As I sat in my booth at Line & Lure, I overheard my server, Denise Cheard, talk to the couple behind me. She asked if they wanted dessert and the man declined. Cheard responded, “No dessert? You’ve got to pace yourself, man.” He replied, “I went in too hard and fast.”
Fortunately for me, I had time to consider how to tackle the new Sunday seafood buffet at Line & Lure. My Grandpa Harry, a buffet champ, is no longer with us to guide me, so I consulted the internet. My favorite piece offering buffet advice was on Wiki-how (it included drawings). Overall, what I learned from the internet was: wear loose clothing, don’t wear any pants with buttons, drink water the day before to stretch your stomach, don’t show up starving, eat the expensive items on the buffet first, don’t fill up on carbs and soda, survey the entire buffet before loading your plate, and eat slowly.
Equipped with this knowledge, and dressed in comfortable and loose but professional clothing, I drove to Ridgefield to gorge myself on seafood.
Line & Lure can be found in the back left corner of the casino, where they began offering a seafood buffet a few weeks ago on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Executive chef Ryan Ziegler, a Vancouver native, has lived in the Pacific Northwest his entire life and enjoys working with the natural bounty of its surrounding waters. His method is to source the freshest seafood and not cover it with too many sauces. He told me his goal is to, “make you feel like you’re visiting the Oregon Coast.”
