Bottom Line: Still quite cheap for AYCE especially on a weekend. Wide selection of Chinese and Sushi in buffet-style, all-you-can-eat format. Pro-tip: Pay with cash. This place has been around for a long time. No frills cafeteria style buffet. Service is basically to clear the table in between your courses. Impressively wide selection of items including some offerings in case you're not in the mood, including decent desert items. The sushi rolls I would say are more than decent, and, you can pick your ingredients for stir fry. Where do you see that any more for this price? Overall decent bang for the buck if you just need to get that no frills/"fusion"/hot pot, but straight up Chinese, Japanese, pan-Asian fix on. End note: I feel some of the highly critical reviews here are overly so given that this place does not pretend to be anything than what it is, and has managed to stay in business, in a very tough environment, for a very long time with very reasonable prices. read more

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I have never been this disappointed with a meal in my life. The hibachi did not offer many choices but since I usually Love freshly prepared hibachi I decided to go for it. It was just meh. Ok. I just paid nearly $50 for two dinners so I tried several items from the buffet. Nearly everything I personally tried was either grease soaked or barely warm. The fresh fruit was good but it is impossible to mess that up. read more

This buffet is truly impressive. It's fully stocked, incredibly clean, and well-maintained. We visited on a Sunday, and the $44 price for two people felt very reasonable. ​What really stands out is the attention to detail. Unlike many buffets that feel neglected, everything here is fresh and well-organized. The tables are spotless, and the food isn't mixed together, which shows a lot of care. The atmosphere is another plus--the music is at a pleasant, low volume, not blaring. ​Despite it being 1 p.m. on a Sunday, the restaurant was surprisingly quiet, though people were slowly starting to trickle in. I highly recommend this place; it's a great example of a buffet done right. read more

Royal Buffet - A start-up plate. - Chinese Near Me - Woodridge, Illinois

One of the few decent Chinese Buffet in the Western Suburbs. This restaurant has been around for decades. I prefer to go on the weekends as there are more seafood options. This particular weekend was on the busier side, food was fresh and food turnover was high. I really enjoyed the fried crab, shrimp and roast duck. They also offer a small sushi bar and also hibachi grill. Plentiful of seating options and friendly staff that comes by and takes your used plates. Thank you read more

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The food was mediocre, when we first got there it was a calm quiet atmosphere and the air smelled nice. At the place we first wanted to pay, the guy said 11 and under are adults, I had my 11 year old sister. We told the staff her age and he said she was too tall and charged her as an adult. Very upset we had to pay about 140 dollars. read more

The food was cold and the chicken was to sweet and hard and the Texas toast was hard as a rock I don't recommend eating there

Afternoon lunch, $15 per person, senior. Sushi was good, no stir fry available. Hot foods were cool temp at best. Not a good deal, disappointed read more

Oh nah where do I even start. As soon as you enter the place smells gross. They need to remove that fountain that has fish bc thats where the smell comes from. The food was not good not even to enjoy it the place It's self is nice but the food was cold the hibachi DOES NOT I REPEAT DOES NOT COOK THE FOOD ALL THE WAY. The lady that walks around taking plates has an extreme nasty attitude. This buffet is nothing royal about it‍ . Im sorry but I'm not the type to leave reviews because I keep things myself but I js couldnt hold myself on this one. read more

Quick, tasty, affordable -- and dangerously delicious! The only downside? I couldn't stop eating. Seriously. Same with my husband -- we were so full on the drive home we nearly fell asleep behind the wheel. (Note to self: maybe pace ourselves next time...) We came for lunch and loved how quiet and relaxed it was -- plenty of open tables, no noise, just good food and chill vibes. Next time, I'm coming back for the lobster -- but in the evening, when I can take my time and maybe even bring friends. Highly recommend! Just... maybe wear stretchy pants. read more

The food is great! Lots of options of food, sushi, and a cook to cook food! Love it here. Not many buffet out there where they are good as this one. Reminds me of my childhood where we used to go to great buffet. Coworkers are nice as well read more

Most of the food was cold and didn't have much of a taste. The chicken on a stick looked good but tasted terrible. But the buns were delicious! The ice cream scoop had no water to wash it off. The hibachi was actually delicious. Service was ok, The soy sauce was broken and leaked all over the table. And most of the plates looked worn and gross. The ambiance was kind of sad. The poor fish looked like they needed more water in their pond. Overall the building looked old and dingy. Definitely won't be coming back. read more

