Buffets

[NoCalMike 0]

There is a kick-ass Sushi buffet in town here. It is $17.95 per person, but considering most of the premium rolls are $12-13 a piece, the price is totally worth it.

 

The BEST part of the deal though is that everything is made to order, so it is fresh, no rolls sitting out under a lamp for an hour waiting to be picked up....

 

You basically open the menu and order anything you want and then they make it and bring it to you. You can order up to 5 rolls at a time.

[Rendclaw 0]

My version of hell would be living in Golden Corral after having gastric bypass surgery, although I haven't been to one of these shrines of goodness in years.

 

God, I love Golden Corral. When I lived in Orlando, there was one up ther street from me, and my ex and I would go at least twice a week.

 

The nearest one to me now is 30 mins away, and now that I work nights there is no point in even thinking about it.

 

Their rotisserie chicken and roast beef was killer. Get that, a couple of veggies, a good salad to start with and some fruit for dessert, and life was good when you walked out of that place.

 

As trendy as it is, bd's Mongolian BBQ is good... though I wouldn;t exactly call it a buffet...

 

China Jade in Orlando was the fucking BOMB. Full buffet PLUS Mongolian BBQ. I stuffed myself fucking stupid at that place on many an occasion.

[LivingLegendGaryColeman 0]

Last buffet I went to was at Mandalay Bay. I stuffed myself so much that I couldn't sit down in comfort during the fights later. I hate buffets, but this one was unlike the ones around here.

 

It was fuckin' excellent. I tipped 5 bucks.

 

You should try the one at the Wynn. There is like a room for every food category.

How much does it cost?

 

People in my family were playing there and we got the meals comped, but I just checked online price place and it breaks down like this:

 

Breakfast $15

Lunch $20

Dinner $27

Weekend Champagne Brunch $30

 

A bit expensive, but it was seriously the best buffet I ever went to.

[Red Baron 0]

I like Izzys.

 

Same here, Izzy's is great for a big, inexpensive meal.

 

Yes, the fuck it is service. Fast food people personalize with the customer but don't do anything else for them. The person is giving you service by refilling your glas and taking away the dishes you cheapass.

 

Considering that they arn't doing the principal service associated with serving, namely serving the food, I don't think buffets warrant more than a nominal tip at the most. Taking away dishes is barely even a service to the customer, it's a service to the restaurant (so they don't run out of plates, the table is clear so they can seat more customers, etc.); it's got to happen regardless. Filling up a free glass of water or a bottomless soda that cost two bucks is maybe worth a few cents.

 

 

Exactly. At places like Casino's or larger buffets you are going to get multiple servers on that table passing you by.

 

However I did go to the Fallsview Casino Buffet tonight for dinner, and tipped the hostess $5 for placing us at the window overlooking Niagara Falls during the Fireworks display. Prime seats on a weekend night.

[starvenger 0]

We really need to start a tipping thread.

 

Anyone have any recommendations for Vancouver (going there for a wedding next weekend)? I went to one place that was an All U Can Eat, but you could have EITHER Japanese OR Korean BBQ. Odd, but the place was packed. Don't remember the name, but obviously looking for other recommendations.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

We really need to start a tipping thread.

 

Anyone have any recommendations for Vancouver (going there for a wedding next weekend)? I went to one place that was an All U Can Eat, but you could have EITHER Japanese OR Korean BBQ. Odd, but the place was packed. Don't remember the name, but obviously looking for other recommendations.

 

One place I like for all-you-can-eat Japanese is Tanpopo. There's one in the west end on Denman, and they have an outstanding selection of choices for a pretty good price.

[Jericholic82 0]

Are there the 99 cent in Vegas like in Vegas Vacation.

"I'll take som of the yella, and don't get cheap on me"

 

sadly I havent found one yet. I used to stay at excalibur a lot so I frequented their buffett. Breakfast buffet is kinda lame, but the dinners are usually good.

