This was a recommendation. Never again. The venue is huge. The food looked good but the taste was…read moreso-so. Once we got our food back to the table it was cold.

It's great for kids. Especially if they are fussy eaters. The food is ok, you absolutely get what…read moreyou pay for. 4 of us stuffed our faces for under £100. (2 kids, 2 adults) don't go there expecting fine dining, expect high salt, low quality westernised ethnic food and some British classics. The curries are really bland. The teppanyaki area is very limited. There's 4 choices. Scallops, prawns, steak the other option I cannot remember. They are very regimental, you have 1:45:00 minutes to eat and they stand by your table waiting for you to leave when your time gets nearer to the end of your allocated time. Atmosphere is pretty hectic. You pay extra for drinks which are refillable. The best food they serve imo, is the Japanese dumplings when it comes to quality. Please book in advance.

Jimmy Spice's, the multi-cultural buffet restaurant chain which started in the Midlands, continues…read moreits spread into the southeast by opening its latest restaurant in Wimbledon last week. It follows the pattern of their other restaurants, serving up Indian, oriental and Italian food, mainly buffet style but supplemented by a few live cooking stations such as the noodle stir fry, where the chefs will fry your chosen combination of meat, veg and noodles with a sauce of your choice. The restaurant itself is very bright and airy with high ceilings and big windows. It does tick many boxes but I would still only recommend it for big parties - the buffet makes sure everyone is well-fed, the split of the bill is easy to calculate at the end of the evening and there will be no fighting over what style of food to go for. However, for me, the food is average and I can only give it 3 stars

Curry, Pizza, Salad…read more.... ...Marshmallos, lasagne, ice cream, noodles. A huge restaurant opposite Wimbledon Theatre priding itself on the exploration of around the world cuisine. It's a sure bet for large groups with bits and bobs to please everyone and a good selection for vegetarians. The set up is quite impressive, large hot plates, desert bar and chefs in white hats wandering around asking if you need any advice about what to try. Now, I can imagine what it's like when the restaurant is full on a weekend, and I can see why the place gets a bad rep here. But, I went of a Tuesday with a friend for a nice catch up meal. We were starving and needed a hole filling... and boy did Jimmy's do that. Cheesy Music, lots of families... but if you know what you're going in to... good clean fun all around. Top tip: Tip you waiter... they deserve a pay rise for the uniforms they have to wear.

This buffet style restaurant serves a wide variety of Asian and south Asian food, including…read moreChinese, some Indian and a bit of Korean food. Your strategy should be to take very small amounts of things that look promising to you back on your first plate and decide based on that whether you want to take a larger portions, because the dishes seem to very widely in authenticity & flavor. I recommend the grilled gyro meat; the chicken korma; the Korean style spicy fried chicken; the tandoor style chicken wings; indian style shrimp; the brown, stir fried thick noodles; the white rice; the roasted turkey; the Eaton mess, coconut pudding,and fruit. The lamb ribs were tender but very plain. Chicken Tikka masala was tender but slightly acrid & mostly tasted of garam masala. It cried out for fresh lemon and yogurt. I did not see Raita. Dishes I would not recommend: lamb rogan josh - salty and v over cloved; sweet and sour chicken - sticky breading & v sweet; crispy satay - had a single noted unfamiliar flavor; ice cream cones tasted of whey. Tried bits of several other sauced chinese dishes that I found very lacking. They were very fast about clearing away plates and dirty, silverware and the bathrooms are clean. It's a bit noisy and I wish parents would not let their children run around rummaging through the food and the chocolate fountain. If you're going with a group of people that don't like different things, I think everybody would be able to find something they were happy with. Kids seem to like it a lot. For two of us with only water to drink, the bill came to 48 quid I think. It was the only place in the area where we could get Indian food at five in the afternoon. I might go there again, but I would be even pickier about what I tried.

