International Buddhist Progress Society

Budget priced, Vegan fresh hot buffet. Good selection. No weird food. The most exotic looking dish ended up to be cubed potatoes with carrots. The barley soup ended up being a slightly sweet dessert with coconut milk. Very clean & brightly lit. Why pay more for ambiance? It’s at ELEVEN 11 ELEVEN International Drive on the 2^nd floor. $ 6 CASH only.

Vegan chinese buffet for $ 6? What an amazing deal! Food is great, considering it is completely Vegan. I had to add this place to Unilocal to make people aware of this awesome setup. I come here at least once a week to atone for my meat eating sins.
Just a heads up that they play some Buddhist chant music in the dining hall. Not a surprise, as it is part of a Buddhist organization. Music is pleasant, but some people might find it not to their liking. It’s the same song set on repeat, so if you stay too long, it might drive you nuts lol.
It’s on the second floor of the International Buddhist Progress Society. Ask the front desk for how to find it. If you’re feeling generous, please drop some kindness into the donations box next to the front entrance.

Great place to eat if you are vegetarian. The ‘restaurant’ is on the 2^nd floor and opens at 11:30am. This is one of the restaurants I always take friends & family from out of town to when they visit. The price is very reasonable for all the food you get. Its a buffet style & the monks cook the food themselves.

Great place for lunch if you are a vegetarian. Their lunch has more offerings and price is good. Comfortable upstairs setting and warm atmosphere.

This is hidden gem that I’ve been introduced to recently. Wow, the Vegan dishes are VERY good… I just can’t believe how cheap this place is! I recommend this place to any Vegetarian or Vegan that’s seeking home style Asian dishes.
Note: The restaurant is on the 2^nd floor, and it opens at 11:30 am (lunchtime)
Note: This is a Buffet type of place.

I love this place. I take all new employees that start at my company here to initiate them to our team. I eat here probably at least once per week. 6 bucks, cash only. It’s a paper plate, vegetarian buffet, no frills, cafeteria environment on the second floor of a Buddhist temple. I mean, who can’t like that?
One thing is that there a few strict meat eaters that I know who really don’t enjoy eating here because they can’t get their meat-​fix, but even now and then they still come and even say they enjoyed it.

I met a few friends here for lunch one Saturday afternoon. I’m not that well steeped in Asian culture, so I saw this as a cultural opportunity. The lunch was okay. I actually used to be a vegetarian for a long time but became disenchanted with it, because despite a lot of effort to balance my diet, I still ended up always getting too many carbs and not enough protein. And despite this yumminess of the food here, I think that it was still to refined carb overload. The food aside, the center is quite interesting. They have a large Buddhist temple on the top floor and a school for kids. My friends who have been going here for lunch regularly for years say that while most of the people who worship here and send their kids to school here are Chinese, there are some non-​Chinese families that go here. I am quite interested in Buddhism as a religion, and think that this is a great place to be plugged into a community that practices. But… if you don’t read or speak Chinese, you’ll likely be at a loss. Most of the signs are in Chinese and that was probably the most common language spoken there. That being said, I think it’s cool that there is a large Buddhist center in the North Dallas suburbs.

Service is on Sundays on the third floor, starting promptly at 10:30 AM. There are English translated chant books for you to join in. There are also audio devices that translate the service to English. After the service, everyone is given a ticket to enjoy the complimentary vegetarian buffet on the second floor. The staff is open and respectful to everyone who wants to learn about Buddhism.

This place didn’t wow but it’s location inside an office building/​Buddhist temple was a surprise. The food didn’t have a ton of flavor but the price was right and the food was vegetarian, fresh, and healthy.
The place is very quiet. You walk in, pay your $ 6, grab a plate, serve yourself from the buffet, and sit down at the long picnic style tables. Eating with Buddhist monks is quite the experience.
After my silent lunch, I walked over to the next door tea room and had a pot of lotus green tea (in a clear glass pot with a whole flower in it!) The sweet women running the tea room kept running up to my table and handing me almond cookies on little plates. That was nice and relaxing. So, for a meal that gives you some balance, support the local Buddhist temple and eat veg.

This place is housed in an office complex. The second floor has the buffet and it is $ 6 cash. The food is very Chinese vegetarian, a lot of starches. There is a lot of that imitation meat type dishes and boky choy or Chinese spinach.
The buffet was good for a buffet, especially when you compare the place to other Chinese buffet places around town.

Briefs: An unexpected place to find one of the most amazing buffets in Dallas. And yes, it’s all vegetarian. Surprisingly very filling and very affordable. [Last Visit: 2009]

OK, I have a few things to add about the Buddhist buffet.
Hours for the lunch buffet are 11:30 to 1:00 every day but Saturday, when they are closed.
We got there at 1:30 and the food was pretty much gone so they did not charge me and my friend. That was very nice. The food was still delicious and they made a point to come by and give us the very last of the potato dish with Indian spices — it was the best thing I tasted.
The seating is community style. Everything is disposable: paper plates, and napkins, plastic utensils.
I’ll definitely go back but next time, I will mind the clock and get there early! It’s a feel good lunch spot.

Look for the mirrored office building off of Arapaho, west of 75. No it’s not insurance they’re selling, it’s Buddhism. Well maintained complex has a temple for worship, a school, and a bargain vegetarian lunch buffet for $ 6, which is open everyday except Saturday. Food was fresh, wholesome and healthy with fruit, vegetable and tofu dishes. Egg rolls and vegetable tempura added some decadence. Afterwards we shared a pot of tea in the cozier tea room and later checked out the temple and gift shop. Sweet female monks were helpful. Meditation, buddhist and chinese language classes are offered on an ongoing basis.

The lunch buffet, every day except Sat., is a good deal. The vegetarian food is simple, abundant, and generally tasty. The atmosphere is kind of like a school cafeteria, but everybody’s cool.
As far as the religious aspect of this center, it is definitely geared towards Chinese culture and Chinese speakers, and there are probably better options for a non-​Chinese American to study and practice Buddhism.

Why am I not surprised? Francesca! You beat me!
I came here years ago and had a great experience.
This is not a «temple» like the ones you see on tv… however there are MANY MANY monks walking around, doing their thing!
I believe this temple follows a «thai» sect and most monks speak very little english.
They have intro classes to buddhism, however no actual sitting meditations and etc… however, feel free to ask questions!
I left there after a few hours and one of the instructors gave me over 10 books!
If you have not been to a temple, please come and eat!

They have a vegetarian lunch buffet on the 2^nd floor for $ 6. Noodles, rice, soup, veggies, tofu, fruit. really yummy! It’s so quiet and nice. I like it.

I never really thought about the food here as this is the regular temple that my family attends. It is true that at $ 6, the 2^nd floor vegetarian lunch buffet is very hard to beat and the food is actually quite delicious. I tend to be more carnivorous by nature but the food here is actually very full of flavor. I actually often forget that I’m not eating meat. There is also a tea house on the second floor that is also a very relaxing spot to enjoy some tea with friends. While I am Chinese, I do not speak the language so I was very relieved to find that there are many people on the staff that are multilingual and if they aren’t, they tend to be very helpful with pointing you in the right direction.

I finally found this place! The food is very good vegetarian fare as noted by the other reviews. The food looks and tastes fresh every time I’ve been there.
The atmosphere is friendly and peaceful. And six bucks for a healthy meal and a peaceful setting is worth revisiting. This is now on my regular list of places to go.