This place is now called Country Club Buffet. On a recent Spring Break vacation with the family we decided to have lunch here before heading to Vegas due to enticing billboard outside the Casino... Boy oh boy I wish we knew what an awful place this is before we dared going inside for lunch...
After waiting in line for quite a while and paying $12.99 this was the worse buffet ever. Food was bland, buffet items were not properly labeled so one has to wonder what it is one is putting in a plate, dessert was stale and don't get me started with drinks, one has to get waiter's attention just to get some liquids, give me a break...
You have been warned come here at your own risk...
HORRIBLE!!!!!!! Â RUUUUUUUUNNN!!!!! Run fast the other way!
First off let me say that it gets one star because I can't give it zero.
I go in and all I have is a credit card... She runs it and totals it with a zero tip and has me sign it.. I have no cash and inform her of this and she says "Oh well" . "I'm not allowed to let you put a tip on your card." Sucks for the waitresses... Good looking out!
The soda is flat... the food is bland and tastes "Old" and stale. The service is mediocre at best. Â No one smiles... no one hustles.. Â And who keeps farting????????
I guess the ONE plus is I wasn't hungry anymore.
AVOID! Go to Ihop across the freeway.
The looks on the outside are deceiving. Â It appears as a run-in-the-mill type buffet, but the food is actually descent. Â The prices are very good. Â For some unknown reason, they did not charge for the kids.
The service is plain just okay...it really depends on when you go I guess. Â We went when it was really busy and there was probably about 1 server for every 10 tables!
Make sure you go between meals, this way you can enjoy the best of two meal types.
Barely edible. You figure they're busing in thousands of visitors every weekend and giving each of them free buffets. What did you expect? Reviewer M.C. rates this place a 4/5. Rio's World buffet would be a 5/5 on his scale. Pffft. Please. If Rio's is a 5 then this is barely a 2. Maybe 1.5.
Review Source:Ehh, not the best buffet, but not the worst. There were very limited choices, but some foods were bearable to eat. The potato wedges didn't taste half bad and the salad was ok. Probably what disappointed me was... everything else.
The biscuits were really stale. The mash potatoes didn't look like mash potatoes. The soup had a really funky after taste, and the meat.. well, let's not get into that.
I was also disappointed in the price! $12 for such a small buffet! Here's my advice, either save your stomach for the real buffets in Vegas, eat at the McDonalds nearby, or just... starve. Although it isn't THAT bad, it's defiantly not worth the time or the pain...
Wish there was a way to give negative stars.
We decided to spend a couple of days in Primm Valley (Stateline, NV) over the past Memorial Day weekend. Â We knew Primm is not Vegas, but it has cheap hotel rooms and entertainment for the whole fam. Â
That said, we arrived and were starving since we hadn't had breakfast. Â We took the 1980's monorail to Terrible Primms and saw a buffet. Â Man, I sure wish I had checked Yelp prior to entering that place. Â We arrived at 1:45 pm (dinner prices start at 2) and were thinking we got a good deal because we paid about $11 per person for what was left of brunch and into dinner - $60 bill.
First, selection was limited (by limited I mean I would have more choices in my mom's kitchen). Â I gave it a chance thinking they were changing the plates into dinner time. Â But I have to say that did not help.
Second, Â the food was flavor-LESS. Â We had to add salt and pepper to the Mac N Cheese just so that it was edible. Â Mac and cheese people!!! Even a 6 year old can get mac and cheese right.
Third, meat tasted bad. Â Both the "orange" chicken and "lemon and herb "fish I tried was disgusting. Â By disgusting I mean meat that it tasted like it was months old and gone bad. Â I honestly spit my chicken out into a napkin...and had to really use self control not to throw up at the table. Â Yuck!!! Worst thing I have ever tasted in my life. Â We left so much food on the plates it was sad, but definitely not a waste given the flavor and quality of the food. Â I wouldn't feed that to starving kids in Africa. Â
Fourth, service was horrible. Â Our "hostess" disappeared after she brought the first drinks and never bothered to check if we needed refills. Â
Fifth, the green walls and deco reminded me of that old 70's movie Sibyl (?) where she gets flashbacks to a green room where she was molested in. Â Sick. Â It's like a flashback to an old time nightmare.
I just wonder how the Primm owners can allow this crap. They get plenty of money from visitors gambling and staying in their rooms, can they at least hire some decent cooks and do some QC? Â It is disturbing to say the least, and all I wanted to do was call out to Chef Ramsey so he can go crazy on these people.
