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>all you can eat buffet
>includes lobsters, king crab legs, oysters, filet mignon, prime rib...
>2 hour time limit
>price includes taxes, gratuity, and non-alcoholic drinks
>$88 per person

So, /ck/, would you do the Nordic Lodge?

>> No.4770605

that is a little high, I live in a place where seafood is plentiful. I would say closer to $45, no time limit (that shit is gay) and gratuity included. Even places like Tejas de Brazil don't charge that much and they serve large portions of various steaks and other meat dishes until you tell them to stop. Dessert and booze is extra.

>> No.4770613

That's too expensive. I don't feel like I could possibly eat 88 dollars worth of food in 2 hours. If it was alcohol included, it would be great. But it isn't.

Also I think that buffet seafood usually ends up overcooked on the warming trays. I'd rather take the money and cook the food on different nights when I could enjoy it rather than trying to stuff 88 dollars worth of food down my gullet in one night or feel ripped off.

>> No.4770620

I would, assuming the meat and seafood is cooked correctly. If it's mediocre, then no.

>> No.4770629

I can get all that at my local chinese buffet for $13 and I can stay there all day

>> No.4770648
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>>4770629

>all you can eat freshly steamed whole new england lobster
>$13 chinese buffet

>> No.4770655

do you get penalized for wasting food?
if so I would take a whole bunch of lobsters, eat the tails and toss the rest

2 hour time limit isn't enough though, when I go to a buffet I am there for 3-6 hours without taking a break. I don't want to feel rushed while I eat.

>> No.4770664

>>4770648

Not that guy but I too can get all that, save the lobster, from my 13 dollar chinese buffet, no time limits. At that price difference I say buy and cook the lobsters yourself and eat them when you get home.

And there is some pretty fucking great sushi there too. I'd go to the chinese buffet any day before I'd drop 88 bucks to be shooed out after two hours.

>> No.4770680

>>4770655

>do you get penalized for wasting food?

From what I've heard it sounds like they expect food to go to waste (like any buffet really). I really doubt they're going to make you eat the lobster leg meat before you can go back for more.

They also only let you take one lobster at a time because, let's face it, eat 4-5 lobsters and you've pretty much gotten your money's worth.

>>4770664

>eating raw oysters from a 13 dollar chinese buffet

>> No.4770738

>>4770680

You've got to live a little.

>> No.4770756

>>4770648
Not that poster, but there's an all-you-can-eat buffet in my area that does indeed provide lobster and prime rib all-you-can-eat for $18USD.

>> No.4770842

>>4770579
>>88 dollars
why not just buy some seafood and crap at that point? a person can only eat so much.

>> No.4770857

Not worth it. If alcohol was included it might be worth it to go there once with a friend.. but 2 hour time limit, no alcohol, and almost 100 dollars sounds shit to me.

>> No.4770888

>>4770857

>all the lobster you can eat, prime rib
>not worth it

anon, do you not like living or something? just buy a bottle of wine and have a blast.

>> No.4770906

>>4770888
Not him, but if I want prime rib, I want prime rib, not prime rib and lobster and filets and crab...the same goes for any of those and I can get any of those when I want them in generous portions for half the price, maybe the same if I get a decent bottle of wine too.

>> No.4770907

>2 hour time limit


So, /ck/, would you do the Nordic Lodge?

fuck these faggots. They can go back to Skyrim for all I care. Prolly actually really run by Kahjits. What do you have a clock that counts down from 2 hours? I think long as you are being respectable you're ok. If you're camping out then they can use their destruction spells on you or whatever.

Also some of the mid grade to even nice buffets in vegas are better than that price and offer the same and prolly more. You place is not really a "value deal," it's more for the faggot who can't decide what he has to have and instead can get a little bit of everything and pay the luxury price to do so.

>> No.4770938

>>4770907

6/10. Appreciated the reference, but you missed out on some lore jokes.

>>4770579

Also fuck this. The point of eating gourmet stuff like this is to enjoy it. Going buffet like this is a wasteful and gluttonous.

Buffet style is only good for cheap food or big family places or cafeterias that cater to a lot of people.

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>>4770938

>6/10. Appreciated the reference, but you missed out on some lore jokes.

What's a milk drinker like you doing here anyway.

>> No.4770950

No way.

I'd be full after one filet, one lobster, and one prime rib, not to mention the sides.
And that would only be about $50 worth of food.

>> No.4770952

>>4770945

I mean, that 88 probably doesnt even include sweetrolls (unless someone stole them).

>> No.4770963

Depends on if they shoot me in the knee if I take longer than 2 hours.

And none of that "Skyrim for Nords" shit propaganda. If I'm gonna drop that much money on river roaches and meat and no booze, leave the damned politics at the door.

