Traditional American Buffet

• Restaurant goers who enjoy traditional American fare in a home-style setting can find wide varieties of familiar favorites at traditional American buffet restaurants such as Old Country Buffet or Great American Steak & Buffet Company. Both restaurants serve a full buffet at lunch and dinner time that include hundreds of well-known American style dishes. Typical menu items may include carved beef, turkey or ham, meatloaf, macaroni and cheese, assorted vegetables, roasted or fried chicken, mashed and baked potatoes. American buffets often include unlimited trips to soup and salad bars and dessert bars that offer cakes, pies, cookies, ice cream and pudding.
  
  

Chinese Buffet Restaurants

• Many Americans love Chinese food and the good news is that Chinese restaurants traditionally offer buffet-style menus. Hundreds of privately-owned Chinese restaurants across the country offer buffet options as well as major franchises like China Buffet or New China Buffet. Many Chinese restaurants offer several of the same ethnic favorites available on take-out and regular restaurant menus. A few entrées commonly available on Chinese buffet menu are Chop Suey, egg rolls, shrimp, beef or pork fried rice, white rice, sweet and sour pork, crab ragoons, Mongolian beef, barbecued pork, orange chicken and fortune cookies.
  
  

Polish (European) Buffet

• Europeans--the Polish, in particular--traditionally prefer to serve meals in a buffet or family-style fashion. Correspondingly, a majority of Polish restaurants offer a buffet-style European menu for patrons to experience the full ethnic experience of European dining. Some of the most common dishes found in Polish/European buffet restaurants nationwide include stuffed cabbage rolls in creamy tomato sauce, pierogi or boiled dumplings filled with potatoes, beef or cabbage, sauerkraut, borscht, potato pancakes, boiled potatoes in butter and dill and breaded pork cutlet with gravy.
  
  

Typical Banquet Buffet Fare

• Many restaurants offer catering and banquet buffet packages to suit your private party needs. In some instances, you can rent a hall for your private event and have your own personal buffet of hand-picked menu items set-up exclusively for your guests. If you have a party catered at an off-premise location, certain restaurants deliver and set-up a full service buffet table at the location of the event for you. Typical banquet and catering buffet menu items include Italian beef or sausage sandwiches, mostacolli with meat or marinara sauce, fried chicken, chicken vesuvio or marsala and tossed salad.