Just a final recommendation: Â If you're in Primm Valley do NOT trust their hotel restaurants and cafe. Â Stick to the national chain restaurants: Denny's, Panda Express, Tony Romas or McDonalds in Buffall Bills, McDonalds at Whiskey Petes, Starbucks or Subway at the Chevron station, or any of the restaurants in the Outlet Food Court. Â
Believe me, I have never wished more that I could get back $60 spent in my life!!!
Worst food I have ever eaten.
The lettuce in the salad bar was wilted. Â The blue cheese dressing tasted like mayonnaise with some blue cheese sprinkled in for fun.
The potato salad was straight from a can and tasted metallic.
The pasta salad was mushy, oily and had way too much vinegar.
The most interesting dish was some kind of shredded beef in a brown sauce. Â It looked like something that came out of a porta potty. Â I asked a worker what it was. Â She responded, "It's beef." Â I asked what was in it. Â She replied, "Beef." Â This only piqued my interest, so I dumped a ladle of "beef" on my plate.
I was anxious to try the "beef," Â So I quickly made my way to my table. Â There were so many questions running through my head: Â "Would I love it? Â Would it kill me?" Â Â
As a dipped my fork into the "beef" I felt like Christopher Columbus exploring uncharted lands. Â I had no idea what effect the "beef" would have on my taste buds, but my gut told me to explore (pun intended). Â I hoped that my exploration of this "beef" would turn out like Columbus' explorations, as he gained fame, glory and riches rather than Magellan, who was killed by natives.
Sadly, the "beef' was the culinary equivalent of Magellan. Â It was metallic, mushy, oily and disgusting. Â In essence, I was killed by natives.
Dinner sucked, no doubt. Â But I was willing to see if the dessert bar could provide a strong finish and help salvage the Green Buffet's reputation, which they obviously take very seriously considering the quality of their dinner spread.
The dessert bar had slices of pie, a couple types of cake and jell-o. Â How bad can cake and pie be, right? Â Even if they opened a box of Entenmann's and placed it out there I'd happily eat it just to get rid of the lingering metallic flavor in my mouth.
Sadly, this wasn't Entenmann's. Â Hell, it wasn't even easy bake oven quality. Â The pie was so hard I think I bent my fork trying to jab in. Â Cutting a bite was not easy. Â I feverishly sawed the pie with my knife until I was able to pry a bite off with my fork. Â Shockingly, the pie was disgusting.
In conclusion, I have just one thought to share: the "beef" looks the same coming out as it does going in. Â You've been warned.
Listen up and listen good:
I have tried several buffets in Las Vegas and you can read my reviews here. I was a General Manager for Ryans Family Steakhouse, a company that perfected & led the industry in combining the Salad Bar to hot food buffet style items, and I know QUALITY FOOD when I see it and this place isnt it, quite the opposite.
I visited Primm, NV for the 1st time in late December 2010 and went to this buffet that is located in the Terribles Primm Valley Casino. I asked to look at the buffet first and saw that the items presented on the salad bar - like the potato salad - were low quality and fresh out of a can. Not a good sign.
The Hot food items featured were 2 kinds of Alfredo noodle dishes -1 wt slices of Italian sausage & 1 wt cubed spam, Fried Chicken, Fried Catfish and hushpuppies and Pork Chops.
I asked the hostess how much it was and was FLOORED to here that they were charging $12 for lunch for this crap!! I then asked if there were any other buffets in the area and was told that there was but they were closed until after Christmas. So this left me with the choice of Taco Bell, KFC, Carls Jr and McDonalds. I actually walked out and SO WISHED NOW I HAD KEPT ON WALKING!!!
Hindsight is 20-20 right?
I made the HUGE mistake of saying "What the Hell" and going back in. I did so mainly because they had big booths and I could spread out my paper and read while eating as I like to do. Like I said, I wished I had kept walking.
Fist off, the hushpuppies were burnt and unedible unless you picked around them tearing off the bad part. The Pork Chops were so hard and dry I thought I was going to break my teeth on them But I didnt have to worry about THAT!! .....READ ON......The Fried Chicken was an abomination that wasnt hot and the  breading was something not of this Earth and bland and certainly NOTHING you'd ever find in the south where I was raised and KNOW good fried chicken when I taste it - THIS was obtrociuos and the Fried Catfish was not much better having OBVIOUSLY come from the same fryer as the burnt hushpuppies.
NOW HERE IS WERE IT GETS GOOD: Â Having picked at the food that I plated and coming up disatisfied I went to see if there was something that I could find that I liked so I helped myself to a few other items as well as a small sampling of the aformentioned Alfredo dish wt slices of Italian sausage and went back to the table where the plates from the previous samplings still sat. NBD. I took a bite of the alfrado with a fork of noodles and a small sausage slice and while chewing bit down on the sausage and experienced a HUGE pop in my mouth like an explosion. Startled and now in pain, I picked what turned out to be a small bone chard from between my front tooth and the tooth beside it. Â LOW~QUALITY doesnt even begin to describe the overpriced food this place is offering!!
