Came on a Friday night for crawfish and wasn't impressed by the 1 and a half hour wait. There were different batches of crawfish and the first one was cold and the other few batches were too salty. Couldn't even get the garlic butter sauce because they don't give it out. My server Vi constantly checking up on me and always made sure my drink was refilled and brought out crawfish every time I finished the platter. Service was amazing but food could definitely be better. Not worth the wait nor price. read more

Very disappointed this time. $32 per head weekend dinner and no crab no lobster. Table service was great though.

New and improved! The food is much better. Loved the variety of milk teas at the dessert station.

Lots of choices on the buffet. Tables are spread far apart, employees wearing masks and serving at the buffet. read more

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Went on Sunday for lunch with my girlfriend and my mom. $31 before tax per person (same price as dinner), no sashimi, no oyster, no steak, nothing like any of the pictures we see here, but only some poorly made cheap dimsum, some cheap Californian roll, fried rice, and some cafeteria grade food. This is a total scam. Service is also bad. The waiters don't proactively come around and collect finished plates. Our table was full of finished plates at one point, and we had to go find the waiter for the plates to be removed. Water was also never refilled. If you want some dimsum, go to those authentic Cantonese restaurants like New Palace in Sugarland. If you're looking for buffet, Tokyo Japan sushi Buffet is cheaper and the food quality and service is way better. Anyways, I'm not coming back again. read more

Delicious cuisine and so good. Vietnamese food is so unique and wonderful! I hope everyone has a chance to try this exquisite cuisine!!

The food was incredible, the service was so friendly, and the general vibe of the place is classy, but laid back. Our server was very present and was available constantly. She even brought us a plate of crab to try! Such a great experience. I highly recommend. read more

The mecca of all the Kim Sons stands tall and proud right here in the middle of Bellaire. If there was one location to visit, let it be this one. Huge, vibrant, and bustling virtually all the time, it does command a bit of a wow factor for newcomers. A Viet Chino spread of buffet worthy proportions is a great way to get introduced to the food. Back in NYC, we'd give anything to have a super sized Viet joint, let alone an all you can eat one. Hence, this Kim Son is well suited for the Asian food loving glutton, all in the confines of a great space for all occasions. Shout out the mini sized but beastly selection of Viet desserts. Buffets and Dim Sum are a large draw, Kim Son happens to have both. Instead of a buffet, expect the monster Houston sized Viet Dim Sum delivered by the pushing cart ladies. Sadly the selection here does have it its bland moments (wu gok taro puff dumplings, ham sui gok pork puff dumplings especially), but the quantity is good enough for any ravenous diner. As always, exercise the 12:30pm and before rule for a more quality Dim Sum session. Lastly, Kim Son knows how to throw a show for special occasions. Wedding receptions, baller birthdays, it can absolutely be done here. Cheers Houston, you win again. read more

Why this place doesn't have better reviews is beyond me. The food is absolutely fantastic and priced dirt cheap for authentic amazing Vietnamese food. So much to chose from, every single thing is seasoned perfectly, I left in a good coma. Family of four (one infant) for $28! Highly addictive read more

A completely different Asian buffet that's serving an amazing variety! I arrived around 7pm on a Friday and was seated within 10 minutes. The sheer amount and diversity of their dishes was amazing. Everything from stir fried meats to seafood to carving station to Vietnamese street food. They also had this seafood boil platter that the waiters offered that had tons of crab, shrimp, potatoes, and corn, absolutely delicious. I loved their noodle station, especially the Tom yum soup. And the desserts! Their milk tea was refreshing and sweet, and so was their che. read more

March-2023: Vietnamese buffet Pro: the foods taste like Vietnamese foods Con: the sea foods are minimal, only essential seafood (Saturday dinner) The sushi is a joke; very few selections, and it does not look fresh The charge is very high compared with other seafood restaurants, $100 for three people. read more

The ambiance and little show they do are cool, but the food was just alright. Almost everything had a fishy undertone which is weird when you're eating beef or chicken. Made me think they use the same oil to cook everything in or something. Not worth it for the price. read more

1st time visiting Houston, was excited to come here to eat after the rave reviews on YouTube and Yelp. But we were disappointed. Came for dinner on a Wed night. The food was not very fresh. Banh khot & banh xeo, were not made to order, it was not crispy. Dough became tough sitting out. Not very much seafood and no crawfish (it's in season). Chicken was dry, bo lá lót was dry. Noodle station was ok, broth did not have depth of flavor, and the broth soup was not hot enough. I'm Vietnamese, coming from Seattle where Viet food is not great, so was really hoping to get one stop shopping and eat all our favorite VN foods here, granted this is a buffet...we still were hoping to get some delicious VN foods we were craving, yet was disappointed! I'm not sure what all the hype and rave reviews was all about. read more

