Hibachi Grill Super Buffet

You just have to meet a certain minimum standard to get me in the door to a buffet, and this one didn’t live up to it. It has an old, tired feel to it and it doesn’t reflect well on the food. The restaurant had a kind of humidity to it which again just didn’t make anything feel fresh. The taste wasn’t bad, the selection wasn’t bad, they just need to do more with the presentation and atmosphere.

Hibachi has a really impressive variety, and I’m impressed how how fresh things appear. (Often in a buffet, things get looking a little tired.) We were surprised at how good the little chicken wings were… actually very moist and the skin had just a nice crispness. The bok choy was perfect. I was a little sad about the macaroons — I usually can’t resist them, but they really look mass-​produced. Didn’t even try them this time. But the desserts are fluff. The REAL food was very good.

So so nasty. Worst buffet ever, greasy, old sushi sitting there so long the rice was hard and crusty. Nothing there of any quality. There’s a reason this place is always so cheap yet still empty inside.

Good place to go to grab a quick lunch with variety. Typical American Chinese food, lots of soups, dumplings… Some items that are more unexpected… tacos, flautas, chicken wings, pizza (although this may be for the kiddos or kids at heart mostly). They also have sushi (I’m not a fan of buffet sushi) and a grill with it’s own buffet of ingredients.
I like this place for an early lunch and I usually get the grill item after choosing a ton of veggies. I haven’t been here for dinner and if you have a later lunch, there are a lot of kids here. I’ve had the chicken wings and they are yummy. A nice balance to my plate of grilled veggies hahah. The place is BIG and there is lots of parking. The staff is always nice and they constantly put fresh food out.
Good deal for a quick grilled no frills lunch on the run.

The Hibachi Buffet is your average Chinese buffet with a few extras. Let me first say that because it is a large building that was a free-​standing Black Angus, there is ample parking and it’s pretty large inside. There isn’t much to it as far as décor, and the televisions are all unfortunately set to Univision. The bathrooms are nothing nice.
That being said, most of the folks in there were large Mexican families with large packs of feral children. I feel that the sparse back room in this place could be better served as a playroom so that there aren’t kids running the aisles while you’re trying to walk to your table with hot food and soup.
There is a hibachi that my husband enjoys. The sushi isn’t very good… your typical white people CA rolls and such. The seaweed salad was salty and over-​garliced. .is that a word? It was nice to see such a vast offering of foods. There was a taco bar, pizza area and large dessert area, as well as your standard Chinese and American fare. I also loved the various amounts of seafood available. I did note the calamari and other octopus/​squid dishes to be quite rubbery, however.
The staff is friendly and never leaves your glass empty.
We will be back, perhaps on a weekday or night when less kids are out.

Average place. The food is diverse and edible. Some of the food is a little cold, but still an enjoyable place for friends.
The food and service is what you would expect from a Chinese buffet — okay but not great.
The hibachi grill is the best feature and is always enjoyable.

It’s my first time in Mesa, Arizona and I arrived early in the morning, spent a day visiting a company that lasted til late afternoon, and I realized I have eaten anything yet.
Of course a buffet would be a great option to fill my Jawaiian stomach!
I found this place not to far from my hotel and decided to go check it out.
I walked in and the receptionist simply said, «Hello, how many people?»
«Just myself please.» Then she called over to one of the waitstaff members in her language and I was immediately seated.
The place was a bit quiet for dinner service. It later in as I continued to dine, it did start to pick up.
I went to check out the buffet and this is what I found…
The dessert island is hosts an array of cookies, pastries like shortbread cookies, coco puffs, cream puffs, assorted jello cubes with no labeling to let you in on what the flavored are.
The next island was a bit confusing, on one half it looked like a salad bar, but there were no lettuce or romaine (they were actually on another island) just topping like croutons, raisins, sunflower seeds, etc and all kinds of dressings.
The other half was assorted seafood fare, shrimp, crabs, oysters etc…
Then next island featured you’re usually standard Chinese food offerings and then the lettuce and romaine
I noticed as I continued on there was pizza, a taco bar, and several soups.
Interesting…n’est-ce pas?
Ok, so on with what I had:
Chicken wings — super juicy, crispy on the outside, this was the shining star of everything I had!
Pot stickers — #Rubbery
Beef ribs — they were so juicy and soft, it slid easily off the bone, however, they were bland. Solution: I created a little dipping sauce from the sweet soy sauce for dumplings and added some wasabi from the sushi island, and Bam!
Yeah, you have to do what you can to doctor something up!
The green beans were ok. Al Dente but they were slathered in a teriyaki sauce. It didn’t wow me.
Chicken meatballs are good — no complaints there!
Kim chee — I wish they never drained the juice from the plating. What happened was, the Kim chee was dry and had no flavor.
Tofu — you can’t screw up raw tofu, I just created my own sauce of soyu & scallion I found at their grill section.
Hehehe
Egg drop soup– it was a little too thick and bland. I added soyu to it.
Orange chicken was a bit of surprise. Often times it’s all breaking and very little hint of chicken meat. In this instance, it was actually pretty good.
During my dining experience, I noticed that it was hot and muggy in the area I as sitting at. I asked and found out that the air conditioning wasn’t turned on!
I noticed most of the staff didn’t speak much English very well, so your patience will be needed here at this restaurant.
Overall, the food was okay, but I probably would not recommend this place to anyone.
I skipped dessert and closed out the tab and walked away into the sunset!
:)

