It's been about a year since my first visit to Golden corral. That was my first visit and for sure let's make this clear absolutely for sure my last visit.The quality of the food could only be compared with something that my dog left at the side of the road before i had the opportunity to pick it up. In nearly 60 years on the planet I don't remember a worse food experience other than my high school cafeteria. As much as I dislike franchise restaurants in general and try to avoid them wherever possible I can assure you that the worst burger joint would probably be a safer bet.you take your life into your hands by entering this dump
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Gary B.
Went with my my family. Food was very good. Staff was very friendly and courteous. My grandaughter asked for milk for her cookies and they brought her one. Hours listed on yelp are wrong.
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Ken L.
Its not a Las Vegas buffet but for the price the food was actually very good. I had the fried chicken which was seasoned quite well. Additionally, they have quite a variety of different dishes so you should be able to find something for everyone. I also had the grilled steak which is cooked to your liking. And they sell breakfast food all day long, quite a bonus in my opinion. All in all, a decent place to go for a good and quick meal at an inexpensive price. Oh, even though I didn't have room for it, they also have quite a selection of different dessert items.
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Buddy B.
I've been to several Golden Corral locations in a few different states, and this one is a true shithole. It's not the biggest I've been in nor the smallest. The men's bathroom is NEVER clean, the place always stinks, the floors are always sticky and the place just seems old, run down and falling apart. The food is not bad when it's available. There always seems to be a shortage of fried chicken and mash potatoes. After years of this problem you'd think they would cook more in bigger pans but no. They put up maybe a dozen and a half pieces of fried chicken and a half pan of mash potatoes, 5 minutes later the chicken is gone, and be prepared for a 30 minute wait before more chicken is put up. Almost all the hot vegetables are from a can. I mean c'mon, who eats can vegetables anymore. Frozen is the way to go. Corn and green beans from a can is nasty.
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Jimmy K.
really good food,and priced right....Im an ex army cook,and i give them 5 stars because their sanitation is up to standard and the food is really good...People,you have to understand,its not a fancy italian restraunt.....if its not up to your civilian life standards,then go eat at some nasty fast food place,so then you can cry about their service and food quality....be lucky we have a place like this to go to and get a nice home cooked style meal and priced super right!!!!! Is it only me or does it seem like most people are just miserable with life.......BE HAPPY, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE!!!! RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOOAH. By the way this is for the one in largo on ulmerton rd..keep up the good work.
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Laura C.
Food was good, but bathrooms were dirty and the floor was very sticky. Service was excellent; our waitress came back multiple times with drinks without us having to ask. Chocolate fountain was great and food wasn't bad.
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Lauren C.
It amazes me that places like this are even still in business. Are there really people out there who like to indulge by gorging themselves on all you can eat subpar quality food while being crammed in with tons of other customers and a few "surprise" guests (need i say anything about the bug violations that this place has gotten)? What can you expect from a place that serves unlimited food for such a low cost? None of the food here is good. The servers are overworked so don't expect to get even average service. I haven't been here in years, especially after hearing news reports about the cleanliness here, and i would never go back. If you like to find a cheap place to eat til your stomach is bursting, but not actually eat anything good, this is your place. Otherwise, consider yourself warned
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Scott G.
This was the worst Golden Corral location I have ever been too. Even though it is smaller than other locations they could not seem to stock half the items. I t was just a giant let down.
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Jerry G.
Why oh why did I chose this restaurant? We haven't been here in years, now I remember why. Our party of 4 couldn't agree on a place for dinner while at the Largo Mall. One is lactose intolerant, another the most pickiest eater in the world, and the other wants comfort food. So what the heck, there is something for everyone at Golden Corral, right? There truly is a wide variety of food here, but none of it is really a standout IMO. The deserts are sub par to me. The floors are filthy. The language of the "behind the counter" staff is not English, which makes it very difficult to get questions answered. I found myself asking other patrons "what is that" as they where scooping it on their plates. ( a good number of name cards were either missing or on the wrong item ) Have you seen the pictures of the people of Walmart? Well, you could do the same type of pictures here at GC. Makes you want to take a shower when you leave this place. Here's the kicker. 3 out of the 4 of us had ..ah..um...stomach distress the next day! Not good.
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Francisco G.
