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| - It's clear from the reviews and our experience that BFGB is schizophrenic and unfortunately we happened to first (and last) try it tonight when its evil, cold, stale, and unpalatable personality was showing.
Walking in, we first had misgivings due the weathered and aged decor: beer-hall type seating, cavernous interior, banquettes with split padding, old and beaten paint... you get the point... but.. we'd read the reviews and a friend of ours recommended the place so we went boldly forward.
Note to self: largely empty buffet restaurant probably never implies a good experience or fresh food... we both had this warning bell going off, but again, silence it and tried to give the place a fair shake.
The salad bar was ok... acceptable but not stellar and gave us hope.
The into the entres.. uh oh... the "steam tables" were keeping the food "warm", certainly not "hot". The food on the "grill section" was just _barely_ above room temperature. After the 1st tasting we nearly pulled the chain and left, but neither of us was crazy hungry and we were there, so we bravely went on.
There were serving plates on the "hot" tables that were empty and looked like they'd been that way for a while. The single person from the kitchen was out in the dining room having a beer, so this probably wasn't getting fixed any time soon. We gave up on entrees and decided to go for dessert.
The baclava was the type you buy in a grocery store (read: cheap and unappealing), most of the "cakes" were in need of replacement (picked over, smushed and unappealing), there were huge parts of the dessert bar that weren't stocked (perhaps a total of 6 desserts excluding icecream). The best part of the entire meal was the crap barely-frozen Chapman's ice cream (4 flavours) that was available.
I've been to quite a few buffets and can pretty honestly say this was the ABSOLUTE WORST buffet experience of my life. We went there for my birthday, so my "meal" was free but the $25 we paid for Kim's meal (including tax and tip) really seemed like far too much for the quality of the food served.
Will NOT buy again. OMG. Total EPIC FAIL.
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