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| - Decided to give this place a try after getting enticed by the thought of a "Seafood Buffet". I purchased a Groupon ($15 for $30 of food).
Misaki was tough to find as it was my first time there and I had never been to the Italian restaurant which was there before. For a weekend at 10pm it was pretty dead (maybe understandable considering my late dining habits). The parking lot is huge or maybe it seemed so as we were the third car there. The restaurant was pretty big, however it was dimly lit, had a dark and dirty looking carpet and was somewhat shabby looking.
Moving past all that we headed to the buffet. Now this is no Las Vegas buffet, but for an Asian and Seafood buffet I have to give it the thumbs up. This area seemed much cleaner than the remaining part of the restaurant. There was soup, dimsum, oysters (raw and cooked), crab legs, lobster, sushi, fish curry and noodles and fried rice. They also had some sort of pizza and ribs/fried chicken or something, which I chose to ignore. They have a hibachi station too where you can load your plate with your selection and quantity of noodles, mushrooms, steak, shrimp, chicken etc. and they will cook it for you. To rate the food, I would say some things were good some were bad. The sushi rolls were a hit or miss - I preferred the salmon to the tuna. Crab legs were good and not cold considering they were out for a while. The rice and noodles were dry. I did not try the oysters but the shrimp dishes and the shumai, gyoza and wantons were tasty. To end our meal, there was fresh fruit (which was almost over), some ice-cream, pastries and a chocolate fondue (the chocolate was too bitter for me).
Our waiter was attentive to our order, kept checking in on us, gave us suggestions on what was really good at the buffet and told us that if we had anything in particular we liked that was not on the buffet, they could arrange that for us too (as part of it, which was nice).
Our bill came to be $45 so all in all we paid $30 for the food with the Groupon + tip. This is all I would be willing to pay. Yes, good options but food was lackluster and kept me searching for the WOW factor. I may consider going back to give this place another chance.
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