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Emperor's Buffet
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- None
5 reviews for Emperor's Buffet
Someone slap me. I have no idea why I would eat at a Chinese buffet after my first and last experience with one.
I think that the Sriracha sauce on the tables is what convinced me to come in. It looked like it might be somewhat authentic. Lunch was only $7.20 for all you can eat...seemed like a deal..as it would have cost the same to eat anywhere else in the food court.
They have a hot stir fry stand next to the register. Pick your own meats and veggies. Raw meat sitting out scares me, so I passed.
The next stand featured salads, desserts, and fruit. Another pass. Nothing looked appealing.
The main food stand had some decent things to choose from. Some were piping hot, others looked lukewarm.
The last food stand had soups, fried eggrolls, wontons, and American food such as pizza, fries, macaroni and cheese, etc. Who goes to a Chinese restaurant to eat these things?
So anyways...you know when you eat something, and you really think it's good, and start feeling happy and thinking to yourself I could eat this everyday?? I got that..but by mid plate...I realized that it wasn't that great and I lost my appetite. I'm not sure what happened. Food is decent for a Chinese buffet, coffee was good. I'm done with buffets.
You don't hear someone saying this very often about Chinese food, especially at a buffet, but...the food needs SALT!
It is rather bland food, but when I added a bit of salt at the table, it was delicious!
The staff was very slow to clean the tables of dirty plates. Makes the place look messier than it is, you dig?
Good selection of food. My favorite was the (imitation) Seafood Salad with cheese and celery (that Chinese buffet staple). Warm, moist, and yummy!
Great China Buffet just down the street is a bit stronger, bigger selection, etc.
Kinda dissappointed by this place, I spent $20 here and the food that was on the heating tray was either warm or cold. They also don't have much to choose from.
They dont really have a lot of choices to pick from. But me n my wife go there about every weak. The employes there know us very well and they treat us like family.
It's inside the North Riverside Mall by the front and occupies what used to be Garfield's. It's okay. If you are shopping here and hungry, go ahead and try it. Don't go out of the way. I don't know why they opened this up when the established and similar Great China Buffet is about two blocks away from here by Dominick's, and that one was the original buffet of it's kind around here. I will say one difference is that the clientele here can be a bit pushy. However, the guy who used to run the Great China Buffet was a jerk and the clientele was nicer. I haven't seen that jerk in a while though.
