The title fight
The modern Strip buffet is a two-way fight — Wynn vs Caesars — and the Bacchanal carries Caesars' side in two films: the March 2026 Sunday-brunch tour and verdict (seafood, carving, the Asian station's tangerine yuzu chicken and roasted duck; small portions are how you cover 500+ dishes) and the complete December 2025 tour spelling the current pattern — brunch Friday–Sunday only ($86.99 as filmed), weekend dinner $91.99, Sunday–Thursday dinner-only, deluxe seafood at brunch too; arrive early, because late seatings short-change the value. Bacchanal's own page carries its skeptics; this guide takes the title-fight view.
The formats, and the counterweights
Wicked Spoon (Cosmopolitan, second floor) is the other philosophy — small individually-plated dishes — in two films: the unlimited-crab-legs tour (2023) and the downhill re-check (2024), which leads with intel (10 a.m., no line; a legacy buy-one-get-one verified at the MGM Rewards desk) before its station-by-station verdict. The Bellagio Buffet gets the price-versus-quality counterweight: good food, plate by plate — but not $60 good, its reviewer concludes; worth it around $30 a person on a two-for-one, with a $15 South Point brunch rated better value. And the 2026 bulletin: with the MGM Grand buffet closed, Excalibur's is the last true budget buffet on the Strip — everything, drinks and dessert included, under $35 as filmed, omelette and carvery tested properly; South Point and the Palms carry the off-Strip flag.
The new species, and downtown
A different animal entirely: Mott 32's Brunch 32 Limitless at Palazzo (March 2026) — $68 a person for two hours of ordering all you want from an eight-section menu (dim sum to the sugar-coated barbecue pork bun; the tableside Peking duck an extra-cost signature she calls the best reason to come once; drink tiers $38/$78/$298 stacked on top). Her wider point: Venetian/Palazzo is quietly the limitless-brunch capital of the Strip. Downtown, the Garden Court at Main Street Station — at filming the only buffet downtown, brunch 8–2 daily — closes the guide with the one-big-meal strategy. The genre is shrinking; what's left is genuinely good, and this page prices it honestly, year labels on.
Sources: the eight videos on this page — two Bacchanal tours, two Wicked Spoon films, a Bellagio value verdict, the 2026 budget-buffet bulletin, a limitless-brunch test and a downtown brunch review — summarized from their entries in our catalog.