Very disappointed in the service. Being our first time trying the location, we were greeted by a lady saying, «What do you want to drink?». I have no idea what to drink. What do you have? Perhaps have some type of etiquette and say, «Welcome, Have you been here before? Here is a list of beverages. Before I seat you please tell me what you would like to drink and our server will bring it to your table.» Very cold place. I will not return.

Standard Asian buffet
My server as very helpful and though we had a language barrier she went out of her way to get me the answer. I really appreciated that.
The grill area was a bit troubling… I don’t thin all that raw meat should just be hanging out in its own blood. Quite a disappointment.
Some highlights I found were the beef short ribs, green beans, mushroom chicken, dim sum (though I didn’t care for the lotus wrapped thing a ma jig)
For $ 11 ~ I’d return.
Note– crab is sold by the pound with a 2lb limit.

I love the stir-​fry bar where you can choose your own ingredients for stir-​fry. yum!

The nastiest food I have tasted to date in Arizona. So now I have to sit here and wait for everyone else to get done eating so I can go grab me something to eat. This is some nasty shit. They don’t make fresh food after 6pm obviously. So I will be paying for a beverage ONLY.

On our way to a sports store in Mesa, my friend and I decided to try this buffet which was just a few blocks from our final destination that noon. I like the other Hibachi grill buffets and this one was not a disappointment. It’s a large buffet restaurant with a wide selection of dishes, mostly Asian including a sushi counter and a Mongolian grill. There are also a few non-​Asian items such as tacos, pizza, platanos, and a salad bar. I also found items not commonly served in other buffets: these include simple fried fish (not breaded filets) and tom yum soup. I tried most of the items and all that I tried were good, with the exception of the sushi which was lackluster. In all, this was a very good dining deal: tasty food, lots of it, and very inexpensive.

I went to this place and paid for my to go. The cashier charged me $ 15.22 but when I checked my bank account.. . They actually charged me $ 5 more. I’m never coming back over here plus the seafood they served tasted fishy and dry. I was very disappointed and pissed just because the cashier charged me $ 5 more without me knowing. thank goodness I have my receipt and bank statement to prove it.

This is my first week after moving to Mesa. my boyfriend and I decided to try this buffet solely because they sent us a coupon in the mail. We will not be going back. The restaurant looks nice driving by, and is pretty well decorated and kept on the inside. The food however tasted as if it had been microwaved an hour prior and left out in the trays since then. Almost everything I tried gave me the feeling I would get sick later on. We went on a Thursday night during rush hour and there were maybe five or six other. Not a return, and I do not recommend.

My boyfriend and I went to try this place out for lunch yesterday. Its a nice place with a big selection of food and it’s all good. Until you get hair in 2 out of the 3 plates you get. Completely disgusting. We stopped eating after finding the black hair. After we got home, I got food poisoning from their food! It was the only thing I ate that day and my boyfriend had different foods from me. I was sick for 5 hours. Terrible experience. Never again will we go back to this horrid place!

I would give this place ZERO stars if I could! Restaurant is FILTHY, even the plates have left over food on them! It is dark and humid inside, and crappy workers. And it always seems as if there is no manager to be seen, ever.
The main event was that my husband found metal in his food. METAL. That he had to pull out of his own mouth! It looked like two shards that came off some kitchen utensils. We demanded to talk to the manager, which as I said before, is suddenly out /​busy, so they only offered 20% off.
Do not eat here!!!

