My group decided to have our reunion lunch here for several reasons: you pay as you enter so no hassles about dividing the bill; drinks are included; and the food was made fresh. I didn't even get to try everything as there were so many dishes. read more

This might be the worst buffet in VA. The food was horrible, everything was dry and cold. Wish that I could give it zero stars. Don't waist your time!!! read more

The food is fresh as it was consistently being refilled by staff. Pretty much everything was tasty. I like that there are many options you don't see at most buffets. The servers are attentive to clearing plates and bringing refills. The inside is very large and accommodating for large groups. Lots of seafood options, chicken, and dessert! Definitely recommend this place and will be back. read more

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Ambiance - Old outdate looking like a old lodge restaurant. Service good. Food- This is a Chinese buffet nightmare, old foods, don't look clean. It changes so much compared to went i last visit went I was in my teen. I wouldn't not come back. read more

Disappointed with My Visit to Blue Pearl Buffet I went to the bank today for some errands, and by the time I was done, it was already 1 PM. I told my husband, "Let's grab a quick lunch outside before we head to the grocery store." Right across the road, we spotted a place called Blue Pearl Buffet. I thought why not try something new? Most buffets around here are usually decent, so it felt like a safe choice. Unfortunately, the experience turned out to be very disappointing. Almost 90% of the food was cold, and the amount of MSG used was overwhelming ,it left a weird aftertaste and an unpleasant feeling in my mouth for hours afterward. I didn't expect much from the sushi section, but I certainly didn't expect it to be rubbery hard either. The only good thing was the chilled water. Also, just because food looks good in pictures doesn't mean it tastes good ,this place is the perfect example of that. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this place if you're expecting a fresh, enjoyable buffet experience. There are better options nearby where your money and taste buds will be better respected. read more

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Friendly Staff. Food is awesome for the price you pay. They served best on Friday nights and weekends.

Food was horrible, greasy, stale, mostly fried food. Red flag when they asked you to pay first, meaning food is bad and they don't want you to skip out. Decor was nice but food awful. Will not return. read more

The restaurant was clean and well lit, it was just before the dinner rush so it was about 1/3 full. Wait staff was friendly and attentive. The buffet bars were well stocked and food looked appetizing and tasted like one would expect on a Chinese buffet. Over 150 items were advertised. While I didn't count there was an abundance of items as can be seen in the photos. I took my time eating and when I left the place was over half full. Not bad for a Monday. The atmosphere was relaxing and several families were there. The dinner price of $20 seems reasonable given the huge selection. My stomach wasn't big enough to try everything but what I had I enjoyed. 4 stars only because it was a buffet. read more

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Awesome service, Master class. Always welcome with beautiful smiles. Extremely professional and world class service. Their always room for improvement as any professer states teaching hospitality and generosity/household. How best in class buffet all of east and west coast. I definitely recommended. Thank you very much for the great food with variety. Kindness, Positivity, and action is the key to all success. Quotes by Walid. Kind regards, Walid A. Husseini. read more

sushi still had plastic wrap of the crab meat, when I told the cashier she was like it's ok, you are fine. no offer to discount. I'm only give 2 star because the owner just said she is sorry. but the fact that my kids already eat some plastic was totally ignored form the team members. read more

Not too bad for the price. A very good value and lots of variety. They had several shrimp dishes, baked salmon, and chicken. They also had non Asian dishes too. They tried to keep it clean and the service was good. read more

Blue Pearl Buffet - Fried rice steamed vegetables sweet shrimp - Buffets Near Me - Springfield, Virginia

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It is always good to eat here. Not too crowded on week nights. Service and food are good. read more

Blue Pearl Buffet - Price at NOV 19, 2024 for reminding myself - Buffets Near Me - Springfield, Virginia

I don't normally leave reviews but this buffet was so bad I feel obligated to warn others. First off, the food was RAW chicken. Yes, raw. Not undercooked straight up pink. read more

