Review Visit: July 11th, 2016…read more Situated on the border of Iowa and Illinois sits the Casino/Hotel/Spa that is known as Catfish Bend. It offers a small, but quaint casino that is lucky to have a Smoking/Non-Smoking section, based on your tobacco needs. There is a bar in the center of the casino that serves $1 bottles on Mondays (based on my experience) after 4pm. Nearby is Fun City, so if you are up here on a family vacation, you can have fun with the kids all day at Fun City and then pop over to Catfish Bend for some adult entertainment.

I worked at Catfish Bend Casino for 2 years. When they were…read morebought out and rebranded as great river casino a lot of the current employees were concerned things would change. The new management cared about only one thing. Moving their people in. Hundreds of employees were fired or encouraged to quit. If you want to go and have a good time at fun-city it is amazing if you have kids or even as an adult. Quite a lot of activities and food and games. If you want to lose some money the gaming floor is great if you don't mind a ton of smoke in your face as they even allow it at the tables. I recommend avoiding Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday night in case you worry about a drunk spilling a beer on you. If you want some food the property offers a lot of options and I ate at all of them during my time there. Very good food. If you want to support a business that takes care of and respects their employees? I wouldn't go to Great River Casino.

New owners are still making great food. I don't know about the buffet but next time we might go in.read more

Buffet includes a wide variety of fish, chicken, beef and vegetarian dishes, moderately priced by…read moreweight.

JUMBO Buffet is one of the best buffets I have had over my lifetime…read more It is a bastion of Mount Pleasant dining. My children and I still dream of eating there: Crab legs on special nights. Barbecue pork skewers. Withered green beans. Fluffy fried donuts. Stuffed mushrooms. We live in Phoenix, Arizona and miss you so much.

Whew! I finally made it into this place…read more Ok 4th July 2025 11:30 am prime time Pay as you enter. Holiday price just under 15 bucks. Smells good as you enter! Small buffet not what I was expecting Ok on to the food First small plate samples: White Rice and lomein noodles And sample a bit of everything Plastic plates and plastic silverware Big butterfly jumbo shrimp silver dollar size! No shrimp sauce Real good as is! The chicken pot stickers were spot on perfect! Rice was spot on jasmine rice awesome flavor! Lo mein wow outstanding! I could have made a meal out of those two things! Chicken broccoli check! And good Steak and onions with green peppers check but I only did the steak and onions as green peppers are not an out of town road food for me Really good Some cashew chicken I did not see any nuts but it was a little warm on the spice Egg drop soup well mine is better lol But a dash of soy sauce to flavor it And was ok. Second trip more of the same. Hot day so just the small sampling Drinks are serve yourself and included in the 15 dollar price Yea I would stop again if I was in the area But not a destination place for me

The buffet was endless .great salad bar .needs more of a dessert option .very nice dining…read moreexperience .

This place is a hidden gem! Me and my family only had 3 available options and saw this open. Truly…read morescrumptious and marvelous for a buffet. My girlfriend didn't enjoy it but it's alright she's a gym bro and needs high quality protein. Anyway if you're a normal person please give it a chance this place rocks it doesn't kick rocks like my girl would say

Large selection of food, but the quality is inconsistent. At time food on buffet has not been…read morewarmed at all and is obviously from the previous day.

Chinese food buffet. All you can eat. They serve Chicken Chow Mein, Coconut Shrimp, Fried Fish, and…read morePepper Steak with Onion.

Prices are a little higher than other buffets with more selections but the fried chicken is so…read moredelicious. I think cleaning needs happen more often because families leave a mess and should be cleaned more frequently.

During our stay in Burlington we passed the Pizza Ranch and decided to give it a try. For $15.99…read morefor the buffet it was a decent deal. The buffet included pizza, fried chicken with typical sides like mashed potatoes and biscuits, and a salad bar and dessert bar. The two stars are due to two things. First, the one staff person we interacted with the most came across as miserable and if she was miserable you were going to be miserable too. Apparently we are the first people to enter the restaurant who were not familiar with how Pizza Ranch operates. This staff person reacted in disbelief at simple questions like "do we seat ourselves?" And "is there a menu or just the buffet?" We quickly learned you pay first and everyone gets the buffet even though there is a menu. Second, while the hours on the door say the restaurant closes at 9 pm, the restaurant actually closes at 8 pm. We didn't know this when we entered around 7:20. At 8 pm the staff person mentioned earlier walked around asking diners if they were done. When everyone said yes they started putting everything away. I went to grab a last piece of dessert but discovered the staff person had just stacked all the remaining dessert to take back to the kitchen and when she saw me she had a look of "what the hell do you think you're doing?" Overall, we were fed for a reasonable price but if you go bring your sense of humor and go early.

Service was great! The food is out of this world, phenomenal! Best Chinese food around!read more

This has the BEST Chinese food in town. Prices are affordable and the staff is polite.read more

We spent over $300 to take our extended family out to a nice meal. Not one of the 8 of us had a…read morenice meal. The steak? Overcooked no matter how you ordered it? Prime rib? about a 1/4 thick and well done, no matter how you ordered it. The cinnamon bread? Overcooked and burnt. The salad bar had wilted lettuce and was just sad overall. The side salads were actually better and we should have all just had that for dinner!! The service was amazingly slow. Like 45-60 minutes to get our meals when the restaurant was not that busy. My husband even spoke with the manager to tell them that it was just an awful meal. If you read the reviews over the last year, this is obviously a problem but they haven't fixed anything, so obviously they don't care. I would recommend finding another restaurant and not coming here.

Once again, your writer was pulled from his current activity and found himself jetting to another…read morepart of the globe on an hour's notice. In fifty-five years of flying, I have smelled enough jet fuel, 100 LL, and burnt coffee. Enough to see too many things change, but not on this day and this trip. Indeed, I'd dined at the Packinghouse back in 1986. They've been open since 1978, and I recognized it immediately. Then, as now, the place looks the same and the food was remarkable. My co-star and I sampled the inviting salad bar, and he opted for the broiled steak covered in mushrooms. I had the shrimp scampi, which was spectacular and enough for two normal people. Our only disappointment was that the highly touted bread pudding had been exhausted. Hence, we settled our stomachs on the chocolate lava conflagration that helped put things into perspective. The ambiance was an interesting mix of nostalgia and packing plant apparatus. Being a vegetarian, I wasn't offended by what happened there since 1912. The still-active railroad station is just across the street, which made sense for the building's original purpose. Our server was a local historian who enhanced our visit with her perspectives. Yes, the HOJO where I stayed in 1986 is long gone, but the Packinghouse is still doing what it does best. I must also mention that downtown Galesburg is an inviting anachronism reflecting the old America that I grew up with. There are interesting stores and other attractions. Galesburg is also home to Knox College, and was the venue for one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates back when debates were really debates and not Kabuki Dances.