They do have varieties of Asian popular dishes but a little pricey. They don't have hot pot anymore

The restaurant is huge. You have an all you can eat buffet on one side with all the traditional Vietnamese selections.. Rice cakes, Vietnamese crepe (bang xeo), noodle soups (banh canh, bun bo hue, bun rieu, etc). There's also seafood.. Crawfish.. And a hot pot option. Huge selections for everyone. The other side of the restaurant has dim sum on the weekends.. All the good dim sum selections. The restaurant is so large, the wait isn't bad compared to the other places in bellaire and the food isn't bad. Not the best I've had but good for a dim sum fix! read more

Wonderful spread of a vietnamese buffet. They have a great variety of dishes to choose from with something for everybody. Wonderful soup station with many soups to select from. Food is hot and flavorful and has that umami that makes you feel satisfied after each bite. Nice ambience, newly remodeled during the covid season closures. Oh and they have yummy desserts to choose from. Price point is appropriate and the servers are friendly and on the ball. Makes you keep coming back for more. read more

Came to Kim Son because Golden Din Sum and Ocean Palace had a crazy long wait time. Honestly my family and I should've just waited at one of the two restaurants. Kim sons dim sum is just a sad imitation of dim sum. I'm not sure why people like eating here. All the food was either cold, bland, or had a rubbery texture. Also the service was shit. I know Chinatown or asian restaurants in general are known for their bad service but Kim Son especially had awful service. We had to constantly ask someone to refill our tea because they kept forgetting to. Then we asked 2 different people for togo boxes and they said they would bring them but never did. So we ended up doing a self serve and got our own togo boxes. read more

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I'm not sure how is this place a 3.5 star place. This is the most amazing place for lunch and dinner, ever! I think the price is so worth it and they serve you food like some high end Vegas buffets where all you have to do is point and say thank you. Service is fast, place is grand with lavish staircase, environment is nice and clean despite the amount of people (customer and staff) in there, food is great, and the list goes on. Their offer senior discounts for people who might want to take their parents who are over 65. My whole family enjoys this place and would come back over and over again. Lunch is about $18 and dinner is around $30 but if one really think about it, it is so worth it. My reason being - most places would charge $at least 10 for a single dish or sell things like Ban Xeo for $7-10. Even if I eat two Ban Xeo only at Kim Son, it is still cheaper than going to a normal restaurant, let alone all the other stuff you could try. read more

love this place! so much variety and the food is pretty good. service is also always good with people clearing plates and refreshing water regularly. i know there are reviews complaining about the quality of food but i actually think the quality is much better than most buffets. great place for variety if you haven't had Vietnamese food! read more

Not a bad place to eat, but food refills are slow. Family came to the buffet at 7:30pm yesterday. Restaurant was super busy, but they manage to get us seats in around 10 mins. Kudos for the speedy seating, and to the super nice waitress and friendly staff. I was very excited to try the rumored variety of food, but unfortunately, there were barely anything to eat. The platters were all empty. I don't know if it was just because of this particular day/short staff, or if this is a usual occurrence, but I sure was disappointed. After 30 minutes, food finally started coming back out. Tasted okay. read more

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Good food. Selection was decent. Likes the ambience. Will go back soon. Good service as well.

No crab, no crawfish, no crispy intestine. The buffet did well a month or 2 ago for Van Son advertisement. After a while, they took out blue crab. Out of crawfish season, no blue crab even on a Saturday dinner. In crawfish season, only available on Friday. This is so frustrating. No point to go on Sat or Sun night for $30 with limited seafood. read more

We came here on Saturday all-day-long-dinner for our very 1st time and loving it. Seafood selections were limited but very high quality. There were so many different vietnamese desserts to choose from. In additional, many different broth dishes such as phi, bun bo hue, chao long, etc. read more

