if you really have no where to eat and you are close by, this place is ok. Do not drive more than 5 minutes for it. it's not worth it. Any panda express will do better and cleaner than here, especially for lunches. for less than 10 bucks, you get all crappy over cooked and re-heated food. read more

I wish that Austin had a better selection of greasy chinese buffets. We've all been to that low point in our lives where nothing will cure our seemingly endless depression like an all you can eat buffet of MSG. Wait- that's just me? Anyway Buffet Palace used to be the shit when it was the head honcho of Austin's buffet scene. But we have grown as a city and unfortunately Buffet Palace got left behind. read more

Yeah, good food for the price and the place is pretty clean. They have a ton of Asian dishes and the food is always hot. Service is is fast and friendly. Only downside is balancing plates while kids run in front of you... i.e. this place good for families. Bring the kids, they've got a self serve ice cream machine!!! read more

I'm usually not a big fan of buffet eateries. Today was a perfect example of why I do not go. The selection was not very appealing at all. The chicken was all over cooked. The beef was kinda dry. The soup was not so good. I usually like their sushi rolls, but was disappointed today. The best thing to look forward to after your meal is the soft serve ice cream. The machine was broken. I say BOO!! read more

Honestly this place is pretty impressive. I don't expect much from buffet style restaurants, so my expectations were definitely exceeded. Clean place, good food, and efficient service. read more

Pretty good buffet. Week night dinner is $11 per person- but you have a huge selection of Korean appetizers and sushi- not just imitation crab stuffed into rice and wrapped with seaweed as I normally see at these places. Not a whole lot of 'Chinese' food imo, but there are several soups and a pretty wide variety of desserts to choose from as well. If you like sushi and eat a lot of it, it's worth the $11- if you're looking for a more Americanized Chinese buffet, you may not like this one as well as some of the others in town. read more

Some of those previous reviews are disturbing but I've never had a problem here. I hope they arent true. I'm not usually a buffet guy but every now and then...For my money their the best asian buffet at least in south austin. Wide selection of all the Americanized Asian food you can think of. Decor is pleasant so is the staff. I wish the sushi rolls didn't all have cream cheese. Substitute avacado or veggies. It'd be nice to have a few tempura/traditional rolls instead of the heavy sauce rolls. Price isnt bad either. Got the munchies?.. this is an ideal choice. read more

Great selection. The service is great and the prices are set at an okay price. Try to get there before dinner time. Prices shoot up by over 25%. read more

Better than most buffet's I've been too. I, of course, being the ridiculous individual avoid the sushi at all costs. I hate food poisoning.

Best Chinese buffet in Austin...kids friendly. Great service. Ofc, guilty pleasure when you do not have to worry about controlling how much you want to add on your plate! Sigh! read more

I gave four stars because foods here are not great but price is pretty reasonable. Also, there is a variety of foods. So this place is one of my favorate places. read more

Finally made it to Buffet Palace on the south side.... I was not impressed. It seemed awfully short on hot vegetables and a lot of the meat dishes were either empty or underwhelming. A lot of gristle in the beef and chicken. The food was mostly hot. The fried chicken wings were good. The Miso was tasteless. The cold side had quite a bit of selection but some of it was limp looking. They had cold Shrimp but the cocktail sauce would not come out of the container. Desserts were ok but the vanilla ice cream wasn't working. As my daughter said, "I'd give them a 6 for the hot side, the cold side would bring them up to an 8, but the price would drop them back to a 7." I wouldn't make an effort to go back. read more

Ate here today. Food was great! Molly was our server and she was the best I've ever had! Very polite and courteous! Would recommend her for anyone that comes to eat here. read more

I love this place. My wife and I eat here often. There is a very good selection of various Asian cuisine: Chinese, Korean and Japanese. The sushi is usually pretty good. I particularly like the potstickers and the bulgogi beef. Hmmm, now I'm getting hungry. :) read more

