would expect at a low end buffet in Vegas. Desserts were average but very limited.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
Definitely not the Bacchanal or Wynn. I would not recommend. Honestly the Golden Corral has much better options for the price. I’m embarrassed to eat here at “the buffet” monarch again. It’s not exclusive enough and their are to many ghetto people and other riff raff. Monarch should raise the price to $180.
Kid-friendliness: Definitely not kid friendly. Trashy and ghetto.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Amazing Choices the Best Buffet in Black Hawk. The staff was great. Give em all a merit raise.
Parking: Go through Valet
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Adults, Snow Crab Legs
At 6pm we were told we would have an hour wait. That seemed fair so we gave them our number to text when it was our turn. They txted us at almost exactly an hour. They told us to get in line where we waited another 55 minutes!
We were seated and attended to right away. We got up to get our food, it was very crowded and slow. We had tickets for lobster and got those. The lobster were terrible! Not edible. They were way over cooked and over salted. It’s seafood, it comes from a salted sea, it doesn’t need that much salt!
The only things that were excellent, were the salad bar, very fresh and the steamed rice. You can’t screw that up.
My husband and I were extremely disappointed with the money we spent and the terrible meal we got. We will NEVER eat at this buffet again.
As a side not to management. This is a terrible business model. Think about the additional time all of this people just stood in the line. They could have happily been dropping money in your casino. Instead, they are unhappily standing in your poorly thought out line and not spending a penny.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Salad Bar
Restaurantji Recommends
Way too long of a wait.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
When we got to the buffet we were put on a waiting list and told the wait is 45 min and we will get a message on the phone when ready. After waiting 45+ min we received a message that our table is ready. When we came over to the buffet we were directed to line for another 45+ min. Very hard to enjoy your meal after 2 hrs. They should be honest and say at the outset what the real wait time is.
The waiting time is just crazy. The host take your name and call you in about 45-55 min saying your table is ready, but when you come to the restaurant there is another waiting line and another 45-50 min...?
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Snow Crab Legs
We had dinner one night here at our stay in Black Hawk. The Mongolian dishes were delicious. My husband got crab legs and lobster tail which he very much enjoyed. It is $58.99 per person. I was very pleased with the food taste and choices. The desserts weren't great but the main course options were delicious.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Adults
So we decided to eat here while staying at the monarch hotel and I must say that we will never go back to the buffet. So every single dish we tried was bland so bland that even salt and pepper didn't help the flavor.
We all picked different dishes and the only thing we liked was the Elk sausage and as a chef I need to say that I don't think that the sausage was elk at all or maybe 5% elk was in there and it was not detectable whatsoever.
Anyway, long story short, avoid the buffet! It's just a waste of money.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
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