 

my problem with buffetts, is Im a picky guy and I usually just find a couple of things I like and od on them. plus when you have the dessert part, you try to save space for it. you kinda get upset if you dont try everything they have.

 

As a kid, I used to get sick at Sizzler, cuz I would forego the food, and just have 4 bowls of ice cream with tons of topping or something like that.

 

I always get mad that I didnt try enough stuff when I leave. you know, it like being a kid in a candy store, in that you can eat everything in sight and as much as you wish, so you never want to leave, but you then get sick from overeating

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

We really need to start a tipping thread.

 

N00b.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Ugggh. I can't believe you bastards like shit like Golden Corral. Horrible.

[Guest Pizza Hut's Game Face]

I don't think I've ever seen a Golden Corral. I'm only familiar with the name from some dopey double-sided book I read at Borders once, called How to Live in a Red State/How to Live in a Blue State or something very near. In the blue state half, which essays to help hapless Republican-voting yokels live in progressive meccas such as Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, there's a "Where to Eat" section (antithetical to the "in a red state" counterpart that proves there really is fine dining out in Virginia) that lists all the Golden Corrals in a given blue state, with some introduction like "See? Those people do know good American food after all!" I found the whole thing terribly insulting and not remotely funny. I'd probably hate eating at a Golden Corral, but I hate terrible half-assed political humor even more.

[Maztinho 0]

Ugggh. I can't believe you bastards like shit like Golden Corral. Horrible.

 

The one in St. George, Utah is really quite good, better than some of the Vegas buffets I've had. On the whole though the chain is shit.

[starvenger 0]

We really need to start a tipping thread.

 

N00b.

Touche.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Golden Corral is as red-state as you can get. The only negative to the one I used to go to in Middletown, Ohio, was the number of incredibly obese customers there. But that was more of a Middletown thing than a Golden Corral thing, since the one in a town close to where I live now has mostly city people packing the gills. They literlly line up outside the door and onto the street.

 

I’d imagine one example of a “blue state” eatery would be the Atlanta Bread Company. It’s a good business plan, actually.

 

Mow your lawn.

Take the clippings.

Put some in-between two slices of bread.

Charge $10.

[King Kamala 0]

Panera Bread is what I think of when I think of "blue state eatery". That's the one fast food place that the hipsters I know swear by. Good place generally but I don't like a lot of their breakfast stuff. Sometimes I just want a simple onion bagel and some nice cream cheese dammit!

[Guest Vitamin X]

Real liberal hipsters eat local, anyways.

[King Kamala 0]

Correct but Panera Bread seems to be the one chain a lot of the lib hipsters I know make an exception for.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

And by "local" he means grazing in the backyard.

 

Then again, real liberal hipsters don't own property.

[Ginger Snaps 0]

Panera Bread is what I think of when I think of "blue state eatery". That's the one fast food place that the hipsters I know swear by. Good place generally but I don't like a lot of their breakfast stuff. Sometimes I just want a simple onion bagel and some nice cream cheese dammit!

 

Cinnamon Crunch bagel FTW.

[Guest Vitamin X]

And by "local" he means grazing in the backyard.

 

Then again, real liberal hipsters don't own property.

 

We also weigh under 200 pounds and live past 50 instead of eating corporate fast food bullshit.

 

Then again, that's probably off-balanced by all the pot we smoke amirite?

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Panera has good broccoli cheddar soup, but the sandwiches are only okay. Their breakfast is pretty lousy.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

We also weigh under 200 pounds and live past 50 instead of eating corporate fast food bullshit.

 

Then again, that's probably off-balanced by all the pot we smoke amirite?

 

If I had to choose between living 'til 90 by eating "your" food and living 'til 50 by eating "my" food (although I don't consider myself a fast-food regular), I'd go with the latter. (I'm sure you'd want me to as well.)