Royal Buffet - Buffet food - Chinese Near Me - Woodridge, Illinois

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Lots of good choices. Food is tasty, cleanliness is superior with a friendly atmosphere. Didn't like the egg rolls much, but otherwise very good! read more

Very old tables and chairs and angry staff please don't come here if you want to eat good and clean

I could've lived without going to this one to be honest. Overall food quality doesn't match the $20 per person price point. I was excited to see some crab legs mentioned in some of the reviews, but no crab legs to be found during my visit. Buffet has 4 - 5 different sections: a flat top grill area, assorted Chinese food, American food, sushi, and dessert. In general, most of the food is hit and miss. I'll say the ice cream is actually pretty decent. Possibly the same supplier for Baskin Robbins. Overall dining and common areas feel a bit grungy. On a plus side, the servers busing tables we're very quick and efficient to clear off finished plates so that you could proceed to the next round. 'Til next time! read more

Royal Buffet - Plate #1 - Chinese Near Me - Woodridge, Illinois

For under $20, the food at this all you can eat joint was not too bad. Yes, it's all generally so-so Chinese foods, and the crab legs are a la carte, but you get what you pay for and there are definitely some hidden gems in the wide selection. We unfortunately went during a period of time where they lost water flow - the entire shopping center just stopped receiving water - and I watched as the staff did their very best to continue serving customers. If you are in the mood for quantity - not bad quality necessarily - and a friendly, non judgey atmosphere with a decent dessert selection, ice cream cooler, and mongolian bbq station...Royal Buffet is worth a try. It's exactly what you'd expect - nothing REALLY stands out as super extraordinary but you walk away pretty full. read more

DO NOT GO HERE!!!! Went on Sunday 3/23/25 All of the food was ice cold, not even lukewarm Severely overpriced for the slop they call "food" A complete waste of money, $110 for 2 adults for lunch. You're better off eating at Panda Express. read more

there's no music in here so it's really awkward. limited interactions with staff which is nice. didn't expect the price per person to be twenty something dollars. the food is edible but makes me question am i even hungry anymore? only decent thing is walnut shrimp but let's hope it doesn't get me sick. respectfully, will not be coming back. read more

I already reviewed this buffet but want to update it to 5 stars. We went during the day this time on a Sunday and it was even better than last time. It was very busy but organized and due to how huge this establishment is, it doesn't feel crowded. The food was hot, fresh, and delicious! I left some room to try the dessert this time and ordered a crepe (made while you wait) with your choice of fruits, jams, and ice cream. I asked for the coffee flavor and it was yummy. There were families that were there eating when we arrived that were still there when we left so that days something about the quality of the food. It's definitely worth the drive! read more

This place is ok. My favorite food at this place was sushi. They had a great variety of sushi including fried sushi. I also enjoyed the stir-fried rice noodles and the soy sauce-flavored steamed fish. read more

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47 dollars for 2 people. Thats ok if the food was good.i thought this was going to be like the royal buffet that was in kankakee. Not even close. The pizza was old and dried up. The chicken nuggets looked like tv dinner nuggets not good tempura sweet and sour chicken nuggets.all the food was barely filled. Overall will not be back. read more

Have not been here in years. Visited today with the family and I remember now why I choose not to come. Food is mediocre at best. Staff is not friendly. Establishment is spacious with many tables and booths. I can't say that it was dirty... But I wouldn't call it clean either. On the plus side, they do a good job of clearing off the dirty plates and refilling the food trays. The one tray that was rarely refilled was the lobster tray...which is the big pull for some to choose the place. There was a sign that said the lobster tray would be refilled every 20 minutes. I do not think that was the case. And for a place as big as theirs... To have only one tray is ridiculous. When we were there we stood in line to wait for the tray to be filled. They eventually brought out a tray of chopped up lobster, hardly enough for our family of 6. What about the other 100 or so patrons? My thing is, they shouldn't advertise all u can eat lobster. Or maybe they should guarantee each customer with at least one lobster tail. Bottom line, I would not recommend the place, much less going there for lobster. read more

Royal Buffet - This is what the lobster tray will look like the majority of the time you are there. - Chinese Near Me - Woodridge, Illinois

