International Buffet

REAL REVIEW. May 21, 2016. Terrible! I only lost my money and time. Price for Saturday is $ 10.99. Hibachi grill no work. Sushi is 4pc on plate. All food is no update. Look like stay on plate couple hour. Very poor assortment. To compare another buffet «A+ Buffet» much better: huge assortment, good hibachi, price only $ 7.99 Don’t eat in this buffet!!!

The selection on freshness of food was excellent. The price for what you get is amazing. $ 7.25 for lunch buffet. The waitstaff was kind and the manager was attentive and open to feedback.

I thought this was a great buffet for the price. The sushi was very basic but all the buffet food was hot and tasty.

I’ve been coming here since they opened a few years back. This is my first time being a Unilocal reviewer and I’m surprised to see why there’s so many negative reviews here. To me, they are the best Chinese buffet in Omaha. I love the variety of food on their buffet bars.
I usually come during lunch time since I work close around. Sometimes I’m short on time and just grab a togo box and fill it up with food and run back to work!
I come here with my family at night time and it’s still amazing. Sometimes at night, I noticed that they combine the bars to keep food warm, so don’t be alarmed. It’s still the same number of plates, just combined. They are usually short staffed but I always feel that they try their best to get my drinks filled and my plates taken away.

I love to bring my family! A few items stand out. The hot and sour soup is great, not too salty like other places. The shrimp is fresh and they have my favorite lo mein in town. The place is always clean, and the staff are helpful and friendly! The price is good for the variety.

Was very disappointed in this buffet. Closing time listed as 10: PM. Arrived at 8:30. One buffet bay, egg rolls, crab rangoon, etc. was closed down completely. Most of the rest of the food was cold. At the prices they charge a full selection should be available. Would I go again. Not at night, that’s for sure. When I made my issues know they blew me off!

Should’ve read the reviews. First bad sign, empty parking lot on a Friday night. Second, bad sign a total of 15 guests for a restraurant that probably holds about 300. Restraurant is dirty and the food is directly correlated to dining expereince.

This place is disgusting and the manager is terrible… The bathrooms really made me mad. They were gross…

Very disappointing! Used to think highly of the place when they first opened, but boy has that changed!!! Everything is sticky. Went to get her to fry up some goodies at the Hibachi grill and the counter was so sticky it was scary. Then I went to use the facilities and 2 out of 3 stalls were plugged up to toilet seat and third when I stepped install my feet made that same sound when your kid spills soda on your tile and dont wipe it all up… yeah; that stickiness all over the floor. Toilets look like they havent been cleaned in months and sink was disgusting with no soap to wash your hands. YUCK YUCK YUCK. We used to go here regularly but after our last visit Im never going back! If you cant wash your hands after using a restroom (its hould be a clean one) than count me OUT! Think about it; if there is no soap for customers what makes you think staff is washing their hands after using it then preparing YOUR food! Chew on that before you go. I exited facilities FAST and said IM DONE to my family and left right out the front door and have never been back which is sad because we used to go every Friday for dinner.

I wish this place would close its doors and do a deep cleaning or get shut down by the health department! I am disgusted with the facility after what i witnessd! Gross gross gross!

They’ve improved.
I ate at the International Buffet a few times when they first opened. At that time, my conclusion was that they were overpriced for what they offered. I pass the restaurant frequently, and since it’s been a while since the last Unilocal review, I thought I’d drop in and see what’s new.
As the other reviews note, this is a Chinese buffet. They have pizza and something vaguely taco-​like to justify the «international» label, but an adventure in diverse cuisines this is not. They have much of the usual Chinese buffet fare, but they do have some out-​of-​the ordinary dishes-​especially variations on chicken. Tonight’s favorite was the «egg tart,» basically sweet flan in a shell.
I think they’ve learned their lesson that charging West Omaha prices in South Omaha just doesn’t work, so prices are now in line with their competition. Weekday dinners are $ 9.99.
My host on this visit was extremely polite and accommodating. Unlike most Chinese buffets, we did not have to wait for the check.
The interior decoration is relatively upscale for a buffet – especially one in this neighborhood. The buffet is brightly lit by sparkling chandeliers. The furniture is substantial and thickly varnished, and the floor is an interesting green stone-​like tile. The atmosphere is fairly quiet.
All in all, this visit was a success, and I think I’ll give them another try.

