How Much do you really eat at Buffets ?
Sep 3, 2012 | 12:17 am
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Planet Hollywood's buffet has a nice Middle Eastern station.
Sep 3, 2012 | 2:01 pm
#168
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I think it also has to do with price ,
$7-$10 buffets are just a little more than you pay for lunch at a fast food place , so I expect a few good things but not the world,
but if I am paying $20-$25 I do expect the world , a good selection , good quality and soft drinks included ,
If you are on vacation then you might splurge at a few of the $25-$35 places which better have Prime Rib , Lobster or Crab and a few other special things .
I try and eat a lot , but not so I need a wheelbarrow to get me out of there
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$7-$10 buffets are just a little more than you pay for lunch at a fast food place , so I expect a few good things but not the world,
but if I am paying $20-$25 I do expect the world , a good selection , good quality and soft drinks included ,
If you are on vacation then you might splurge at a few of the $25-$35 places which better have Prime Rib , Lobster or Crab and a few other special things .
I try and eat a lot , but not so I need a wheelbarrow to get me out of there
Soarer
Sep 3, 2012 | 4:34 pm
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I think it also has to do with price ,
$7-$10 buffets are just a little more than you pay for lunch at a fast food place , so I expect a few good things but not the world,
but if I am paying $20-$25 I do expect the world , a good selection , good quality and soft drinks included ,
If you are on vacation then you might splurge at a few of the $25-$35 places which better have Prime Rib , Lobster or Crab and a few other special things .
I try and eat a lot , but not so I need a wheelbarrow to get me out of there
Soarer
$7-$10 buffets are just a little more than you pay for lunch at a fast food place , so I expect a few good things but not the world,
but if I am paying $20-$25 I do expect the world , a good selection , good quality and soft drinks included ,
If you are on vacation then you might splurge at a few of the $25-$35 places which better have Prime Rib , Lobster or Crab and a few other special things .
I try and eat a lot , but not so I need a wheelbarrow to get me out of there
Soarer
Sep 3, 2012 | 4:46 pm
#170
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Oh, $20-25 seems like a steal for a buffet, if that's what "good" Vegas ones average out to. I used to go to one near Koreatown in Manhattan, called Todai, which became Minado, which is now IchiUmi. Any regulars to all three of those places care to comment on how different each is? I've only eaten at the first two (and when it was in Jordan, in Hong Kong, Todai). Those seemed to be a good deal at about US$20 for lunch.
Sep 4, 2012 | 7:27 am
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There's a Mexican buffet opening near us. It's replacing a Chinese buffet that closed a few months ago. I'm interested to try it once, just to see how lousy it is. 
Sep 6, 2012 | 10:14 am
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Really, a Mexican buffet? Do any more of those exist where you live? I'd much prefer that over a Chinese one, but if the former starts serving Jell-o too...
Sep 6, 2012 | 11:13 am
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Seems it would be an article in The Onion- City zoning laws require buffets; Plans for an Egyptian-themed hotel across the street protested.
Really, a Mexican buffet? Do any more of those exist where you live? I'd much prefer that over a Chinese one, but if the former starts serving Jell-o too...
Really, a Mexican buffet? Do any more of those exist where you live? I'd much prefer that over a Chinese one, but if the former starts serving Jell-o too...
Sep 6, 2012 | 1:18 pm
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Stayed at a hotel where I had Executive Lounge access with buffet last weekend:
- Trip One: Two croissants, yogurt, bowl of corn flakes
- Trip Two: Scrambled eggs, two sausages, two strips of bacon, potato wedge, piece of ham
All washed down with juice. It helps when you don't have any compulsion to get your "money's worth".
- Trip One: Two croissants, yogurt, bowl of corn flakes
- Trip Two: Scrambled eggs, two sausages, two strips of bacon, potato wedge, piece of ham
All washed down with juice. It helps when you don't have any compulsion to get your "money's worth".
Sep 7, 2012 | 9:45 pm
#176
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At Le Meridien in Jakarta (unusual architecture for both Jakarta {well, that part of the city} and a Le Meridien), I'd stock up on eggplant/avocado/olives liberally drowned in olive oil, oh and shrimp, and the next course was whipped cream and blueberry pancakes. Things I yearn for from home; though eggplants and avocados are all over Jakarta (and the former in many regional Indonesian cuisines), it had that grilled Turkish accent which wasn't commonplace. Pancakes, well, maybe at a colonial Dutch restaurant...but then, they wouldn't be the HUGE pannekoek found in Holland either.
Sep 13, 2012 | 2:07 am
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IchiUmi has a history of health violations, although I don't remember seeing a C grade posted in the window before. Kill their business? Doubtful. Affect it? Perhaps.
Sep 13, 2012 | 4:37 am
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http://consumerist.com/2008/10/resta...on-report.html
Sep 17, 2012 | 11:13 pm
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Did they do the classic C concealment maneuver with their grade?
http://consumerist.com/2008/10/resta...on-report.html
http://consumerist.com/2008/10/resta...on-report.html