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Who likes Buffet style eating?
I do I think it's very socialable espacially for large groups of people BUT less and less places do it in favour of sit down style eating, espacially at weddings - probably because they can get away with charging a lot more.
I've been trying to find a buffet style place to take a group of people to - but it's flipping hard to find many places in the area I want. Got about 80 people who'll probabaly walk in through the door of wherever I take them (all at once) all hungry and I can't believe there's any sit down place that would feed them all in good time hence why I want a Buffet, but I really can't believe the crap I'm being offered by various places, espacially when 80 people will probabaly spend a fortune on drinks as well and it's for a Sunday evening when most places will probabaly be near empty.
I do I think it's very socialable espacially for large groups of people BUT less and less places do it in favour of sit down style eating, espacially at weddings - probably because they can get away with charging a lot more.
I've been trying to find a buffet style place to take a group of people to - but it's flipping hard to find many places in the area I want. Got about 80 people who'll probabaly walk in through the door of wherever I take them (all at once) all hungry and I can't believe there's any sit down place that would feed them all in good time hence why I want a Buffet, but I really can't believe the crap I'm being offered by various places, espacially when 80 people will probabaly spend a fortune on drinks as well and it's for a Sunday evening when most places will probabaly be near empty.
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Sit down food is exactly the same except all the sneezing and coughing takes place in the kitchen where you can't see what's they're up to .. lol :thumb:
Also aint you ever heard of a sneeze guards?
A sneeze guard is far above the nasty childrens hands. And 3 people in the kitchen has no competition to the hundreds of people and snot filled hands of random people.
I'd hate to see what sit down resturants you eat at, tbh. I've worked in two resturants before and no, shit like that rarely happens. Managers and owners and anal people are constantly walking around keeping an eye on everybody working.
I don't think the UK is known for it's cuisine.
Although the American breakfast cereals are way weird!!
The only time I'll really eat them is if I'm first in the queue
I love chinese buffet restaurants
i prefer them when they are a bit more adventurous than your butties and sausage rolls, but they all good.
sausage and onions and cheese and pineapples on sticks = the best.
In general I think buffets are good and bad depending on the situation for a kind of long drawn out party with lots of light nibbles salads etc they are good but for the kind of place where they say the buffet is open now and you all pile in and end up queing for adges they are bad. Additonally i've been to a couple of places where you get such small servings but then are watched when you go up for more so you end up eating hardly anything as you don't want anyone to think your greedy.
I'm also quite partial to canape parties though.
Oddly for my wedding the quotes for a buffet were more expensive than those for a sit down meal.
True words.
THere is an ACE all you can eat Buffet Chinese called Aroma here. £6.50 I think. God it's damn good when you are high as a nut. SO MUCH DELICOUS FOOD!
Might do it this weekend...
chinese buffet places are the way to go.
mini sausage rolls, doritos in a salad bowl, cheese and pickled onions on sticks, carrot sticks and onion, garlic and herb dips! You know the type.
The best one I've been to was the Bellagio in Las Vegas. It had different areas, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Chinese, American, etc.
I'm taking loads of people on a trip and our coach is expected back around 7:30pm near Marylebone / Baker Street so rather then going home I thought it wouldbe nice for us all to nip into a nearby pub or bar or some place that can do something reasonable and something quickly served...
I was hoping to find a nice independant place to take them to, but there's not that much choice in the area. I didn't want people to really have to spend more then £5 each on some bites and of course they'd be buying their own drinks.
£5 may not sound like much but when there's 70 people and another 10 to 20 probabaly going to join us at the venue that's £400+ for a buffet and yet most places seem to be offering a load of crap for that.
One pub I went to that does Thai food and would be empty on any Sunday offered 2 spring rolls, 2 sticks of Chicken Satay, and prawn crackers and sesame toast for £5 a head ...:eek2:
For £3.99 we could go to the local Wetherspoons and get a Burger, Chips and a pint of Beer!! (might be a £1 more for central London but still a heck of a lot more for a lot less)
I'm guessing 70 to 90 people would spend at least £1,500 as well on drinks - so don't know why people are turning up their noses.
The problem is in this country that nobody has any faith in their cooking.
Lots of places do buffets, but not many posh places do. And I don't think buffets are appropriate for wedding breakfasts.
If you're talking about National Chains of resturaunts then there's simply more choice and more competition in the US and Canada.
And also so much cheaper too.
There's for instance only two big chains for burgers I can think of here, Mac's and Burger King, over there you can add Wendys, White Castle, Jack in the Box and probabaly more I don't know of.
I assume you're not comparing Taco Bell in the UK to the US one?
Cos most foods I've tried here suck compared the the American equivelents, espacially Pizza hut and Baskin Robbins.
I hardly think that the price and variety of fast (tacky) food should be a measure of a countries cuisine.
It certainly wasn't always so, but now the range of food from different cultures in this country means that the food in this country is now some of the best in the world
Ever had an American beef Wellington, steak and kidney pie, chicken tikka vindaloo. :no:
Pizza and burgers aint a touch on those dishes.
Buffets are good at the right time - but i don't really like hardcore american style buffet restaurants where you get about 3 billion different choices - because you end up putting really weird combinations of stuff on your plate.
I thought the food in the USA was great apart from the junk. There are some great restaurants there, cheap, also nice old style diners like Ruby's. And Mexican food and Japanese and Korean, which you don't get that much here.
The choice of crisps and chocolates are crap though.
So for all those of you that recon buffets were germs ridden something else to worry about next time you're in tesco... lol
Not the run of the mill crap ones maybe, but really good burgers and pizza are lovely. The best burger I ever had was at a pub in Tenby. McDonalds it certainly wasn't, what it was, was delicious.
The best pizza I ever tasted I made myself.