Red Apple Buffet — Restaurant in Town of Cobleskill

There are reviews here that are completely reverse of our experience. I will eat here when in the area. Just off NY 7. Use I 88 Exit 22 westbound, exit 21 eastbound, and it is little detour for a good meal. Follow signs for Arby's, if you like. It is across the street. This is an impressive buffet. Not least in a modest size town on a Wednesday afternoon. 4 soups, 50 (!) hot items, 2 cold tables (sides and deserts) and ice cream. The food was good. The variety was outstanding. There were things I have not seen in scores of Chinese buffets across north America. I counted 50 different hot foods. This included steamed Brussel sprouts and Happy Family, a dish too expensive and fragile to be on any other buffet acce$sible to someone who drives a 16 year old van. The sushi tray looks to be brought in, but there is a nice enough selection that you could make a meal from just that. See photo. The fish is salmon, not whitefish. Did I mention that they had fifty different hot pans!? This was LUNCH! Thankfully they don't have pizza. The kids can find sweet and sour, chicken on a stick, and fries. Or you can steer them onto the good stuff. I cannot see the economic case for freshening a buffet this size at 2:30 on a weekday, but they do. The steam tables are Servesafe compliant, not running cool. Things will dry out and the only real cure would be to close from 2 to 5, or stay on it constantly. Short of inspecting the kitchen, I give this establishment high marks for cleanliness. The place is not new, but there are no crumbs, smells, or marks to attract questions. As mentioned, I witnessed no Servesafe violations, a fact that isn't as common as you might hope. The men's room and ladies room are pleasant to use. Surrounded by all types of fast food and auto parts stores, The Red Apple offers you an above average experience, buffet speed, value pricing, comfortable surroundings, a group dining room, and options. If someone is bent on chain fast food, they can cross the parking lot. I run I 88 in NY almost every year, and now I know where to stop for...

My mother and I went here for lunch today and the food was absolutely disgusting and the service was bad. We asked for a water and a pepsi/Coke for drinks my mom got her water but I was given mountain dew, not even close to coke. The food was old, and had been sitting out. The sushi looked like it had been out for a day, and as soon as you put meat on your place (spare ribs, different types of chicken) it was cold and gross and while getting the food all you could smell was mothballs coming from the kitchen. Before we even left the restaurant we thought we might have food poisoning, and felt sick. The only thing that was decently good was their desserts, their apple slices were floating in a mysterious liquid and there were no labels on the food. When we got our check it was about $20 for two adults and a water and a "Pepsi", which is a little pricey in our experience. Even their American food like macaroni and cheese, pigs in a blanket and ribs were disgusting. Later I ended up having food poisoning, go here at...

Look I'm not going to lie this place sucked so bad we went in the place was dirty and don't get me started on the food the food sucked first round I got some low Maine and some sushi will say the sushi was honestly pretty good but the low Maine sucked it was stail and was cold had no taste even tried to put on some soy sauce but still sucked and also they try to scam you because every time you finish your drink they refill it right away so I did not drink that much then 2nd round got more sushi and some chicken and jello the chicken was also staill tasted not like chicken not going to lie thought it was d0g meat for a sec but also the jello did not taste like jello at all and then i tried mostly everything and it all sucked don't recommend at all but at the last round I got some ice cream which honestly you can't ruin ice cream but when we left I almost did not even pay it was so bad...