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Vegas is a buffet town. When 99-cent all-you-can-eat options disappeared along with the Sahara, the luxury buffet took hold and now diners are paying upwards of $20 per person just for breakfast. The Bellagio Buffet, The Buffet at Wynn, The Wicked Spoon at the Cosmopolitan, and the newly renovated Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace have…
Imagine this: you’re on a plane with wifi returning home from a week away. You know your fridge is empty, but your plane lands at 11:00pm and the thought of going grocery shopping when you land or before work tomorrow makes you want to jump out of the Exit Row. If you could order groceries…
While what happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, there’s one thing that Sin City just can’t contain within its neon-colored walls: traffic. If you’ve ever made the drive to or from LA, you know that traffic can stretch a four hour trip into a seven hour nightmare. With one road — I-15 — as…
I’m in Vegas for the weekend at BACon along with the majority of other BoardingArea bloggers, so I’ll keep this short as our day of learning starts fairly soon. I came across this article via a friend (thanks, Jon!) and it fits so perfectly into the Fly&Dine canon that I had to tell you about…
As a follow-up to me earlier post about in-room dining at the new SLS Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, I thought you might want to see the actual menus. Here they are (including the Lux Dining menu which wasn’t anywhere to be found during my stay): FYI: These are all subject to change without…
In the future, paper will be obsolete. That’s partially because technology has replaced a lot of paper’s usefulness and partially because we’re not going to have trees in the future since Captain Planet is dead and gone. The brand new SLS in Las Vegas is clearly trying to get a jump on our paperless world…
There’s a discussion going on over at /r/Travel on Reddit where people have been naming their biggest travel pet peeves and it’s inspired me on this fine Friday morning. So let’s play a game. It’s called “Name Your Biggest Travel Pet Peeve.” The rules are simple: you name your biggest travel pet peeve in the…
Have you ever thought, “If I could just take a week off of my regular life and focus on eating well and working out, I wouldn’t be such an enormous sack of shit all the time?†I have. Often. Luckily, I got to put my theory to the test a few weeks ago when I…
My neck hurts. It’s not from sleeping in a strange position, although I probably did. It’s from shaking my head so furiously after seeing Olive Garden’s new promotion. Perhaps you’ve heard about it. For $100, 1000 Olive Garden fans purchased the right to take unlimited Tours of Italy for 49 days in a row. The…
Hey, your favorite (or most hated, whatever) daily deals site is now offering time-specific deals. You don’t even need to bring your little voucher with you. When you buy the Groupon — currently just for restaurants that take reservations, but soon for salons, gyms, etc. — you’ll now be able to choose the exact time…
The Mondrian is opening a property outside of the US for the first time and London is the lucky recipient. New York powerhouse chef Seamus Mullen is overseeing the whole restaurant program with Aussie toque Luke Rayment serving as his executive chef. “Sea Containers,” named after the historic building the hotel is housed in, won’t…
You like Champagne? You like Paris? Perhaps you should think about combining the two and celebrating the launch of Dom Perignon’s Rosé from 2003. You can do just that at Le Royal Monceau, aka Raffles Paris. Instead of rewriting the press release for you, I’m just going to let you read it for yourself. Check…
Beer made with avocados? Whisky* from 1941? These are phrases that definitely get my attention and hopefully they get yours, too. I’m always on the lookout for anything out-of-the-box (or bottle in this case) and happily got to attend two events this week that do not qualify as normal everyday occurrences. The first was Angel City…
Get ready for a new flagship! The Park Hyatt New York officially opened its doors yesterday and it’s a beauty. I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve never stayed at a Park Hyatt personally, but when I asked readers to name a hotel they’d actually want to live in on a previous Fly&Dine interview + giveaway…