Stepped in for the first time today around one, having no idea what the Sunday price was. Long wheelchair ramps welcome the handicapped, good idea. Your drink is included in the buffet price in this gigantic smorgasbord place. Long row of several buffet partitions, each with a distinctive name such as Hacienda for the Mexican food, green something for the salad bar, and there is oriental food, a pizza and pasta bar, a dessert section, plus a meat bar. Above each food item is a sticker telling you it's name, quite helpful. High-density seating area with at least three glass partitions. Within each area are wood tables and chairs, plus tables with cushioned seats along the sides of each partition. Artsy drawings on posters depicting food items adorn the walls. Stacks of dishes and tableware near the cashier and on back wall by restrooms. Several cleaners and servers constantly at work, friendly and helpful. Manager said hello. The place was nearly full and the continual coming-and-going went on for the hour I was there. Chose several food items, and all were quite tasty. Their Oriental rice and fried fish plus little egg rolls are tops. Still, I was floored at paying over $12. They have a 6.99 senior special 11-4 weekdays, and the breakfast buffet at 7.99 including drink is not outlandish. Many families and seniors this Sunday. They are definitely doing something right if this was a typical lunch day.
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Bob M.
After giving this place another try after 15 years, (at the request of visiting relatives) I can now renew my opinion that this is the gold standard for terrible eateries. I refuse to call it a restaurant. Food all over the floor, wait staff run off their feet, entrees looking like disaster areas. As I left I was reminded of a factory turkey farm I'd seen on a TV expose. With all the good restaurants around Largo, how come this place still is open?
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Patrick R.
Trucked in food, thawed and reheated. I never saw a wider selection of food that was so gross. A waste!
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Fiona R.
Place is horrible. NEVER AGAIN. It's greasy and bland and ick.
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Craig P.
Pretty good for a buffet, staff is friendly.
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Josh N April A.
Never go here the food is old and the health inspectors have been notified. It's sets on top of a swank so now matter what the company doesn't will be infested with rats flies and other disease carrying bugs. DO NOT EAT HERE
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Thomas A.
The warm, pungent reek of human sewage as we neared the front doors was an ill omen I should have heeded. Not sure if there was a busted sewer pipe nearby, or if 'scenic Pinellas Park' just uses open slurry canals like Jakarta (possible). After being financially raped at the counter (20-ish bucks for two adults), we went and took a seat in a stained, torn booth (see photo of booth seat, which looked like a caged beast or inbred child had been gnawing upon it) The first thing I noticed was the crowd. The average weight of these hulking "humanatees" was 250-300lbs+. Several pods had set up what I am calling "feeding bases", where they would eat, then relax with books and magazines as they 'settled in' to digest, so they could then feed more, and then more. Books and magazines!! Many had spilled food and/or grease upon their massive shirts with no care in the world for decorum. Sometimes they would pick and graze upon the spilled bodyfood in a daze as they read their Auto Trader. While the baked selections were actually delicious (bread pudding, cinnamon rolls, and biscuits), the rest of the food was a horror. The coffee was warm brown water, identified as coffee only because of the label on the tank it came out of. The battered, deep-friend bacon (yep) was covered in a flavorless crumby shell, while the "bacon" inside was only lightly cooked and fleshy-pink. I think I actually dry-heaved when taking a bite of it. The various meats on display were all dripping in stale grease, which seemed to coat the inside of my digestive tract and fill me with shame and regret for the life choices that led me to this place. Let it be noted that we only came here because the kid got a 'free buffet certificate' for perfect attendance at school, and we had promised to take her. As we left, we were once again greeted by the stench of human feces directly outside the front doors. It seemed to be mocking us. I clutched my aching gut, and stumbled dizzily to the car, shaking my fist at the angry god who had created this hell on earth as some sort of amusing punishment. Never again.
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Gabriella D.
Okay, I went back to this location a few months ago and when I walked in it smelled sour. I did a u-turn complaining about the smell to myself that the customers behind me did the same thing. My original review was posted 2013 as you can see.
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Eric C.
This is great if you value quantity over quality. There's nothing good here to eat. It's all below mediocre even for a buffet. The wings they hype up right now aren't even that good. The place is cramped and there's no good set traffic flow. Patrons spill food all over the place, serves are constantly running around trying to do too much it seems, and the bathrooms smell like hell. This place exists for people who only care about eating a lot rather than eating something that tastes good.
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TootTootTootsie G.