Blue Pearl Buffet - I usually don't leave reviews, he food was raw chicken. Yes, raw. Not undercooked, straight-up pink. - Buffets Near Me - Springfield, Virginia

Stopped for a quick lunch with my mom after the morning at My Vernon. I was skeptical due to the low star rating. But I looked at the google rating and gave me a better feel. I got to the restaurant just after noon. The buffet was large and tidy, salads, fruit, seafood, sushi, hot dishes, Mongolian bbq (custom dishes) and dessert. The dining room is clean and staff/wait staff was very tentative. All the flavors for good the food is hot. Only complaint I have is the garlic shrimp were hard to peel If I'm in the area, I will definitely stop for another buffet lunch :-) read more

Blue Pearl Buffet - Clean dining room - Buffets Near Me - Springfield, Virginia

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Horrible food Tasteless , uncooked , disgusting Never coming back The person who cooked this food , use to Clening guy for this restaurant and he become chef for this restaurant when the restaurant chef quit and left ! read more

I used to come here a long time ago and it was great. I went there today and I really can't see why it's so popular. Here's a list things to note: - The table was dirty - There were no knives to be had - There were children running around everywhere as I was trying to get my food - The floors were dirty - The door to the men's bathroom was wide open and I could see the toilets and hear the hand dryer blasting from where I sat - A lot of the food was cold - A lot of the food had a strange taste to it - I left most of it because it just didn't taste good - The only redeeming part was the dessert - $14.95 for lunch, $16.95 for dinner (I hope I don't get sick.) read more

This place used to be decent in its dragon sea buffet days and the couple years after, but this is on its way out, soon. I cannot stress more that the food is very bad, like 99% of it. Sad to see this legendary place decline so hard. read more

Food is terrible, most you can taste is salt and oil. Dont come here and save your money.

The buffet has high quality fish and steak at a steal of a price. Highly recommend the on site hibachi grill cooked fresh. Lunch time has less people. Drinks are refillable. Oysters are fresh. Staff is always very kind and refills read more

Upon entering your greeted and everything. The employee was speaking in a very low voice though. Also you could very easily tell there was a lack of ventilation inside the place. The pricing was very high for a weekday dinner. After being seated in a booth that had very heavy wear & tear on it plus the springs were shot too. I decided to give the food a try. The food area was very strange for a buffet environment. Barely any steam coming off most of the food. Also a lot of food looked nowhere near fresh. The sushi area was very limited as well as the hibachi area too. The hibachi area raw food you could easily tell lacked even a decent QUALITY of meat. Upon tasting the food. The sushi tasted like utter crap. Nowhere near fresh. I've NEVER had sushi this bad before. Even spit a few pieces out. The other food was barely warm. Some even cold. This is the only buffet where you DON'T see steam coming off all the food. The hibachi food looked very weird after it was cooked. It was even debatable if it was actually pure chicken. Just discarded the entire plate due to not knowing if it was pure chicken and not a unknown meat. The crabs were a TOTAL FAIL. **SEE PICS**, Broken pieces drowned in oil as well as the overall appearance of the crabs looked very strange. Just discarded the entire plate of crabs. The hot food. 90% of the food was nowhere near hot nor barely even warm. Most of the chicken was cold and you could easily tell it was old meat either from yesterday or earlier today. Had to spit out most of the food due to it being undercooked and cold. Also the food selection here is very very poor compared to other buffets these days. The employees are friendly here. Not very social though. The general crowd was mainly adults. Some kids. Highly mature though. The ventilation was very bad here. No air circulating really. No AC or any fans on. It was becoming humid. The overall noise level was normal for a buffet. You could however overhear some people complaining about never coming back due to the quality of the food and also due to the fact they're giving everyone TAP WATER instead of filtered water. Overall. THIS PLACE IS A TOTAL DUMP. The place was clean. But the food they're serving is nowhere near fresh and some of it is even highly questionable about the type & quality of meat. NEVER AGAIN..... read more

