Tonight, we were going to give The Spread Buffet at Horseshoe Casino another chance.
When we there on Sunday, it was just plain underwhelming by any buffet standard. We
grabbed a couple of Reds tickets and walked to the casino. And if you thought the line
was ridiculous on Sunday, check this line out…


And walking…

And still walking…

We heard the wait for the buffet was approximately THREE AND A HALF HOURS. That’s
just plain nuts. I was irritated on Sunday by having to wait thirty minutes. There’s no way
I would in a line like this. For anything. Ever. Especially a mediocre buffet. So we kept right
on walking to Bobby’s Burger Palace. Genifer order Bobby’s Buffalo Burger…


And I ordered their Griddle Cheese Deluxe…

And then we shard them and each had half of both sammiches. 🙂

YUM! Delicious stuff! When we were finished eating. the buffet wait still looked like this…

It’s beyond ridiculous. Some people will do anything for a free meal.

A while back a little urban vegetable garden was planted at Fido Field dog park. Despite
our lack of recent rain, the plants seem to be flourishing and producing vegetables.







🙂

I saw the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile while I was walking back to work from lunch.



How random is that? You never know what you’ll see in downtown Cincinnati. 🙂

Another view of the big hole in downtown that will be the home of dunnhumby center.

This evening we went and picked up our fifth free pizza thanks to the Reds game on Tuesday!



Free pizza is delicious. 🙂

Okay. The Spread Buffet at Horseshoe Casino has a big promotion going through the end
of the month where if you bring in your Reds ticket you can get a complimentary buffet.
We’re not really huge fans of buffets. Not much at all. Between everyone digging in
your food and the resulting food coma from overeating, buffets are just kind of bleh.
But today, we finally summoned up the courage and got around to wandering up to the
casino to give The Spread Buffet the old college try. And when we got there, we were
met with a line. Not a wicked long line, mind you. But still a line. At a buffet.

We were told that it would be about ten minutes because “All the tables were full.”
But from we were standing, we could see that there were at least a good 15 or more
tables that were open. Anyway. Thirty minutes later, we’re granted our free buffet.

The buffet is broken into different world cuisine sections…







The thing that struck us was that there weren’t really very many options. At all.



And the Italian section was turned into a breakfast station. With a 30 egg omelet…


Here’s my plate half-way through. You know I’m underwhelmed if I forgot to take a photo.

The only thing that really had a wide variety was the dessert station. Cupcakes galore.

I had a couple of these red velvet ones!

I mean, don’t get me wrong. The food wasn’t bad. I was expecting better and more of it.
We’re going try to give it another chance when it’s not brunch, and see if it’s any better.
I certainly hope it is. Because at $23.99 a person, it should be a lot better than it was.
I’d say if you’re in the mood for a buffet, save yourself $25 and just go to Golden Corral.

After lunch on the Levee, we caught the Southbank Shuttle over to Covington…


We were still trying to track down RoeblingFest. And mission accomplished…

Hmm…





Not a lot to it really. But they did have a tent with a whole bunch of historical photos…





Afterwards, we broke camp and went around the corner to Molly Malone’s to watch the
Brazil v. Italy Confederation’s Cup soccer match.

I guess it’s that time of year for baby birds…


RoeblingFest was a bit of a bust. But it’s always fun to try something different. 🙂

People love their Graeter’s ice cream. And will wait in crazy long lines to get it. 🙂

After this afternoon’s Reds game, we stopped at Jefferson Social for some tacos.



We their guacamole…

It didn’t taste very homemade and was pretty soupy. And the chips tasted old and stale.

I ordered three tacos…

A chicken taco…

A carnitas taco…

And my favorite, the Social Supreme…

Jefferson Social is definitely not Bakersfield or Barrio. But it’s still pretty good! 🙂

When we were walking the dogs this morning, we saw these baby birds at the P&G Gardens…


So cute. 🙂