I have yet to find an exceptional Chinese buffet in any town I've ever lived or visited. But I like Buffet Palace because they have such a variety of foods, and most things that people would enjoy trying if they've never had it before. Not too many things are scary here with legs poking out of fried batter. They have 4-5 soups, tons of sushi rolls, a variety of vegetable and meat dishes (including fish), and lots of fruits and desserts. It's hella expensive on the weekends, though, at $11.50/person. I guess I just don't eat enough at a buffet to warrant an $11.50 tab, but it's a nice alternative from time to time. read more

I think I am a sucker for punishment...either that or I killed so many brain cells in college that I forget the yucky food I get here and I keep going back. I did it again today...went to Buffet Palace for lunch expecting better food that any of the other times I have been (isn't that the definition of insanity??) The problem is the food *looks* good and it *looks* flavorful and interesting...then you take a bite or two and realize looks can be deceiving....bland, uninspired, over-cooked, rubbery....basically pretty gross. I always leave feeling like I am on the verge of intestinal distress. The only dish I know I will like is the jabchai...I should just get heaping plates of this...but I always end up torturing myself with 5 or six other dishes. No matter how crazy I am to keep going to a restaurant that I basically don't like...I am sane enough to avoid raw fish here. It doesn't even appear to be fresh...most of the sushi have a dried "crust" around the edges ~shiver~ If you must have sushi, stick with the seaweed rolls...they are actually not that bad. I swear I am never coming here again!! (we'll see how long this lasts!) read more

Nice variety of salads - from noodles, greens, tofu and seaweed. Good selection of soups - hot & sour, egg drop, vegetable (kimchi), and wonton. I really liked the Korean bulgogi beef and pork. There is a large assortment of dishes, from curry chicken to teriyaki chicken. Not bad sushi roll choices, but not good. They just have an assortment of - Asian dishes. The deserts weren't bad either from the almond cookies to the different cakes with soft serve ice cream. Price and service wasn't bad either. I will definitely be going back. read more

Rating on a curve since its a buffet. This is a pretty good buffet with great sushi options! Close to the office so its super convenient and definitely gonna come back read more

Food was better than most $9 buffet you can find but some dishes were mehhhh. The service was decent but not attentive the usual pick up the plate when full kind. read more

I know this place doesn't always get the best reviews, but we go ALL of the time and we just love it there. I'm from NYC and I think they make the BEST fried rice of anywhere in Austin.. I LOVE their chicken and broccoli.. or more importantly, their brown sauce that they use on it. Their tempura shrimp roll is outstanding!! I mean, I could go on and on. Do I like everything single thing they have on the buffet bar? No. But they have PLENTY of what I do love and that's what keeps me going back!! :-) read more

Don't let the outside of this place fool you, once you walk in its actually nice. The food was always replenished, fresh and i never saw a empty serving dish. My daughters enjoyed their sushi, sesame chicken, vegetable lo mein fried rice , beef broccoli and several different fruits. My wife had the seafood soup, crab legs and shrimp. No complaints from her either! I had some fried rice, Korean beef, lo mein and crab rangoon and enjoyed it enough to go back for more. Our waitress was great and always checked on us even though it was pretty busy. I would definitely come back if I'm ever in the area. read more

My favorite buffet in town. You really get a piece of everything when you come in. The food is fresh and service is awesome. Be sure to ask for Zoli and he will take wonderful care if you! read more

Hit or miss on the food selection but overall pretty good. The servers are SO friendly here. And for the amount of food I usually eat, it's worth the price. Come hungry. read more

Sometimes you find a place were the reviews make it seem like a place is the best thing since California rolls, and it doesn't deliver. This place does! Great fresh tasting sushi rolls, hot tempura, great selection of salads and hot dishes. The selection was wide made in small batches, fresh and hot. My brother read off all my choices and there was sesame chicken, beef bulgogi, Viennese spring rolls, tempura veggies, and so much more. read more

Got instantly sick from the food, the waitress was very rude trying to rush us out the whole time, the bathrooms smelled and needed cleaning, the dinning area smelled like dirty diapers just awful experience read more

One of the worst buffets I've ever seen. Food was inedible. Looked it up and it said #1 in Austin 9 years straight. Must have been in their family magazine. I brought 6 people and it was $89 with a $10 discount. I wouldn't eat here again if it was free. Feel like I got mugged. read more

