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Payard Chocolate - Follow Your Nose

  • December 29, 2008
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Carmen from Fairfax, Virginia
Payard Chocolate - Follow Your Nose

Payard Chocolate Shop has one of the best marketing strategies I’ve ever witnessed. Pump the smell of luscious chocolate through the casino and the room towers, and then let the masses follow their noses to the establishment. It worked on me! Every time we went to our room, we would pass Payard and smell that chocolate smell and crave the sweets they had inside. So much so, that we stopped in the little restaurant – open only for breakfast, brunch and lunch – to have breakfast.

I ordered a chocolate waffle with bananas, and Jim ordered a two-egg omelet. If there were two eggs in that omelet, they had to have been ostrich eggs, because that was the biggest omelet I’d ever seen in my entire life! And my chocolate waffle was much more than that, the waffle pieces stood up on end and saluted the bananas foster that surrounded them, topped with whipped crème. Can I just say – yum! The breakfast cost us about $30, but that’s less than what we would’ve spent on a weekend brunch.

Jim was also excited about the coffee, he said it was some of the best he’d tasted. We asked, and it was Illy coffee, from Italy. When I was in Italy, I’d seen signs for this everywhere, but not being able to have caffeine, I generally don’t drink coffee. The waiter said it was the best coffee in the world, and Jim seemed to agree. So much so, that I bought him some for Christmas and he thinks it’s far better than his old favorite, Dunkin Donuts.

Anyway, everything was so good, and the chocolate scent so enticing, that we stopped there on the morning of our road trip to Death Valley to pick up some coffee for the road and some breakfast pastries. Turns out, it was just as good as eating in the little restaurant, just a little faster.

There are chocolate treats to take home as well, but I think they were a bit pricy. However I’m sure that would’ve been a nice treat for someone back home.

When in Caesar’s, follow your nose to Payard, and you won’t be disappointed.

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