Weekend breakfast here was always better than lunch or dinner, and always every crowded, so we were surprised when we came here last Sunday and the place was practically empty. We soon discovered why. The quality of food has really deteriorated and word-of-mouth probably has spread. Except for the made-to-order omelets, which were as good as always, everything was disappointing or downright disastrous. The crust on both varieties of quiche was raw and the filling was very runny. The dough on the breakfast pizza also was raw. Just looking at these items you could tell they were undercooked, so we couldn't understand why they were put on the buffet. The French toast was burnt, and when we mentioned it to the woman behind the grill she covered it with powdered sugar to disguise it! (She's probably the same person who thought it was OK to serve raw quiche and pizza.) They ran out of the cheesey potatoes, one of their specialties, at 10:00am, and by 10:30 they began putting lunch items out. Who wants fried chicken and pulled pork at that hour of the day? We told the manager how disappointed we were but he didn't seem to be too concerned. We're sorry to see one of our favorite weekend brunch spots get as bad as this. We won't be going back.
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Gourmet G.
One should be wary of all-you-can-eat experiences offered at bargain prices. Clearly, if a restaurant is offering too much for too little, in order to show a profit, something needs to be sacrificed - and usually it's the quality of the food. There are a bountiful number of choices here, a few of them actually edible, but for the most part the cuisine borders on the disastrous. You can't go wrong if you stick to the salad bar, where everything is fresh. It's the hot buffet selections that are the kitchen's downfall. Salt appears to be the only seasoning in use here, and there's far too much of it in everything. Roast chicken was dangerously undercooked, whereas the bourbon chicken was burnt and tough. Meatloaf contained more bread filler than it did meat. The pot roast was fatty, overdone, too dry, and tasteless. Fries were perfect, but mashed potatoes needed to be doctored quite a bit. Pizza was underbaked, leaving the dough white and chewy. Steaks were precooked, then thrown on the grill to heat up, making rare impossible and medium rare unlikely. Desserts are plentiful and, for the most part, very good - just avoid the soft serve "ice cream," which has a peculiar texture and taste. The noise level is very high at peak dining times, and negotiating your way between tables and through the various food lines can be treacherous in a crowd. Sunday brunch earns an extra star; obviously they do eggs far better than anything more ambitious. This is clearly a place popular with families and senior citizens on fixed incomes, but those who are seeking a decent meal and can afford higher prices definitely are advised to eat elsewhere.
Takes Reservations : No Delivery : No Take-out : No Accepts Credit Cards : Yes Good For : Brunch Parking : Private Lot Bike Parking : Yes Wheelchair Accessible : Yes Good for Kids : Yes Good for Groups : Yes Attire : Casual Ambience : Casual Noise Level : Very Loud Alcohol : No Outdoor Seating : No Has TV : No Waiter Service : No Caters : No
Barry F.
It's been about a year since my first visit to Golden corral. That was my first visit and for sure let's make this clear absolutely for sure my last visit.The quality of the food could only be compared with something that my dog left at the side of the road before i had the opportunity to pick it up. In nearly 60 years on the planet I don't remember a worse food experience other than my high school cafeteria. As much as I dislike franchise restaurants in general and try to avoid them wherever possible I can assure you that the worst burger joint would probably be a safer bet.you take your life into your hands by entering this dump
(1)Gary B.
Went with my my family. Food was very good. Staff was very friendly and courteous. My grandaughter asked for milk for her cookies and they brought her one. Hours listed on yelp are wrong.
(4)Ken L.
Its not a Las Vegas buffet but for the price the food was actually very good. I had the fried chicken which was seasoned quite well. Additionally, they have quite a variety of different dishes so you should be able to find something for everyone. I also had the grilled steak which is cooked to your liking. And they sell breakfast food all day long, quite a bonus in my opinion. All in all, a decent place to go for a good and quick meal at an inexpensive price. Oh, even though I didn't have room for it, they also have quite a selection of different dessert items.
(3)Buddy B.
I've been to several Golden Corral locations in a few different states, and this one is a true shithole. It's not the biggest I've been in nor the smallest. The men's bathroom is NEVER clean, the place always stinks, the floors are always sticky and the place just seems old, run down and falling apart. The food is not bad when it's available. There always seems to be a shortage of fried chicken and mash potatoes. After years of this problem you'd think they would cook more in bigger pans but no. They put up maybe a dozen and a half pieces of fried chicken and a half pan of mash potatoes, 5 minutes later the chicken is gone, and be prepared for a 30 minute wait before more chicken is put up. Almost all the hot vegetables are from a can. I mean c'mon, who eats can vegetables anymore. Frozen is the way to go. Corn and green beans from a can is nasty.
