Favorite buffet restaurants

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Phillips Seafood has a buffet either at the North end of Ocean City Maryland or just over the line in Fenwick Del.

http://www.phillipsseafood.com/uploads/file/Dinner%20Seafood%20Buffet%208-11.pdf

its pricey and its a buffet. But the kids love it and once every couple of years its fun.

There is a dive bar near me that has great, really great, steamed crabs (great crab cakes and Maryland crab soup too). Its not a buffet but they do have an all you can eat steamed crab dinner. You can sit a the picnic tables and eat crabs til you drop. I get tired before I get full. You get the mediums and some small larges (if you can wrap your head around that concept) but they are legitimately sized, hot and fresh (I'm pretty sure that most of the year they get them from the Gulf around Louisiana.

Phillips is fantastic!
There's another good one in Myrtle Beach: the Captain's Table maybe? It's near Broadway at the Beach.

 

[Small Town Guy]

Old Country Buffet remains my favorite.

 

[I Should Coco]

My favorites are the "Mongolian Grill"-style restaurants, where you pick the meat, veggies, noodles and sauces and they fry it up right in front of you.

I like to hit those places for lunch, when prices are slightly lower.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

I'll never forget a cross-country drive (moving for a job) when I ate at a buffet out of desperation and ralphed the whole thing up about six steps out the door.

 

[podunk press]

The last time I was at Golden Corral it was for a Bachelor's party.

My buddy puked in the bushes right in front of the main entrance.

I haven't been back since.

 

[spikechiquet]

I have not been to a buffet other than Chinese since my college football days. I would have to look back at the schedule, but it was probably somewhere near Ashland, Ohio.

Gross.

 

[JRoyal]

Furr's ain't bad if you gotta eat a buffet. Takes me back to my childhood, really.

Rest of the places I've eaten before, but the appeal of it being a ton of food for cheap is gone now that my kids cost adult prices. Most cost as much as a decent sitdown restaurant, so I'll take the better food and just eat less most of the time.

But I'll still go for a good Chinese or pizza buffet.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Phillips Seafood has a buffet either at the North end of Ocean City Maryland or just over the line in Fenwick Del.

http://www.phillipsseafood.com/uploads/file/Dinner%20Seafood%20Buffet%208-11.pdf

its pricey and its a buffet. But the kids love it and once every couple of years its fun.

There is a dive bar near me that has great, really great, steamed crabs (great crab cakes and Maryland crab soup too). Its not a buffet but they do have an all you can eat steamed crab dinner. You can sit a the picnic tables and eat crabs til you drop. I get tired before I get full. You get the mediums and some small larges (if you can wrap your head around that concept) but they are legitimately sized, hot and fresh (I'm pretty sure that most of the year they get them from the Gulf around Louisiana.

Phillips is fantastic!
There's another good one in Myrtle Beach: the Captain's Table maybe? It's near Broadway at the Beach.

Ocean City's best, and the finest buffet I've visited in at least two decades, is the Bonfire, IMHO. The rooms of food go on for a long time.

Specialty Breads
Corn Bread, Assorted Rolls, Assorted Homemade Muffins

Canadian Crab Legs, Carved Prime Rib, Raw Bar, BBQ Ribs, Steamed Shrimp, Desserts and Lots More!
Fried Shrimp · Fried Oysters · Raw Clams · Raw Oysters · Tuna · Cod · Salmon in Dill · BBQ Beef · Pepper Steak · Fried Chicken · BBQ Chicken · Baked Marinated Chicken · Fried Clams · Onion Rings · French Fries · Seafood · Fettuccine · Alfredo · Creole ·

Soups
Maryland Crab, Cream of Crab, French Onion and New England Clam Chowder, Cheddar Cheese Crab Dip

Carved to Order
USDA Prime Rib Au Jus, Top Round of Beef, Honey Glazed Ham, Roast Pork Tenderloin, Sauted Mushrooms and Onions

 

[jr/shotglass]

Also, I've always heard great things about the Circular Dining Room at the Hotel Hershey, and want to get to it.

http://misc.hersheypa.com/assets/dining_menus/menus/thecircular_sundaybrunch.pdf

 

[Steak Snabler]

Furr's ain't bad if you gotta eat a buffet. Takes me back to my childhood, really.

