Village Square Buffet

You’re wasting your money if you come here. The quality, quantity and selection of the food offered has gotten horribly bad over the last several months. It’s just not worth the price!
I would come here and then hit the slots. Not anymore. The food has driven me away entirely. NO WAY am I spending my hard earned money on mediocracy!
The real killer is when my waiter takes a clean napkin out to pick up my soiled napkin rather than using his bare hands. This is highly offensive to me, especially when this same person can bring my eating utensils with his barehand and take my dirty paper money as a tip, with no problem using bare hands. No concerns of germs when handling a tip, huh?!?
I am not being disrespected. I’m a paying customer!

Have driven by the three casinos on the edge of the IL/​IN border a million times and finally this week stopped at the Horseshoe Casino to have lunch at Village Square Buffet.
Very, very impressive buffet with a ton of items (salads, Mexican, pizza, breakfast, pasta, dessert, etc.) Plenty of tables in the restaurant layout which makes for a comfortable and relaxed dining experience.
Buffet area was very clean and wait staff was fast in taking away plates and also refiling drinks. It is located on the second floor (maybe third?) with fantastic views of Chicago skyline and was surprised at the number of boats in the Hammond Harbor located right next to the Horseshoe Casino.
Highly recommended and based on some of the Unilocal reviews one of the better casino food options amongst the three casino in that area.

We’re from California and have been to the buffets in Vegas, Laughlin, and Rincon, and this one is just as good. We thoroughly enjoyed it. The selection was good and the salads were fresh.

I only go on Thursdays for the crab legs. Its pretty good. The other food items are nice, but I prefer the all you can eat crab legs. I only get one serving as the serving size is ample.

My family and I came here on Christmas day because we had tickets to a concert at the venue and wanted to grab some dinner before it. I was really between giving a 2 and a 3, the 3 only because our waiter did a good job on a very busy night but decided that on a regular day it is at best a two. Well, the choice says it, «meh, I’ve experienced better.»
I do credit the staff this day though. It was an all you can eat crab legs night and the line to get a table was LONG. We waited probably 45 min or more before getting seated. Everyone looked like they were doing their best but we noticed some tables sitting empty for a while before someone came to clean it up for the next group of customers which for those of us waiting in line for a while can get a little frustrating.
Now, let’s talk about the food. Had it not been for the crab legs and the prime rib this place would not be worth paying $ 25+ to eat at. On xmas we paid $ 35 because of the crab legs, not worth it in my opinion, though there was always plenty of crab legs every time I went up to get some so at least they kept it flowing. The prime rib though was very good. Juicy and cooked between medium rare and medium. That is the end of the good though. Oxtail (which I was excited about) was chewy and not tender at all like it should be. Oysters were probably frozen, they didn’t taste too fresh. Desserts were also very mediocre. I did enjoy a few things, my favorite was the blueberry mouse, the rice pudding and ice cream were good too but again, still not worth the money due to lack of good options. The frosting on the cupcake I had was disgusting. Red velvet should have a cream cheese frosting, this tasted funky and stale, like it had been sitting out for hours (which it probably had).
Overall, I would not come back again. There are many better buffets elsewhere. Not to mention the casino itself with it incredibly smokey interior is also an huge turnoff. When I came home I couldn’t stop coughing for nearly 2 hours.

The quality of the food over the years has deteriorated. It is fastly becoming Old Country Buffet quality. I have vowed to never eat there again. Although the Casino does offer a beautiful dining view of the Lake, it is not worth the low quality food anymore.

Love this place. great food and what a view if you gets chance to sit by the window. Try to beat the older folks 60+ they get aggressive when it comes to their food Lol. which is usually in the a. m or later after 7. It beats going to old country buffet or golden corral because you can’t bring your kids! A nice time off for parents to gamble and eat with no interruptions.

Very tasty! In laws treated us for hubbys birthday. I must say this buffet was better than the buffet at the Luxor hotel in Vegas. We went on a Friday night, it was crowded but the staff really had a great handle on crowd control, keeping the tables clean and keeping the food plentiful. The seating was nice and spread out, the tables weren’t too close together, which I loved. They offered a wide variety of food and desserts. Everthing was good. I was especially pleased with the rotating gelato station. They had maybe 12 different varieties. We had a great time.

went for a birthday — even though i hate buffet — it was clean, food was good, meat stations nice mexican food sort of dry. Probally will go back.

The one thing that I like is the variety of foods. When it comes to the cutting of the meats they are not stingy. A rare treat is the tamales, very good but hard to find.

It’s not a shining example of a casino buffet, but it’s wasn’t all that pricey so I can’t knock it too much.
Of course, I would’ve loved to get it comped via my players rewards card but unfortunately I lost all my money way too fast to earn enough points to even attempt to be on the barter system with the casino. Womp, womp.
The seating areas are nice because there really isn’t any bad spot. Some areas have great natural light and views of the lake, there are some booths, some areas near the buffet, some areas that are a bit more secluded and private — really, there’s a spot for everyone.
My buddy and I had arrived around 3:30pm on a Friday and at first it was pretty dead then began to really fill up and have a live to get in around 5/5:30.
I was def hungry when I got here, so naturally I piled up a really disgusting array of foods on my first plate like some sort of backwoods ogre. I’m talking 14-​layer plate of nasty nosh that at the time seemed like a good idea.
Plate #1 (see photo)
Layer 1: Olive salad
Layer 2: Cold, homogenous semi-​liquid pasta salad
Layer 3: Cheese pizza
Layer 4: Grilled jalapeño & onions
Layer 5: Baked nameless fish
Layer 6: Brussels sprouts
Layer 7: Baked mac & cheese
Layer 8: Spanish rice
Layer 9: Tri-​color tortilla chips
Layer 10: Melty cheese with a thick dry skin on the top
Layer 11: Raw jalapenos
Layer 13: Guacamole
Layer 14: An unreasonable amount of sour cream
Sooo now that you know I’m a disgusting human being, let’s move on to my second plate, of which is only slightly less shameful.
Plate #2 (see photo)
Layer 1: 2^nd slice of cheese pizza
Layer 2: 2^nd helping of mac & cheese
Layer 3: Flavorless pile of mixed fruit
Layer 4: BABY CORN
And then on to dessert…
Plate #3 (see photo)
Layer 1: Mango gelato that tastes nothing like mango and more like freezer burn
Layer 2: Pistachio gelato
I left feeling a little gross, but a lot of that is to blame on the food combo choices I made for myself and I still think I felt way better than I would’ve felt if I hadn’t eaten anything besides the cigarette fumes throughout the rest of my time at the casino. For $ 18 a head, you can have your pick of average to decent Asian, American, Italian, Mexican, salad and dessert bar and that comes with a non-​alcoholic beverage of your choice… not too shabby in my opinion, but don’t expect to be wowed.