Verandah at the Four Seasons Las Vegas is known for a stately dining room, an uncanny ability to turn out just-right meals three times a day, and it’s serene, secluded patio dining area overlooking the tropical Mandalay Bay pool area. But when the weekend rolls around, it's all brunch.
On a normal Sunday, the restaurant’s breakfast buffet is one of the most popular on the Strip. On Easter Sunday, it will be the place to be. The day’s special buffet menu will include cold dishes like house-smoked salmon, seasonal berries and sliced fruit, and granola mango parfaits. Hot stuff includes corned beef hash, egg white frittatas, traditional eggs Benedict, chicken-apple sausage and warm pecan sticky buns. Do not miss Verandah’s selection of pastries, muffins, cinnamon buns and decadent mini-doughnuts; you could create a meal from these irresistible baked goodies alone.
Moving from sweet to savory, an international array of small bites will offer red and yellow tomato gazpacho with avocado cream, a rainbow beet salad with chèvre, deviled eggs stuffed with marinated artichokes, and sweet and sour eggplant. The seafood station will offer up chilled tiger prawns, crab claws and oysters on the half shell, plus assorted sushi. Fire-roasted pork tacos, dim sum-style Chinese dumplings, and colorful meats, cheeses and marinated olives at the antipasto station prove this buffet has it all. And it wouldn’t be breakfast without a stop at the build-your-own omelet station.
If buffet-style is not your style, relax at your table, allow yourself to be soothed by rich, hot coffee, and order from Verandah’s tasty weekend breakfast menu. Your way is the best way. Start with freshly squeezed orange, grapefruit or carrot juice. Keep it light and healthy with a classic continental breakfast, choosing from a variety of fruit, yogurt and pastries, or power up with steel-cut oatmeal kissed with cinnamon, brown sugar and dried currants. Customize your all-American two-egg breakfast with hash browns, toast, English muffin, applewood-smoked bacon, savory turkey bacon or chicken sausage.
Lemon ricotta pancakes
Verandah’s farm-fresh breakfast signature selections are highlighted by lemon ricotta pancakes with cranberry compote and whipped butter. The tangy fruit mingles nicely with the rich creaminess of the ricotta, coming together for a memorably delicious treat. There are also mini Belgian waffles with berries and cinnamon butter or French toast with bananas and pecan syrup, two more temptations. For a savory southwestern twist, check out the huevos rancheros, a cast-iron skillet layered with black beans, spicy chorizo sausage, eggs, jack and cheddar cheeses, and a deeply flavored fresh roasted salsa that will make you wonder where your vacation has taken you.
What’s the difference between breakfast and brunch? Dessert. And the Easter desserts (and all the desserts) at Verandah are their own celebration. Choose your own toppings and glazes for another round of those fresh-made doughnuts, or feast on refined treats such as a roasted hazelnut and banana tart, strawberry cream pie, chocolate pot de crème or butterscotch panna cotta. Make the most of your meal; this doesn’t happen every weekend.
Four Seasons Hotel, 6:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Mon.-Fri., 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Sat.-Sun.; March 31 Easter brunch 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 702.632.5121