Love this place- when I get the insatiable craving for Chinese in good amts- this is the place to got. You can tell solely by the popularity- like the fast good turnover and full parking lot. The sushi isn't amazing- bit it hits the spot on the days when you want variety over quality and don't want to get sick after. This is definitely a tradition for our family- we never leave unhappy or hungry- and that says something! read more

Wow! It's a super buffet! So many good things to eat. The usually entrees but also a lot of soup, salad and sushi options. Quite a few finger foods, mussels, Kenichi. My favorite was the seafood dynamite. Not crazy about buffets. This was good. Our server was a sweetheart. Took good care of us. read more

Great food for a buffet place friendly service and what sold me was a lot of sushi options

I love their sushi bar :* the food here is amazing, best buffet in town. The new soup calls Korean spicy soup is a BOMB

A mix of korean and chinese exemplified. Amazing individual taste of 100s of food items. Variety of sea food and most of all, very good diversified food for veges. The seating is a little out of comfort though.. only thing i would improve read more

I've written praise for this place in the past and am writing the opposite of that today. I can't believe the service we received at 3:45pm on the 7th of August. I've been going here for over 7 years and I have never had service this bad anywhere ever. I asked if I could just get soup and water. I know it's 96 degrees but I eat soup almost every day and at least twice a week from here for years. After getting sat and watching the host have meetings with the wait staff, of which I was about to find out why, I asked our server if we could get waters. We were denied. He said he was told to not get us waters because we were only having soup. I can only guess full wait staff service (getting waters) is for buffet purchases only. This is a not only a horrible practice to decline a patron water but generally a bad way to run a business as it follows ZERO logic and makes no sense. The place was looking up once they fired the last cashier that had really bad customer interactions but has since settled back into their routine of hiring people with no basic customer service etiquette. I have worked the majority of my life in customer service and y'all need consultation so here's some: the female host in white and older male server in black desperately need training in basic customer service/humanity. I know if my boss told me to not get water for my table that I'm waiting on I would insist my boss tip me then. Who denies their table water? Completely absurd. read more

Most disgusting restaurant I've encountered in Austin. When I went up to the buffet to get a plate, there were black bugs covering a plate on the buffet and no one seemed to care. Needless to say I turned and walked out in disgust, will not be returning. read more

I haven't been to another Chinese buffet for the price and quality of this one. They always have fresh sushi and hot food! What more can you ask for? read more

The overall look of the place is very nice, the staff was nice, server was also nice. There wasn't a wait time, so I was seated pretty quickly. But the food wasn't that good for me, I've had better Chinese. The sushi was surprisingly very good, they had a large variety of sushi to choose from. The did have a lot of different food at he buffet as well. It wasn't all Chinese. Lunch I thought was a little over priced, my meal was almost $11 which is a lot for lunch. Overall I wasn't a fan of the place and I most likely would not return. read more

I have been here many times before and enjoy the buffet because the variety is what it is but today Melinda and I had a connection with one of the staff named Esther ( Shu-sha ). I believe in my heart that she will be the reason we come back again. I would recommend anyone that is reading this to request her for the best service and smile you'll get for 20 miles around. God bless the name Esther (Shu-sha) read more

I hate buffet palace, I only came to appease others. The food is sub-par for any day of the week buffet price. I found a little piece of plastic in my noodle soup, and noticed nori in my crab ragoon , and everything is so unlike it's authentic counterpart, and greasy and cheap, that the buffet price is insulting. I never want to return. Gross. read more

Not sure why people slag this place, but wow, I thought it was a major feast going on, esp the Korean stuff and the Chinese shrimp in special salt. That dish alone, if you could find it someplace, would cost as much as this whole freakin' buffet does. Great place, esp for families, right? Of course,I live further north, but when I'm down there, I'll stop by. read more

Excellent food with a very friendly wait staff. I definitely like the vast variety of food from different Asian cultures.

wow, we just left and I can not begin to say how angry I am. I have a 2 year old son, and they decided to sit us next to another table with a 2ish year old. Needless to say they started talking. Talking turned into baby yelling and well, they were acting like 2 year olds. The "head server" came to our table and the one next to us and basically told us to shut our children up. They're 2!! Being that I'm a waitress, I thought this was really rude, so I walked to the host stand and asked to speak to a manager. I told the host what happened and she said they had a complaint. I told her my son is two, and she said "well you should have taken him outside" I simply replied "ok, i'll take him outside then" and we left. All in all, they are RUDE. read more

