Valley View Casino & Hotel: This Valley Center’s regionally famous $42 all-you-can-eat Maine lobster buffet is back, but only for qualified members of its Players Club, only for dinner service and only with servers bringing plated selections to the table. Here’s a look at what’s on the menu at San Diego area casinos. Only one local casino has resurrected its buffet, but with multiple restrictions. But the buffets - which were loss leaders for casinos and banned under public health orders - are not coming back. When the pandemic arrived 16 months ago, the region’s casinos sharply scaled back their restaurant offerings and - to the dismay of thousands of local gourmands who relished unlimited crab legs and lobster tails - closed their popular buffets.Īs the state has reopened this summer, so have many casino restaurants.