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CHICAGO TRIBUNE. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 196 Sections -13 DINING IN LAS VEGAS: ttg Hacienda: A Big Food Bargain Brune f--K TTr- I'm lwli I fi'UHIi IP' IH.I lb sin, he bad acquired controling interest in the Hacienda In 1958. His wife had paid little heed to the hotel's operation until she fell heir to it Woman-like, she started placing emphasis on all-important non-essentials, such as the flow- sauce bigarade; with dark cherries and porto sauce; with truffles and mushrooms and champagne; with wild rice and mushroom sauce; flambe with cognac and orange curacao. Among other good luncheon spots that we found was the Prairie Boom of the Frontier facilities for children, Including a small golf course for youngsters and go-carts. Aside from being the only strip hotel controled by a woman, the Hacienda is somewhat different from the others.

It caters more to families than the other hotels, is more in of the best panoramic views we had of the strip and the mountains that encircle it The Top 0' the Strip abandons its buffet format at night for elegant and expensive sit-down service specializing in duckling prepared in many ways: with orange segment and formal, less sophisticated, less concerned with the "in" crowd. Buffet luncheon on another day was in the elegant and more expensive Top 0' the Strip dining room of the Dunes hotel It's a 13th floor dining room with much royal blue in interior design and offers one hotel, where we particularly enjoyed fresh fruits, sweet rolls, and eggs Florentine. Equally pleasant wss the attractive Brazilian room of the Tropicana. Circus Circus Casino, which has no hotel facilities, offers inexpensive buffet fare. er plantings, and recreational 13 EUROPE EUROPE EUROPi EUROPE WROTE EUROPE Go through Europ at home, so you'll feel at home going through Europe.

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W. A. ticket seller became much interested the moment I mentioned this was VKiiBa Mr. Loring my first visit to Las Vegas. "You shouldn't miss the buffet at the Hacienda," she vol Hawaii and California straw-berries.

Then we helped ourselves from what was labeled the "damn Yankee table," with lox and bagels and creamed cheese; a galaxy of salads, and heavenly homemade rolls, both plain and sweet. Next was a "Texas table" with chili, short ribs, chicken, link sausages, bacon and scrambled eggs, baked beans, chicken livers, chicken chow mein, ad infinitum. Some, where among the three tables were desserts, Including a delicious coconut cake which we sampled tho heaven knows how we managed a bite of it after all the other. All baking is done at the hotel, we learned from the gifted chef, Harry Ramacciotti. "And we never, never use a pre pared mix!" he added with con siderable pride.

Tab for the brunch, no mat ter how many visits to the buf fet tables, is a modest $195 between 9 a. m. and 2:30 p. unteered, not having the least idea that researching dining spots was first on my agenda. "I don't think it's publicized very much.

But I've found it delightful and not at all expensive. One of the best food bargains in town." Our request for economy flight plane tickets indicated we wouldn't exactly be splurging every moment of the holiday week-end we were in this gambling city. So we had our first daytime meal in the Hacienda hotei, at the end of the famous hotel-lined highway popularly known as "The Strip." Following our arrival here the evening before, we had dined elegantly and well in the Gourmet Room of the Tropicana, then caught the midnight performance of "The LidoH at the Stardust. So there was the luxury of sleeping late and turning breakfast into noon brunch. And what a brunch! We walked the short distance from the Tropicana, where we bad taken a room, to the Hacienda and discovered we were among the few who ever walk anywhere in Las Vegas except on the golf course especially during the heat of the day.

The Hacienda's glass-walled dining room overlooks the hotel's large and irregularly-shaped swimming pool, in a landscaped courtyard bright with a multitude of flowering plants oleander, marigold, petunias. The buffet made our taste-buds really sit up and take notice. We made three trips to the bountifully laden tables. A more elaborate buffet dinner is served from 6 p. ra.

to midnight for $2.95. Sit-down serv ice at a higher tab is pro vided in an adjoining dining room. The "Texas table" is a nat ural for the Hacienda. The tall red-haired ho- tel owner, Judy Bayley, is a native Texan and has come to be mV' A. v4 called "the first lady of ambling since taking over control of the hotel and casino 4ft Mrt.

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