SanTo’s Modern American Buffet & Sushi

Solid meal! Tastes amazing! For dinner, arrive just as they open and you will have the best possible. It gets busy quickly. Ask for the snow crab legs to be steamed for you and some melted butter take it over the top!

First time in SanTo’s, and I was impressed with the layout, the cleanliness, really great service. The man that served me was on point with refills on drinks, bringing me a steak knife when I forgot to get one — without even asking now that I think about it.
The variety of what they have available between sushi, seafood, hot dishes, four different kinds of steak, lobster bisque, dessert was great. And for lunch it’s only $ 12.95. You can’t be that!
So yes, very impressed with my experience. The location is close to my office, which makes it even better. Two thumbs up!

Great Buffet! Not like your typical cheap asian buffets around town. High quality food. Great seafood. Many different selections of sushi too! Service is always great. Clean resturant. Desserts are really tasty. The lobster bisque is what keeps us coming back!

Best buffet sushi I have ever had. Had so many options of kinds I had never experienced before. Service was great. I was really impressed with this place including the price.

One of a kind buffet experience! The food was top notch, the service is wonderful, and the overall environment is upbeat and fun.
I love how there is someone at each station refilling the food as needed. Everything is fresh and delicious! The price is on point for everything they offer.

One of my favorite place to go for buffet, place is really clean and neat, food was really good, and the sushi alway fresh, love this place

The Orphans 4 who I realize do not know much about good eating spots brought me here cause of the same name as Santos out west in the Parkland area.
I found the restaurant to be smaller than the other one and I see the name is spelt differently.
The seating was a bit cramped specially the booths (remember it is usually over sized guys who usually frequent all u can eat buffets) but we managed to squeeze in even though the Orphans are well insulated!
The choice of the dishes were good and the flavors were decent but somehow did not compare to the selection and flavor of the SANTOS on 441 and Wiles Road. The Orphans are going to stick to the one out west unless we get Leo to get us some discount coupons here!
We may be back if Leo is with us!

Always clean and staff is very friendly. Great variety of foods.

This restaurant offers a lot more menu choices and varieties than a typical Asian buffet. The food is always fresh and scrumptious in both locations. I love the all you can eat sushi buffet. If you are considering trying the food, don’t hesitate you will not be disappointed. Five stars all the way!!!

Generally, I do not like buffets, especially Asian-​themed buffets. However, the Unilocal reviews looked pretty good and the décor looked nice, so I decided to stop and give it a try. There was a hostess station and also a maître d’! The service was good and the restaurant was clean. The food, while still reminding me of pre-​prepared food, was very good. I had the sirloin and it was tasty. I also had some sushi and it was very good. Everything seemed very fresh and there were quality ingredients everywhere. I highly recommend you give buffet style one more try!

sushi isn’t the greatest first off, but it is decent
however what makes this place a gem is their wide variety of other buffet food! first there’s the sushi but around the corner there’s salad dishes like quinoa salad and caprese salad (fresh mozzarella was really good!)
there’s fruit, grilled vegetables, everything you could think of
and I think most delicious was the flatbreads, like individual pizzas that came as a surprise and were really good (they had like a caprese one, a shrimp and arugula one, etc.)
also, let’s face it buffet desserts never tend to be so good, but here, it’s surprisingly high quality and great flavors
not your average chinese buffet ice cream, but rather passion fruit sorbet and raspberry frozen yogurt for example
also the servers are really friendly and sweet!
probably the kindest of all the buffets I’ve been to

I come here for lunch and Sunday brunch mostly. They have a great selection of food and very fresh. They have sushi, rolls, soups, salads, carving station, Chinese food, and an extensive dessert section. The modern contemporary décor is also inviting. Sunday’s you can have the all you can drink mimosas for a few dollars extra and it’s worth it. They also have the brunch station set up where they make eggs in a basket, waffles, crepes, omelettes and more.

I’m not into buffets — at all… but when your boyfriend forces you to go to one… this is where to go — and it’s totally worth it.
When I think of buffets i think of gross food that’s been sitting out for a while. But it’s not like that here at all. It’s never crazy packed, which is nice for buffets and the food is super fresh and there is a lot of healthy stuff.
It’s a nice, fun and fast experience and its also really light and you can get such a variety of things to enjoy, all for a really awesome price. Love all the shellfish!

The quality of the food, the service here is superb. Best sushi buffet in boca! Highly recommend!

I don’t care for buffets unless it’s Nob Hill in San Fran but my bf swore by it… I mostly had fun taking all the pics of the many selections… Happy eating!

Standard Asian buffet with a focus on sushi. Went for «holiday brunch», and had my fill of slightly above average sushi. Tried a piece of ribeye from the grill that was tough and over cooked. The coconut Panta cotta was too sweet, but I really enjoyed the crème brûlée (may have had more than 1). No oysters available for lunch. Drinks are extra.
Not bad, but also nothing memorable either. Okay for the price, but I’m guessing dinner may be a better value.
Attentive staff, the manager came by more than once to check in. Very clean.

OK, this was absolutely amazing! Stopped in for lunch just looking for a ton of food. What I found was an amazing ton of DELICIOUS food and HOT food and SUSHI!
Ok, the Sushi was top-​notch. I’m only out for rolls and the special stuff, and they had that. I ate a Philly Cheesesteak Roll as well as probably pieces off a dozen other more traditional rolls. All were fresh, well-​made, and just plain delicious! I thought I’d just eat like 5 plates of sushi, but my waiter encouraged me to move down the buffet and try the hot food too.
The hot food was just plain amazing! I had chicken parm, a flatbread with pork, and many other non-​Asian dishes. They were all hot, fresh, and delicious.
The desserts were amazing as well. Even went back for seconds on that! Tons of small dishes that were tasty. Had a Key Lime mini-​dessert and crème brule and some other small, delicious treats!