>> No.4770969

>>4770963

You're getting there :D

>> No.4771016

>>4770579
I wouldn't trust to pay top dollar for top shelf food from a fucking buffet.

Buffet is something I go to to eat shitty greasy food after a long night of drinking.

>> No.4771057

The 2 hour limit is kinda ridiculous considering the price, BUT I suppose it does come down to the quality of the food.

I just visited their site and I am going to be honest, that food looks pretty dang good. The dessert bar looks so good lol.

It's one of those things (if you live near them) you do maybe a couple times a year just for the exp I guess. 2 hours is enough time if you go in hungry, which would be the smartest thing to do, but being rushed while eating is never fun.

>> No.4771080

I went to a seafood buffet at a 5 star hotel which cost me around $110. It was worth every penny. You know how at the cheap buffets there's usually only a couple items that you go for cause everything else is shit? Well imagine every single item is like an item off a fine dining restaurant. You also have the added bonus of not having to deal with niggers and jews fighting over crab legs or worry about food poisoning from rank sushi and mussels

>> No.4771087

>>4770738
>living a little entails contracting Hepatitis C

>> No.4771088

>>4771087
And being fat and stupid.

>> No.4771578

>>4771057

>I just visited their site and I am going to be honest

/ck/ is sure acting out of character tonight.

>> No.4771606

I hate all-you-can-eat buffets. It just encourages me to be a gluttonous fuck while worrying if you're getting your money's worth.

>> No.4771623

>>4770680
I've never been to any buffet that didn't have some kind of penalty. They are never hard asses and no one cares if you finish your plate before you get more, but at the end of the meal if you've wasted more than a certain amount thats when you get hit with the charge.

>> No.4771641

add alcohol with no time limit and i would shell out an extra $12 to make it an even benjamin

probably will do it once in a blue moon but what the hell treat yo self

>> No.4771757

>>4770888

In barcelona I got a 5 course meal with a bottle of wine included for me and a friend, it cost 20 euros per person. We were stuffed by the end of it.

$50 for a buffet is just about at the limit, I can go to a ritzy Brazilian buffet in beverly hills for $45. Now you're telling me I have to shell out $88 just so I can have a bit of variety but not get drunk?

Fuck that. It's a bad deal.

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>>4771623

>I've never been to any buffet that didn't have some kind of penalty

>> No.4772916

>$88
Might be worth it if you can eat 3+ lobsters, a good bundle of crab legs, and a few oysters.
Generally prime rib is pretty damn cheap...and filet mignon, meh. I wouldn't pay over $30 for either red meat.

>> No.4772919

>>4770888
for $88 i could buy a lobster or two and a rib roast and make the shit myself.

>> No.4772921

>>4770629
You go home! You been here 4 hours! You too fat. You go Home

>> No.4772927

>Be in Budapest
>Stroll into this all you can eat
>Deer
>Duck Breast
>Local specialities
>Chef grilling everything, from pork to shark
>Price includes beer, non-alcoholics, wine and champagne
>3 hour time limit
>17 euros per person

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>$12
>all the chocolate fountain you can eat
>no time limit

>> No.4772983

>>4772972
there was athis place called the crazy buffet, had a chocholate fountain there too.
i hate when they pair american food with chinese.

>> No.4772994

>>4772983
>implying it was really chinese and not american-chinese

>> No.4772995

I'd sooner eat a tinfoil sandwich than eat at a buffet with the rest of you disgusting pigs.

>> No.4773009

>>4772983

Is that in Tampa?

>> No.4773016

Enjoy your mercury and nuclear sea spiders.

>> No.4774379

>>4773009

Not that guy but fuck yeah I remember that place. Heard it sucks now. TampaBay fag obviously. Used to have a great all you can eat mongolian bbq station; probably still do.

>> No.4774427

I'd rather spend $90 on a single high quality dish instead of gouging myself with low quality shit at the same price.

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>>4772972
>golden corral

>> No.4774440

>People complaining about a 2 hour limit.
Fuck I can smell everyone's sweat from all the way over here.

>> No.4774445

Why is the time limit such a big deal for people? I know its uncommon in the US, but the limit here has never been a problem for me. Usually the time limit here is 2 1/2 but I've always left stuffed, especially when the food is actually really good

>> No.4774446

>6 dollar Chinese buffet
>eat my body weight in raw oysters and steamed clams
>not to mention all the "authentic" Chinese food like Mongolian beef, sesame chicken, etc
>finish off with a huge bowl of fruit
>wait, let me grab some ice cream before we go

How screwed am I?

