Royal Buffet

Royal Buffet is a very large and fairly expensive to enter buffet located near the intersection of 75th and Lemont in Woodridge. My friend who is a big time buffet fan spotted it and demanded that we stop in. After the initial sticker shock of 15.00 a person for dinner I was pleased to discover that there was a wide variety of different foods.One of the first things I noticed is that many of the dishes available on the buffet were mislabeled. Things that were clearly fish were marked as chicken, food with tentacles labeled as beef. It became very difficult to determine what exactly you were taking back to your table. I picked up a number of mystery meat items along with things that appeared to be marked correctly. I'd comment on the mystery meat items, but rather than working with a description of what these things simply looked like, I'll cover what I know. We'll start with some traditional Chinese food items. First off the "Crab" Rangoon. I use the term crab in quotes because while there might have been a spec of crab meat, this thing was almost entirely fried cream cheese. Next off was the General Chicken, not General Tso, or General Toa, it was simply listed as "General Chicken" and general is right. It was quite flavorless and bland. I got some crab legs that had practically no meat on the inside even after breaking them apart, I did this several times each time finding them to be a nearly empty husk. This aggravation extended to almost everything that I ate.In reading through a few other reviews of this place I discovered that certain days of the week lobster is served in a line off to the side. I was both not aware of this, and didn't notice a line or anyone eating lobster during my visit. It sounds like this might be the only redeeming thing about this place and I can't comment on this as far as my experience went.Overall, based on what was available when I went, for 15.00 a person I was very disappointed with Royal Buffet. The place itself wasn't particularly clean, some of the items in the buffet were not hot, mislabeled and did not appear to be fresh. I can't imagine any Royalty would actually eat here, of Royal themed restaurants you're far better off at Burger King or Dairy Queen. One star for Royal Buffet, expensive, bland and loaded with mislabeled or unlabeled mystery meat items that may require DNA test or expert in zoology to determine the species of what you're eating.

Their collection of dessert and food is never a disappointment. They carry an awesome amount of fruits and vegetables. I would find leafy greens here and not at any other Chinese buffets.I love coming here.