It was a Friday evening and I wanted to sushi, but we didn’t plan ahead and the restaurant we initially had in mind had a wait. Since we had a movie to get to we had to switch things up a little bit. I have been to Santo’s on 441 quite a few times and liked it, and I remembered Michael C’s favorable review for this location. A buffet seemed like the perfect solution to our time crunch, and we were just down the road.
We arrived on a Friday around 6:30 pm. They were busy, but we didn’t have to wait for a table. With all the running around and trying to figure out what to do coupled with the fact that it was the end of a long week, I needed a drink. Our waitress was great! She brought us a wine list and pointed out our sake options. She was also training another waitress, and sometimes that can be awkward for the customer, but these two played it very well, and it resulted it excellent service, especially by buffet standards. We placed an order for a bottle of pinot grigio which was delivered quickly with an ice bucket to keep it cool. The waitress checked on us often to refill our glasses. At a buffet you would expect to have to fill your own wine glass from the bottle, but our waitress was really amazing.
Now for the food. I kind of knew the general offerings since I had been to the other location, and this location did not disappoint with the same great sushi assortment. I enjoyed their sashimi, salmon is my favorite. I loved the spicy tuna taco as well. In terms of sushi rolls they do a great job catering to many tastes. I don’t really like fried elements or cream cheese in my rolls, and often buffets are really heavy on those items. Here there were still plenty of raw fish oriented rolls as well as veggie rolls, and I even saw a surf and turf roll with steak. They have a few rolls with fruit incorporating (mango and banana that I remember) and while I’m not sure the Japanese put fruit with their sushi I’m happy to try the creative American twist. The dinner buffet features crab legs and peel and eat shrimp as well, which a always welcome in my book. The offer plenty of dipping sauces for the taking including spicy mayo, eel sauce, kimchi sauce, and a special house sauce (again probably not what the Japanese intended lol, but I love it).
As for the hot food food this is where the American part of the name really comes in. They have lobster bisque (really good), prime rib, grilled sausage and veggies, as well a fried rice and lo mein that you might expect. I find the hot food here to be good, but usually I’m so full from sushi it’s just not my main focus. If possible, really try to save room for dessert. They do a powdered sugar doughnut puffs here with sweetened condensed milk for drizzling. I’m not really much for dessert, especially when there is raw salmon around, but these are so worth it. If you can get them warm coming out of the kitchen it makes them just heavenly. In the end for ~$ 25 a per person for dinner, you will leave stuffed, and there are lots of high quality items to make you feel you really got your money’s worth.
In terms of this location it is a little bit smaller than the one on 441, and at prime time, like it was when we were there, navigating the dining room back and forth to the buffet can be a little bit of maze trying not to get in the way of people enjoying their meals at the table, or those going back and forth to the buffet with plates. I’m not sure I would say one location is better than the other, as the quality of the food is the same as far as I can tell, though I was super impressed by the service at this location.

The best service I have ever had at a buffet! Everyone from the cooks to the waitress to hostess was extremely nice and friendly! There was always someone around clearing our table of empty plates, filling our water cups, and asking if they could get us anything. Great great great service!
The reason for the 4 stars is simply for the quality pf the food. For the most part nothing really jumped out at me where I was like «wow thats really good». I know I am at a buffet and I know I only payed $ 24 but I still would like to have some really good food. The sushi was ok, nothing fancy or mind blowing. They had crab which was not seasoned and was on ice so was very cold. The butter I wanted to dip it in was also very cold :(. They also had steak, but did not wow me either. The had a shrimp ceviche that was pretty good.
My favorite part of my meal was dessert! They had cake, ice cream, fruit, tiramisu, panna cotta with coconut cream (yum), but my all time favorite: crème brûlée. I absolutely LOVED their crème brûlée, they were small and I ate 4 of them! They were sooo good, I dont know if it was just me but it was the best I have ever had, surprisingly. The top was perfectly toasted and sweet and the crème was so smooth and creamy, everything about that dessert was perfect.
So 4 stars goes to the awesome team of service and cooks and the blessed angel who made those amazing crème brulees.

This restaurant is fairly new in East Boca and we thought we would give it a try. For the price of $ 24/​pp you go in with decently high expectations. We do enjoy several other local buffets that are both less money (ichiyama and shinju) but wanted to test this one out for comparison.
Sushi– fairly decent selection and decent quality but nothing going was amazing. Some odd rolls like Philly cheese steak and chicken salad taco which were both just kind of gross. The sashimi and sushi selection was fairly small but it was good taste.
Salads– they have a few nice options but a huge turn off was the seaweed salad which I really look forward to with Asian cuisine was only about ¹⁄₃ seaweed and ²⁄₃ filler rice noodles dyed green. If I want seaweed I’m looking for a nice alternative to the rice carbs and here you have no choice, how early insulting. They have some crab legs which I felt were very watery as well.
Hot food-​very few selections and much smaller than anticipated. The meat for carving is mostly dried out with little flavor and other choices are honestly pretty blah. No dumplings at all either! I was shocked!
Desserts– do not do it! Very watery and just gross. :(big disappointment for me here.
The place is very overcrowded with huge white chairs and nowhere to walk, it’s a constant battle to get from your table to the food and a bit stressful of an eating environment. The waitstaff is extremely friendly though and nice and on top of the things and the sake flight I had was by far the best part of my meal and experience. Overall I do not plan to come back. Come here for the sake flight and go to ichiyama after for food. Sorry Santos, just does not stand up to the competition.