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As in Saratoga NY? I've heard it is very good but never find the time to go.
Do you like buffets?
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As in Saratoga NY? I've heard it is very good but never find the time to go.
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The food isn't great, but it is solid, no-nonsense mainstream homestyle cuisine. While the stuff on their buffet not the most wonderful exemplars of anything in question, its a lot better quality and flavor than your typical fast food places.
Because almost anyone can find something to eat there, I often go there in order to feed my extended family, which includes a few picky eaters.
On a typical day there, you'd have access to:
1) A decent salad bar, both DIY and Caesar.
2) Fresh fruit and an assortment of fruit salads
3) Cooked veggies like steamed carrots, broccoli, brussel sprouts, green beans, white rice, and more.
4) A DIY baked potato bar.
5) At least 3 different soups.
6) Meats including chicken (fried or baked), fried fish or shrimp, pot roast, steaks, and an assortment of things like pizza, hot dogs or hamburgers, depending upon the day.
7) A dessert bar featuring cookies, cakes, pies and a soft-serve ice-cream machine.
The food isn't great, but it is solid, no-nonsense mainstream homestyle cuisine. While the stuff on their buffet not the most wonderful exemplars of anything in question, its a lot better quality and flavor than your typical fast food places.
Because almost anyone can find something to eat there, I often go there in order to feed my extended family, which includes a few picky eaters.
On a typical day there, you'd have access to:
1) A decent salad bar, both DIY and Caesar.
2) Fresh fruit and an assortment of fruit salads
3) Cooked veggies like steamed carrots, broccoli, brussel sprouts, green beans, white rice, and more.
4) A DIY baked potato bar.
5) At least 3 different soups.
6) Meats including chicken (fried or baked), fried fish or shrimp, pot roast, steaks, and an assortment of things like pizza, hot dogs or hamburgers, depending upon the day.
7) A dessert bar featuring cookies, cakes, pies and a soft-serve ice-cream machine.
I eat at buffets, but whether I like them or not depends on what they are.
I love the pizza buffet lunch at Mountain Mikes. You get salad bar and pizza, although the green stuff probably takes up valuable real estate better spent on pizza.
But that reminds me of lunches the Officers Club at NAS Alameda. I loved that, but it might have had something to do with coworkers and occasionally running into my dad and his coworkers. It was a good buffet and food though, I remember that. I just always started with salad. I guess it must have stuck in my head from mom and dad.
I love Mongonlian BBQ, at Genghis Kitchen, so usually its a round of the chinese sitting in the heating dishes, then 2 bowls of grilled yumminess. Possibly with salad or fruit thrown in. Though, I remember once a little bastard throwing his uneaten jello cubes back into the bowl just as I was scoping it out.
Buffets in Las Vegas are on a different level I think. I can't remember which resort we ate in, the one next to Bally's, but not the Bellagio. God. I ate too much, but it was on the company and what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
For something more conservative the salad bar at Sizzlers isn't that bad. Usually there is at least 1 soup I like and as I've already explained I eat salad so it having the extra weird things is ok.
For your general Chinese buffet, I probably will pass, unless somebody else is paying or I'm hanging out with friends. Used to have a friend who I'd meet at a place off Hegenberger, now closed, and we'd eat their buffet on occasion. It was your typical place where you wondered how long the stuff was sitting and they had signs saying anything left on your plate would cost you extra.
I love the pizza buffet lunch at Mountain Mikes. You get salad bar and pizza, although the green stuff probably takes up valuable real estate better spent on pizza.
But that reminds me of lunches the Officers Club at NAS Alameda. I loved that, but it might have had something to do with coworkers and occasionally running into my dad and his coworkers. It was a good buffet and food though, I remember that. I just always started with salad. I guess it must have stuck in my head from mom and dad.
I love Mongonlian BBQ, at Genghis Kitchen, so usually its a round of the chinese sitting in the heating dishes, then 2 bowls of grilled yumminess. Possibly with salad or fruit thrown in. Though, I remember once a little bastard throwing his uneaten jello cubes back into the bowl just as I was scoping it out.
Buffets in Las Vegas are on a different level I think. I can't remember which resort we ate in, the one next to Bally's, but not the Bellagio. God. I ate too much, but it was on the company and what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
For something more conservative the salad bar at Sizzlers isn't that bad. Usually there is at least 1 soup I like and as I've already explained I eat salad so it having the extra weird things is ok.
For your general Chinese buffet, I probably will pass, unless somebody else is paying or I'm hanging out with friends. Used to have a friend who I'd meet at a place off Hegenberger, now closed, and we'd eat their buffet on occasion. It was your typical place where you wondered how long the stuff was sitting and they had signs saying anything left on your plate would cost you extra.
I like Jimmy Buffet. Does that count? 
Stormborn
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I like Jimmy Buffet. Does that count?
It does for the guy in post #3, but otherwise not so much really.
It counts for cannibals, too.
megamania
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I like Jimmy Buffet. Does that count?
hee hee..... almost funny.....
frankthedm
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I finally hit the Todai Japanese seafood buffet in the Woodfield mall in Schaumburg, IL. it was almost $20 for lunch, but it was worth it for the all the sushi you can eat.
Thanks for making me think about other buffets, frankthedm!
Here in D/FW, at the intersection of MacArthur and I-635, there is Sushi Awaji.
It features a huge, O-shaped sushi bar that dominates most of the center of the converted CVS pharmacy. Every few feat is a sushi chef preparing the rolls for his or her section.
In addition to the bewildering array of sushi, there is a hot food section that features more commonplace Asian buffet features, like Egg Rolls and Crab Rangoon...but also exotic things like jellyfish.
Good stuff, and an all-you-can-eat meal there is about $18.
Here in D/FW, at the intersection of MacArthur and I-635, there is Sushi Awaji.
It features a huge, O-shaped sushi bar that dominates most of the center of the converted CVS pharmacy. Every few feat is a sushi chef preparing the rolls for his or her section.
In addition to the bewildering array of sushi, there is a hot food section that features more commonplace Asian buffet features, like Egg Rolls and Crab Rangoon...but also exotic things like jellyfish.
Good stuff, and an all-you-can-eat meal there is about $18.