No,no. I went with my family to celebrate my b-day. I told them I had a coupon for free buffet for me. They asked if I have it printed, I told them no but I showed on my iPhone. They call the manager who came and very rude told us, no printed coupon just go away! Wow if that's the way they treat customers I don't want to think what they put on their food. I'll never come back. read more

The food was good but whatever you do don't eat the sushi. I didn't even make it out of the restaurant when I immediately had to go to the bathroom. I'll withhold the unfortunate details of what went on in the restroom. I love sushi and had never gotten sick from it but if this review can help at least one person avoid being in my situation it would suffice. read more

All you can eat peal and eat shrimp 4 stars all you can eat sushi 4 stars.. All the fried dishes get 1 star - cold fried anything here s yucky.. read more

As far as Asian buffets go, this restaurant is basically as good as it gets! Especially in Austin. For the price, you can select from an amazing variety of dishes. Personal favorites are the lo mein, chicken wings, and orange chicken. They also have crab legs on the buffet line. They do a good job of making sure that the trays are always filled and the food is hot and fresh. The interior is spacious and clean, and the service is great. Every time I finished a plate, it was quickly cleared from the table, and my glass of water was kept full. read more

Over priced Chinese buffet and food is not that great. Been a handful of times and still not impressed.

I am a huge fan of buffet and have gone to this one for years. Less than a month ago I ate there with my family. And well let's just say I think I found a bug in my peach cobbler. When I told my waiter they just brushed it off like it was nothing. They still made me pay, which I didn't really throw a fit about. But still I don't even know why a tick was in a peach cobbler. read more

I just ate here with my family. The food was disgusting. It was cold and had no flavor. I will never eat here again. I can't believe I wasted money on this place. read more

I have eaten here numerous times and have always walked away happy & satisfied. They have a wide selection of sushi, salads,soups, desserts and entrees. Everything is delicious and the wait staff is very professional and timely, even though it is always busy. Keep up the good work! read more

I really like how you can eat healthy here. It's Chinese, Korean, Japanese, American and even a little Mexican food all put together. Lots of variations of veggies, meats, and soups. Desserts are just OK, great sushi selection, love their seaweed, misosoup, egg drop soup, fried rice, chicken teriyaki, and salads. They are not like a typical Chinese restaurant with cheap food, this one doesn't have the canned corn or iceberg lettuce as a buffet option. I really think they are better than that. Great for bringing big groups or just going by yourself. A downside is the price. Great place and I would recommend this place! read more

Wife recommended this place after eating here on a weekday with her co-workers. She described it to me as a buffet that has more selections than other buffets we've eaten at ( except for the dessert section which is smaller than others ). Loving to grind, we came on a Saturday. Lunch is priced at $13.99 on the weekends ( $9.75 weekdays ). Yes, they have quite a variety. I was Ono to try their kalbi ( although the wife warned they weren't as good as hers ) and they do have quite a selection of food. Most did not really have taste ( even with the sauces provided it was still kinda- eh ). But everybody has different taste. The dessert section was small. Thank goodness it wasn't crowded when we were there as I can imagine how noisy this place could become. After all is said and done, I'd probably eat here again, but I'd come on a weekday to save some money read more

I and two of my friends ate there last week and all of us got food poisoning from the experience. The food is not bad, but this isn't the first time I've gotten sick there. I'm not going back, it's really not that tasty. I don't have to get sick three times to convince me. Plus, they don't ever seem to get above 89 on health scores. Ew. read more

This is one of the worst Chinese buffets I have ever been to. Even the Riverside Joy East had better food. I was here for possibly 10 minutes. When I asked for a manager I was confronted with a waitress who told me they would only take $4 off my ticket. Which is ridiculous. CAUTION DO NOT EAT THE "General Tso Chicken" it is pork. I have a pork allergy. Save yourself the $14 dollars and eat somewhere else. However if you enjoy lots of noodles and vegetables this the place to go. Not alot of meat dishes. This is what low end Chinese buffets are. Disorganized, dingy, and rude staff. read more

Food was disgusting. And OLD not freshly made. & there is not many options. Fried shrimps tasted really nasty and we left our food on the table. read more

we ate lunch there today. i have to admit this was one of the buffet i have ever been. sushi are great , fresh and warm or cold whatever you like. i recommend this place for sure. hope next time i will visit it for dinner. read more

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