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Was visiting Houston so we decided to try the infamous Kim Son Buffet. Most of the food here are mediocre as the servings are supposed to be small but when it's come to the soup section, it was a different story. I believe we came during lunch time and the bills for 10 people (1 kid) was around 325. They did have some definitely interesting dishes which was this noodles with white coconut sauce. My favorite was probably the chicken feet from the dim sum section. The chicken feet from the street foot section was not it. The soup section had a huge variety and I tried the porridge (chao long) which did not disappoint. The dessert section was biased because there was mostly che but the matcha and thai tea was good. The sushi section is disappointing, I think more Vietnamese food should just be added instead. This place was one of a kind experience tho, we don't get a lot of Vietnam based buffet. Definitely would be back to try out the dinner time! read more

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Pretty good food for a buffet. I went on a weekend and they had some dim sum items. My favorites were the viet/Asian desserts. read more

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Review for Friday evening buffet: I usually avoid buffets like the plague. At least up in Toronto buffets usually serve low quality foods and it's a big deal if they serve snow crab legs. So you can imagine my despair when my Vietnamese family wanted to take me to an Asian buffet. Boy was I wrong!! I have never seen such selection at a buffet... I mean a pho buffet?!! I couldn't eat enough. They have banh xeo, banh beo, several broths for traditional buon (noodle) dishes, and even crawfish!! Steadily being refilled fresh too. Just the banh xeo alone made me a happy camper. The price is also extremely reasonable, $18 per person if I'm remembering correctly. I will definitely be back. I heard the dim sum is best in Houston but extremely crowded, will need to try that when I am in town next. read more

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Was recommended to come here from a friend. The layout is big inside and everything is presented really nice. We were a little disappointed on the food selection. Not too much to choose from. A lot of the options we wanted were out, and we're not going to wait around for a new batch. We were even more disappointed to get the bill. Almost $60 for two people is insane to me. We didn't even eat that much food for it to be worth it. It's nice if you want to get away from the typical "buffet", but I don't think we'll be returning. read more

PLEASE DONT COME HERE! THERE ARE MANY OTHER PLACES THAT WORTH YOUR MONEY! Heard many good things about this place and was hoping that it's good. The sushi here tasted spoiled. Not enough amount of food, only few selections. No crawfish nor crab legs. Food is either too salty or bland. I'm Vietnamese and none of the food here is good enough. Please dont waste your money read more

Last night, I enjoyed my first visit to the Kim Son ballroom on Bellaire for an incredible wedding reception. Venue - It is a large facility and much to my surprise, is located on the upper floor of a building it shares with other businesses. After ascending the winding staircase, look to the left for the ballrooms and then be sure to enter the correct party. Food - Delicious! Although I am a complete newbie to this cuisine, my table mates informed me that this was the best example of Vietnamese food in Houston. Although I'd bet there are some other establishments who beg to differ, I agree the food was plentiful, served at the right temp, and tasty. Guests were served an amazing 8 course meal of which my favorite dishes were the Duck Breast in Cognac sauce and the Imperial Fried Rice! Service - The waitstaff for the reception was very attentive. It was clear that were comfortable with their job and had it down to a science. Dishes were brought out and cleared very quickly, Since this establishment also has a buffet-style restaurant on the premises, I'd be interested in trying that out on a future visit. read more

Kim Son - Wedding reception meal. - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

One of the few Vietnamese buffets around. The variety of food is great. For the buffet they serve you and are not stingy. They fill your plate. I tried almost all the dishes except for the dessert. The line was too long for that. For the price it is great value. Will need to try the dinner buffet next time. read more

This is the first Vietnamese buffet I've ever been to, food is great, price is reasonable, but the service was outstanding. Our server named Kenny was quick and prompt on everything, I never had an empty glass of water, every time I left to get more food, my plate is always gone, he's the best! Thank you Kenny and Kim Son! I'll be back whenever I come to visit h town again, coming from Philadelphia, where we have limited options on Vietnamese food, this was definitely a treat! Plus they're taking social distancing and sanitizing very seriously here! All the tables were spaced out and I do see the workers cleaning the tables and sanitizing everything, great job! I felt very safe dining in here! read more

Best (only?) Vietnamese buffet in town, and it's so cheap during weekday lunch. $10.45 for adult. $8.46 for senior. Fav items are the chicken wings, banh xeo (eat it with the shrimp), soups (bun rieu, pho, bun bo hue, wonton noodle soup), veggies, tofu, & chicken curry. So many carbs, veggies, meat, and seafood available though. The food is fresh since there's constant turnover. It gets very busy during lunch. Sushi is actually decent. I'll pick off most of the rice though. Veggies are good (broccoli, bok choy, green beans, eggplant, mushrooms) and so is the stir fry meat and noodles. French fries and chicken nuggets for the kids. Lots of dessert choices from soft serve (not good), fruits (sometimes sweet), che with coconut sauce, sticky rice with beans, cookies, cakes, etc. I don't eat meat currently, but there's so many options, TOO many... I always get stuffed here. Oh and free birthday buffet on your actual birthday with proof of ID! read more

