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| - Usually when we eat at Hilltop, it's on a Sunday. My son loves the carved roast beef station on the Sunday buffet. And country style steak, fried chicken too...you know, like grandma's home-cooked food. The food that will make you go home and curl up in your recliner and take a nap. Always good. But that's Sunday.
We decided to try Hilltop on a Friday night, for the first time. My gray-bearded husband tried to order the senior citizen flounder, because he wasn't very hungry, but they refused since he isn't 62. So we both ordered the $13 seafood buffet. I tried the flounder filet (had some bones), the cajun whitefish, fried baby shrimp and large boiled shrimp, all of which were good. They also have catfish, scallops, stuffed crab, whole flounder, salmon patties, and crayfish. Hushpuppies were good.
Buffet salad bar was very small and limited -- lettuce already mixed with tomatoes, onions. No bacon bits or cheese to add, and only ranch or thousand island dressing. The desserts were industrial -- big pans of below-average peach cobbler, apple cobbler, and banana pudding.
My son ordered kids' chicken tenders with fries, and a side caesar salad. The salad was huge and he said it was good. The chicken tenders were hard and over-cooked, though. My dog thought they were great.
We'll stick with the home-style Sunday buffet, since we didn't really love the seafood night buffet. But we do love the fact that Hilltop is on the south end of Monroe, which is convenient, and almost everyone who eats there is a local. If you've never been, you definitely need to go....it's definitely a Monroe tradition.
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