Eat Your Heart Out

With nearly a dozen buffets packed into the 11-square-mile resort — with a majority just a hop, skip and a salad bowl away from each other — Atlantic City is a buffet lover’s dream. From seafood-themed extravaganzas to feasts fit for kings, there’s a buffet for you somewhere in this casino town — and many are open 24 hours, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Kids eat cheap, and there’s always more to eat. Hope you’re hungry.

Best Appetizers

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
THE BORGATA BUFFET
The cheeseburger sliders are stellar — a dozen of them could qualify as a meal — and the brick-oven pizza has people lining up for it.
$15.95-$30.95 (cost depends on time and day)

Resorts Casino Hotel
THE INTERNATIONAL BUFFET
Most entrées here, in keeping with the casino’s theme of Roaring Twenties decadence, are presented with an old-fashioned attention to detail. The meatloaf with mushroom gravy is supreme. Each helping is served with piped duchess potatoes, fresh tear drop tomato garnish and mushroom demi-glace. $18.95-$24.95 (cost depends on time and day)

Harrah’s Resort
WATERFRONT BUFFET
Grilled Chorizo, the slow-roasted Span ish sausage, is a spicy introduction to this wondrous seafood-oriented buff et. Best of all, you can finish your meal with lavish ethnic food. Mongolian barbecue, anyone? $22.99-$29.99 (cost depends on time and day)

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Best Entrées

Resorts Casino Hotel
THE INTERNATIONAL BUFFET
Crab legs and shrimp are the most popular hors d’oeuvres at this buff et, but don’t miss international dishes (it’s where the buffet gets its theme) like Asian vegetable lo mein salad. $18.95-$24.95 (cost depends on time and day)

Trump Taj Mahal
SULTAN’S FEAST BUFFET
The most popular entrée here is the New York strip steak, which is grilled to order while you watch. Then you top it with sautéed mushrooms, onions or house-made steak sauce. $10.99-$25 (cost depends on time and day)

Wild Wild West Casino at Bally’s
VIRGINA CITY BUFFET
Saddle up to this Western-themed buffet and make room for the St. Louis-style barbecue ribs, cooked three times so that the meat falls off the bone and melts in your mouth. $10.99-$26 (cost depends on time and day)

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Best Desserts

Tropicana Casino & Resort
FIESTA BUFFET
The ultra-creamy, graham cracker crusted New York-style cheesecake here is not only delicious, it’s also served for two meals a day (lunch and dinner). $18.95-$26.95 (children free under five; cost depends on time and day)

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
THE BORGATA BUFFET
In addition to a wide selection of melt in-your-mouth pastries made by former White House pastry chef Thadeous DuBois, this buffet has a gelato bar with a dozen flavors. Even sweet tooths will leave here with a toothache. $15.95 $30.95 (cost depends on time and day)

Showboat
FRENCH QUARTER BUFFET
This New Orleans-themed buff et has excellent seafood, but don’t leave with out trying the warm bread pudding — the perfect finish to a fantastic meal. $15-$38 (cost depends on time and day)