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    Trinity Restaurant

    3.6 (46 reviews)
    Closed 6:30 am - 10:30 AM
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Ray J.

    This was one of our favorite places for lunch with friends, as people can get whatever that they liked at the buffet, then order some made-to-order noodle soup. I am so glad Trinity is re-opened with a new menu and a new buffet lineup. For this lunch meeting with friends, we ordered salmon, seabass, and steak, all were beyond delicious!! My friend's steak was served first, and the freshness of grill smell made all of us hungry, the meat was grilled to perfection, and the garlic, and butter added the right amount of seasoning to it. The seabass was the best that I have had in SGV in a long while, highly recommend it!

    Never heard of a 'Semi buffet' before. ‍
    James L.

    Trinity is located on the lobby level of the Hilton hotel located on Valley Blvd. It gives me the impression of a hotel restaurant that's not doing very well, so they came up with a concept of a 'semi buffet', marketed, hoping to drum up business. Unfortunately it's not done very well. Trinity has been on print and TV ads among Asian publications. So we came to try them. Thinking it was around the holidays, they would be packed. But they were nearly empty when we arrived for lunch. The concept is you have a choice of: 1) 1/2 lobster 2) steak 3) salmon or 4) prawns. They all come with a few Piet of undercooked veggies for color and what tastes like powdered mashed potatoes. For the second course, you can choose an Asian dish, like pork belly, beef tenderloin, Buddha's Delight (vegetarian dish) and a few others. The buffet part includes unlimited visits to their noodle bar, salad bar, dessert bar. Drinks are also included. The salad bar is basically a large bowl of greens. So it's not really a bar. The dessert 'bar' is no more impressive than the salad bar. They served brownies, breakfast danishes and what looked like mango pudding, but isn't. It was way too sweet and had a powder mix taste to it. One spoonful was too much. The lobster was big, but bland. It was steamed and didn't even include butter. The steak was supposed to be medium rare but was closer to rare. Very red and chewy. I asked for herb butter sauce on the side, they gave me some random house steak sauce. The prawns were fishy and briny tasting. Not very good. We had to add salt and pepper on everything. The second course was much better. The French style beef tenderloin had a lot of flavor and were very tender. The Szechuan fish filet was a nice mellow kick and both went well with white rice. Their fried rice with Chinese sausage and a decent wok flavor. The noodle bar appears to have many choices listed on their digital menu, but they all use the same broth and were very mild in flavor. They only give one won ton for each bowl. We skipped the danishes but my kid wanted a brownie, which was average. The chicken soup in the self serve pot was actually pretty good, and so was the sweet red bean soup next to it. The service was OK. Nothing to boast nor complain about, but at least they were friendly. Trinity has a lot to improve on to tempt the hotel guests into its dining room when there are so many good eateries within walking distance, and at a much better value. If it can create a unique menu with decent price points, it can draw people from the community, not just hotel guests. For now, I'd say it's not really worth it to come try their semi buffet menu. Perhaps their a la carte menu of Chinese food would be better. I think 2.5 is more appropriate but the Asian dishes were tasty and we didn't have to wait for a table, so I rounded up to 3. See my photos!

    Steak
    Regina L.

    They had a pretty good deal for the holidays: a western entree, a Chinese entree and a semi-buffet all for $32 a person. The western entree had you choose between steak, a half lobster, prawns or fish. My family got the steak, lobster and prawns. The steak was a bit on the small side but was very tender. The half lobster was pretty large! The semi-buffet included Chinese noodle soups, salad and light desserts. There wasn't too much variety but the soups tasted pretty good.

    Add $10 for half fresh lobster
    Terry N.

    Trinity is located in Hilton San Gabriel lobby. Lunch buffet is $24.95 only serve on Friday Saturday and Sunday. Add $10 to have half of the lobster if you like lobster like me :)

    Shrimp very delicious!
    Jenny J.

    This is the first time I been there for their lunch semi buffet. I love their idea: Semi-Buffet! I love their food great quality! Great chefs! Great servers! For sure, we will be back to enjoy their food, service, and atmosphere. Very happy customers!

    Shanon Y.

