Banyan City Buffet — Restaurant in Orlando

I rarely leave reviews, but my experience at this buffet was so disappointing that I felt I had to warn others.

First off, the food was just terrible. Everything seemed bland and overcooked, and it didn’t taste fresh at all. The meats were dry, the vegetables were soggy, the seafood was overcooked and smelled funny and the dessert section looked like it had been sitting there for hours. The sushi was stale, and the rolls were falling apart. I honestly couldn’t tell if some of the food was old or just poorly prepared. Mind you this was my first time ever coming because I heard so much good things about it. My partner and I paid $40 it was after 5 dinner. I was so upset I forgot to even take pictures because I was just so disappointed. I did talk to someone upfront and he just said yeah im so we had to turn stuff down because it was to hot for lunch he also said if there's on bad crab in the box it could affect the rest but nothing he said was making since.

Honestly, it wasn’t worth the money. This is literally my first time EVER leaving a review. You know when your so hungry and you finally eat for the first time that day, and when you eat the food is nasty it just makes you feel like you didnt even eat, yeah I won’t be coming back. Hopefully this review will encourage them...

This buffet I think caters to folks who like more traditional Chinese, and seafood, which is great for them. My wife and kids were happy with the sushi and seafood options. There is a lot of dim sum, which want really for us. There were a lot of different beef dishes which would have been great, but they were all luke warm. Other items were very hot, like the soups.

The servers kept our table clean and waters filled, so the service was great. I don't like seafood, so I didn't get sushi at first. My wife and kids did and they thought a lot of it was very creative and tasted good, just that rude was a little crispy. I mentioned that I would try the sushi to the gentleman making it, but I don't eat seafood. He made me a cucumber and cream cheese roll and bright it to the table! I thought it tasted great and I ate the whole roll. That is incredible service.

The only other knock I have that as for as clean and nice as the dining room was. The men's room was dirty, smelled, was poorly/half way remodeled.

I would try them again if the rest of my family wanted to go, but for me personally there just weren't enough options for me since I don't care for seafood. If you like a lot of seafood and dim sum, this could be a great...

The bad reviews are a bit extreme or the restaurant improved. It's a new restaurant and they need time to work out the kinks.

First off, please don't change the crab rangoon, fresh ginger or wasabi, they are delicious. They have a pretty good selection, I had to grab little pieces of food cause I wanted to try everything, it all looked good, even the freaking chicken feet. Yo, i sucked on chicken feet cause they looked good (happy wife at home for same reason). They have things that none of the other have like, chicken wings in garlic sauce (aka hot wings), eggfooyoung(I don't know how that's spelled, so sound it out, you know what i mean) a bunch of different steamed buns, meats, banana leaf wrapped foods. I mean like, these bad reviews must own or only go 5 star restaurants. This a under $20 all you can eat place. I almost didn't go cause of the bad reviews. I'm glad I went and its closer than the other ones. Now for the heavy. If you are in the mood to eat sushi.....not the place imo. The sushi is not bad bad, its like i want Chinese food and oh hey, they have sushi. It's the rice, bit granny. The...