>> No.4774448

>>4774440
>>4774445
It takes me at least one hour to eat two plates of crab legs

>> No.4774450

>>4774446
lol
you ate raw seafood at a $6 chinese buffet?
you'll be dead within the hour anon

>> No.4774454

>>4774448
Are you retarded, does it take you 15 minutes to tie your shoes? The legs will be stone cold after 30 minutes and the butter will be cold after 20.

>> No.4774459

>>4774450
If I live, should I just stick with the imitation crab when I go back?

>> No.4774464

>>4774459
just stick with the bottled soda

>> No.4774467

>>4774448
Damn, you must look pretty stupid when you're eating crab legs then.

>> No.4774471

>>4774467
>not eating like a pig = looking pretty stupid

>> No.4774473

>>4774454
The place I go to is the only place that has crab legs around here and you can get them hot or cold. I eat the cold ones because the meat comes out of the shell better and it takes me about a half hour a plate.

>> No.4774486

>mfw American buffets have time limits to prevent the patrons from exploding

>> No.4774559

>>4774471
>Takes forever opening up crab legs
>Thinks anyone who knows how to open them quickly eats like a pig

>> No.4774571

>>4774559

If you read some of the reviews a number of people talk about how helpful the waitstaff is, and how they give you tips on how to quickly de-shell a whole lobster.

>no mention of help on opening crab legs
>there are people out there who need help on opening king crab legs

>> No.4774577

It sounds like the buffet at a lot of the Indian casinos, except they charge less than $25 and don't time you.

>> No.4774588

Sounds good to me. A little bit overpriced, but still acceptable.

>> No.4774600

>>4774577
This, but just casinos in general
And if you throw away enough money before dinner, it cost nothing.

>> No.4774650

ITT: people who have never gone out to eat freshly cooked whole lobsters at a decent seafood restaurant.

You aren't going to get a single 1.5 pound lobster, freshly killed, for anything less than $18, which is the most expensive buffet I've seen so far from in this thread. Eating heat lamp rubber previously frozen lobster tail is not the same as eating a New England lobster that was pulled out of the ocean less than an hour before you eat it, and was cooked in the sea water it lived in less than 1 hour before you ate it.

>> No.4774671

Last time I went to an all you can eat seafood buffet I got food poisoning really bad.
I was sick for about a month and dropped about 30lbs, I looked like a holocaust victim.

>> No.4774700

>>4774671

>tfw dropping 30 lbs would bring you back to an average bmi

>> No.4774704

>>4770579
Is that a serious question? lol, no, definitely not.

>> No.4774707

>>4774700
Same for me now, when I got sick I was a skinny druggie and ended up really skinny.
Now I'm a fat beer drinker and am trying to loose about 20 lbs.

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>$88 to eat sea bugs

People really are stupid gluttons

>> No.4774711

I'd rather have $24 all you can eat Korean BBQ

>> No.4774716

>>4774709
are you 200 years old or something

>> No.4774724

>>4771080
>being in a 5 star hotel
>not all inclusive
>paying 110$ for reheated food.

Wow, THAT does sound like a steal.

>> No.4774732

>>4774440
>being this alone
Unfortunately for you, the rest of us tend to go with family/friends and spend a little more time than racing up to the counters to swallow food whole.

>> No.4774738

I don't think I would. I've paid more than that for a meal but it's been for things like top-quality sushi or a multi-course customized chef's menu. I've even paid $50 for the Wynn Vegas buffet which has crab legs, but this is a lot more.

The time limit is also a deal breaker. I don't need to spend 5 hours at a buffet but if I'm paying that much I would like to take my time and enjoy it.

>> No.4774741

A local japanese restaurant has all you can on Friday nights for $35 (aud). You can pick anything off the menu and it's all made to order.
>tfw I order a million quail eggs wrapped in some exotic mushroom that is priced $6 each.

>> No.4774742

>>4774732
>going to a buffet for gatherings and spending more than 2 hours eating at a restaurant
Why don't you guys just meet up somewhere else if you want to spend more time together?
>>4774741
>implying they don't cost 50 cents to make

>> No.4774751

>>4774671

>tfw dropping 30 lbs would bring you back to an average bmi

>> No.4774754

>>4774751
I would now days but not back then when it happened.

>> No.4774759

>>4772983
>>4773009
>>4774379
Oh shit! Thought I was the only one who'd been there. Fucking ages ago, my parents and I drove an hour and a half to go there.

>> No.4774762

>>4774473
I seriously would like to know how you eat them that it takes that long. Outside of the claw you can crack the legs in half with your hands and get full pieces of meat. The claws take maybe an extra 10 seconds and when you get a bad crack on the legs it takes an extra 5 seconds to split it in half with a fork

>> No.4774767

>>4774754

>tfw you just started a full time line cook position tonight (and am listening to moot while you should be sleeping) and will probably lose 20-30 lbs in the next month or two, since you wont be able to spend your entire day on 4chan.

