Payard Vegas no longer such a bargain

A couple of months ago, I wrote a story on the latest round of restaurant openings in Vegas.  The best bargain I found as part of that story was the elegant buffet breakfast at Payard Pâtisserie in Caesars Palace — $16 for coffee, fresh-squeezed juice, as many of the exquisite morning pastries as you could eat, plus cereals, yogurt parfaits and house-smoked salmon with all the fixings.

However, it seems as if the management at Payard felt that petit déjeuner was too much of a bargain. A  reader alerted me soon after that the price was now $22. OK, it was underpriced at $16, but isn’t that the definition of a bargain? Still,  a $6 hike seems a bit steep.

In another change, the bistro is no longer serving its dessert tasting at night, which is a real shame. I guess they never developed enough of an audience.

Payard Pâtisserie & Bistro, Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas; (702) 731-7110. Open daily 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for breakfast; 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for lunch.

— S. Irene Virbila