Ade65 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Hi, Anyone been yet? Any appreciable difference to Jumbo/World Buffet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockdog Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Went last week...very impressed,wide variety of food,lovely choice of sweets.in my opinion(and my kids) much better than Jumbo etc, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SYorksDeano Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 I quite like Jumbo's so I am going to have to try this place sometime this week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Went for lunch yesterday. It wasn't bad, but the food isn't marked up for allergens ( gluten, nuts etc) and isn't labelled as safe for vegetarians or no. (There was poor selection of choices for the veggies too) Eg they had 'soya chicken' on offer. We had to ask, was this 'mock-chicken' made with soya protein, or was it chicken - chicken with soya in the dish too. Turned out to be the latter. Also there were discrepancies on the prices on the drinks measures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxydebs Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Went for lunch yesterday. It wasn't bad, but the food isn't marked up for allergens ( gluten, nuts etc) and isn't labelled as safe for vegetarians or no. (There was poor selection of choices for the veggies too) Eg they had 'soya chicken' on offer. We had to ask, was this 'mock-chicken' made with soya protein, or was it chicken - chicken with soya in the dish too. Turned out to be the latter. Also there were discrepancies on the prices on the drinks measures. No good for people like me with lactose intolerance then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stranza Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Went for lunch yesterday. It wasn't bad, but the food isn't marked up for allergens ( gluten, nuts etc) and isn't labelled as safe for vegetarians or no. (There was poor selection of choices for the veggies too) Eg they had 'soya chicken' on offer. We had to ask, was this 'mock-chicken' made with soya protein, or was it chicken - chicken with soya in the dish too. Turned out to be the latter. Also there were discrepancies on the prices on the drinks measures. My pet hate is charging random prices. Not genuine errors but the rogue pricing. It can really spoil a night if you are a mixed group and paying individually. It makes people look petty or cheap but it's the basics and they should get it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razvanalbu Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Went for lunch yesterday. It wasn't bad, but the food isn't marked up for allergens ( gluten, nuts etc) and isn't labelled as safe for vegetarians or no. (There was poor selection of choices for the veggies too) Eg they had 'soya chicken' on offer. We had to ask, was this 'mock-chicken' made with soya protein, or was it chicken - chicken with soya in the dish too. Turned out to be the latter. Also there were discrepancies on the prices on the drinks measures. You cant see it was a chicken soak in soya sauce and chop into small pieces? the menu is limited at lunch hance you paid £7 ish there is a much wider choice after 6pm but it cost more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 You cant see it was a chicken soak in soya sauce and chop into small pieces? the menu is limited at lunch hance you paid £7 ish there is a much wider choice after 6pm but it cost more 1) "Huh" yourself. I don't eat meat, so I've never had chicken soak, and I've never had soya sauce and chop, either, so I would not know what either looks like, to be honest. Until I opened the buffet-tray lid, and saw if it was real chicken, there was no actual clue as the labelling was woefully substandard. Had the vegetarian-suitable dishes been labelled adequately (both for allergens like nuts or egg particularly and as to which contained no meat products.) I would have known which dishes to ignore. 2) It was a lunch buffet, not a lunch hance, and it was a bit more than £7 "ish"- it was £9.50, which I calculate to be 120% of £7 or thereabouts! (I CBA with maths at most times of the day, but especially so at this time of night) 3) Both my friend and I are diabetic and we both needed food, there and then, so waiting for an equally poorly-labelled evening vegetarian selection, however large the choice(I suspect the veggie choice would still not have been what one would have described as expansive) was not an option open to us. I also doubt the labelling of the foods would have improved much in the five or six hours before the evening pricing came into play. 4) Some of the pricing contravened probably the trades descriptions act and, I'm quite sure, weights and measures legislation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dales Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 1) "Huh" yourself. I don't eat meat, so I've never had chicken soak, and I've never had soya sauce and chop, either, so I would not know what either looks like, to be honest. Until I opened the buffet-tray lid, and saw if it was real chicken, there was no actual clue as the labelling was woefully substandard. Had the vegetarian-suitable dishes been labelled adequately (both for allergens like nuts or egg particularly and as to which contained no meat products.) I would have known which dishes to ignore. 2) It was a lunch buffet, not a lunch hance, and it was a bit more than £7 "ish"- it was £9.50, which I calculate to be 120% of £7 or thereabouts! (I CBA with maths at most times of the day, but especially so at this time of night) 3) Both my friend and I are diabetic and we both needed food, there and then, so waiting for an equally poorly-labelled evening vegetarian selection, however large the choice(I suspect the veggie choice would still not have been what one would have described as expansive) was not an option open to us. I also doubt the labelling of the foods would have improved much in the five or six hours before the evening pricing came into play. 4) Some of the pricing contravened probably the trades descriptions act and, I'm quite sure, weights and measures legislation. Hi PT, With regards to point no 4 - It sounds like you are right, and it's a bit worrying at best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No User Name Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Anyone who has quite specific and complex dietary needs shouldnt really be going to a Chinese buffet #justsaying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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