Payard Patisserie & Bistro

Description:

• Breakfast here offers one of the few real remaining bargains in Vegas, given quality-to-price ratio. Surely it can't last, considering the state of things in modern-day Vegas. But with some luck, this is what you have to look forward to -- a continental breakfast like no other. $16 gets you cereals, fruits, yogurt, lox and bagel and, most significantly, all the breakfast pastries you can eat. Since the chef has his roots in Paris, these buttery bits of brioche and croissant perfection are as good as any you could consume by the Seine. One can easily spend that much on a breakfast buffet or a lunch entree elsewhere in town, but there is no comparison for quality. Lunch is light and of the French variety, while evening brings dessert tastings of delicate, inspired flights of sugary whimsy. Both are of particularly high quality and worth investigating, but it's the breakfast that has already earned it a strong reputation, and justly so.

• © Frommer's 2012

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Very Highly Recommended 2010