The first time my roomy and I ate at this place the food was DELICIOUS! I stuffed myself so much that day that later I regretted it lol. Well the second or third time we went back the food SUCKED. I don't know what they did but it turned me off. Then some time later my roommate told me this place didn't score so good with the Health inspection people and that we weren't going back there. Once I found that out I though ewww. Either way I always wonder when I go to Chinese buffets how clean are the plates, cups etc? Do they actually scrubs this stuff good in bleach and soap? Because I see stains on the plates and stuff some times. read more

This has been one of my favorite buffets for years! My family loves to go when they visit too! The variety and quality are both very good, for a buffet, and they refill items rather well, unless you show up in the last hour (don't do that!). I love the spinach and asian salads, variety of veggies and stir fries, eggplant, crab salad, soups, and soft serve ice cream! My sister loves their sushi. For a buffet, and I consider myself a connoisseur as I seek them out, it is better than most! Good service and value, the best chinese buffet I've been to in any town actually, but always remember, it's a buffet so set your expectations accordingly. read more

This is a great buffet. I'm from San Diego and we have very good buffet but this place is really close to what we have there. Great variety and great service. What more do you want from a buffet place, even the desserts are good. read more

Buffet Palace is the best place ever! Great food and dessert. I highly recommend the spring rolls, salads, grilled foods, ice cream, sesame balls, chocolate cake. lots of variety and nice people. read more

Disappointment! Disappointment! Disappointment! Too few varieties of dish. Only pipeapple and orange no other fruits

Great atmosphere, good service, and great staff all wraps up to a GREAT day! Also lots of choices, and you can fill up your plate as many times as you want! read more

I have eaten here many times and always had great food.. The sweet and sour chicken is my favorite and always been cook perfect.

Love this place, its our go-to for family gatherings! We always get great service and can't get over the variety. We especially like the Korean food and sushi! For the price it's really terrific! read more

Still good every time we go! My boyfriend loves the huge selection here. Food is always fresh and the restaurant is kept clean. A little more expensive but worth the money! :) read more

TOO MUCH MSG! I got the worst headache after eating at this place and felt horrible the entire drive home. Food didn't even taste that good and there weren't a lot of egg-free vegetarian dishes. All of the cookies were rock hard too. read more

This is a good Chinese buffet. The quality is not sky high, but you know what you're getting when you go to a Chinese buffet-it's quantity over quality. There are some interesting things happening here that set them apart from other Chinese joints. For example, they have sushi, a lot of soups, a lot of cold vegetable dishes I've never seen anywhere else, a huge dessert selection, and an ice cream machine. My personal favorites are the rib steaks, Korean beef cakes, and the tempura veggies. read more

just. don't. do. it. get in your car again. drive to houston. or, better yet, go to hong kong, taiwan or mainland china. variety is not always a good thing. buffets like this give chinese food a bad, brown, greasy name. do your waist-line a favor and steer clear. spend your money on some good ingredients, spend your time learning how to cook, make *actual* chinese food instead. every meal i ate here, (a favorite of a few people i won't mention) left me feeling sad, and a little queasy. ignorance is not an excuse to eat this stuff. thinking this is even tangentially related to chinese food is akin to believing that mcdonald's serves great american hamburgers. /rant read more

Disgusting! The food was horrible. The fried rice was disgusting. they put way too much scrambled egg in it, tasted like it was nothing but eggs. The biscuts where hard as a rock, food was cold. veggies were rock hard, and the egg drop soup was disgusting. Who puts veggies in egg drop soup? ive never seen it. They totally messed up the taste of it. Over all nasty. Will never eat here again read more

I took the family here for lunch today based on a review from a friend. I was not impressed, but I figured we'll try it. It's a Chinese Buffet , what would you expect. The food was sub par greasy and tasteless. I've never been to a buffet where you paid for drinks as well, though now I have. When we were done with our meals I noticed that the back of the spoon in my wife's Iced Tea was covered with some hard crusties left over from the wash. Bringing this to the attention of the person in charge he looked at it like he did not care and that he did not care. He got the manager and she took the $1.99 for the Ice Tea off the bill. WOW! Terrible service. I took a picture of the spoon for proof. http://imgur.com/pO3En - Just to top it all off, when we got home my wife could not hold the food in any longer. read more

