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Feast on a savory selection of tantalizing entrées salads and desserts as our chefs cook up a sea of choices. If you like fresh fruits, breads and vegetables, plus hand-carved meats and homemade soup, you're going to love Options Buffet.

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Enjoy a number of mouthwatering options at Options Buffet in the Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino.

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• Address: 21 Blackjack Blvd. East Peoria IL 61611
• Phone: (309) 699-7711 +1 309-699-7711
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Find us off Highway 150, next to the Par-A-Dice Riverboat Casino and less than a mile from dining options. Peoria Civic Center, Northwoods Mall, and Forest Park Nature Center are within 15 minutes. Work out in our fitness center or take a dip in the pool. Every stay with us includes free WiFi and daily free hot breakfast.

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Breakfast buffet is ok. Made to order omelets, bacon, coffee are good. Other items such as ready made eggs, corned beef hash, pancakes, desserts are not good at all. Service is a little below par. Long waits for coffee refills and dirty plates pick-ups. Better... off going down the road to Bob Evans. More

Really good fish selection at the buffet! I went back twice. The baked potato and hush puppies were also good. The waiters and staff were friendly and they had some good looking steamboat round and ham that I did not try. I'd go back!

We usually stay at the Par-A-Dice hotel and do some gambling overnight on Sundays, a few times a year. They used to have the buffet open on Mondays, but for some reason, they discontinued this in the past year. For this trip, it was open!... We were told because it was Presidents' Day. They were not busy at all, so have no idea why they thought they would draw in a crowd, when people know they typically are closed on Mondays. I felt sorry for the employees, as it was not busy at all. We went for breakfast, and they only had one side open, which is understandable. Selection was good and tasty. Our waitress did a great job with drink refills and asking if we needed anything else. We always did enjoy the buffet, but very disappointed that they closed it on Mondays. More

the food is marginal....no attention given to food display and replenishment....not many choices of main entrée....no smiles from attendants and servers or cash register personnel....unless you are getting a comp meal...don't waste your money here....go to the 24 hour grill instead. just an all-around bad... buffet experience. More

The worse buffet. Although the staff is nice. This place needs a good cleaning throughout before someone gets sick.

We stopped for the breakfast buffet before heading down the road from an overnight stay at the Paradice hotel. The server was very good about filling coffee cups up and removing dirty dishes. Had a decent selection on the buffet. Bacon, sausage links, corned beef... hash (love it), potatoes, biscuits and gravy, country fried steak (kind of bland). Just a few of the hot dishes. They do make omelets and eggs cooked to order. The line can get long for that at times. Had several donut, bread choices. Fruit was prunes, grapefruit and strawberries. Typical breakfast buffet with a decent selection of food. More

The food w as s ok. The ok only thing I really liked was the chicken. There was no really a lot of choices I liked ( it may have been fine for other people ) but to me it was just over priced and... not really worth it. More

The salad bar was fare the hot food was not very hot and the variety food was very poor and the valet staff was not very friendly and they mad a mean complant about my dad health condition my family and I will not be... back any time soon More

Went there for Thanksgiving lunch. Food was terrible. They weren't busy while Cracker Barrel, Bob Evans, and Denny's were packed. Turkey was dry, prime rib was so tough it was inedible. Asked for rolls, and 2 hours later still waiting. Pork chops extremely dry. Desserts... were terrible. More

Options Buffet at Par-A-Dice offers plentiful food selections. Brunch is especially nice - although it is certainly not the best value for the cost. The facility is kept in pretty good order. All things considered, this buffet is in a convenient location.

My wife and I ate here on a Friday evening, just happening to come across it while sight seeing. We’ve had some outstanding buffets at casinos before. This wasn’t one of them. For a Buffett, the options were quite limited. I’ve seen more choices elsewhere.... What I did try was either poorly cooked or just bland. The prime rib (that and salmon were the special entrees for the evening) was well done - no pink at all. Who burns a prime rib that way?? The salmon was so-so, saved by the large amount of butter poured over it. Shrimp ‘jambalaya’ was totally bland and boring. Sides were limited and not worth remembering. The Mac and cheese was nasty. I would have preferred boxed Kraft to theirs. Overall, just not worth it with so many other local places to sample. More

Have had the lunch and the dinner buffets. Both are delicious. Good choice of salad fixings, desserts, meats and side dishes. If you leave hungry, that's YOUR fault!

The only thing Excellent at this buffet is the service. Most are great waiters/waitresses. The lunch buffet is small compared to most casino buffets. Plenty to choose from on the salad bar, but the meat entrees are limited most of the time to meatloaf, pizza,... ham, and fried chicken. The dessert bar has improved over the past year with more things to choose from, but nothing like casinos within driving distance of The Paradise. This buffet is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays which is unfortunate. Lunch and Dinner are way overpriced unless you have comp points, coupons, or are a Senior on half-priced Wednesdays. The breakfast buffet is very good, and priced OK, with several breakfast items to choose from. More

The food was not good the service was fair and the dessert was nasty will not be back any time soon buffet lover's Beware

They have crab legs on the buffet on Saturday nights. The deserts are pretty good. The rest of the food is the usual buffet culprits with nothing special that stands out. The crab legs are the big draw.

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At its height, Downtown Peoria was a commercial powerhouse

PEORIA — The place to be. The center of all activity. The finest shopping in the area.

That's how reporters, authors and advertisers once described Downtown Peoria.

In the 1950s and '60s, the Central Business District was a commercial powerhouse, home to hundreds of businesses large and small, from massive, multistory department stores to tiny, second-floor offices. Hotels and tourist homes housed countless visitors. Restaurants and theaters thrived. Parades and carnivals drew lively crowds.