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Wow! Some bad reviews. The truth. You are missing out on a JEM. Just come and eat here. It's expensive, $17, but it's worth it. The night we went, they had Lobster Tail. Awesome!! Just what I wanted. Chopped Lobster Tail with Ginger sauce to be exact. Free pop! I'm good. I'll help myself. There are a few bad reviews, but this place has many customers. So, is it bad or good? The bad reviews just don't weigh against the GOOD. If it was bad, then why do they have many customers??? Their PARTY room was packed too!! My wife and kids did not like it... then again, I'm a seafood lover and I enjoyed my dinner at Royal Buffet. Go. You will not be sorry. PS. the bathroom is a mess. But I'm not grading on bathroom. read more

Royal Buffet - Lobster - Chinese Near Me - Woodridge, Illinois

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Quite disappointing to me. The crab legs were so salty. The pork was hard to chew. The bathroom was very smelly. I don't think I will go there often. read more

If I could have put a -5 stars I would. My husband and I went here on a Friday night, thinking it would be good. It was by far the WORST meal we have ever had. Every single thing they served was old, cold, rubbery, stale and was inedible. Our stomachs hurt for hours after. I am actually going to call the health department on them today because what they were serving can definitely kill somebody. Old fish, old chicken, old shrimp.. etc. would never recommend to anyone. As you can see napkins flooding our plate from spitting almost all the food out. read more

Royal Buffet - Food might look presentable (somewhat) but it was AWFUL - Chinese Near Me - Woodridge, Illinois

Made a yelp account just for this place. Few choices and terrible food. It looked like some of the food sat for hours and the establishment looked dirty. Service was mediocre. read more

Quantity not quality. Sometimes food is good and sometimes is bad depending on what days and meal times. Service is none.

ROYAL DISAPPOINTMENT!! 1st disappointment was the price! $20 per person at 3:30 on a Saturday afternoon. Asked if they had crab legs and we were told they no longer have them just fried crab. At first site the buffet looked good (except for the albino cantaloupe), well stocked, good variety. The hot and sour was standard, fried rice good, one of the unlabeled fish choices was good. The salmon didn't taste fresh - I spit out the first bite. The tiny morsels of crabmeat available from the fried crab pieces were tasty but a whole lot of work and mess to get the tiny bits. The sushi was not even real sushi, with plastic rice and the only roll with fish was a very small piece of rubber tuna. So much food went to waste because we kept hoping some of the dishes would be edible. ROYAL FAIL!!! read more

If I could give this no stars, I would. The worst restaurant I have been to in quite some time. First, there is very little selection. Second, what there is has hardly any flavor. Third, they keep coming around with a mop and bucket and cleaning up with ammonia or Pine Sol right next to people eating -yuck! read more

The staff is super nice but the food is definitely not fresh the flan taste burnt and had the texture of scrambled eggs. The meat on the general Taos and sweet and sour was cold and felt like it was cooked 3 days prior just tasted old. The egg rolls were ray to salty and didn't have any meat in it and they charged 20$ per person for dinner service on a week day there online price said 15.50 on week days. I would say the only things I really liked was there almond cookies because they are the same everywhere and the cream cheese wonton was pretty good to. I'm sorry I won't be going back since I get spend the same amount of money and make something at home way better! read more

Hot asphalt parking lots cook and display dead animals better than this place. If I was blind folded doing a taste test, their chicken and other meats would most likely be determined to be rubber from a tire. Styrofoam plates and plastic cups are super awesome to eat and drink from when it's 45 dollars for 2 people read more

$15/person is not a bad choice as long as you don't mind the sticky floor, tables, and chairs. In addition to the usual rows of food under the heat lamps, Royal Buffet also has the sushi, stir-fried, and barbecue stations. There is a huge selection of seafood, anything from lobsters, oysters, and clams to steamed fish and crab legs. Be ware of the long line for lobsters. For that price and large variety, you can eat till you drop. read more

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Worst Buffet ever and for the price they charge I wouldn't recommend it to any body!!! Workers where rude we came in at 8oclock and they where already throwing us out by nine saying we couldn't get anymore food so that their was rude and to top it off the food was cold and the seafood was spoiled & desserts looked bad definitely nothing Royal about this place!!! I would rate i a negative zero if I could. Nothing ambiance about this place at all it smells once you walk in and the bathroom had stuff all over the floor like they hadn't cleaned it in days. read more

The food sucks and not worth the money I paid I swear if one person says it has good quality is a big fat liar The food was cold No taste at all The meat was so tough I had hard time chewing and swallowing I gagged as I try to swallow so I wouldn't even give it a one if I had a choice So please advise go back and don't choose this place to enjoy a meal read more

