Overall:
Deciding to have a lazy afternoon at the casino one day, we opted to start with lunch at the Atrium. We didn’t have a booking but we were shown a table close to the buffet quite promptly. Orders for drinks were taken with another waitperson also promptly.
We both started with the soups of which there was a choice of two. The cream of vegetable soup was very tasty and I would have loved to have had seconds but wanted to save room for everything else. The seafood buffet I found to be a tad dull with just the standard prawns, chilli mussels, smoked cod (which was yummy) and yabbies. This was supplemented with a large bowl of seafood extender which doesn’t really make the grade in terms of a quality seafood buffet in my mind. Phoney fish is something you anticipate in lesser establishments. There were also the usual array of salads, cold vegetables and cold chicken. The glass “roof” of the buffet made getting some items rather difficult, as you had to stoop and bend into the buffet itself in order to obtain these items. The other issue is that the sauces aren't labeled so short of putting a bit on your plate and trying them, you don’t know what you are dressing your food with. Additionally, while the sliced bread that was on offer with the soup was lovely and fresh; the same could not be said of the rolls at the salad stand. These did not taste fresh at all. Personally, I also did not find the chilli mussels very tasty.
At the hot buffet, there were a couple of interesting choices but otherwise nothing really made me want to eat them and the lack of attention provided by the staff milling around in the carvery square, made me not want to bother with the hot food. My companion tried the fish in white wine and thought it to be quite tasty and found the roast turkey meal to be nice, although not exceptional. If you are dessert oriented, you would enjoy the dessert buffet, as there were several cakes and other decadent desserts to choose between. There was also a simple fruit salad (which I chose) and pieces of fruit and a freezer of icecream.
The cheese and biscuits could have been vastly improved upon as all the cheeses were pre-sliced and piled into pyramids and after a little while, they start to sweat and go a bit floppy. There was also no Brie/Camembert or blue cheese to choose from. The three cheeses they had on offer all tasted a tad plastic to be quite honest.
Now, as I previously mentioned, our drinks order was taken promptly. The alcoholic drinks were delivered in a similar fashion, except the Rothbury Estate Semillon Sauvignon Blanc turned into a red, and when this was pointed out as incorrect, this new waitress seemed incapable of understanding that a SSB is a white wine. The original waitress later returned with our correct drink. And yet the water still hadn’t arrived. The second waitress returned to ask if we had ordered water, which we had, and so scurried off to complete the delivery. Otherwise, service was fine with plates being cleared efficiently.
I don’t believe this buffet to be one of the best in Perth. I think for the price charged, it is okay. With the Entertainment Book discount, our meals worked out at $26 pp, which made this meal better value but I wouldn’t choose to go here at full price.