Does Furr's serve burgers?

Hi-yo!

 

[heyabbott]

Claremont Diner in Verona NJ had a Sunday buffet the called a smorgasbord. Went there as a kid IIRC they had lobster, carving stations and the best damn cheesecake, anywhere

 

[terrier]

Phillips Seafood has a buffet either at the North end of Ocean City Maryland or just over the line in Fenwick Del.

http://www.phillipsseafood.com/uploads/file/Dinner%20Seafood%20Buffet%208-11.pdf

its pricey and its a buffet. But the kids love it and once every couple of years its fun.

There is a dive bar near me that has great, really great, steamed crabs (great crab cakes and Maryland crab soup too). Its not a buffet but they do have an all you can eat steamed crab dinner. You can sit a the picnic tables and eat crabs til you drop. I get tired before I get full. You get the mediums and some small larges (if you can wrap your head around that concept) but they are legitimately sized, hot and fresh (I'm pretty sure that most of the year they get them from the Gulf around Louisiana.

Phillips is fantastic!
There's another good one in Myrtle Beach: the Captain's Table maybe? It's near Broadway at the Beach.

Ocean City's best, and the finest buffet I've visited in at least two decades, is the Bonfire, IMHO. The rooms of food go on for a long time.

Specialty Breads
Corn Bread, Assorted Rolls, Assorted Homemade Muffins

Canadian Crab Legs, Carved Prime Rib, Raw Bar, BBQ Ribs, Steamed Shrimp, Desserts and Lots More!
Fried Shrimp · Fried Oysters · Raw Clams · Raw Oysters · Tuna · Cod · Salmon in Dill · BBQ Beef · Pepper Steak · Fried Chicken · BBQ Chicken · Baked Marinated Chicken · Fried Clams · Onion Rings · French Fries · Seafood · Fettuccine · Alfredo · Creole ·

Soups
Maryland Crab, Cream of Crab, French Onion and New England Clam Chowder, Cheddar Cheese Crab Dip

Carved to Order
USDA Prime Rib Au Jus, Top Round of Beef, Honey Glazed Ham, Roast Pork Tenderloin, Sauted Mushrooms and Onions

But does Ocean City still have Big Pecker's Bar & Grill? Photographed the place 20 years ago.

My current buffet fave is Hibachi Grill. Fell in love with the East Providence location...until I experienced the even wider selection at Warwick's. Only drawback: did EP Sunday night and the ice cream was quite inferior.

 

[heyabbott]

Big Peckers is still in OC

 

[Batman]

There's a local Chinese buffet that I love to hit on the way into work on the weekends. For about $8 (lunch price) you can carry out whatever you can pack into one of those big square styrofoam leftover containers. I just lay down a bed of rice and pile different meats on top until it's full. Probably end up walking out with about four pounds of assorted Chinese food, which is enough for lunch and dinner a few hours later.

Went to another upscale Chinese buffet with the wife last weekend. They had most of the staples, but also a few neat experimental items (different takes on shrimp, a couple of chicken dishes with different sauces, some diced up strip steak, etc.), along with crab claws, mussels and oysters. Good stuff.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Not every Chinese buffet has it, but the battered shrimp smothered in coconut milk glaze is off-the-chain ...

 

[MisterCreosote]

Went to a Chinese buffet more than 10 years ago, and found a used, bloody Band-Aid in the fried rice.

Never again.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Nordic Lodge in the boonies in Rhode Island. Unlimited lobster, prime rib and damn well everything else you can think of. Costly, but one of those experiences that's really fun to do once.

 

[heyabbott]

1. Any New York Metro Area Jewish Saturday Night Wedding.
1A. Brunch at a Four Seasons.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Nordic Lodge in the boonies in Rhode Island. Unlimited lobster, prime rib and damn well everything else you can think of. Costly, but one of those experiences that's really fun to do once.

OK, Michael, I think that would go to the top of my list, too, if I ever got there.

http://www.nordiclodge.com/index.htm

 

[heyabbott]

Nordic Lodge in the boonies in Rhode Island. Unlimited lobster, prime rib and damn well everything else you can think of. Costly, but one of those experiences that's really fun to do once.

OK, Michael, I think that would go to the top of my list, too, if I ever got there.

http://www.nordiclodge.com/index.htm

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