Still in pain, I got up to look at my tooth in one of the mirrors on the wall and saw my front tooth was loose and the gum around it was red and swollen. MEAL OVER OK? I called one of the Hispanic waiters over and showed him what had happened and he was unable to understand and went and got the other Hispanic waiter who I explained what had just happened. The reaction I got was one like this happened everyday and was NBD and I was told to go see the hostess which I did ONLY instead of a hostess there was a sign "Back in 10 minutes" so I waited, and waited, and waited....
...Finally, still experiencing a ever growing pain in my front tooth and in need to leave to catch my bus I left. Later on as I explained what had happened to the bus driver he told me that he could eat there for free and DOES NOT.....Hmmm I wonder why?
I wont go further into the details only to say that in the course of reporting my injury at the expense of this grossly overpriced, low quality dining establishment, they have denied any responsibility whatsoever - A REAL CLASS~ACT.
The Bottom Line is Primm,Nv is in the middle of NOWHERE and these Hooligans take full advantage of this offering low quality food at a HIGH COST - $12 for Lunch on a week day? The Buffet Asia charges $7.50 and offer a huge sushi station, Shrimp, many Chinese dishes and a Mongolian Grill Station!!!
This place is BOTTOM OF THE BARRELL and one of the nastiest buffets I have probably ever experienced in my entire life. I have eaten at employee cafeterias offering cold cuts that were better than this place!!
But dont take my word for it - If you are in Primm, go see for yourself what a low class joke this buffet is, Just make sure that after you do you KEEP WALKING!!
End Note: After encountering this abomination of a place's Insurance Provider and getting nowhere, I took them to Small Claims Court & told the Judge what had occurred and the damages I had sustained and was awarded $3600 which barely covered the cost of the Dental work I required. AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COST!!!
You are not reading it wrong. It is a 4 stars score. And I am a picky yelper. If you really want to compare and get an idea the scale, my 5 stars score gives to world buffet in Rio@LV, for both price and quality.
After days of buffets in Vegas, I dropped by this place on the way heading to OC to do some little shopping at Fashion Outlet here, tho I found that the outlet was not worth a stop actually for people from OC and LA area. Anyway, I arrived here in the noon and felt hungry, just wanted to find something not heavy to eat, so walked through the hotel. The name grabbed my eyes "Green", tho not sure it's just a family name or really green. It came out the fact that the buffet was "green".
I confess this buffet doesn't have many choices for you to eat, but you know the price is very low. I only spent twelve something including tax for lunch buffet. It only got a small round table and you've got like twenty-some types of foods. Vegetables and fruits at this place were so fresh! They've got steam vegetables, very fresh color and taste. Cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon, when I was there, very fresh, not like in some even high ranked buffets where melons had darker color surface.
Pasta dishes really rocks! Fusilli and cheese was so good, as well as Conchiglie and cheese. Rotini salad stood out too. I have to mention the meat sauce for Penne! I love the parsley in it and the sausage meat in it was so well blended and cooked to bring out the taste.
Also, roast chicken drumstick was so tender and yummy, and the roasted pork slice was tasted too. And deserts tasted good, e.g. banana cream cake, the crust was very well baked showing a nice texture but granny in mouth and melted fast. Clam chowder was very attractive, so creamy and flavorful, vegetables in the soup were well kept texture, kinda crunchy.
In all, they probably got modified or updated you call. I didn't try fried dishes since I'm not in fried foods tho. I like this little fresh buffet. If you don't compare it with other big BUFFETs which you hav to pay at least twenty bucks (those huge ones with dozens of choices), just as a more home style buffet, it's really worth.
Look. For what it is, this buffet is perfectly serviceable. The price for lunch was $11.88, the choices aren't fabulous, but they aren't crap, either.
The salad bar has plenty of options; iceberg or romaine lettuce , peas, beets, mushrooms, cheese, croutons, sunflower seeds, broccoli, macaroni salad, potato salad, carrots, and a bunch of other stuff. Hot items included mashed potatoes, gravy, brussel sprouts, biscuits and gravy, baked chicken, fried chicken, taco fixings, pizza, etc.
Of the items I sampled, the salad items were fresh and satisfying. The baked chicken was actually pretty good, as were the biscuit with gravy and mashed potatoes. I even tried the brussel sprouts, and they were okay. Pizza was meh, but I have yet to have buffet pizza that is anything more than meh anyway.
There were plenty of fresh fruit options and dessert choices, none of which I tried, but the others in the restaurant seemed to be enjoying them.