The JRC buffet in Croydon, London remains the best global food buffet I have had in the UK. Cosmo…read morein Oxford in comparison, falls short in all departments but does nevertheless offer a good option for dinner. For less than £15 you can have an all-you-can-eat buffet including pizza, Indian, Chinese, fried foods, salad or freshly prepared teppanyaki, stir-fried noodles, grilled meats, and desserts. Drinks are made to order except fizzy drinks that are bottomless for just £2.85.  The variety on offer is good but the quality is average e.g. the beef and turkey roasts were dry and likewise the vegetables were shrivelled up as if out for too long, the chicken and sweetcorn soup tasted okay but was a bit watery, some of the black Bean mussels had dried out so that the mussel was dry on the inside, the sushi rolls had barely any filling and the teppanyaki tasted bland. The dessert fairs better than the savoury food with an impressive chocolate fountain, a range of ice cream flavours and an array of pre-prepared bite-sized items including rocky road, chocolate cakes, strawberry mousse, mini Swiss rolls and jelly. The fruit on offer was pineapple, watermelon and grapes whereby the pineapple was watery but lacking sweetness and the grapes were sweet whilst contained seeds.  All in all the food and drink was aplenty, of a satisfying variety and displayed well but the quality was not quite commendable.

Upon entry, you pay ahead. Unlimited drinks or any drinks is an added cost. Once upstairs the 2nd…read morehost hands you dirty glass cups. We asked for clean cups was given less dirtier cups. We didn't bother using the cups. There was a drink menu for alcohol, but no waiter for a slow Monday night. We had to get up and ask for a bottled water and a beer. Most of the food was bland! The kimchi was old. The noodle soup was water with a hint of color, you would think with all the noodle displays, they would serve all the options? Nope, just one option, the different noodle selection is a display. The food is warm, which I find cold. I expect my food to be piping hot. I can go on, but overall SUPER disappointed and unstable. By the way, the manager was the 2nd host handing us the dirty glass cups. Not worth the hype.

food is really good and you see them prepare it, nuggets are yum. good service no complaints. good…read moreambiance and will go to it again. ps. sign made me giggle

I called and enquired about buffet explaining my son only eats chicken balls and rice , she said…read moreyou can have buffet and order his ,I didn't have a problem paying for his buffet but they wanted a adults price £25 and they didn't serve chicken balls, only to be told when we got there that he couldn't order separately and there was no chicken balls on buffet menu , so we had to all order from main menu which was what we didn't want to do . the food was nice enough but we was given side plates to eat our main meal , they actually really didn't care if we had not of already order drinks I would of left . I've used them for take way many times & so does a few of my family but never again . do not use if you want a buffet !!! they also told my nephew on another occasion don't order anymore you had enough and pointed to his belly just rude !!!!

Once after being left to sit for a half hour without as much as being brought our drink order, we…read morewalked out of this restaurant and vowed never to give them our business. Okay, so we're weak. We found out that they delivered, and decided to give them a go. We were SO glad we did! Really, really nice food at decent prices, delivered so quickly we barely had time to gather the plates and utensils. After being loyal take away customers for at least a year, my husband and his parents decided to give sitting in another chance. They reported none of the problems of our previous visit, so our bad visit really must have been a one-off.

Given that Staines is Chav hell my expectation of a decent feed on my stay there was pretty low. It…read moredidn't disappoint, the usual chain suspects varied from totally underwhelming to just plain awful and the pubs weren't much better. In desperation, I broke all the rules and decided to eat at my hotel. Who woulda thunk it? Good hotel food with faultless service in a lovely restaurant overlooking the River Thames and, even better yet, at a great price, twenty quid for a three course meal! OK, it's served buffet style, which was a bit odd for a restaurant of this quality but that just means unlimited food, right? Yep, it's eat as much as you like. So, I did. The chef's modern take on meze/tapas style Mediterranean appetizers was an absolute triumph. The traditional English dishes were, admittedly, a bit dried from the lamps but the pheasant wrapped in pancetta was still delicious and the panettone bread and butter pudding was good to the very last spoonful (my apologies to the other diners who were hoping they would get some too). And, did I mention it was only twenty quid. Top stuff!