Went here on a dark, rainy night and was one of the few customers inside. Nearly everything was disappointing, except for the hibachi grill, which was not worth the glares I received from the chef.
The temperature of the sushi seemed off and was way warmer than I felt it should be and the «hot and sour» soup was neither hot nor sour. I was honestly afraid to try much more than that.

I actually like this buffet a lot. I’ve even been there on my birthday so that tells you how much I like it. Not everything is perfect, but the food is good and fresh. I like the sushi bar that has a ton of variety. The ingredients are always fresh.
I’ve eaten there several times, during lunch, dinner, and between and that’s when you really know how good a job someone is doing. The food is still great at 3:30 in the afternoon.
The staff is always nice, but very quiet. Not a lot of conversation goes one, but they smile a lot and wait on you very well. I’ve taken my tablet and attended business webinars while there so was there for over 2 hours and the staff was STILL attentive.
It’s one of the bigger buffets I’ve seen with several rows of food. They have a great dessert area with different kinds of yummy ice cream.

If it was at all possible I would give this establishment a 0 star rating. I had such high hopes for this buffet when it first emerged, and I have never been so disappointed by a buffet in years.
The moment we walked in, the restaurant was very humid and hot. The floors were littered with old food neglected to be cleaned or picked up. The whole place smelt like wet hot seafood. We were sat immediately which was nice.
The first unfortunate turn-​off I ran into was the first few plates I picked up and examined were VERY dirty, and I had to go through quite a few to find one clean. That alone made me want to walk out the door, but determined to give this place a chance, we overlooked it.
The sushi at the Sushi station looked very old, much of it we tried was warm as if it had been sitting out for a while. The chicken and various common meat dishes all tasted as if they were made from pre-​packaged frozen bases. The Low-​mein and Chow-​mein both tasted rubbery, bland and overcooked.
Everything was either overcooked or under-​cooked. This was the first time I actually spat food back into a napkin! Having been turned off by everything else, I finally saw my favorite: Cream Cheese Wantons; My last hope.
One bite was enough to convince me it was time to leave.
It tasted soggy and spoiled.
Already feeling sick, we promptly cleaned our spots, neatly stacked our plates and proceeded to pay our bill at the front where the girl charged us 25.00 for the two of us and tossed my receipt at me. That was the icing on the cake.
This was our first and last time eating here. We really wanted to give it a chance and it failed us.
Please,
Don’t make the same mistake we did.

Has been way too long since I had been to my first ever favorite valley buffet. I had got here a couple minutes past 11 today. Lunch buffet has only been raised 60 cents in 2 years. It is now $ 7.59 (8.20 after tax) Takeout is $ 4/​lb for lunch and $ 5/​lb for dinner (Dinner and weekend price is $ 10.59) I was greeted right away and taken to a seat.
Specialty Areas: I ordered a water and proceeded to go to the Mongolian grill. This one has 4 different meats: octopus, beef, chicken, and pork. They have both rice noodles and yellow noodles, as well as a variety of different veggies including red and green peppers and water chestnuts. I also grabbed some of their various sushi which was well presented. Both were pretty good, definitely a good idea.
The Buffet Tables: They, like every valley buffet, have tacos and taquitos. I remember them being better but they were still okay. They had a lot of different seafood options, from shrimp, to crab to octopus to steamed fish. The orange and teriyaki chickens were pretty good but the sweet and sour chicken (or rather the chicken next to the sweet and sour sauce that is generally accepted to be for the sauce) was blah as was the overcooked fried fish. They have a very large variety of deserts including 4 different types of ice cream (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and rainbow) prescooped into little styrofoam cups.
The Best: The peanut chicken is amazing! A lot of people might think ew peanut butter and chicken… but it’s actually pretty good… and it’s Thai so it’s not unusual something someone threw together. The cheese wontons were good… was worried they’d be tooth breaking but they were just slightly crunchy with enough filling. They also had really good house bread. You know those little shells that have the stuffed crab or whatever in them? It has that type of filling only better on top of nice slighlty crunchy but still moist bread. They had good stuffed mushrooms and cheesy spinach. As mentioned before, all the chicken (minus sweet and sour) was good and to finish I recommend those little mocha cakes and some of the delicious banana desert (banana pudding with bananas and soft cookies)