Wicked Spoon, the all-you-can-eat operation at the relatively new Cosmopolitan (every casino hotel in Vegas has a buffet restaurant) actually changed the paradigm of this pretty standardized dining style.

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In fact, if I had been blind folded and asked to guess where I had been taken to lunch, my likely response would have been a buffet-style restaurant, rather than London's St Bartholomew's Hospital.

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Paradise Island is on a private beach and has a large pool and three places to dine (a pool-side grill, a buffet, and a steak and seafood a la carte restaurant).

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The pair first met in 2006 or 2007 at a Tupelo restaurant called Barnhill's Buffet, according to Jack Curtis.

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An extreme alternative is Niji, a Japanese Restaurant inside the Hyatt Hotel which offers an opulent lunch buffet and a view of the ocean waves.

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It has all the touches you would expect at a JW Marriott -- wi-fi, deluxe breakfast buffet, concierge club level (with dramatic beach views) and a popular sushi restaurant.

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Cosmo, an Asian-style buffet restaurant, sold the statue in aid of the Derby Evening Telegraph's Give Us a Break appeal.

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In the self-service restaurant, called Bricks (what else?), kids can serve themselves from a height-appropriate buffet that includes locally sourced, good-for-you kid foods (eg. chicken fingers that are baked, not fried).

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