(1)Jimmy K.
really good food,and priced right....Im an ex army cook,and i give them 5 stars because their sanitation is up to standard and the food is really good...People,you have to understand,its not a fancy italian restraunt.....if its not up to your civilian life standards,then go eat at some nasty fast food place,so then you can cry about their service and food quality....be lucky we have a place like this to go to and get a nice home cooked style meal and priced super right!!!!! Is it only me or does it seem like most people are just miserable with life.......BE HAPPY, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE!!!! RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOOAH. By the way this is for the one in largo on ulmerton rd..keep up the good work.
(5)Laura C.
Food was good, but bathrooms were dirty and the floor was very sticky. Service was excellent; our waitress came back multiple times with drinks without us having to ask. Chocolate fountain was great and food wasn't bad.
(3)Lauren C.
It amazes me that places like this are even still in business. Are there really people out there who like to indulge by gorging themselves on all you can eat subpar quality food while being crammed in with tons of other customers and a few "surprise" guests (need i say anything about the bug violations that this place has gotten)? What can you expect from a place that serves unlimited food for such a low cost? None of the food here is good. The servers are overworked so don't expect to get even average service. I haven't been here in years, especially after hearing news reports about the cleanliness here, and i would never go back. If you like to find a cheap place to eat til your stomach is bursting, but not actually eat anything good, this is your place. Otherwise, consider yourself warned
(1)Scott G.
This was the worst Golden Corral location I have ever been too. Even though it is smaller than other locations they could not seem to stock half the items. I t was just a giant let down.
(1)Jerry G.
Why oh why did I chose this restaurant? We haven't been here in years, now I remember why. Our party of 4 couldn't agree on a place for dinner while at the Largo Mall. One is lactose intolerant, another the most pickiest eater in the world, and the other wants comfort food. So what the heck, there is something for everyone at Golden Corral, right? There truly is a wide variety of food here, but none of it is really a standout IMO. The deserts are sub par to me. The floors are filthy. The language of the "behind the counter" staff is not English, which makes it very difficult to get questions answered. I found myself asking other patrons "what is that" as they where scooping it on their plates. ( a good number of name cards were either missing or on the wrong item ) Have you seen the pictures of the people of Walmart? Well, you could do the same type of pictures here at GC. Makes you want to take a shower when you leave this place. Here's the kicker. 3 out of the 4 of us had ..ah..um...stomach distress the next day! Not good.
(1)Francisco G.
Stepped in for the first time today around one, having no idea what the Sunday price was. Long wheelchair ramps welcome the handicapped, good idea. Your drink is included in the buffet price in this gigantic smorgasbord place. Long row of several buffet partitions, each with a distinctive name such as Hacienda for the Mexican food, green something for the salad bar, and there is oriental food, a pizza and pasta bar, a dessert section, plus a meat bar. Above each food item is a sticker telling you it's name, quite helpful. High-density seating area with at least three glass partitions. Within each area are wood tables and chairs, plus tables with cushioned seats along the sides of each partition. Artsy drawings on posters depicting food items adorn the walls. Stacks of dishes and tableware near the cashier and on back wall by restrooms. Several cleaners and servers constantly at work, friendly and helpful. Manager said hello. The place was nearly full and the continual coming-and-going went on for the hour I was there. Chose several food items, and all were quite tasty. Their Oriental rice and fried fish plus little egg rolls are tops. Still, I was floored at paying over $12. They have a 6.99 senior special 11-4 weekdays, and the breakfast buffet at 7.99 including drink is not outlandish. Many families and seniors this Sunday. They are definitely doing something right if this was a typical lunch day.
(4)Bob M.
After giving this place another try after 15 years, (at the request of visiting relatives) I can now renew my opinion that this is the gold standard for terrible eateries. I refuse to call it a restaurant. Food all over the floor, wait staff run off their feet, entrees looking like disaster areas. As I left I was reminded of a factory turkey farm I'd seen on a TV expose. With all the good restaurants around Largo, how come this place still is open?
(1)Patrick R.
Trucked in food, thawed and reheated. I never saw a wider selection of food that was so gross. A waste!
(1)Fiona R.
Place is horrible. NEVER AGAIN. It's greasy and bland and ick.
(1)Craig P.
Pretty good for a buffet, staff is friendly.
(4)Josh N April A.
Never go here the food is old and the health inspectors have been notified. It's sets on top of a swank so now matter what the company doesn't will be infested with rats flies and other disease carrying bugs. DO NOT EAT HERE
(1)Thomas A.