'That downtown was something'

In November 1975, Jerry Klein , a Journal Star columnist and author, recalled Downtown Peoria's postwar and midcentury heyday.

"This was the place to be, the only place," he wrote in a front-page article. "There were crowds downtown until late at night. There were drug stores and candy shops and places where the high school kids bought malteds and ice cream. There were little taverns in the alleys and winking signs at night."

Klein waxed nostalgic about the "mighty" Block and Kuhl store and its Toyland, which was "probably the closest a kid could come in those days to realizing what heaven might be like." He recalled the store's "richly furnished" Skyline Restaurant and its "spectacular view over the river."

Klein lamented the loss of the downtown Kmart, Hamilton Store and Walgreens over the course of the 1960s and into the '70s — closures that coincided in part with the opening of Northwoods Mall in 1973. He mourned the former movie theaters, the pool halls and the restaurants. The article concludes:

"There were people here. There was excitement. There were traffic jams. ... There was graft and corruption and people laughed when you mentioned Peoria. But that downtown was something.

"Now even in the mornings that sense of purpose, that busy and thrumming sound that once vibrated here, is gone, faded to a whisper. ... At night the sidewalks are empty. There are grass and weeds in the cracks along Main Street.

"Where did all the people go? Will they ever come back again? When?"

When that story was published in 1975 — as now — the state of downtown was an ongoing concern. But its glory days can hardly be overstated.

Stores by the score

On Dec. 16, 1956, a full-page ad in the Journal Star listed nearly 100 businesses offering "gifts galore in every store."

An advertisement with a big, bold headline stated: "Downtown Peoria Has Everything!"

The ad listed 16 clothing stores, six department stores, three "five, ten and dollar stores," furniture stores, furriers, gift shops, five shoe stores and 14 jewelers. Specialty shops offered cameras, greeting cards and hearing aids.

The businesses listed were just the ones that participated in the promotion — a fraction of all downtown enterprises.

Peoria's mighty Main Street

The Polk's Peoria City Directory for 1956 listed over 500 businesses and offices on Main Street alone from Crescent Avenue to the Illinois River. Among them were:

• Hotels: The Harvard, the Hotel Pere Marquette, the Kickapoo.
• Restaurants: The Bamboo Inn, Bishop's Cafeteria, the Central Restaurant, Mary's Restaurant, the Pantry, the Peoria Room and others.
• Theaters: The Apollo, the Madison, the Palace.
• Health and beauty: Numerous physicians, dentists and chiropractors are listed, as well as electrolysis shops and a scalp treatment location.
• Specialty businesses: The Arthur Murray School of Dancing, a juke box enterprise, a massage parlor, Peoria Turkish Bath, Potash Co. of America, a sewer cleaner, a "tourist home" and a tree expert all had locations on Main Street.

In addition, hundreds of residents lived in downtown apartments, many in the recently built Glen Oak Towers. All of that activity was confined to Main Street: again, a small sampling of what downtown Peoria offered.

A June 1967 Journal Star story mentioned "some 150 downtown businesses" that would be affected by a proposed one-way redirection of just three other streets: Harrison, Liberty and Fulton.

For a glimpse of the commercial force of downtown, tally the enterprises on those four streets alone. Then consider the establishments on the "presidential streets" — Washington to Monroe — and other busy avenues.

Festivals and parades

Everyday shopping and dining were not the only attractions drawing people downtown. The city center was once the site of a host of festivals and events. Among them were:

• The Santa Claus parade : Reportedly dating back to the late 1800s, it is touted as the longest-running holiday parade in the country.
• Downtown Days: Started in April 1955, the sales event included free bus rides for bargain hunters seeking "out of this world" values, as Journal Star stories and advertisements attested.
• Fiesta Days: Three blocks of Southwest Adams Street were to be closed to vehicular traffic for the "Downtown Fiesta Vacation," which promised attendees a chance to "eat your lunch in the middle of Adams St. or ride a ferris wheel in the heart of the Central Business District," according to a July 1958 story. Also on tap during the area's "industrial vacations period" were a barbecue pit with a 500-chicken capacity, a roller coaster and a train for kids.

More: Main Street in Downtown Peoria is promising and problematic

The center of everything

Downtown was "the center of virtually all activity," Klein added in his 1985 book, "Peoria!"

He recalled a time when hordes of people would "surge across Fulton Street between Block's and Bergner's at each change of the lights."

Klein was not alone in his nostalgia. A May 2008 Journal Star story spotlighted a Peoria Art Guild exhibit of historical photographs.

"In the 1960s, '70s and early '80s, Peoria's Downtown was the biggest shopping mall in central Illinois," the article began. It called the exhibit an opportunity to "revisit a Downtown Peoria that was still home to such familiar places as three department stores, the Jefferson Hotel, Brooks Fashion Store, Walgreen's, Logan Printing, Kellstedt's office supply store, the Peoria Creamery, J.C. Shaffer Electric, Illinois Bell Telephone Co., the Hotel Lee and a host of retail stores. The three dozen photographs going on display date mainly from the 1960s through the early 1980s."

"For longtime Peorians, they will evoke memories of a time when Downtown Peoria was a busy commercial center with its multi-story department stores, specialty shops and businesses."

From commerce to carnivals, from retail to residential, Peoria's former Central Business District inarguably was a center of activity. As Klein once wrote, "That downtown was something," indeed.

More: What is the future of Downtown Peoria? Here's the vision