From the owner: leftbank restaurant Fill your boots with beautiful buffet…read morefood! All served buffet-style so you can help yourself to as much as you want - whenever you want morning, noon and night. Feast on high quality seasonal food and freshly cooked dishes, mouth-watering desserts and vibrant wines. The food style is English with gorgeous international influences and it's all prepared freshly for you by people who love food. The wood-fired oven, rotisserie and hobs are always in action - a theatre of cooking right before your eyes. The leftbank is Thames dining at its most exciting.

Not sure what to say really...but my sister & I did not enjoy the food. We both came here as I was…read morevisiting from Canada & this was a lunch time treat outside of London...the food that was put out looked delishous but to our suprise some dishes tasted "off" and even had a slight smell to it. The worse thing is other diners complained about the same issue too - their food was taken away by staff and told to pick something else...not very ideal especially that I am four months pregnant!

This is so bad, that it ended up being a hilarious night, as it became a game with us saying "we'll…read moretry it at the same time". I do think that maybe if we had gone there early in the day it would have been nicer, but food should NOT have just been left sitting there all day! (We arrived at 6pm) I eat anything, and I'm definitely not fussy - but this was something else! P.s. the cakes and chicken were hard. HARD. And my lamb smelt like rotting fish - haven't yet worked that one out. P.p.s. The actual interior was nice though

It is an average meal at an average price. Nice range of mains and starters from buffet, lack of…read moredeserts until I asked a waiter for what had gone to be replaced on the trays. We avoided the chocolate fountain as kids like to dip their fingers in it. Has a noisy atmosphere but that was no problem for us. The £4.95 cocktail I had lacked any oomph to it, as the cranberry and orange juice was not the best. We didn't come out hungry at all, and despite small niggles would go back again.

Excellent food, good presentation and well cooked with friendly staff. Certainly worth a visit a d…read moreoffering value for money.

Recently went with the family and had a really nice time, the atmosphere was warm and welcoming,…read morewell decorated and the food was delicious, the service was a little slow hence knocking off one start but it was what i would assume a peak time so can't complain!

So let me contextualise this review a little for everyone. It started with Tim L. who created a…read morethread regarding what kind of restaurant would we open and one thing lead to another or should I say one Thalie A. led to a Josy A. who led to an Ela T. and here we are talking about buffets of all types good and bad. I'll be honest the more involve I got in to this conversation the more I had a craving for a Chinese buffet, so what did I do, I hid until the sun came down and out I went in search for my closet Chinese buffet fix. Yes just like that a simple conversation through yelp led me to a table with a fork in my hands within hours. Josy A. said I should be disappointed with the quality of the food I find which was sound advise to be honest as I was out to satisfy "the eternal hunger" that was a upon me. The second I've entered this place and the first time was not good it was bad but this time was different I had "the eternal hunger" which will last forever until my craving was satisfied for Chinese. I'd almost forgot this place is not Chinese it's a selection of pan Asia dishes ranging from Thai to Indian , which also had a barbecue station for grilled meet and veg as well as a man bread station that cooked the nan bread fresh in front if you. For £15 this is a good buffet purely because it was cheaper than the amount discussed in our thread but also the vast selection of food on offer. I feel my tip was accurate when I said indulge and overload, as I am now suffering from a pan Asia food coma onslaught all because I took Tim L's thread a little too far.

A fairly average Chinese buffet on Trafalgar Street…read more I'd probably favour Buffet Island, around the corner, over this place, but it's certainly not bad, and I'd definitley rather patronise an independent place like this than somewhere like Wokmania. Food is around the quality you'd expect, mid range takeaway.

For a Chinese buffet place, Lucky Star is much better than it looks from the outside. Cheaper than…read moremost, the quality of the food is better than it should be, and it seems to have a regular Chinese clientele: normally a sign of a Chinese restaurant's quality. Despite these, it is still a cheap buffet place: don't expect the world! As buffet places go, Lucky Star does things a little differently: at lunchtime, there's a meager buffet, but in the evening, the buffet is the menu: order anything off it and they'll bring it. I guess this is more all-you-can-eat than buffet, but it still works well on an empty stomach. As I say above, the food is not splendid, but it's fine and STILL value for money. The service is almost non-existent, and anything that isn't beer is probably a bad idea to drink, but if you fancy loads of greasy Chinese, this is a very good option.