Tops Buffet

For the price it’s hard for anyone to complain. Food is acceptable and in my opinion is a better option at a better price with more food choices than going to a typical fast food restaurant.

Tops is exactly what you think it would be. A Chinese restaurant where you walk up to the food and are like «Really don’t know what that is at all but oh well because I’m gonna put it into my body because really no reason I guess it’ll probably taste good so I’ll take my chances». And it’s actually really good. The only kind of strange thing is if you catch a glimpse of the kitchen in the back it looks like some kind of insane science project gone wrong — there’s meat and dust and limbs and powder flying all over the place. It looks like somebody rolled a live grenade back in that boy. But on a serious note, it doesn’t look like that at all and I’m not sure why I said that. Overall pretty good for a Chinese buffet and better than China wok for sure. If you’re ever driving with me and say «let’s get Chinese» and I say «okay where would you like to go?» And you say «hmm I’m not sure. How about China wok?»… I will literally speed the car up to 130 mph and crash it into the nearest large structure so that we both perish. Don’t tell me to go to China wok because tops is a little better and there’s no reason that anybody should think otherwise. Three stars. Peace.

I’ve never been to an «upscale» Chinese buffet until this.
Really good food. Fresh, clean, and the staff is stereotypically attentive. Always a wide selection changed regularly. I had no problem eating the sushi after watching it swapped out regularly.
The Mongolian grill is the star of the show. Choose your meats (shrimp, beef, chicken or pork) and veggies, add sauces, including oils, chili pepper, garlic, etc., and a cook fries it to perfection on a five foot wide, circular flat-​top right in front of you, using bamboo sticks.
It doesn’t get much better.

Excellent pricing. They have a huge selection at the buffet. The service could be improved slightly.

Good food, fair price. Lots of items and food was fresh when we went. Has a Mongolian grill.

Perfectly serviceable buffet-​style Chinese food with other items. I eat there about twice a week because of the value, and the food is usually good. My favorite item is the honey chicken.
Nothing to write home about, but nothing worth writing scathing Unilocal reviews about, either. What you’d expect to find at a strip mall buffet.

About like all the rest of them. They do have a grill bu I never used it. The buffet will show you 17 ways to cook a chicken!

Chinese buffet. I do like the fact there’s a cook where you can select your ingredients from the buffet and they will cook it for you.
Typical buffet fair, so much to choose from and you have to sample a lot of stuff to get your money’s worth.
Out of all the Chinese buffets we’ve tried since coming back to this area, this one is the best.

We stopped here the other day as we attempted to go to Kraynaks Nursery for our annual visit to Christmas Story Land and Santa. Didn’t happen as the line was out the door and snaked through the parking lot. Too cold to stand outside with a 6-​month old so we went to TOPS to eat.
Pretty much the same as my original review only this time I tried there hibachi style as well. You grab a plate and place the raw meat (pork, chicken, steak) along with the raw veggies and sauce and hand it to the cook. I chose to have steak with mushrooms and water chestnuts cooked with teriyaki sauce. I know, I’m not very creative. Anyway, The cook takes it and cooks it on a circular grill and actually walks around the grill why manipulating the food with two large sticks. If there is a name for this style of cooking, I don’t know what it is. When finished, they place the order on a clean plate and hand it to you. You can leave a tip for the cook of which we did because the food was pretty darn good and fresh.
Is cheap and a pretty good choice for buffet style dining if in the area.