Just had lunch here. What a mistake. The food was just awful. Hard, tough,and overcooked. They only use styrofoam plates and plastic utensils. At $14.95 for lunch, this was just a ripoff. read more

Absolutely disgusting! I have no idea how this place hasn't been shut down by a health inspector!!!!!!! Someone has to be paying them off!!!!!! The bathrooms and dining areas smell like a sewer runs through them! $20 ticket to the garbage dump showw - and front row seats! Spoon please? Ummmm - unless you want your food to get cold while trying to find a clean spoon, bring your own from home! The ice cream cones are in the box on their side instead of hanging -- so you're probably grabbing a cone that about 10 other people passed up too! Yay! The actually ice cream is in their original tubs so any one can scoop their own ice cream -- yuck. So you're licking ice cream that touched someone's pre-licked fingers! Mmmmmm.... The ice cream scoop is in mounted in some kind of rusted well! I guess it adds extra flavoring! Someone who must be related to the owner if not one of the owners was leaning against the sushi counter -- yummy! Hair Sushi! A new thing? Overall, we had a horrible experience! We are there because well, we didn't want to offend the person who asked us to meet them there! read more

Their food quality is the worst compared to other Chinese buffets. Tried them again after the pandemic and I will not be going back to this place again. They also increased their price and that's okay if they keep the quality of what they serve to the customers. read more

Update 7/28/2019 Been coming here for a number of years. Sadly, it is going downhill. There is a horrible lingering smell that has only becomes worse over time - I think it come from the bathrooms. Speaking of bathrooms, it's disgusting. Smells of urine and you certainly don't want to touch anything while in there. The tables, napkin dispenser, chairs are all sticky like they've never been cleaned. The utensils are sometimes visibly not clean. The soda area is a filthy mess, sticky, and smells. Oh, and the soda is often flat. When you tell the staff it's flat they just ignore it. It's becoming routine for many of the food items to be lukewarm or cold suggesting they never test temperature, which by law they are required to do. I've never seen anyone test temperature. When we first started coming here, the place would be packed; now, it seems never too horribly busy. It's great to get a table, but I wonder if others are getting fed up with its lack of cleanliness and cold food too. This used to be our go-to place for Saturday or Sunday dinner. Not sure it will remain on the list. The horrible smell made this recent visit untenable. I hope they get their act together before the health department closes it down. Oh, do be sure to get there at least a couple hours before closing or you'll just get cold dregs. They seem to stop replenishing items a couple hours before closing. read more

I love Royal Buffet in Hoffman Estates. This is drastically different. We live closer to Bolingbrook then Schaumburg. When we want a quick Chinese food fix we come here. I hadn't been here for a while because I was disgusted by the cleanliness of this place. So when I went last week, I knew never again am I coming back. This place is SO FILTHY! Especially the bathrooms. I wish I took a photo of it. The bathroom has three stalls and one or two is always broken. There are no ventilation so they have a fan and sometimes open the door. The trash is disgusting! They have a small trash can by the toilet and people THROW their toilet paper in there instead of the toilet. It never gets thrown out so it piles up and it is on the floor. Same as the larger trash can by the sink. When I went in there it smells SOO BAD! I do not know how they pass inspection. They need to update that bathroom terribly. I know I am focus on the bathroom right now. But if the bathrooms are this bad how dirty is it every where else. I do not want to think about that. You want to eat a good buffet, go to Royal Buffet in Schaumburg. This Woodridge place is NASTY! Note: You know the food is bad when you see the employees eating lunch and what did they eat? Chinese take out from another restaurant! They don't even want to eat the crap they serve! Also for myself and two other people the total almost equal $60!!! Yes I paid $20 per person! TERRIBLE! read more

Food was cold. It took 3 glasses before I found a clean one. Plates were dirty. Bathroom was filthy. Do not recommend

The family decided to have valentine's lunch here. Apparently when it is a holiday ( yes, valentine's day is a holiday at this Royal Buffet), you get charged the dinner pricing for lunch. We couldn't figure out why the lunch price wasn't in place at first because it didn't appear that they had served anything out of the extraordinary. It turns out after our 3rd plate, we noticed other people getting crab legs! I had walked around meticulously examining the buffet, taking pictures for my Yelp review, was baffled at where these crab legs were coming from! It turns out, on the wall, in shoddy white piece of paper in black permanent marker, it was advertised that for holiday lunch pricing, you would have to stand next to the kitchen to ask for crab legs! read more

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