 

Actually, I've known people who live well into their 80s-90s smoking cigarettes and eating dishes that would make me gag, and I've known people who eat all that tofu shit and look like they've already got one foot in the grave. I guess in the end it all depends on how you feel. If you've got a few pleasure pounds and don't waddle while you walk or lose your breath when going up a few flights of stairs, then more power to you. If you want to have that organic stuff but won't go into convulsions upon seeing someone eating a dead animal, then yay. Would you consider this to be an acceptable middle ground or do you want to go “commie/fascist” for a few more rounds?

[King Kamala 0]

Alright here's my (mostly likely unsuccessful) attempt to get this thread back on track somewhat. The only good thing ever to come out of the Old Country Buffet is my favorite memory of my grandmother. She used to take us there for dinner all the time whenever we were little and the parents were out of time. Anyway, one time the OCBee, the company mascot (I didn't even know they had one) was there and he kept pestering for literally about five minutes. Granted, it was 4 P.M. on a weekday night so the restaurant was empty but still the guy should have known when to quit. Well eventually my grandmother told him to "buzz off" and The OCBee got mad and after a few more seconds of pestering us he left. That was about the funniest thing ever to a seven year old.

[Guest Vitamin X]

We also weigh under 200 pounds and live past 50 instead of eating corporate fast food bullshit.

 

Then again, that's probably off-balanced by all the pot we smoke amirite?

 

If I had to choose between living 'til 90 by eating "your" food and living 'til 50 by eating "my" food (although I don't consider myself a fast-food regular), I'd go with the latter. (I'm sure you'd want me to as well.)

 

Actually, I've known people who live well into their 80s-90s smoking cigarettes and eating dishes that would make me gag, and I've known people who eat all that tofu shit and look like they've already got one foot in the grave. I guess in the end it all depends on how you feel. If you've got a few pleasure pounds and don't waddle while you walk or lose your breath when going up a few flights of stairs, then more power to you. If you want to have that organic stuff but won't go into convulsions upon seeing someone eating a dead animal, then yay. Would you consider this to be an acceptable middle ground or do you want to go “commie/fascist” for a few more rounds?

I actually have no qualms about seeing people eat meat, to be honest (see the vegetarianism thread). But yeah, that's an acceptable middle ground- for now. There'll be plenty more times for the board's most liberal poster and most conservative to go at it later.

 

Also, I eat organic whenever I can, not because of the image or whatever, but because I like to eat food without pesticides. Natural is better than artificial, although I recognize that's not always the case- I do like to shower and keep my house clean, for instance.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Old Country Buffet has a bee mascot?

 

 

Well I guess they do.

[Guest Monty Burns]

Old Country Buffet rules and it greatly upsets me that they don't exist in Canada. Good variety for $11, all you can drink pops, and the make-your-own ice cream really seals the deal.

[MFer 0]

Has anyone ever been to a KFC buffet? I've been to a KFC in Arizona that had one but I didn't actually get the buffet.

[King Kamala 0]

Has anyone ever been to a KFC buffet? I've been to a KFC in Arizona that had one but I didn't actually get the buffet.

 

 

Same. I went to one that had one around here a couple times but I always opted for something else. It looked to be of sub OCB quality and the only people who got the buffet seemed to be old people or hicks. Then again you could say that about the crowd at every buffet.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I opted for the KFC Buffet in New Lennox, IL and probably would have been better off making a regular order. I didn't have very much and KFC has a tendency of, hmm, "disagreeing" with me.

[godthedog 0]

i swear by panera because their hazelnut coffee is good, and they let you get free refills. if i hold on to one of their styrofoam cups, i can slip into the place unnoticed and get days' worth of coffee for free. i probably drink between 12 and 16 dollars' worth of panera coffee every week, paying maybe 3 dollars total for it.

 

i also like their baked potato soup.

[Red Baron 0]

Almost all the Pizza Hut buffets suck, except for the one in Welland, Ont. The pizza's were amazing and so was everything else. Cinnamon Buns were gone in an instant as you see people just stand up and wait for the waitress to put them on the heater.