A different format
The Wicked Spoon, on the second floor of The Cosmopolitan, built its name on refusing the steam table: small, individually plated dishes with a creative spin — restaurant food portioned for one, as the locals' review frames it (the third stop in his 'big three' Strip buffet series, with the genre's own history attached: the buffet was practically invented in Las Vegas). The best-buffet framing film works the format through brunch service — individually portioned dishes keep everything fresh and presentable, the enthusiastic first-timer agrees, in a city where buffets have become rare (she notes another big Strip buffet had just closed as she filmed).
Prices, as filmed — and the crab legs
The page's price record is a ladder of dated sittings: a $38 weekday brunch as priced in 2022; the complete weekday-lunch walking tour at $45 a person as filmed (2024), with a $21 bottomless-drinks add-on — crab legs, the meat variety, red velvet cake in a continuous narrated lap; and the worth-$50 sit-down verdict (September 2024), the most complete recent judgment here. The headline dish gets its own film: unlimited crab legs (2023), the snow crab program toured station to station. Standouts recur across years: brisket the carver's knife slides through, tri-tip, the fusion-leaning carnitas taco, lemony hummus.
The re-check, and the era record
The downhill revisit (2024) leads with practical intel — at 10 a.m. there was no line, and legacy members still got a monthly buy-one-get-one verified at what is now the MGM Rewards desk — before its station-by-station verdict on a former favorite. The 2020 overview closes the page as the era record it's labeled: filmed when the Wicked Spoon was briefly the only buffet open on the Strip, every dish of the period documented under reopening-era plated, staff-served service. Judge the format there; take prices from the newer films. Between the Bacchanal's scale and this room's portions, the Strip buffet's two surviving philosophies are both on this site now.
Sources: the nine videos on this page — format and brunch reviews (2021–2024), a crab-legs film, a full lunch walking tour, a first-timer's verdict, two re-checks, and the 2020 every-dish overview — summarized from their entries in our catalog.