World Buffet
499 D'Onofrio Dr, Madison, WI, 53719
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Address :
499 D'Onofrio Dr
Madison, WI, 53719 - Phone (608) 833-6789
- Website https://www.worldbuffetwi.com/
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Opening Hours
- Mon :11:00 am - 9:00pm
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : Yes
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch
Parking : Garage
Bike Parking : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : Beer & Wine Only
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : Free
Has TV : No
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : Yes
Categories
Chinese Cuisine
The popularity of Chinese food in America can be adjudicated by the appearance of China Town in many major cities in the United State of America. The popular trend of ordering or opting for Chinese take away food isn't unknown in America. Chinese take away food comes to rescue when you're too tired from work or too exhausted to cook. No one can resist the temptation of eating spicy noodles, shrimp, chicken, beef or pork cooked in the sweet and spicy sauce. The cooking method of authentic Chinese food is a lot different compared to what is served in America.
Generally, Chinese use dark meat small bones and organs to cook dishes but this changes when you are eating American-Chinese fusion food prepared using white boneless meat cooked with broccoli, carrots and onions. Back in China, the food is less spicy and oily as they favor steaming and braising method for cooking the most popular dishes. So, if you have a taste for authentic Chinese food, then try finding a real Chinese restaurant in the city. You can also try the most popular fusion Chinese food like Pecking Duck, Chicken Feet, Hot Pot, Shrimp Dumpling Soup, Mapo Tofu, Wontons, Chop Suey, Egg Rolls and not to forget Fortune Cookies.
There are not many restaurants in America serving authentic Chinese food. A little research on Restaurant Listings directory can help you locate the best Chinese restaurants in the city. Chinese cuisine is continuously evolving, and you can find a variety of dishes categorized as the food for lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, vegan, vegetarian, and diabetic friendly. So, if you have a group of friends with different taste patterns, save the hassle and visit the nearest Chinese restaurant in your city.
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Em S.
Good place for lunch, love their noodle section especially, so fresh made to order type you can add anything you like. their other selection are about average. Love their roasted duck.
(4)Lindsay G.
We go here for Sushi, it's made fresh lots of variety and it's 12.95 all you can eat...say whaaat!
(4)K V.
Ok, I'm just going to say it and give up any food-snob credibility I might have... if you're looking for sushi rolls (especially the kind with all sorts of sauces and goofy ingredients), this place is about as good as it gets in Madison (ok, the duck roll at Murimoto is better, but costs more than "all you can eat" rolls here...) Last couple of times I've been here there have been at least 10 different rolls being freshly prepared. The rest of the buffet is all hit-or-miss.
(3)Elaine F.
Be careful -- 3 of us got Food Poisoning! Took my family of 5 (2 seniors, 2 adults and 1 youth) to World Buffet for lunch on Saturday 3/7/2015. This is our first time to be there. We arrived around noon, and it was not very crowded, service was fine. There were not as many choices there (compared to Journey on the East side of the town), but they looked OK. I had some veggie salad, noodle soup from noodle bar, a few pieces of sushi, some stir fry etc - not a heavy eater, while I ate a little more than I usually do. Check out was nice and quick, till that time, we felt we had a good lunch. That afternoon, we all felt very thirsty, which is a sign that the food we had for lunch likely had lots of MSG inside. Well, this is not new, we just had more water. However, at about 1:30am on Sunday 3/8, I woke from sleep and felt sick. As soon as I sat on the toilet, I knew something was terribly wrong -- I started to sweat like never before. My entire cotton PJ was soaked, and my sweat was literally dripping to the floor. And I felt so dizzy/lightheaded that if I didn't try my 120% best to keep alert, I would have passed out. I wanted to call 911, but wasn't able to stand up to grab my phone, nor could I yell out for help. Then I started to feel nausea and after vomiting, things started to go back to normal. The episode lasted for about 1 hr -- I thought I was going to die... Never felt this scary in my life before. Called my doctor at 5am and the on-call physician said most likely I had food poisoning. Since I skipped dinner on Sat, the lunch becomes super suspicious. And when I eventually got up the next day, I heard my parents were both sick as well -- similar symptoms, but (luckily) not as severe as I did. I called the restaurant owner on Sunday to inform him about what happened to us. He told me his location never any complain before, and we were the only ones. He felt I got sick because there were food I was allergic to without my knowledge, even I told him I am NOT allergic to anything. He said he will give us discount when we visit them again (am I going again??), and I told him the purpose of my call is to tell him we got really sick after eating at his restaurant. So in case you are thinking to pay a visit to World Buffet, my experience is here for you to reference. Maybe it's an isolated incident, but it was so scary that I would think twice before I go...
(1)Christine L.
Came back recently and their noodle soup bar is not the same anymore. I think because they had such demand, they couldn't make the broth from scratch anymore. It tastes like a broth made with bouillon cubes.