We had a group outing here a few weeks ago. One of the girls with us knows the owners, so they made sure to have the restaurant at its best that night.
You know how you go to a buffet, and you can literally taste how cheap the ingredients are? This place was it. Lots of options and foods I have never tried before… frog legs, dim sum options, crawfish, and various sea food options. All of it just tasted like fatty butter though.
I picked around and had a few bites of the standard dishes, and I sent most of my plates back half full. The taste is just pretty mediocre. I threw the sushi away, it tasted like mush.
If you don’t care about the quality of taste of your food, go here. Maybe it was an off night. I would rather have fewer options that tasted excellent, which is probably why I don’t go to bufffets more than twice a year. The banana pudding was probably my favorite thing in the entire buffet that actually tasted like it should.

We’ve ventured here twice, as it’s not too far from our house. There is a decent selection of food. They have everything from crab legs, to stuffed shrimp, fried rice, your obligatory chicken this, steak that. They even have pretty delicious sushi. Frog leggs, and last night there was corn shrimp, that also had crab meat. There’s a large dessert bar, and a salad island as well. They also have a place where the vegetables & meat and they’ll cook it for you, like Hu-​Hot (never been there).
Here’s where the bad begins. I’m sure you’ve read the first part of my review, thinking to yourself, «Oh it sounds ok. What could be bad?» The service, that’s what.
When you first arrive, you’re greeted by someone who takes you to your seat, and gets your drink order. After that, you’ll be lucky if someone comes by to clean your plates off your table. OH, or you could sit there, for 15 minutes, with an empty glass of iced tea, and still not be asked if you would like a refill. You’re a WAITer or WAITress. That is in your JOB description. Ask me if I want a water, if you can’t get me another iced tea. I even make it easy when I arrive, no lemon, no sweet. Just iced tea.
The prices have gone up since our visit two weeks ago.

Overall very good food. Nothing really stands out as spectacular, but nearly everything was average quality. The orange chicken, which they call hibachi chicken, is VERY good. Most of their non Asian food is rather poor to outright nasty, but that’s not why I go there. I have yet to try their hibachi grill, but hear it is great.
Price is a little high at around $ 14 a person figuring drink and tip (15%).
Last note. Do not arrive early. They open at 10:30 and it takes them to around 11 to have everything ready. I got there one time right at opening and less than half of the buffet was stocked.

What comes to your mind when seeing ‘International Buffet’?
A mountain of magnificent and monumental meat masala?
An indefinite and insatiable ice cream infested island?
Perhaps a crêpe station for your creative creamy nutella filled concoctions?
I envisioned a fantasy world where each binge station was filled with obnoxious amounts of buffet goodies from around the globe! To my dismay, this was not the case with I-​buffet… In fact, this place is just your average Chinese buffet. I guess new Chi-​buffets places have a difficult time with naming since ‘China Buffet’ and ‘Grand China Buffet’ have already been taken. Even in the Omaha metro area this can be seen now that owners are forced to use unconventionally odd names such as ‘A+ Buffet’. I think the world ‘International’ is a little misleading so I wanted to put it out there that this is a regular Chi-​buffet that couldn’t think of any name better than ‘Commie Buffet’ or ‘Rising World Power so BE Afraid Buffet’. Honestly, it was fortunate that this wasn’t a worldly buffet because with my inability to refrain from eating everything in sight, it would have been a straight-​to-​DVD production of Gluttons Gone Wild I and Gluttons Gone Wild II (free S&H if you purchase in the next 10 minutes)
Now for review time…
Meh…
It’s ok.
I still think Grand China Buffet remains the reigning champion in Omaha, so I’ll just give you the details of this place and you can decide whether it’s worth the trip.
There are five binge stations, a sushi station, ice cream station and a baby mongo grill station. The normal Chi-​buffet items are there and nothing really stood out to me as great, but also nothing made me gag. The pepper beef was questionable… (the question being ‘Is this beef?’) and the Seafood Rice Noodle stuff was too greasy. The Shu Mai was great and the mysterious meat on the stick was still mysterious but above par from other places. The sushi station was average and didn’t have any sashimi like the picture on the Facebook page, which I thought was rude. The baos were filled with leek and shrimp instead of Chinese BBQ pork which was a pleasant surprise, but they lotus leaf wrapped rice only had beans in it and were very plain. The dessert? Again I say meh… Still the typical pudding, bloody banana, jiggly jello, faux pastries and of course the sliced fruit so you can convince yourself that even though you just consumed 5,000 calories of sat fats and msg filled carbs, you’re still eating somewhat healthy with the fruit…
I could go on but on average the food was… well… average! I only ate four plates so I wasn’t able to sample everything, but I’m going to give this place three stars since it’s clean, the bathrooms are surprisingly nice, the service was prompt, the food was fresh and warm and there was cheerful Chinese pop music in the background, but again there are no Chinese New Year fireworks here and you won’t be doing kung-​fu back flips after eating here. But if you want an above average A+ binging experience for the same price, I would head on over to GC-​Buffet!
Xièxie
Dennis M.