Simply put, this place is amazing. I'm always a little skeptical when it comes to buffets, but this one is spectacular. The food is kept fresh, there's a wide variety (not just Chinese food), and everything is clean. I had some of the best sushi I've ever had here. The staff keep drinks full and plates cleared with no fuss. I wouldn't highly recommend this place to anyone looking for a great buffet experience! read more

Golden Apple Buffet - Dining prices - Sushi Bars Near Me - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

This place is horrible, don't come here at all. When it first started it was alright with all the ingredients being more fresh, but it just goes down hill. As you can see in the pho section they had tons of ice trying to stop you from eating the beef tender and sometimes not even cooking the pho all the way. Now I got to admit that most of the employees are friendly, but the people I faced were not. Overall just don't risk coming here. If you do really want to come prepare to wait. read more

First time going there but it was so nice inside and food was good to I definitely recommend it read more

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We t here beciase my son was in town and meeting up with a friend so we decided to eat here. I gotta say for a buffet place I was impressed at the variety of foods offered. Was a little pricey but in today's economy I understand why. Overall the service was great. The lady we had as a service was busting her behind and she tok great care of us. read more

The service was great, and always on top of refilling your drink. A large selection of food and sushi! Everything was delicious. This is definitely my new favorite place to go to!!! read more

Golden Apple Buffet - Sushi Bars Near Me - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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This place is a huge Asian food buffet in a brand new building. The interior is bright and airy, everything seemed clean and modern and new. Despite it being pretty busy, we were seated right away and our fountain drinks stayed full the whole time we were there. The staff we talked to were polite and friendly. They have a full Chinese buffet with anything you could want. Lots of meat and seafood dishes, lots of fried options and vegetables, and everything stayed full, they were rotating dishes and refilling things constantly. There's a hibachi station, and a pho station where you can choose your own ingredients and then wait a few minutes while they cook it. There's a wall of sushi and lots of dessert options. Everything we tried was really good, from the familiar Chinese food, to the less common dishes. We'll be back, this place is brand new, so hopefully it's able to stick around! read more

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Everything went well super clean, food was awesome and great selection! Super hibachi grill made my wife smile big time she is super picky!!! Service was very attentive but not bothersome!! Was only passing thru Cedar Rapids but if I venture this way again Im coming back!! read more

The food was fresh and delicious! I had not been to a buffet with so many choices before. Very friendly staff. Very clean and reasonably priced. read more

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Fresh and funky vibes! Love the offering of so many styles and flavors. Staff are extremely attentive for being a buffet. This place definitely needs multiple trips to try it all. read more

Sometimes when going to a buffet the food can be old and tasteless, but not here. Everything is constantly being replaced and made fresh even if some is still left to dish. When I went it was PACKED will a line out the door. However there is so much seating the line moved fast and we were able to get seated right away. There's so much to pick from and everything is delicious from sushi, to hibachi to sweat and sour to chicken to pizza and desserts. Everything is fresh and hot. I would recommend. read more

The food is amazing! So much to choose from! The staff is very attentive! The atmosphere is relaxed and clean! They keep the food fresh and full with Pho, Sushi, Mongolian grill and rows upon rows of delicious food and seafood! read more

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Came in for dinner after work, was surprised on hot lit it was as far as lighting goes! The food was amazing it was fresh on the buffet line not sitting there where it was stale or anything! The service was great came and refilled our drinks without us having to wait so i would definitely recommend if you have an appetite for a buffet and can go a few rounds read more

Hands down the most quality restaurant in the city, and also competitively priced! The staff are attentive but not overbearing, the variety of the buffet has never been surpassed by any other in my whole life, and the only change I would make is to have more sound absorption in the decor due to my dad's hearing loss when I take him here so that he could more easily understand our conversation. And I realize that is a highly unique scenario which almost no restaurant takes into account. This is simply the best food at the best price anywhere in Cedar Rapids. read more

Golden Apple Buffet - Sushi, stewed mushrooms, sushi, deviled egg, and did I mention so much amazing sushi?? - Sushi Bars Near Me - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Great food, lots of variety, and great service too! Very organized and friendly! This was my first time and I will be coming back.

The Golden Apple Buffet has a large variety of food ranging from pizza and BBQ ribs to all different types of Chinese! This restaurant has rows and rows of delicious food that is continuously restocked and fresh! They also have a hibachi bar that is cooked to your specifications and a sushi bar with a large selection of rolls! The atmosphere is very kid friendly and welcoming! The staff is always checking in on you and attentive to your needs! Golden Apple Buffet is filled with tons of seating that is comfortable and easy to take a nap in after stuffing yourself with this delicious food! They also have very clean and upscale restrooms! Check this place out as soon and as often as you can! read more

We went for lunch. Positives: - there was a huge selection - items were kept refreshed - there were some "made to order items (Pho and Hibachi) - there were many seafood options -- shrimp, mussels, oysters, octopus salad, baked scallops, etc. - there were many vegetarian and vegan options - the tableside service (refreshing drinks, removing extra plates, etc.) was very good - the space was brightly lit, clean, and reasonably quiet, even though they were very busy. Restrooms were also spotless. Negatives: - the pricing needs to be more transparent: There is a tableside menu of drink options, but no indication that they are nearly $3 each. I think we were given a $1 senior discount, but none of the online or onsite pricing information indicated senior discounts. Evidently, the ice cream costs extra. But, there were no signs that indicated this. - some food labels were misleading. For example, many items indicated that they were crab dishes. They were obviously imitation crab. Fake crab is commonly called imitation crab, krab sticks, or surimi. It is made from finely pulverized whitefish and starch, shaped to resemble crab meat. Items need to be labeled correctly! - The quality of items varied tremendously. My favorites were the black pepper chicken and crab rangoon. But, every bit of beef that I tasted (in several different dishes) was as if it came from a 35-year old bull -- tough and tasteless. Some of the chicken was filled with fat and skin; others were very good. - The dessert options, other than the fried donuts, were BORING! (Jello, or vanilla pudding, anypone?) - If I owned this restaurant, I would promote that many vegetarian and vegan options are available. It would be easy to add to the website, and commonly understood vegetarian and vegan symbols could be added to the labels. read more

Excellent n clean place. Excellent service n great food. I highly recommend this place

They have a huge variety of dishes as well as sushi, pho and Japanese grill. Very clean and they keep drinks filled.