    The chef at the made-to-order station dropped a soup spoon on the floor and proceeded in using it afterwards to scoop soup for guests....gross! My mom kept raving about this buffet but I honestly think its just meh. For around $12 you get a majority of the brunch items which consists of mainly Chinese food. They have a variety of soups, desserts, and entrees, but the stand out items were at the made-to-order station where you can order wonton soup, beef noodle soup, minced pork with egg noodle soup, etc. I enjoyed the food until I found out from my cousin that he saw the chef use a spoon that he dropped on the ground. It seriously makes me doubt what kind of health standards they abide by. There's many other great restaurants in the area so I highly suggest looking into other options unless you want to chill around the Hilton hotel for the ambiance which is otherwise pretty nice.

    Craving station eh?
    Velinda L.

    This buffet is located inside the San Gabriel Hilton! I came here for lunch with my family and I'd have to say, the food here is actually quite good. Not the biggest selection out there - they only serve a few traditional Asian-style dishes and a few Western-style things - but what they do have is undeniably tasty. There's also a tiny salad bar and some pastries and desserts, as well as fresh fruit and a couple soups to choose from. And they have a noodle station where they cook up a bowl of noodles right there for you! Who doesn't love a noodle station? I especially looved their salmon - soo incredibly juicy and flavorful. I could eat that salmon for days on end. Their steak was also pretty good, but obviously you can't compare it to what you can get at the big steakhouses in LA. My sister really liked it though. Definitely still worth a try. Overall though, for the price they charge per person I expected a lot more choices. The food is great but its such a ripoff because after one or two rounds, it gets very boring. If this place were more reasonably priced this would be somewhere I'd take friends but since its not, I guess I'll just have to pass. There are certainly more affordable and interesting places to eat at in this area.

    Jeff L.

    Lunch buffet on Saturday was better than expected. The salmon was wonderful. Not a huge variety but what they did offer was solid

    Rick W.

    "rick, let's go! It's 5:35 already." "Give me 10 more minutes." "Get your ass up. You're talking gibberish." "Don't you ever sleep?" 10 mins later.. "Hilton San Gabriel.." "Morning. The restaurant please." "Hi. How can I help you?" "Is it open for breakfast yet?" "6:30, sir." "6:30, doug. Sleep more!" 40 mins later... "Where ya going? 101North is the other side!" "We're heading to Alhambra, not Universal." "There's a hilton there?" "Chinese has everything." 15 mins later.. "Wow. This place is nice. I didn't think it was a Hilton hotel." "Let's roll." "You sure we at the right place?" "Sh*t! wrong elevator. The other one will take us to the lobby." "Damn!! It's pretty" "Be cool." So trinity opens at 6:30am for its breakfast till 11 for its lunch, and their dinner starts at 6pm till 10. Breakfast is anything goes for 16 dollars a person. It has omelet bar, scramble eggs, french toast, waffles, bacon, sausage, porridge, oatmeals, salmon, turkey slices, ham slices, salmon, croissant, dim sum(turnip cake, eggplants and scallop with tofu) and fresh fruits. Fresh coffee, teas and oranges are served for beverages. "Oh man. damn you! I'm more drunk after eating." 5 hours later.. "Jill, you won't believe where rick took me 8 hours ago." "That's at 6, right?" "You're right! He took me to a buffet." "what!! No one opens that early. How do you find these places?" Guess what ya'll. "Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream until your dream comes true Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream until your dream comes through Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On Dream On, AHHHHHHH Sing it with me, sing for the year sing for the laughter, sing for the tear sing it with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away Sing it with me, sing for the year sing for the laughter, sing for the tear Sing it with me, if it's just for today Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away......"

    This is it....not many choices
    Eugene H.

    This is the buffet inside the San Gabriel Hilton Hotel. Let me say that this place is NOT good....I would never come here if I have to pay. Lunch was $15 per person (which I think is way too expensive for what you get). There was probably about 20 or maybe even less options to choose from! They weren't even good! The spoons to scoop the food were sticky. Many of the dishes had ran out by the time we got there. And they have this "sushi" section with 1 thats right 1! sushi thing. And it was NOT fresh.....and their wasabe sucked. Everyone references the service....but ITS A BUFFET!!!! WHO CARES ABOUT SERVICE!!!! I would not recommend this place...

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