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I like them. I do not eat at them often because I prefer to eat food without processed ingredients or soy, and buffets are loaded with food with ingredients I object to consuming.
You've never been to a GOOD Chinese buffet. I admit they are outnumbered by the ordinary ones. I have not been to one in a while but they were the only kind of buffet I would even consider going to in the past 5 years.
Yes, here in Canada we have the Mandarin ...a nationwide chain, with a great chinese buffet,
I love all you can eat buffets...only problem is I can only eat so much
I end up having that bloated feeling for a few hours, then I want to go back
I'll be Vegas this week. I'm sure a couple of buffets will be on the agenda. One that we go to frequently has the best peach soft serve ice cream. I think they call it gelato, but I don't think it really is. I just know I always save room for a bowl with 1/2 peach and 1/2 chocolate soft serve. We often go to the breakfast buffet at our hotel because it's easy and relatively cheap for a meal in Vegas.
Typically Vegas is the only place we'll eat a dinner buffet. I focus on the proteins--shrimp, crab legs, maybe roast turkey. Not a fan of prime rib. The only other time we eat at a buffet is a breakfast buffet in a hotel. I'm not talking about the free ones at some hotels with dried eggs, but the kind that will actually cook a made to order omelet.
I'll be Vegas this week. I'm sure a couple of buffets will be on the agenda. One that we go to frequently has the best peach soft serve ice cream. I think they call it gelato, but I don't think it really is. I just know I always save room for a bowl with 1/2 peach and 1/2 chocolate soft serve. We often go to the breakfast buffet at our hotel because it's easy and relatively cheap for a meal in Vegas.
Typically Vegas is the only place we'll eat a dinner buffet. I focus on the proteins--shrimp, crab legs, maybe roast turkey. Not a fan of prime rib. The only other time we eat at a buffet is a breakfast buffet in a hotel. I'm not talking about the free ones at some hotels with dried eggs, but the kind that will actually cook a made to order omelet.
On the Las Vegas strip, my favorite one is Paris Las Vegas. They even have a make your own crepes station, though I was slightly saddened they minorly shrunk the number of crepes on their menu on my last visit(Feburary 2019), vs. when I first went there(2015). Still it's a great one even to this day, and I'd still recommend it.
This one is NOT on the strip or downtown, but if you're on the northwest side of Las Vegas(it's near the 215 beltway several miles west of I-15, and west of the suburb of North Las Vegas, NV), Aliante(used to be called Aliante Station, but Station Casinos sold this one off to Boyd) has a pretty good buffet. And the inside has some pretty nice decor(some of it probably left over from the Station Casinos days?) inside, by the buffet area.
I have a mixed opinion, about the one at Main Street Station(for downtown Las Vegas). The dinner one sucked there, but the breakfast one was a little better there IMO. Still, I prefer the buffets at Aliante and Paris Las Vegas, over Main Street Station. I'd like to try more of the other buffets(i.e. the one inside Fremont Casino), next time I go back to Las Vegas. And ditto with some of the buffets I've always heard a lot of hype about, such as Bacchinal(sp?).
Well as much as I am always saying I do not eat at buffets, except for a very few, I lie. Well not really. We rarely do eat at one, but yesterday we left the house early and decided to go to Golden Corral for breakfast or whatever you want to call it. I have to say, I ate enough to last me a week I think. It was mostly good, some not so. Spoiled brat enjoyed every bite. We ate so much we didn't want dinner last night. I ended up, last night eating a few crackers with peanut butter and he had a tuna sandwich. the only thing that bothered me was the amount of food that was wasted and seeing people fill their plates and start using their fingers to sample foods as they walked back to their tables. I also am bothered by people not leaving a few bucks tip for the nice lady or man that cleans your table, takes you used plates away and fills your water or coffee cup.
Golden Corral. Went to one when it first opened in the area with parents. The variety was just ok. I tried to mostly sample things with veggies so not to over load on too many fried and greasy stuff.
Then onto the desert bar. The chocolate fountain thing was just gross, wasn't going to touch that. Couldn't imagine the germs that would get sucked into that. Then saw a little kid with a obvious cold sneezing in front in it and realized the chocolate fountain was low enough to catch all her sneezes. Then she grabbed a piece of fruit from the bowl next to it with her fingers and stuck it into the fountain getting chocolate all over fingers, sucked off chocolate and stuck the strawberry back in for more chocolate. I said something to mom who was oblivious to what was going on, she shrugged her shoulders. I walked over to what looked like a over worked manager, same reaction.
Never going there again. Yuck. A giant petri dish of germs. And I'm not germaphobic
I'm going to eat at a buffet tonight, at Carnegie-Mellon U., where I take a class from 3-5. They open the faculty/graduate student dining room to the general student body for dinner, and it's only $11.05, so why not? The food is generally very good, if not perfect. I can eat a completely healthy meal if I choose to do so. The kicker is, they make the most wonderful cakes. Darned CMU food service.
I tried Golden Corral once. Once was enough, for all the reasons Izzie1213 cites. Plus there was a slick of dirty rag water on every "clean" table when we sat down. I could not wait to leave. My friend who insisted upon going was impervious.
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