{"id":55871,"date":"2013-09-30T05:52:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=55871"},"modified":"2020-04-05T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T16:42:30","slug":"wynn-brunch-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=55871","title":{"rendered":"The Wynn Brunch — a Culinary Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate these posts. I really do. The posts were I look back on a great experience\/restaurant and have to recant because the second experience was terrible.<\/p>\n

I’m talking about The Wynn<\/em>. In 2012, I loved it. I hailed it. I worshiped it.<\/a> And, it was rated as one of the top restaurants in Vegas by Time Magazine.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what’s happened but our second experience was horrific, and to make it worse, we made a special trip from the other side of the strip to try out the buffet.<\/p>\n

What made it so terrible this time around: cranky staff, filthy dishes, terrible seating, and they took away all the fabulous gluten-free\/vegan options and replaced them with non-food like cheap fruit (melon slices). <\/p>\n

In all my searching I discovered that the only thing I could eat was a passionfruit tart, which will forever be known as the $50 tart.<\/p>\n

But, my favourite part in the entire experience (sarcasm): when discovering a serving spoon in the middle of a platter of Spanish rice, I asked the server if she could replace the spoon with one that wouldn’t burn my hand when I picked it up. <\/p>\n

She promptly grabbed the entire platter, walked over to the garbage, threw the entire thing in, slammed the spoon into the garbage, and walked out of the serving area.<\/p>\n

If she had just exchanged the spoon, the Spanish rice would have been my breakfast.<\/p>\n

My recommendation: there is a cute little cafe around the corner from the buffet that has plenty of breakfast options for a fraction of the cost. It’s called “The Cafe.” (And, they serve “expensive” fruit: berries, kiwi, citrus, pineapple)<\/p>\n