The warm, pungent reek of human sewage as we neared the front doors was an ill omen I should have heeded. Not sure if there was a busted sewer pipe nearby, or if 'scenic Pinellas Park' just uses open slurry canals like Jakarta (possible). After being financially raped at the counter (20-ish bucks for two adults), we went and took a seat in a stained, torn booth (see photo of booth seat, which looked like a caged beast or inbred child had been gnawing upon it) The first thing I noticed was the crowd. The average weight of these hulking "humanatees" was 250-300lbs+. Several pods had set up what I am calling "feeding bases", where they would eat, then relax with books and magazines as they 'settled in' to digest, so they could then feed more, and then more. Books and magazines!! Many had spilled food and/or grease upon their massive shirts with no care in the world for decorum. Sometimes they would pick and graze upon the spilled bodyfood in a daze as they read their Auto Trader. While the baked selections were actually delicious (bread pudding, cinnamon rolls, and biscuits), the rest of the food was a horror. The coffee was warm brown water, identified as coffee only because of the label on the tank it came out of. The battered, deep-friend bacon (yep) was covered in a flavorless crumby shell, while the "bacon" inside was only lightly cooked and fleshy-pink. I think I actually dry-heaved when taking a bite of it. The various meats on display were all dripping in stale grease, which seemed to coat the inside of my digestive tract and fill me with shame and regret for the life choices that led me to this place. Let it be noted that we only came here because the kid got a 'free buffet certificate' for perfect attendance at school, and we had promised to take her. As we left, we were once again greeted by the stench of human feces directly outside the front doors. It seemed to be mocking us. I clutched my aching gut, and stumbled dizzily to the car, shaking my fist at the angry god who had created this hell on earth as some sort of amusing punishment. Never again.
(1)Gabriella D.
Okay, I went back to this location a few months ago and when I walked in it smelled sour. I did a u-turn complaining about the smell to myself that the customers behind me did the same thing. My original review was posted 2013 as you can see.
(1)Eric C.
This is great if you value quantity over quality. There's nothing good here to eat. It's all below mediocre even for a buffet. The wings they hype up right now aren't even that good. The place is cramped and there's no good set traffic flow. Patrons spill food all over the place, serves are constantly running around trying to do too much it seems, and the bathrooms smell like hell. This place exists for people who only care about eating a lot rather than eating something that tastes good.
(1)TootTootTootsie G.
Weekend breakfast here was always better than lunch or dinner, and always every crowded, so we were surprised when we came here last Sunday and the place was practically empty. We soon discovered why. The quality of food has really deteriorated and word-of-mouth probably has spread. Except for the made-to-order omelets, which were as good as always, everything was disappointing or downright disastrous. The crust on both varieties of quiche was raw and the filling was very runny. The dough on the breakfast pizza also was raw. Just looking at these items you could tell they were undercooked, so we couldn't understand why they were put on the buffet. The French toast was burnt, and when we mentioned it to the woman behind the grill she covered it with powdered sugar to disguise it! (She's probably the same person who thought it was OK to serve raw quiche and pizza.) They ran out of the cheesey potatoes, one of their specialties, at 10:00am, and by 10:30 they began putting lunch items out. Who wants fried chicken and pulled pork at that hour of the day? We told the manager how disappointed we were but he didn't seem to be too concerned. We're sorry to see one of our favorite weekend brunch spots get as bad as this. We won't be going back.
(1)Gourmet G.
One should be wary of all-you-can-eat experiences offered at bargain prices. Clearly, if a restaurant is offering too much for too little, in order to show a profit, something needs to be sacrificed - and usually it's the quality of the food. There are a bountiful number of choices here, a few of them actually edible, but for the most part the cuisine borders on the disastrous. You can't go wrong if you stick to the salad bar, where everything is fresh. It's the hot buffet selections that are the kitchen's downfall. Salt appears to be the only seasoning in use here, and there's far too much of it in everything. Roast chicken was dangerously undercooked, whereas the bourbon chicken was burnt and tough. Meatloaf contained more bread filler than it did meat. The pot roast was fatty, overdone, too dry, and tasteless. Fries were perfect, but mashed potatoes needed to be doctored quite a bit. Pizza was underbaked, leaving the dough white and chewy. Steaks were precooked, then thrown on the grill to heat up, making rare impossible and medium rare unlikely. Desserts are plentiful and, for the most part, very good - just avoid the soft serve "ice cream," which has a peculiar texture and taste. The noise level is very high at peak dining times, and negotiating your way between tables and through the various food lines can be treacherous in a crowd. Sunday brunch earns an extra star; obviously they do eggs far better than anything more ambitious. This is clearly a place popular with families and senior citizens on fixed incomes, but those who are seeking a decent meal and can afford higher prices definitely are advised to eat elsewhere.
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