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if you ever want to sell your liver for foie gras, then this place would be a good start to get on your way to fattening it up. I love the eggrolls here, the fried dumplings, the spicy chicken soup. the last time I was here 3 years ago, they had some spicy green beens that were good. noodles ok. rice, i hate onion in the fried rice. why did you start doing that! beef and broc, ok. please send me a 5 gallon bucket of that soup. read more

I love Sushi and I love to eat a lot of it. The problem is that I'm cheap when it comes to food and I'm not a fan of paying a ton to eat. Buffet Palace is the solution to my little predicament. They have a good selection of sushi and it's decent. The rest of the food here is typical buffet food. Most of it is fine as long as you eat it when it's fresh, so go during lunch or dinner hours. read more

Went last night for dinner and was not impressed. The green beans were cold, the meat was fatty, the crawfish were horrible. Only saving grace were the muscles and dumplings Worse Sushi I've ever tasted. But I don't think they are known for their sushi. read more

I heard about this through my girlfriend and it sounded delicious. I went for lunch today and was disappointed. I live closer to a new chinese buffet called CHI which is the BOMB and this place doesn't even compare. The hot entree choices for lunch were quite limited but they did have alot of cold salads and fresh sushi available. My waiter was very friendly and helpful and the price was good at 9.99 so I was not completely upset, just not as satisfied as I would have been at Chi. read more

We were there on Mother's Day. It was our first time there and although it was busy we didn't have to wait for a table, the food was warm & the pans kept full. The waitress was very attentive & always coming by. So food good, service good. My complaint is that we were seated across the aisle from a woman and her dog that she was giving food to under the table. The dog didn't have on anything to ID it as a service dog like a vest or collar they usually wear. The woman could have produced papers to prove to management it was a service dog. We don't know. It just gave us a bad impression to see a woman giving her dog sitting under the table food from her plate. We have 2 dogs so it's nothing against the dog. It was well behaved and if the dog had a legitimate reason to be in there, fine. Like I said, it just gave us a bad impression. We didn't say anything at the time because management obviously knew about her because the hostess seated her. read more

This place is disgusting....... and eating sea food with huge fish swimming in your direction is not very appetizing. I will not be back. The service wasn't bad just the food. read more

Complained after getting very ill from thier food . They also touch the inside of the contianers with the hands that handle money.

The best thing in this buffet is the "hot and spicy sea food soup". If you enjoy hot and spicy food, then you must taste it. It's great, and it can't be better than this one. The rest of food are very decent, a great delight, and filling very well. (some of them a little salty, but come on, it's a buffet.) I love this place especially when I'm really hungry. read more

One of the best Asian buffets I've ever had. They have a very good selection of Korean food and a sushi bar. I like their expansive salad and Korean cold dish selection. They also have Korean short ribs, an amazing seafood dynamite dish, spring rolls, crabs, delicious hot & sour soup and more. I think it's a bit expensive at $11/person for a buffet but go hungry and you won't regret it. read more

This is one of my favorite places in town to eat for the past 20 years. Mia and the wonderful staff really know how to serve the best dining experience, with a warm Austin vibe, that makes for a good time always. I'm always happy to roll into Buffet Palace. Keep up the good work, y'all!!! read more

My wife and I ate here during our last night of an Austin vacation. It was something quick and easy with wide selection for both veg and non-veg. I found a lot of the dishes I tried much too bland or oddly flavored. There were some very tasty desserts and the place seemed clean enough. Service was pretty good but there was a lot of cross contamination of foods. In short, while we weren't looking for anything thrilling this place did disappoint. read more

They have a great selection of korean food at the buffet! Gray selection of soups and diverse sushi section. The meats are cooked right in front of you. The dumplings and other fried friends are average. The small variety of miscellaneous such as quesadillas and pizza are not so great. They have variety of rice and noodles. You can make you're own bibimbab :) many banchan sides also. Nice atmosphere for family or friend gathering read more