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On 19 July 2023, I got a to-go box from Blue Pearl Buffet for $11.75-very good deal, and good food! Take out is priced by the weigh of the food. The tastiest food item is the thin Vietnamese noodles! I also got bbq wings, general stachicken, beef with broccoli, and plantains. read more

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Blue Pearl Buffet - S01. Salted and Pepper Shrimp with Shell - Buffets Near Me - Springfield, Virginia

-selection is very limited -food just taste bland if not bad, I mean pizza is hard to screw up but they did. -low stock on their utensils -most dessert items are good but that's all. will not go back again read more

The Buffett looks better than it actually is. I always check for fried rice, noodles and egg drop soup. They had all those items but they were just so-so. I can usually tolerate chicken broth in egg drop soup. This one made me sick. The pizza must be frozen. I took one bite and was done. Hubby likes the custom made soups. He wasn't excited about the soup. The fries weren't all soft. There were hard pieces, like it wasn't evenly cooked. The orange slices were good. The melons weren't fully ripe. The seafood items were not a quality item like you can get at Phillips or many other places. The servers stopped noticing us less than halfway through the meal. I had to keep motioning for them. Hubby wanted unsweetened ice tea. We gave up after two requests. At least my meal date was five stars. read more

Food quality is definitely going downhill these days, but I assume the business owner has to do something to recover from the COVID lockdown, or to deal with record high inflation. Take out customers be aware: they may charge you more than what you should pay. The last time I went there, my food weighted 0.6 lb. on the scale; $7.95 * 0.6 = $4.77, but on my receipt, I was charged $5.77 before tax. This definitely happened more than once to me before, because I usually take about the same amount of food, but the price varies suspiciously. My experience is that the old lady with glasses would give me the honest price, the short lady, who only works at the frond desk and doesn't wear the waiter uniform, cheats. read more

Food was dry and had little flavor Service was ok not too bad Overall would not recommend going there again. read more

The food here is great! Lots of variety for the most reasonable price I have ever seen. I dare you to not to find something you'll love out of their 150 dishes. I particularly liked all the pork options. read more

My family likes eating here. We've been coming to this buffet since it used to be called Dragon Sea Buffet (years ago). I'm not a big fan of Chinese buffets, mostly because the quality isn't very good. I rather eat at a restaurant, order less dishes and I know it will be of higher quality. Either way, the family likes going to Chinese buffets and I love my family, so here we are. Blue Pearl offers more than just Chinese dishes. They also have sushi, fried chicken, pizza, fries, Pho, Hibachi, garlic bread, etc. Their dim sum section is usually my favorite, but on our most recent visit, there wasn't a whole lot of variety. Most of that section was empty. Blue Pearl offers a lot of seafood options and desserts, but the quality is not quite there. You get a lot of food that lacks flavor and isn't all that fresh. I do appreciate that drinks (sodas, iced tea, hot tea) are included in the buffet price. Service on the other hand is great. Servers are super attentive and friendly. read more

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I am walking distance to the place. And been to this place a couple of times because of the convivence of distance. I am not a big fan of seafood so I cannot speak for it. But for everything else the food is room temperature and chicken seem like its been in the buffet for a long time. sushi and fruits and veggies is are all fresh and you see sometimes the employees working cutting the fruit. the Tables are sticky. chairs are comfortable and easy to scoot back. The soy sauce seems to go bad every time I try it recently they added pupusas which are really good and my favorite trying to reach more different people. read more

Excellent service! Food is much better than the other Chinese buffets. Golden buffet used to be good but somehow after the pandemic, it went down hill, way down hill. The lady owner is very friendly and always try to say hello to our family when she isn't too crazy busy. read more

Blue Pearl Buffet - A plate of lobster for an extra $8 - Buffets Near Me - Springfield, Virginia

