Las Vegas is known for buffets — fancy ones, plain ones. Last week, I made a video visit to the Wynn Las Vegas buffet. This buffet has been ranked in some polls as the best in Las Vegas, but of course, “the best” is up to each customer’s evaluation.

The $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas opened in 2005. The luxury hotel/casino, named after developer Steve Wynn, has earned numerous five-star ratings, so one might expect its buffet to be special.

Walking into the buffet, one sees a decor filled with huge displays of flowers including floor-to-ceiling flower towers. The women who seat patrons are dressed in bright pink suits giving a friendly professional air to the whole proceeding. Dining areas are divided into areas that seem more like small restaurants than large mess halls.

If the Wynn Las Vegas buffet isn’t the best in Las Vegas, certainly it is one of the best in terms of product descriptions. Just reading the labels makes mouths water. Although the accompanying video was taken during a lunch visit, some of the same items also appear on the dinner menu, though the dinner menu does offer popular additional entree items such as oven roasted prime rib, rosemary crusted leg of lamb and Alaska Opilio crab legs.

If you are a new visitor to Las Vegas, and if you gamble and accumulate points at either the Wynn Las Vegas or its sister property, Encore Las Vegas, you may get a free buffet. I was told that a new gambler earning 300 points can “spin the wheel” and possibly win free buffets. A new gambler accumulating 750 points earns a free buffet if a request is made through the Red Card booth. Las Vegas locals earn a free buffet by earning 750 points within 30 days. I was advised confidentially that if a gambler earns 750 or more points, but doesn’t ask for an earned buffet, then later comes to ask and is denied because too much time has passed, “Just ask to see a host, and depending on your play, you ‘might’ get your free buffet(s) anyway.”

The Wynn Las Vegas Buffet prices are: breakfast $20.99; lunch Monday through Friday $25.99; dinner Sunday through Thursday $38.99; dinner Friday and Saturday $39.99; Saturday and Sunday brunch $32.99.

The dress for buffet guests is comfortable and casual, though for special occasions anything goes…including wedding dresses.

Come to Las Vegas….and if you don’t gamble or go to nightclubs…you can at least eat very well, especially at the Wynn Las Vegas buffet.