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Food varieties are good. Taste is okay. If you plan to come on the weekends or holiday, come 20 minutes before open otherwise be ready to wait for at least 30 minutes. read more

This place is amazing! My parents always raves about this place when we were in Houston but shiny get to try it, so this time I made sure we got to. We came right as they opened and were seated quickly, the food were all ready and hot, and servers attentive. It was more fun because the World Cup was on and everyone were sort of just talking to each other. The food, let me tell you about the food. Growing up Viet I usually have low expectations for Vietnamese restaurants because I believed no one can make it like my mom, but this place is just so good. The good portioned food makes you come back for seconds, I love the ph and bún bò hu options. Everything on there is worth trying, especially the dessert area. You get to make your own chè or choose from a variety. read more

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There really not much foods and they all taste decent definitely can find better buffet with better foods and price. Service is alright because there so much peoples. The place is big and spacious but food area is small. $29 per person is little too much. read more

Always delicious. Always gracious & kind. Hope they stay here a long time. Order to go or stay. Either way....I love this place. read more

Hands down one of the most fun buffet experiences I've ever had. This Kim Som location is off of Bellaire Blvd and Turtlewood Dr, and has a large shared parking lot. The building is huge, with double grand stairs leading you upstairs to the entrance of the buffet. Right outside of those doors, you will be greeted by the host to take your party size. They have a large lineup of food with a noodle station equipped with 16 different dishes to choose! All employees wear masks and you must have a mask to be served at the buffet line, and don't worry about have to grab anything, the employees will do that for you. There are so many options to choose from, and there are dessert stations set up around the line too. We went for lunch, so I think there were slightly fewer options - but regardless MANY options still! Some of the food was mediocre and some were great, typical of a buffet IMO, but still very fun to be able to choose from so many options! read more

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I'm visiting my grandmother in Houston and we tried this restaurant a few days ago. We waited maybe 20 minutes and was then seated. For a total of 50$ for 4 people, it was worth it. This was a Vietnamese/ Chinese buffet that served Viet, Chinese and Japanese sushi. I liked the noodle soup bar where you can order the dishes you want and they make it fresh and quick for you. They had a variety of noodle based soups (pho, banh canh, bun bo hue, egg wonton soup, etc). My mom liked it a lot because of the vast choices of some of her favorite dishes. The only thing I did not like was the dessert bar which comprised of a lot of cookies, ice cream and jelly desserts--not much of a variety there. Service was good, they made sure to collect our dirty dishes often. Oh and FYI, drinks are extra. read more

Kim Son - Vietnamese Near Me - Houston, Texas

We want to check out KIMSON on Bellaire for Dim Sum today for the first time. I have to say it's going to our last. The lady who served food behind the back counter was eating with gloves on to serve food to us as we walk up . After we walked away while I was eating at out table she was picking her mouth with the same gloves she served . This is NOT APPROVAL BY THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 2ndly The ladies bathroom door where the hold plate is FILTHY I mentioned to the young lady at the front desk her respond was someone will clean it every 1 hour SERIOUSLY!! 3rd The gentlemen who served food on the cart was RUDE and in a HURRY!! DUE TO TERRIBLE SERVICE IT RUINED OUR FOOD! I suggest KIMSON Management need to look at the video camera and be more observant of your employees. read more

My friends and I have a New Years tradition of having dim sum here. We usually come whenever they open, but waiting lines will inevitable develop quickly! If you are here for the lunch buffet, the wait times are even longer. If you decide to have large party (several tables), then you can reserve a private room. My friend had done so for her bridal shower and it was a nice intimate setting. Dim sum is pretty good. You have decent amounts for what you pay for. My favorite ones are - ha gao, Shiu Mai, Chinese broccoli, sautéed clams, shrimp rice noodles, beef stir fry noodles. Buffet option is pretty good. You can add on the hot pot option for an additional few dollars. There is a wide variety of Vietnamese options, Chinese options, and some sushi /sashimi options. There is a station where you can order a noodle soup, stir died noodles, and some fried dishes. Decent customer service. price is comparable to other dim sum places. Buffet is about $19 and a few extra dollars for hot pot add-on. read more