An all you can eat breakfast buffet at a bargain price!
The Texas Station Casino is one of several Station Casinos in the Las Vegas Valley. The Station Casinos are known as local’s casinos. There are no Station Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip and most of their locations are on major thoroughfares around town. The Station Casino not only attracts locals, they also attract visitors of Las Vegas that have no desire to be on the Las Vegas Strip.
Casinos that are marketed to the local residents of Las Vegas offer some good deals on food and entertainment. The Station Casinos are famous for offering good buffet food at a low price. I featured the Santa Fe Station Feast Buffet lunch in a restaurant review article last year. The pictures of the lunch food in that article looked pretty tasty and Octoberfest was the theme of the food that day.
When I first moved to Las Vegas, I was living on a shoestring budget. Because money was tight, I took advantage of every dining special that I could find around town. At that time, The Feast Buffet breakfast at the Palace Station Casino cost only $2.99! Often I was comped the price of the buffet, because I earned gambling points while playing the horses. Because I gambled in the sports and race book, the casino also comped the cocktails. I had a daily routine of making money on horse racing wagers in the morning, eating for cheap or free at the breakfast buffet, before going to work in the late afternoon at a low pay customer service call center job. That was a cheap way to live when I was starting over in Las Vegas!
A couple years later, the price of The Feast breakfast buffet was raised from $2.99 to $3.99. At that time the food quality was just okay at best. Many locals complained about the one dollar hike in price, but the price was still a bargain.
During the economic depression of the last four years, the Station Casino system made a few changes that were meant to attract new customers and to retain the clientele base that they already established. The Station Casinos remodeled many of their Feast Buffet dining rooms and improved the overall food quality. The food quality was very good and the price of The Feast Buffet breakfast was raised to $4.99 where is currently stands today. Considering the improved food quality, the high price of gas and higher food delivery prices due big oil price gouging, the $4.99 price for The Feast breakfast buffet was still a bargain.
A person would be hard pressed to find any restaurant that offered an all you can eat breakfast buffet for that price outside of Las Vegas. Nowhere else in the world can you go out for breakfast when very hungry, chow down on 4 or 5 big plates of good breakfast food, have coffee, tea, sodas and juice included in the price and get away with only dishing out a penny less than five dollars! Of course it is always polite to tip the buffet server on the way out the door, but that still makes for a huge breakfast meal that is cheaper than any national franchise chain restaurant that serves breakfast!
IHOP, Cracker Barrel and Denny’s charge more for 2 eggs and coffee, than what a Station Casino charges for an all you can eat breakfast buffet. You may envision that only scrambled eggs or fancied up scrambled eggs are the only egg offerings on a cheap breakfast buffet. Wrongo Charley! The Texas Station Casino Feast Buffet has an omelette and egg station where eggs are cooked to order. A customer selects the ingredients that they want in an omelette or the customer states how they want their eggs cooked and the breakfast cook instantly starts the order. Breakfast cooking is done at a quick pace, so customers get a kick out of watching there breakfast being cooked by a professional. A good breakfast cook can cook eggs over easy in less than 20 seconds. A good breakfast cook can make a 2 or 3 egg omelette in less than 60 seconds. Customers that are used to seeing breakfast cooked at a slow painstaking pace in their home kitchen do get a thrill out of seeing a professional cook sling hash as fast as lightening. You might say that a breakfast egg cooking station at a buffet is entertainment at its best, especially when most of the so called expert chefs on television cooking shows cannot even flip an egg without breaking the egg!
I am an old school trained cook and chef who has more professional cooking experience than what most modern chefs will ever have. In the old days, if a person wanted to become a cook, the first restaurant job was washing dishes. If the person was slow but efficient at washing dishes, that person was pointed toward prep cook duties. Prep cook duties usually start off as peeling potatoes, carrots, onions and washing salad greens.
If an employee was a fast, organized and efficient dishwasher, that person was pointed toward breakfast line cooking as their first cooking duty. A breakfast cook in a busy restaurant has to be faster than lightening! A dining room with a seating capacity of 150 people can be filled and emptied twice in one hour during peak breakfast serving hours. That means flipping a lot of eggs and slinging a lot of hash at a very fast berserk pace!
Most cooks cannot handle a hot breakfast cooking pace without freaking out from sensory overload. Some cooks can. I can handle the fastest breakfast cooking pace, because I was trained by a US Navy cook who served breakfast to over 15,000 people every meal at the naval base in San Diego. That US Navy chef who trained me on my first breakfast cooking job at a busy hotel resort kitchen, knew every cooking trick and shortcut in the book and some that were never printed. I was trained to be a breakfast cook that was fast as lightening!
I have been witnessed doing some unimaginably fast coordinated reactions with my hands while cooking and my speed and agility skills can be attributed to the good solid fast pace training that I had when I first learned breakfast cooking. A good fast organized breakfast cook is a good candidate for training to become a highly skilled fine dining saute station cook and saucier. After three years of professional cooking experience that included one year of fast pace breakfast cooking, all I had to do was walk into a restaurant that advertised help wanted, talk to the chef for five minutes and the chef would ask how soon can you start work! Every chef knew that I could handle the fastest pace without getting in the weeds and that is what most chefs demand from a newly hired lead cook.
Even with all the chef schooling in the world, there is no substitute for the solid experience that a fast pace breakfast cooking job can provide. A chef that has a solid history of fast pace breakfast cooking has very big advantage over chefs that were too snobbish to get involved with breakfast cooking at all. If you go to a busy breakfast buffet that has an open view kitchen, like The Feast Buffet at the Texas Station Casino and witness how fast a good breakfast cook moves, you will understand why breakfast cooking is the solid old school first step for a cook to become a great chef!
Okay! Enough of laying out the facts of professional cooking life! The Texas Station Feast Buffet offers everyday standard easy to recognize American breakfast cuisine. There are also many Mexican and Spanish cuisine influences in the fancier breakfast buffet offerings. Many people overlook the fact that the American southwest was once owned and ruled by Mexico and the Spanish empire. That includes southern Nevada and most of the republic of Texas. After the United States went to war with Mexico and Spain in the 1800’s, new borders were established, but the Mexican and Spanish cuisine influences remained. Mexican and Spanish breakfast food is some of the tastiest breakfast food that there is. The chorizo scrambled eggs at the Texas Station buffet ended up being turned into a breakfast burrito that I put together on one of the plates of food in the pictures above. I like a good breakfast burrito!
I do not always attack a buffet by piling large amounts of food on a plate, but I did have a few plates of good old standard American breakfast food as you can see in the photographs. Fresh donuts were also an option and I chose to eat a really nicely made crumpet. A crumpet and coffee is an old tradition for many Americans.
The food at the Feast Buffet breakfast at the Texas Station Casino does not compare to the food that is offered at pricey high end fancy breakfast buffets on the Las Vegas Strip, but the breakfast food at a local’s casino does not have to be super fancy. It just has to be good well prepared standard breakfast food. That is what regular folks and locals prefer, especially if the price is right!
I highly recommend the Feast Buffet breakfast at the Texas Station! At $4.99, the Texas Station Feast Buffet breakfast is quite a bargain. The Texas Station Casino is located on North Rancho by Lake Mead Boulevard. Just look for the red white and blue colors of the republic of Texas flag and you cannot miss finding this casino! Yum! ... Shawna
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