(2)Lyndsy S.
I ate at the Old world Buffet only once before at the Monona Location for brunch and it was Ok for a Mother's Day brunch as you could eat healthy and not cram all the standard brunches in you that were rather heavy without the other good things like salads, vegetables and fruits. Families celebrating after going to church and enjoying each other's company are always good no matter what the food or gathering. Well they were celebrating their one year anniversary this May at their new Westside location with crab and rib eye on Sunday's and my son had come home from his university up north for the weekend so I thought this would be ideal for my two sons as they just don't get to indulge in crab and steak on their limited budgets going to College and eat a good variety of healthy vegetables and fruits and it is a buffet so I figured that my sons couldn't go wrong as they would have a variety to choose from. They already enjoy the General Taus that they like to get at Chang Jangs so I thought more variety with the crab would be that much better after all its a buffet. I called first to verify their hours and they were still serving the all you could eat crab and they did so we decided to eat dinner there. When we arrived I was pleasantly surprised as it smelled good and they had signs saying they had no MSG which I felt good about. The water with our meal was even pretty good compared to the other water throughout Madison as in the country we are pretty spoiled with the fresh spring fed well that is fresh and pure without all the fluoride, chlorine and other chemicals added. When you live in the city you are used to it but once you have had fresh clean pure water you never can go back as you know what clean pure water is like and its benefits so I usually drive around with my own 5 gallon containers and ask if they don't mind if I carry a glass with my own water in and everyone has always been accommodating so that's never been a problem. Ok their food now. Maybe it was just a slow night and we were eating food that was their end of the day? I'm not so sure though as we arrived a good 3 hours before they stopped serving so we went up and put the foods we wanted grilled on top on the noodles which were done promptly and were good although I asked them to cook mine a bit more as the seafood on it just didn't look very well cooked which they did and was good and we all enjoyed ours so you can't go wrong on this. We asked where the crab legs were and the cook said he would replenish those quickly and he did. I've eaten crab that was already cracked open and the kind you have to crack on yourself and these were the ones you had to crack on your own so we took our plates and crab crackers and tried several crackers and they were so thin that we Just couldn't succeed so we fingered we had 3 hours do might as well concentrate on the other foods as we could save that for last or tip the waitress extra and ask her to assist us. As we tried the other food it was mushy and bad seafood and was on the rotten side as it was old and smelly. We just grabbed an extra plate to toss the bad stuff on and next thing we know it an agitated waitress was at our table scolding us that we had too many plates on it. We explained that the extra plates were the bad food and showed her the rotten food and asked her to throw it out and maybe she should check on the existing trays we got these from as we wouldn't want anyone to get ill and there seemed to be s language barrier as she exclaimed that they were a Chinese food restaurant and that's how Chinese do theirs. We acknowledged that we knew this and that we liked their stir fry but seafood is seafood and we don't eat sushi but the salmon and other seafood was just not right. I cook my own seafood at home and well theirs is not good and coating a tiny piece of shrimp with so much unhealthy breading to my liking but I sure wasn't doing to say that to her. I told her we had tried all their different cracking devices and the crab was so thin could she please get these open for us and she said that wasn't her job. I said I realized this and would give her an extra 50% tip to do this and even handed a $10 bill for mine alone. They were winding down for the night by then so it's not like she was busy but she still refused. We struggled with these only to no avail as they finally kicked us out with the rest of the customers that seemed to be having the same problem as us. Others simply gave up and walked out as we should have just called it a night and left too. Moral of the story; don't go to a Chinese food place like this one to eat the crab special or any seafood as its not even clean & devine.
(1)Pauline J.
My boyfriend has been begging me to come here. I finally broke down to get it out of the way. I usually check reviews of places before going some where, so I had my expectations very much lowered. Some how, this place was still disappointing. There was very little selection and the food wasn't very good. The sushi was average. I really don't advise going here, but if you do they have coupons on their site. They're far too overpriced without it. Even with it I still wouldn't pay the money, but oh well. Oh, and it definitely doesn't compare to Journey. I don't particularly like Journey because the fish made me sick, but Journey has an pretty amazing selection. This place does not.
(1)Hayk M.