It's an inexpensive buffet that can silence your tummy grumbling on your way in or out of Vegas. Don't expect prime rib or all you can eat crab legs. You'll find average food for a cheap price.
Decided to try this buffet out on our way back from Las Vegas to the Los Angeles area. Â
Be warned! Don't come here! There is a McDonalds right outside that will satisfy your hunger. Â
Food selection for the brunch that Sunday morning was very limited - eggs, french toast, bacon, sausage, and a couple of other dishes. Â Food tasted like cardboard, not much flavor, and you can definitely tell that the food wasn't made from fresh ingredients. Â Paid $13 for the brunch.
Save your money, place is not worth visiting!
Negative 5 stars.
I absolutely wished I would have been zealous enough to check Yelp reviews and fly past Primm Casino. I know my party was hungry and wanting to have a quick pit stop prior to meeting up with the rest of our group in Vegas but there's no excuse to have avoided a McDo just to start up the party with a meal at the Green's Buffet.
First thing that came into my mind after we paid and lined up at the buffet was the sheer number of people eating there. I thought to myself that that's good reason enough to have chosen this place. After all, if this place was terrible, why the number of patrons?
Second thing I noted was for $12, the variety was severely limited. I mean, aren't they trying to make an impression for themselves to have people stop at Primm before continuing to Vegas? It's the least they can do to boost business. Even Gold Valley (just a bunch of miles after Primm) has caused enough temptation with their $4.99 buffet signs here and there.
Third, if the term "Green's" was seen by a first-timer like me, I would simply think Souplantation or some fantastic salad bar that would allow me to overlook cooked food. But when the salad looks like rabbit food and the mushrooms and broccoli were both dark BROWN, OMFG, I had to SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIP.
So we all had one plate each that consisted of fried chicken, breaded shrimp, bbq sauced mystery meat, pan grilled mystery meat, and some pizza slices.
1. Fried chicken - something is definitely wrong with their breading. There was a really strange flavor to it, which I must attribute to the use of either oil used to cook the same batch of chicken over a day OR oil that was used to cook something else (perhaps the breaded shrimp).
2. Breaded shrimp - the "shrimp" used is not the standard 41/50 shrimps, which practically means 41/50 shrimps per pound. We're talking about closer to 200 shrimps per pound size. Yes, TINY. What absolutely baffles me is eating this...is practically eating fried breading because you CAN'T taste shrimp at all. When I remove that little tiny mofo out of its breading case and compared the ratio, it was like eating 5 servings of breading and 1 serving of shrimp.
3. BBQ Mystery Meat - the hell...its leftover prime rib, which makes me immediately wonder from where and when? That's more like the mystery for me now...and YES, it tasted GROSS.
4. Pan Grilled Mystery Meat - ooh, its pork loin chops but they were so hard that I had to place so much effort just trying to cut a smaller piece. When I tasted it, I wished I gave up while trying to cut it. It tasted like some leftover dish that was rinsed in hot water and recooked with another sauce.
5. Pizza slices? Tasted like Little Caesars, lol, no surprise.
HIGHLIGHT(?):
Everyone in my party had diarrhea during our weekend in Vegas. Yes, that was my poorest decision when I had Yelp in my hands. For anyone going to Vegas, SKIIIIIIIIIP Primm. You can find better value in Vegas with the same amount of money.
Primm isn't exactly a Mecca for great buffets, however I don't think The Green's Buffet deserves quite the bum rap that it gets.
Yes it's old, has a small and unexciting selection with such highlights as fried chicken, mac & cheese and doughnuts, but it actually tastes pretty good and there's a fresh salad bar with a lot of options.
My wife and I visited this place when we were in Primm to see a concert and used our coupon from our "Entertainment" book. At 2 for 1 with very few other options in town and going in knowing full well that there wasn't going to be an extravaganza of sumptuous choices, The Greens filled us up nicely for a bargain price.
It's not somewhere I would ever seek out, but I'd eat here again if I needed to stave off my hunger in Primm.
The 5 best restaurants in the 2015 Denver Restaurant Week
3,611 Views | Category: Denver
The complete list of 2015 Denver Restaurant Week businesses
1,972 Views | Category: Denver
The tourists' guide to Portillos: 5 must have dishes
3,318 Views | Category: Chicago
Pho = Pronounced "fuh" not "foe" for pho-king sake
2,915 Views | Category: Denver
Indulgery selected to exhibit at Collision Conference
2,987 Views | Category: Press Releases
Not Logged In
BUSINESSES
Local Businesses
Near Me
My Favorites
SOCIAL
Blog & News
MY ACCOUNT
Login
Register
Contact Us
Add Your Business
