Disclaimer: I came at dinner, which from what I gather is completely different from the usual lunch…read morerush.
Did they have a lot of sushi? Yes, however it seemed to me like it had been sitting there for at least an hour. We arrived and got a nice discount thanks to their anniversary celebration spin game (basically free beers), sat at a window table and began to build plates. The first round was OK enough, however there was a noticeable lack of vegetables throughout the hot bar. I enjoyed the initial plate, but as I finished I recognized that there wasn't any fresh made food being brought out to the buffet, either on the sushi table, the hot bar table or even the salad bar.
Begrudgingly I went back to make a second pass over the leftovers from my first fill, of course others had come and taken some since and now there was even less to choose from. I wondered when they might be bringing out freshly prepared dishes to replace the old ones that had clearly been sitting there likely an hour or more before we arrived.
I noticed that some of the crispy chicken was overcooked (likely sitting too long under the heating lamp). The sushi was OK, not great, but it wasn't cold, or hot, more like room temperature, which again, said to me that it had been hanging out waiting for my arrival for an hour or longer.
Listen, you want to make a decent buffet, you need to promptly replenish the dishes every 20-30 minutes, especially if new customers keep rolling in every 10-15 minutes. It's simple math. The longer the dishes sit out, the less their taste will be supreme. Doesn't take a rocket scientist, but I guess just someone who knows restaurant quality.
Don't waste your money on dinner, try the lunch, I hear it's so busy that they HAVE to bring new dishes out every 10-15 minutes.
Plus, their dessert table, what a joke! The ice cream scoops were hanging out in two separate watery, chocolatey, vanilla-y buckets that just looked gross. C'mon, get your act together!
