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| - Friday night we arrived around 6pm. We beat the crowd that came around 630. It was just me and my husband. The buffet was $19.99 a person and that included your drink. There was a fresh salad bar, Italian, Mongolian, Asian, American, BBQ and desert sections. There was a decent selection of foods at each station. The biggest varieties were found at the salad bar, American, BBQ and deserts. I tried a little bit from each station. One of my favorite items was the winter antipasta salad. It was amazing with fresh mozzarella balls, parsnips, cherry tomatoes, onions and artichokes with a sweet balsamic dressing. From the Italian station I tried eggplant parm. That was probably my least favorite thing I had but still edible. They were refilling everything else and I'm not big on meat sauce so wasn't much that appealed to me here. The Mongolian station was create your own stir fry. My hubby got it and loved it. The Asian station had tasty little spring rolls that were fresh and crispy. I also tried beef and broccoli which was good. The American station had a bunch of different items to choose from. I had pierogies, potato skins but there were other items to choose from too. The BBQ station had prime ribs, keilbasa, bbq ribs which were so tender and good, among many other bbq favs and side dishes. I think you have to pay extra for the crab but we didn't do that. Someone near by had it and my husband commented it smelled fishy to him. It didn't look any better than something you could buy at th grocery store, not that is bad, but what do you expect at an all you can eat buffet? Desserts were so eye catching and tasty! The sorbets looked delicious. I only had room to try the mango and it was yummy. My hubby got the caramel bread pudding with the vanilla ice cream. He loved it. He really liked everything he had and he is a very particular person when it comes to food. I will say for $20, this is a good buffet. I'm not sure what people expect at buffets but it's not going to be all of the best foods you have ever eaten. If it is all good, then it should get a 5 star rating. Nice selection and fresh. Everything appeared to be clean and attended to. I liked that I could see the people prepping the food behind the stations. Nearly everything I tried I enjoyed. They had a lot of different soft drinks to chose from. The waitress had many tables but did come over to check on us a couple times and got us refills once. I would definitely come back here. The people that gave this bad reviews have too high of expectations for a buffet. It is not the bellagio but it definitely is far from bad and way ahead of ponderosa. I'd like to try brunch one time.
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