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| - Every time I visit the Phoenix area, I usually try to eat at Pacific Seafood Buffet at least once, but it's always at the location on Bell Rd, and this time I decided to try the Chandler store.
The experience was not as good as usual. Part of the problem was likely that we came in at around 8pm, but we still paid the same price as if we came in at 6pm or whenever.
My first problem was that they were out of rice and didn't cook any more. They had at least one cook who was ignoring people leave stuff to be grilled for a very, very long time. One of my kids said that a server told him they were cleaning in the back. Regardless of cleaning, which I understand, you have paying customers.
The kids were loving it a lot, until they ran into some less-than-appealing stuff.
The ice cream was great. The desserts were pretty poor, with all of the cakes dried out and fairly bland. The carrot cake was awful.
What little rice was left was excellent, and I liked the salmon. Everyone ate a pretty decent amount of food.
Generally, the service was OK, but as the time was approaching 9pm, they just all seemed like they wanted to leave, with the rice steamer being left completely empty and they were still open for another 30 minutes.
The other store is definitely better.
I would give 2 stars, but they still have all-you-can-eat salmon and a large assortment of ice cream flavors, so 3 stars.
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