I wish i could give them zero stars i just went here today July, 23, 2024, and let me say this was DISGUSTING. Food was not hot at all and very chewy and old as hell. On top of that the woman kept grabbing my plates for my crawfish that i was putting shells. THEN the waitress notices my mother doesn't like her food so they did my mom's soup in OLD DISH WATER and give it to her and she noticed it from the smell. AND THEN she took it back and the woman refilled her water at the table but took the cup with her to the back but somehow the white folks had a jug brought out to them. Anyways my mom gets her water back only to find LITERAL SPIT IN HER WATERR!!!!!! absolutely not!! We will never come back here let that be known. read more

I didn't have a problem with the food. It was the normal buffet menu. The bathroom was clean. The staff was friendly and professional. My problem was the condition of the majority of the tables. The table tops looked uncleanable. The varnish deteriorated and the table tops were sticky and looked down right unsanitary. I've contacted the Department of Environmental Health Services. (703) 746-4910. read more

You have to temper your expectations when coming to an American-Chinese buffet. This is not going to be Peking Gourmet, or House of Dynasty. You get what you pay for here. The food is fairly average. Some of it was pretty cold too. My complaints are that food items are poorly labeled, and how do you not serve Wonton soup? They have Pho, but no Wonton! How strange! I also found it strange in layout. The layout is all over the place, and feels like a maze just to make your way through it. You also pay before you eat. Okay... At least the customer service is decent. My friend had a fly in his water, and to play it safe they took my water and replaced them both. There is another American-Chinese buffet in Falls Church and another in Alexandria. I would like to try them both to see how they compare to this one. But again, temper your expectations. read more

Food was terrible I regret coming here never again waste of my money . Please don't come here the service was so bad !!!

This is a Chinese food buffet. There is a nice variety of food. The service was excellent. The wait staff was attentive. Nothing fancy; it's a casual atmosphere. read more

I went for dinner and when I was eating a roach just flew on my plate, disgusting The food taste pretty bad too read more

Ive always come here since a child. But yesterday.... I came in at around 830... ate and realized i forgot cash at home. A tip is only optional!!! But the lady wouldn't let me go until i gave her a tip , how ridiculous and absurd! Will be speaking to management next time read more

Don't think I'll be coming here again. The food is always cold. Even when it's busy and you think they'll change out food often, they won't. I came with my husband and his friend, we all got a plate or two and after that, the server had came to drop off fortune cookies and we were not even done yet. She then proceeds to take plates off the table that weren't finished, and stand right in front of our table. I politely told her, we were not finished. She then proceeded to take our utensils and rush us out. I was so upset they did not deserve a tip. Not only bad food but TERRIBLE service. She then proceeds to chase us down on our way out and tells us to tip her. My husbands friend had told her no. We do not have cash, and she's like, OH then put your card down. Ha! She's a joke. Never again. Not to mention an hour later we all were sitting down feeling sick because we got food poison. Save the trouble and don't go here. The few times I have went there, the people were decent. But the food will never change. read more

Nothing fancy but a good variety of. A little inconsistency in the flavor and temperature sometimes. temper your expectations and you won't go wrong. read more

It's Alright.. seemed clean enough, food was decent. I've been to many Asian buffets, this one is middle of the road. Went on a Saturday night, prime dinner time. Small sushi selection, decent main course selection. Typical Chinese Buffett dessert selection with those questionable cakes, and puddings. Would I go back, maybe? Are there better options locally? not really unless you go to falls church, or Alexandria. Bottom line is if you're really hungry it will do, if you're going here expecting to find your next great Asian buffet hidden gem, probably not, it's mediocre. I'm also comparing it to other buffets that I frequent, that are just overall better. Pros- they seem to be refilling the food quickly that ran out, they refilled my drink multiple times, cleared plates from my table quickly Cons- only raw seafood they have is the shrimp, small sushi selection, fruit and dessert selection was poor just limited options read more