Native Harvest Buffet — Restaurant in Town of Bombay

It should be a crime to charge as much as they do for this "buffet". The Saturday night price is $32 a person. Eat there and you'll realize Ponderosa has a better food selection and quality. They had veg stir-fry, lo mein, and sweet and sour chicken. The chicken looked like frozen chicken fingers and the lo mein looked like they made it last weekend and just kept it around. Pepperoni and cheese pizza. Both looked and tasted like Great Value brand $5 frozen pizza. Chicken parm with a slice of unmelted cheese on top. Pasta sauce that again looked and tasted like it went from can to heating table. No flavor. The pasta was a mix of undercooked and overcooked noodles. Something that slightly resembled a beef stroganoff, but looked more like Purina wet chunk canned dog food. Some kind of dry, over cooked fish. The mashed potatoes were decent and the gravy was...gravy. Mac and cheese was cheesy. The big items for the night were crab legs and fat slabs err I mean "prime rib". After trimming away the massive chunks of fat I was left with 3-4 small bites. Thank god for all you can eat, because you will need about 6 of those to make a dinner out of. The salad bar was nothing special. Reminded me of Pizza Hut salad bar. The 2 kinds of soup were a loaded chicken noodle and tomato. I scooped up the tomato and paused for a moment. This wasn't soup. This was watered-down pasta sauce! It looked like a little more liquid version of the sauce they were serving with the parm. The desserts were nothing grand. A few different pies all of which reminded me of the frozen Marie Calender ones you get at Walmart. They aren't bad, but i expected something a little better.Well... that's it. That was the dinner buffet for $32 a person. I expected this to be a Turning Stone style buffet for the price. If you've never been to TS, their buffet is amazing. Worth every penny spent. HUGE selection of food and desserts. Now if I would have seen the buffet before going in I would have skipped it and went to McDonald's. The problem is where the buffet is located to where it's visible to people around. It's way back in the dinning area blocked by various walls. I believe this was a strategic placement to get the money and then surprise the people with the lack of food. If anyone saw the menu they would keep walking. Now on to service, or should I say the lack of service? We went up to the buffet and when we returned our drinks were on the table. Sounds great right? Well, that was the only drink we got for the entire meal. Plates stacked on our table. No one coming around to see about refills. Busy night? Nope. More empty seats than ones filled. It was a waste of money. I will never eat there again. Like I said in the beginning Ponderosa had better quality, selection, and service...

Let’s start from the beginning…my boyfriend and I chose to try the buffet for our anniversary Saturday. We approached the initial cash wrap, and weren’t greeted immediately, no smile, nothing. We stood there awkwardly, until the lady sitting at the register asked us what we were getting to drink, had us pay, and then said what my total was, and i can , “tip on the screen, unless I wanted to tip cash”. This instantly put a bad taste in my mouth. You don’t expect a dime from anybody being a waitress/ server, you don’t rely on your tips, and if you do, find another job! Next, we were standing there awkwardly again, and I had to ask if we set ourselves..the receptionist said, “No, Courtney will seat you.” Courtney then brought us to our table; another waitress came over 5-10 minutes later and served us our drinks, and revisited once to ask us through our meal, if we needed another drink. My boyfriend’s beer was stale, which he didn’t finish(surprisingly). The buffet didn’t have a huge selection, and the majority of food was under seasoned , but the kitchen workers were friendly and attentive! (Highlight of my experience for sure.) Not to mention the hosts/ waitresses were fooling around and leaning on the cash wrap for all to see, which was annoying. We finished our meal, left a few bills on the table, and left. I don’t recommend eating here unless you want to waste your money. We...

My biggest regret is there are no more options to give than 1 star. I'd give 5 zero stars if I could. We were headed to Malone from Massena to try out the Chinese buffet and decided to save the gas and give this place a try. BIG MISTAKE! We should have kept on driving. Nearly 75.00 for the worst food ever served on a buffet, drinks with no ice, and sub standard cleanliness was truly outrageous. I could have heated a tv dinner and got better food. Tough, cold, old,...you name it. Prime rib? HA! Prime fat slab. Everything was like it had been sitting out for days. I'm originally from Mississippi and as bad of an opinion as some may have of that state, including me, their casinos have the best buffets you will find. Truly sad. My boyfriend takes me out every week and I hate he spend his hard earned money...