>tfw you don't even have the time to potentially become the first ever /ck/ janitor
>inb4 why the fuck would you want the "job" even if you were NEET for life

>> No.4774769

>>4774762
Listen to the professional amerifat and how quickly he can eat.

>> No.4774774

>>4774769
Look at this guy who had mommy open his claws for him his whole life

>> No.4774775

>>4774767
Ain't no way I have time to spend whole days on 4chan, I have a full time job and it feels like I spend 3/4 of my life there.
Sometimes I wish I was NEET though.

>> No.4774776

>>4774774
I wish, that sounds great.

>> No.4774786

>>4774769
>Bawww can't eat those water bug in the shell
>Bawww mummie please
>Bawww MUMMIE Shell this blasted thing for me oh mummie dearest.

>> No.4774803

>>4770579
The last time my mum went to an all you can eat buffet for $60, and there were oysters?

Lets just say she got more then her moneys worth.

And if you put me in a room with as much king crab I could eat, I would get to the point where im smuggling that shit out.

Seafood is always worth it.

>> No.4774841

>>4771606
THIS.
Buffets are for cheap asses who just want to stuff their face with as much food as possible while eating shit tier food that's been sitting out for who knows how long.
Quality > Quantity

>> No.4774910

>2 hours
But that's not much longer than a standard group restaurant visit

>> No.4774934

>>4774910

Yes, but it's a buffet. There's no waiting time.

It's a full 120 minutes of pure All You Can Eat.

>> No.4774947

>>4770655
>3-6 hours
wat?
WAT?
how big are you dude

>> No.4774950

>>4774947
fatness and capacity do not necessarily go hand in hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8zJg0mwt1k

>> No.4774952

There's this really good Korean buffet on 34th I think between 5th and Broadway, that's really good. Going in there as a white guy I got eyeballed but then it was cool since I worked on the block and lived across the street.

http://woorijipnyc.com/

The only thing that was annoying was that they were strict about the beer/alkyhol time laws... that's probably because it was a tourist area, fuck all, I wouldn't have been there if not for me working on the block.

It is good food, and the only place that I saw real soy sauce in packets. Yamasa packets and not those fake ones that most people get from Chinese restaurants.

>> No.4774954

>>4774952
32nd bet 5th and Broadway.

>> No.4774962

The concept of buffet + high grade food is stupid, since high grade food is meant to be savoured slowly to express itself.

>> No.4774974

>>4774803
It's crazy to me that people pay a lot for oysters. I'm not saying they aren't great, but hell, I'm used to seeing them for around a quarter a piece.

>gulf coast master race

>> No.4774993

No, I really don't want to eat all those things in one meal, I'd rather spend slightly less and have one decent meal than try to cram all those down. I've been to (admittedly shitty) buffets that offer a very wide variety of foods before and it just sucks. You shouldn't be eating pizza with a curry and teppanyaki.

>> No.4775014

>>4770579
I'd love to just throw my money at them and chimp out on the food like an autistic orangutan but there would be other people around so I'd just have to eat like one lobster to seem like a polite gentleman and then go home and cry myself to sleep.

>> No.4775017

what kind of buffet has a time limit? the only acceptable time limit an eating establishment should have is when it closes and when they change from lunch to dinner

>> No.4775020

>>4774803
>Lets just say she got more then her moneys worth.
She ate 60 oysters? How huge is she?

>> No.4775022

>>4774962
>lobster
>high grade food

Lobsters are peasant food, they didn't suddenly develop amazing nuances and flavours as soon as people decided to artificially jack the price up.

>actually eating sea roaches

>> No.4775027

>>4775022
not accepting arthropods as the most delicious of all creatures

>> No.4775030

>>4775020
??

I live in Australia, Oysters are not a 1 dollar each, especially in restaurants, but regardless she did get her monies worth eating just oysters and no she is not a big lady

>> No.4775221

>>4774650
No one ever said it was just as good, you elitist jackass. Don't you have a fast food thread to go complain about?

>> No.4775223

>>4774650
>You aren't going to get a single 1.5 pound lobster, freshly killed, for anything less than $18
I can drive to the wharf and get lobster for $4/lb.

>> No.4775242

>>4775022
Or maybe lobsters always tasted good and it just took people getting past the childish idea of "ewwwww bugs" to realize that. Yes I know how lobsters got popularized but that doesn't mean they aren't genuinely delicious.

>> No.4775276

>>4774952
That place is cool, but I never ate at the buffet there.

I did go to IchiUmi which is seafood buffet on 32nd btwn 5th and Mad.