World Buffet was literally one of the worst restaurants I had eaten at. Let me start from the beginning. When we walked in, the place looked like a prison cafeteria from the first glance. The general atmosphere and the wall paint all indicated this. Then we were sat down at this uncomfortable booth and the place was so hot that I would've preferred to be outside. It's called AC people, use it. Ok so the waitress, with the biggest angry face asks if we want anything to drink, before we are even sat. She also barely spoke English and talked in such a quite tone that could barely hear her. Once I got my water, she just dropped it off, and left. Mind you we never even got a drink menu or any instructions really. So I go up to her and ask whether we just go and get the food? And she's just like yeah... Again nothing more. Can we get it once or several times? Nothing. The food offering was fine, it was general asian food basically. Well american asian. We gathered a plate and sat back down.Now at this point we wanted to also get beer or something but had to go up to the front to get a menu and ask them to bring us saporo, which was basically the best part of the experience. The food was terrible. It was overcooked, stale and tasteless. Some of the worst asian food I've had. Also they gave us a fork and a teaspoon wrapped in a napkin. No knife, no chopsticks. Anyways, overall a terrible experience. I think going to the mall food court would be a better idea. They have better service, it's even cheaper and the food is tastier. Also I didn't get a second plate, not because I couldn't or wasn't allowed, but simply because I could not eat more of that terrible food.
(1)Jared W.
Standard Chinese American Buffet fare... The staff is courteous and seems eager to please. The food is pretty much the same as you'll see at most buffets in Madison, just with a bit more selection. The mongolian grill is solid, the general tso's chicken is the best I've had at a buffet - good chunks of quality chicken instead of the sauce and breading trying to hide gristly cuts. Ultimately the rest of the "Chinese" dishes are not particularly good, but if you fill up on the solid salad bar, some sushi, the potstickers (very good), and other random items like fruit (large selection) and the very buttery garlic bread, you'll at least fill yourself up. Lunch pricing with soft drink ends up being 11.33 after tax, which is barely worth it at lunch on a weekday. The dinner and weekend pricing is not worth the price
(3)Pang K.
Worst place ever! Don't waste your time coming here. No food nor fresh food! They care more about saving money than making new fresh food for customers who comes here to eat late!! They also don't accept coupons even though they have their coupons everywhere on woodmans receipt and on madison/middleton coupon books! This buffet is a scam only! Don't waste your money and time especially your mood coming here! You'll feel ripoff the moment you see the nasty old cold food!!
(1)G F.
We couldn't wait until this venue opened. Unfortunately, we were extremely disappointed in the atmosphere, and overall food quality. Anything that was deep fried had such a "grease" taste you had to put it down. The sushi was below average but we expected that going in but wanted to try it for the benefit of the doubt. I always give restaurants at least an extra chance especially after they first open up, unfortunately we will not be returning.
(1)Dayna M.
Really decent! The sushi is fresh and quite good for a buffet. I liked everything I put on my plate for the most part. I was a little disappointed that they use instant mashed potatoes....but whatever. Also, soda refills are NOT free and that came as a bit of a surprise when the bill came, seeing as how our server made no mention of this. Despite bad mashed potatoes and paying for soda refills, World Buffet was exactly what I expected and what I wanted on a night I couldn't bring myself to make dinner. I wouldn't come here for a nice night out, but it really did the trick tonight. We left full and happy, and I believe that even the pickiest eater could find something they enjoy.
(3)P R.
We weren't sure what to expect from this buffet, but we were very pleased with all of the options. The food was very fresh, hot and plenty of options for the entire family. The sushi bar was fantastic, the soup was some of the best we have had and the main dishes were the best we have had in the area. We will be making this a weekly stop with the family.
(5)Chazz B.
Do you like deep fried breaded meat in brown sauce? All the mayonnaise-doused sushi rolls you can cream into your gullet? Mashed potatoes and pizza for your picky child of a roommate who will still bitch the whole time about wanting a burger? HAVE I GOT THE PLACE FOR YOU Honestly if you are expecting fine dining at a 13 dollar Americanized Chinese buffet then you need your head checked. The sushi is OK, but there is quite a variety and it's out of the ordinary for a place like this. I see some rumblings about there not being enough variety but they easily have 4x more stuff out there than any Indian joint I've been to around here. It's a double edged sword though, lots of food = lots of old food. Go earlier. There are all sorts of condiments available. The noodle bar is nothing special, go to a Vietnamese place if you want some pho, you're here for General Tso and his lesser known cousin Mongolian Pork.
(3)Wis S.
The food is worse than it was a year ago. It is edible but nothing is delicious. The membership card is a lie. I forgot the and the owner said I could bring it and ask for a stamp the next time. I come here again but a waitress says NO!
(2)Sarah Z.
Ahh, World Buffet... You are just perfect for those lazy, I-don't-care kind of nights. I just want to wear my t-shirt and eat your sushi with cream cheese and sauces thankyouverymuch. The lettuce from the salad bar is always cut way too huge. My boyfriend really enjoys watching me struggle to eat it. He prefers getting pho, which you can construct yourself and they will cook it for you on the spot. Aside from the dim sum section of the hot bar, we tend to stay away from it (mostly) because a lot of it is super greasy, overcooked food. Despite the fact that this buffet is just a little pricier than I would prefer, it's a pretty good go-to for those nights you're just feeling something more chill.
(3)Elizabeth J.
