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Joy East Chinese Buffet

3.1 (17 reviews)
Closed 11:00 am - 10:30 pm
Updated 2 weeks ago

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Pamela W.

Heard about this amazing buffet from a coworker so the hubs and myself have it a whirl for lunch on Friday extremely friendly service very welcoming and the hostess asked if we'd prefer a booth over a table and that may seem small to someone else but it spoke volumes to me the service was great our glasses stayed full and the dirty dishes was picked up quickly which we loved the food was very fresh I enjoyed the sushi bar and the hibachi bar was mediocre overall great place great price and you will leave full

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LaTaysia Q.

My boyfriend and I seen this place and decided to try it. It was fairly decent and reasonably priced. There were a lot of options. We loved the hibachi part but some of the food on the buffet side was cold. It wasn't very crowded when we went. We went around 4pm on a Friday. Staff was helpful when asked. It was pretty clean overall and nicely decorated. Will try again.

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Mischa J.

We are the Galfriends party of 5 tonight. Seems like we gotta have Joy, since it is the current talk of the town. We got a little bit of everything from hot and sour soup to egg drop soup, sautéed green beans, chicken,(both fried and grilled ) with a full Hibachi grill, Chinese donuts and the list goes on and on. Lots of excellent food choices, but this food is cold. Tasty, but cold. I hate cold food. Y'all already know, I'm not rushing back.

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Xhané P.

Clean and efficient service while we dined with family here for the first time this evening! Good seating options with a variety to choose from at the buffet, including sushi and hibachi menu items, as well as pizza and chicken nuggets, fries, etc for the kids. Restrooms could be cleaner, but they were decent.

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Food was ok but way over priced! The hamachi was probably the best thing to do when there

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Gabriella's - Meat and 3

Gabriella's

4.5(20 reviews)
11.7 mi

My first time at Gabriella's was recently. This place gets really busy..... fast! When I arrived,…read more there were about 2 ppl already present and ordering at the hot bar. It's kind of hard to tell what all the food options are, so I had to ask what some stuff was. I managed to get a meat and 2 instead of a meat and 5! There were quite a few veggie options that looked amazingly delicious! I do not recommend coming here hungry or hangry. Ok, sooo I love meat loaf so naturally that's what I got. I also got collards and cornbread dressing & yes they had cranberry sauce. Everything was good tasting. The meatloaf was a little sweet to my taste so I probably wouldn't order it again. The veggies were not over seasoned or overcooked. I will definitely comeback here bc there is still just so much I wanna try. The staff is nice and took care of the crowd. I even witnessed them give a person in need food, as they were about to dig in the restaurant's garbage can outside for scraps. Made me count my blessings.. all of them! There is street parking only. I didn't have any issues parking on a Sunday afternoon. The inside of this restaurant is not big but I was comfortable dining in.

Good southern food on a Sunday afternoon while visiting. Couldn't tell from the Yelp pictures but…read moreit's a really small restaurant with food displayed buffet style behind the clear partition that they serve you in a container. Only about 3 people at a time can hold inside before it's starts getting crowded. It stay pretty busy. Options are 1 meat with two sides or 2 meats with three sides combination. A la cart is available as well. They have ice tea or lemonade drinks in a cup that they also serve you. Lemonade was good. There's a very small counter to pay after you order. Fry chicken is tasty with perfect crisp. Collard greens were seasoned well and perfect texture. Yams (my favorite) was perfect - flavorful, not too sweet and firm but not hard. Both of us thought the Black eyed peas looked really good but taste bland. I would have preferred it without the Okra. I didn't see that when I ordered. One in our group commented the meat loaf was good. The dressing was really good too - well seasoned and tasty. After paying there's a dining area for self seating. It serves the purpose to sit and eat but definitely could use sprucing up along with the restrooms. Please seriously consider! It would make the experience much more pleasant to enjoy their delicious food. I took off two stars for that reason and yes it's that unpleasant as the tables/chairs are also too clustered together. The chairs don't fit around the table properly. Overall good southern food at a reasonable price and recommended. Skip dining in if you don't have too. Just my two cents.

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King Buffet- Pelham - Fresh Blue Crab

King Buffet- Pelham

3.9(62 reviews)
20.3 mi
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Buffets...a special kind of place where all shame gets left out the door only to be stuffed like a…read moreThanksgiving turkey until the body is ready to burst. With all the trash talk about them, much of the world has a special affinity for these establishments nonetheless, whether it's a grand Las Vegas buffet brunch, an extravagant all you can eat feast in Dubai or a place like the King Buffet in Pelham, a countryside low cost, high volume spot to feed the masses of the blue collar class. King Buffet opened in 2023 in a space formerly occupied by Golden Corral. It's pleasantly renovated and as clean as an establishment can be for a buffet concept. There are all the classics here and a few nice extras, like crab. The seafood at King Buffet is plentiful, but to be fair, not particularly good. The crawfish are somehow extremely tasteless, not because they are not spiced, but they just don't taste like crawfish. That's something I've never encountered before. The coconut shrimp is subpar. Mongolian beef is very loosely reminiscent of beef. With that said, all the dishes are not bad either, they are just not great. Where King Buffet shines is the service, with extremely attentive wait staff and superb cleanliness that results from that. As a whole, it does justice to this category of food and there is absolutely no reason to pass by if craving a buffet style meal.

My first review of this place was right when it opened. Now that it's been open for a bit, I felt…read morelike it was time to update my thoughts. The highlight of this restaurant is definitely the Mongolian Grill (you choose from a bar of raw ingredients and they cook it up for you). Pretty much all the pre-done buffet meats were pretty dry and you could tell they had been sitting under a warmer for quite some time. The side dishes were good, but nothing that "knocked it out of the park". Service was good! The restaurant itself seemed pretty clean and the ambiance was pretty on par with that buffet places. Overall, we came here for the grill, not the pre-done stuff. It was just ok - nothing amazing, but nothing bad.

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White House Restaurant

4.1(93 reviews)
17.0 mi
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I'm so glad I stumbled upon this place on Yelp. The food is amazing! The servers are extremely…read morefriendly too. I absolutely loved the chicken and dressing. The portion sizes are huge. I also had butter beans & turnip greens as my sides. This is definitely a good spot for some comfort food for your soul. Don't skip the sweet tea because it is excellent as well! The ambience is casual , cafeteria style line, and you seat yourself. No frills. Highly recommend White House Restaurant!

Yelp! The White House I love is back. We are a group of 5 and decided to eat Sunday dinner here,…read moreINSIDE. Haven't done that in a Long time. First off, your staff is friendly as ever and it's close to time to shut it down after the Sunday rush. Wendy and Stephanie is holding it down. They working like y'all just opened up. Thanks ladies! Now on to this food, cause this is why we here. I got my God Sister with me today. She is a picky foodie cook, but could hardly make her mind up here. She got chicken and dressing, hamburger steak, Mac and cheese and green beans. This gull hungry and trying to get everything. (She's a newbie) . Bae got his usual, Chicken and dressing, turnips, butter beans and sweet potato casserole. Mommy got fried shrimp with a baked potato and turnips. Deedee got grilled shrimp with a baked potato and green beans. I got chicken and dressing with Mac and cheese and green beans. This stuff here good like it used to be. Y'all back! I don't need no fancy tables, no nice table cloths and dressed up waitresses, I know where to go when I want that. I want this down home, yo cousin tried to cook it like grandma used to, soul food! Bam, White House got it. I'll be back.

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