A Tough Assignment Today

With the forecast of increasing winds for this afternoon and into tomorrow, we chose to take on one of the most challenging assignments of our stay in Pahrump:  finding out which restaurant had the best Saturday night dinner for the lowest price.

We started with the local Mom and Pop places, but they didn't offer much of a deal.  One place, Mom's, has the slogan "The food is so good you'll think we stole your Mama", and does indeed provide an extensive menu, but the storefront location was a little tacky.  We checked out the menu for dinner at the Kountry Kitchen, the place we ate lunch the other day, but the prices were too high. So what's left? The casinos, of course.

We started at the Lakeside, because it's close to where we're staying.  The special tonight was Prime Rib for 10.99.  Not too bad, but we'd been in there before for a late dessert one night, and found the restaurant to be too close to the smokey casino area, so we decided to keep looking.

Our next stop was the Gold Town casino.

The dinner was Prime Rib (is this a pattern for Saturday night?), but the price was 13.99 each and the hostess was on her way to taking the customer service is wonderful class, because she had evidently failed the class the first time around.  On we trudged, confident that somewhere in this town a decent meal could be had for a reasonable price.

We happened on the Pahrump Nugget:

Now it's hard to find these casinos in Nevada.  The lights and signs are pretty small and really hard to see.  It may be my old eyes, but I began to think that they had all closed.....Ha.

When we were in the Off 160 coffee house yesterday, we talked to "Jack", a local of some 25 years who told us that if we could make our way to the Nugget we would be thankful, so we determined to find the casino and then the restaurant.

We found the Saturday buffet and started to read the menu.  Donna pointed out that the Saturday special was Prime Rib for 10.99, but for seniors the price was only 7.99.  Now we're talking!  Then we say that if you signed up for casino promotions the meals were two for one (at regular price).  Wow, two prime rib dinners for less than 12 bucks total, including tax and sodas.  Yeah!

So after a long and exhausting afternoon of detective work, we were able to find a great deal on dinner.  The Prime Rib was wonderful, and as you can see above, Donna got the end cut that she prefers and I was able to get the rare piece I prefer.  Of course, the desserts were pretty good too!