The amount of different foods from different countries is amazing. The service is good....and I ate too much!!!

Great food. Lots of options. Lots of employees there to assist you and remove your old plates. Plenty of seating. Only problem is that it's not easy to get in and out of the parking lot. Not a good location. read more

Cheap quality food. Step it up. Decent atmosphere. It could be much better. Highe quality ingredients and dishes will bring customers who'd appreciate such an offering. read more

Waited till I experienced both weekdays lunch and evening/weekend menus to comment. Both are delicious. The later menu has different items like crawfish, octopus, tilapia, ribs and battered shrimp. Lunch menu has more items to place upon your bed of rice like Mongolian chicken. Both meals offered endless choices of fruit. Watermelon on the later meal, lychee's on the lunch meal. The staff is very attentive not only to the patrons but also to the cleanliness of the eating areas and buffet space. The tables are spaced out far enough you are not sitting on the person behind you. I am not a sushi or hibachi person, so I cannot comment on those items. The ice cream is commercially prepackaged and is vanilla, chocolate, strawberry or sherbet. Overall a very pleasant experience and price wise, for the items available to eat ( endless chicken wings, endless breaded shrimp, endless crawfish, endless ribs, endless salmon, tilapia etc.) it's a very reasonable price point. read more

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Fantastic Chinese buffet with a pho station, sushi station, and hibachi grill. The restaurant looks very new and clean. We will be returning and can recommend! read more

The food, even though many choices, was bland. Buffet was not worth the money for dinner.

The food was super good! Me and my family went here after a orthodontist visit. The service is really good too! They come and go around the restaurant and get plates and stuff your done with them. And the ambiance is amazing! It's simple but really nice. When you walk in your greeted by a silly astronaut speaker with some colorful bears you can buy! There's also a ton of Asian food but some American foods too. By the end of our visit we were super full! Best buffet I've been to! If your in the area definitely give it a try! read more

We finally made it to this much-hyped buffet. Here is my assessment of their food quality, selection, and service. We got there thinking they just opened for the day in order to beat the crowd. The hostess told us they open at 10:30 am. The staff was courteous & friendly and seated us in a booth. They offered plenty of choices, of which I sampled many in order to give them a fair chance to impress my palate. Overall, their Asian food was pretty decent & plentiful. The Sushi was decent but lacked much when it came to the frills and flavors we have come to appreciate from top-notch Sushi establishments like the Sushi House. The cooks seem to not be aware that chilled, cooked shrimp needs to have their digestive tracks removed before serving. My wife reported that, other than the French fries, the chicken-heavy, traditional American food was un-inspiring. The desert choices were very disappointing. I get why the price of eggs has likely made making coconut macaroons too costly but no asian buffet worth it's salt skips this crowd-pleasing option. When your best choice of desert is mass-produced almond cookies, you basically have failed the desert category. On the positive side, the green muscles were very tasty & a nice offering due to the fact that these are un-common in Iowa. Unlikely, we will go back but I do feel that they offer a nice variety of food at a fair price, for people wanting to stuff themselves and are looking for a slight quality upgrade over fast food. read more

The Asian cuisine was pretty good. However, the shrimp was not cleansed and the chicken was under seasoned.

This place definitely reminded me of another Chinese buffet called Peking, right of the bat Golden Apple was much more sanitary and they gave us actual dinnerware instead of paper and plastic stuff, they had a big variety of options I definitely recommend the low mein noodles and pot stickers, the American foods were not exactly fresh or that good but that's to be expected in a Chinese buffet, overall the food was good quality, the staff were very kind and everything was clean. I definitely will be coming here again and you should consider this place too! read more

Everything I tried was fantastic! Been there 4 times now. Food always fresh, hot and delicious. Still haven't tried the Hibachi. Highly recommended! read more

All of it! Is fabulous! Such a great place to be in a cedar rapids. If you're hungry when you leave... uou shouldn't be!

Ga opened a couple of months ago. Great place at first but has gone bad. Chinese waiter could not speak a word of English making it difficult to order a drink. Egg and spring roll filling were inedible mush. Won ton without flavor and dough was like paste. Roast beef and broccoli. Was tough as leather. Won't be back read more

The food was probably one of the best Asian buffets I've ever been to if not the best. Pricing is very reasonable as well. The service isn't bad there just busy so it's a little slow. The place is super clean. read more

What witnesses I was utterly disgusted and disappointed in these individuals. Their wait time was between 5-10 mins to my surprise I witness two black gentleman in line ahead of two white gentlemen. The black men received a # (1 to be exact) and the white men received the # (2). To my surprise shortly after receiving their # (white men) they #2 were called and seated first. Waiting a full 10 mins the black men were then called. If this wasn't some racist bs idk what it was.... Thing is if your business and staff are gonna be racist why even have one? This company should be ashamed of themselves. read more