Golden Corral Buffet & Grill — Restaurant in Port Saint Lucie

I am someone who uses Golden Corral Buffets around the country a lot, this buffet here is absolutely the worst and keeps doing it even worse than you can think. -You enter the premises and on the right side wall they have pictures of chefs, preps etc...but none of them are to be seen inside. -The food, a complete catastrophe, i know a lot about restaurant and how they operate not to forget that i know more about food than my own clothes, and this place has the food part completely upside down. 1- No labels on "known allergens" like fish, spicy items and nutty items. 2 - Replacing Olive Oil with Soybean Oil on the salad bar, i thought it was a joke, but unfortunately it was true. I attempted to speak with the workers behind the salad bar to see if they knew about it or if there was any olive oil around, they didn't speak a word English so there was no way i could get an answer, plus they seemed to have an attitude i did not appreciate, since i approached with at most respect. At that point there was no chance i can trust the food they prepare, so i unfortunately had to waste the salad i already put on my plate. 3 - Sugar, sugar and more sugar, mixing carbs with sugar overloads your system and shoots insulin to the roof, making you feel full but sick after eating. Not to mention illnesses that can occur as a result. 4 - The cake smelled and tastes like soap, how is that even possible? 5 - Steaks, burned outside but completely raw inside, a sign of a cook that has never grilled before, one thing you don't do is rush a steak. Start slow after marinading, you can sprinkle water over it if you're cooking on a buffet, so while it's on the grill for longer times it retains the moisture and doesn't become char. You never need to place a steak directly on the peak of the fire, that is always a NO NO in culinary school and every chef will tell you that , exception being wood fire grills at the very end you do it for the flavor. Back tot he soybean oil, the entire point of Olive Oil in a salad is the antioxidants, which goes in tandem with vegetables to stabilize metabolism so the rest of the food you eat doesn't harm you, furthermore, soybean oil has not even been fully studied for direct consumption on it's side effects and long term effects. -The spicy foods, i have severe allergy to spicy items (jalapeno, habanero etc) they had a roasted pepper (usually sweet peppers are roasted) but not here, the pepper was sweet until you get to the seeds (yes the seeds were still in, didn't bother to remove them as per restaurant food handling guidelines) and i found out the hard way it was spicy as hell itself. (yes i got sick but i am not one to send letters and legal stuff, i want them to change and make it seem like a restaurant, and not an asylum with some food in it). This review is mostly for the GC corporate and management. This place needs to have a complete workforce reset behind the counter, either retrain them properly (none of the workers behind the counter had any idea how to cook food humanly, at least the ones that happened on that day i went there), or just hire new staff that know a few things about food, otherwise you are simply opening the floodgates for lawsuits and possible shutdown. I understand some might have been hired out of a "good heart" to give them an opportunity, but there must be a line between personal feeling and business ethics. Restaurants are already a penny business, place on top of that a penny that can choke someone out of negligence and pure "i don't care" attitude (as the salad ladies), and boom...say bye to those pennies. I hope this review will not be mistaken for a "hate review", it's coming from someone that has been at almost every single GC, and this one is not even below standard, it has no standards at all. Sincerely hoping for...

Five Stars – The Buffet Chronicles: First Contact at Golden Corral (Port St. Lucie Edition)

So picture this: it’s me, my wife Ashleigh, our two wildlings Paul Jr. and Benjamin, and our buffet battle brothers JJ Grant and Brendan Finn. We roll into Golden Corral like it’s the Hunger Games: Family Style. None of us had ever been before, so this was our official initiation into the land of limitless carbs and chaotic dessert decisions.

We were lucky enough to be seated in the section ruled by Queen Kelly, the absolute legend. Funny, fast, and sharp as a cheddar cheese cube. I told her I was going to write a review and make it hilarious, and without skipping a beat, she says, “Better include William.” Oh… we’ll include William.

Let me tell you about William.

William is not a man. William is a state of mind.

He’s the kind of guy who probably greets everyone with a bow and a quote from The Notebook. We didn’t actually see him walk—he glided across the dining room like a hoverboard made of kindness. I’m convinced if you looked directly into his eyes for too long, you’d confess all your childhood secrets and walk away emotionally healed.

Kelly told us that one time, a customer dropped an entire plate of ribs, and before it even hit the ground, William appeared—like he was summoned by barbecue sauce energy alone—and caught it mid-air using nothing but a tray and grace. The ribs never stood a chance. The customer wept. William hugged them. The ribs were returned to the buffet. Life went on.

Meanwhile, in the background, Steve (we’re changing his name to protect his dignity) pulled a full Looney Tunes moment by slipping on a macaroni tsunami and vanishing into the cheese abyss. The man came out lookin’ like the Michelin Man dipped in Velveeta. The mop had to file a resignation.

Benjamin went full raccoon on the chocolate fountain. JJ had a romantic moment with a yeast roll. Brendan tried to break a world record with how many plates he could stack before gravity filed a complaint. Paul Jr. stared at a soft serve machine like it owed him money.

But Kelly? She held it down. Like a comedic Jedi with a coffee pot and a heart of gold.

Golden Corral, you don’t just serve food. You serve memories. You serve magic. You serve William.

We’ll be back. Possibly in robes. Possibly in a documentary. But...

Horrible! For $20.00 I could of had a quality dinner some where else! Let's start w how crazy it was at 7pm on a Saturday, kids screaming and running all over and the restaurant was just over crowded & loud. People running you over trying to get food. It was like driving in rush hour! It was appauling seeing the employee putting new pizza down with her fingers! Yuck! Employees should have gloves on dealing w food! At 7pm it was quite picked over and the food was dried out. There weren't labels on half of the food which made it difficult to try with out knowing what it was. The employees behind the counters were not very friendly or able to answer questions clearly. I think the one guy didn't speak English. The steak was chewy. The spaghetti was hard. The chicken was the freshest meat. It was tender and flavorful. The desserts were limited and tasted cheap. Nothing seemed homemade except the fudge. There is no chocolate fountain or fancy apple pie shown in the photos. I couldn't find the butter or sour creme. I wanted a taco but I only saw meat toppings. No diced tomatoes or lettuce or cheese. There wasn't any stir fry or Asian dishes that I could see. No fried chicken. It seemed very limited and unorganized. No scallops or lobster or crab legs. Just the cheap food with no quality. It discussed me grabbing dirty tongs and getting my hands sticky. I think they should offer plastic gloves, so your not touching tongs a 100 other people touched dipped in BBQ sauce. I probably would of enjoyed it more if everything was labeled, so I could of tried more of a variety. I was told at 4pm everything's fresh. Maybe then I would of enjoyed a quality meal. The bathroom was so dirty and it disarray, I didn't even use it. On a positive note my server was nice, kept my table cleared and my cup filled. I do not plan on trying this place again. For the price it was bottom...