- Food was terrible; gave my friend and I horrible stomach aches. - Very over-priced. - Saw a half bitten-into dessert that somebody put back onto the buffet table. - When asking the guy who was making the sushi about one of the sushi rolls, he just side
(1)Kyle Z.
This place gives Journey a run for their money. It offers up a pretty good selection of your standard chinese-american fare. They have a mongolian stir-fry, noodle bar and a sushi dude rollin "fresh" rolls. The sushi is about what you'd expect from a grocery store. The General Tso chicken is up there with the best of them. The noodle bar is pretty solid. They offer udon and glass noodles, tripe, "beef balls" and other meat products as well as an assortment of veggies. After the Noodleman boils up your selections you choose what to add from the basket of sauces and oils. Not too bad. They don't have soft serve ice cream. Instead they have a selection of single serve ice cream cups. They had some roasted duck sitting out on the counter. I wasn't brave enough to try it though... All in all this spot has everything you'd need to make it your westside go to chinese buffet. Check in on Yelp and get $3 off 2 adult buffets!
(4)Jodi B.
The difference between this buffet and others is the fresh Mongolian style grill that comes with the fair price of the buffet. Lots of typical choices in the buffet, and the sushi is ok, but the variety with the grill makes them stand out for a buffet. I only gave them three stars because, well, it's higher for a buffet, but it could use some more local or fresh ingredients.
(3)Cleda W.
The Pho bar was my favorite. The soup was HOT and the noodles were great. Plus there are a lot of add-ins. I've never been to a buffet with a Pho Bar. Sushi was okay for a buffet. The food was fresh. I enjoyed my experience. We had a huge group of 22 people.
(4)Nancy W.
Blech. Sorry. I try to find one positive even with places I don't care for. The hostess was very sweet and friendly. I got food to go, but things needed to replenished at 6:30 and what we did try was mediocre at best. Won't be back.
(2)Cindy W.
very.cheap . very nice noodle soup. vey good overall. i like the noodle best. my roonate said she is so happy. my another rommate said she really likes red bean baozi but i think it is jusk ok. i eat all my noodle and i feel so full now. i laugh all the time because i am so happy
(5)Megan A.
My husband and I went here for the first time a few weeks ago. We had seen their ad with a coupon so decided to try it after church. The sushi was ok at best but the rest of the food on the buffet was very good. My husband and I agreed we wanted to come back...until we got the bill. The ad showed prices and times for both their locations. The ad did not show dinner prices where going on all day on Sunday. I didn't bring the ad in, just the coupon. They said they could not take the coupon because they had crab on the buffet...what?!?.... And had to charge us dinner prices. So we paid, walked out to the car, and I saw the ad said the other location charge dinner on Sunday's but this place did not say that. After a moment of debating, we went back in to complain to the manager. He took at least five minutes to come talk to us. Then he kept telling me the ad was a typo and he couldn't do anything. After several minutes he took $3 off our bill for the coupon but refused to give us the lunch price. I had even explained that we had never been there and would not have come if we knew that would be the price! It left such a bad taste in my mouth! I spent five years working in restaurants and the customer is always right! A week later, my in laws took us out to dinner and asked about a Chinese buffet. We told them we liked to food here but we just couldn't go back because of how we were treated! Now we are still on the hunt for a good Chinese buffet, thanks to the manager that argued with me over $7! They lost a lot more than $7 by doing this!! There's too many restaurants in Madison to run a business that way. If your ad is wrong, you honor it, period!!!
(2)Sahreen S.
Good food then average Chinese buffet. They have Good selection and carry authentic and American version dishes. Desert collection is very impressive.
(5)Andrea S.
They charged us $33 for two adults and 1 two year old. Had two hot teas which was certainly not worth $2.50 each! Typical Chinese buffet nothing special fresher when they just open and goes downhill from there. Super pricey for what you get! My toddler did love the koi pond.
(1)Wei Z.
Fresh & delicious. Good location & environment. Only $8.99 for lunch. Definitely a nice place to go, especially for families.
(5)C V.
Nothing special, but a little better than the "average Chinese buffet." I didn't get any water or drinks when I arrived, but that's not too big of a deal to me. Overall the experience met my expectations and I would return in the future. Pros: They have all-you-can pho, clean, plates cleared quickly, attentive/friendly staff, Cons: Slow to replenish food, some food looked like they sat out way to long, charged for soda refills
(3)Rowena K.
This buffet adds some great variety to the normal Chinese buffet. They have a great soup bar where you can choose from a variety of ingredients and the broth is full of flavor. They also have a sushi bar and a great Mongolian stir fry with lots to choose from. It is bright and clean and the staff is friendly.
(4)J Z.
World Buffet is great!! Fresh food, huge selection and good customer service. Try it yourself. I rate it the best buffet on the West side of Madison!
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