Kusina Ni Lorraine

Kusina Ni Lorraine is translated as «Lorraine’s kitchen.» I don’t know who Lorraine is, but she can cook up some decent authentic Filipino dishes.
I understand that this isn’t a fine dining establishment, but there were a couple things about this place that bothered me. I guess I really can’t complain much because for the price point (under $ 10), you gain access to AYCE Filipino food.
The place is located on the Eastside, in a strip mall right across from the Boulevard Mall. It doesn’t have the best parking situation & there may be people outside begging you for money. Kinda sketchy.
For it being a buffet, I expected a lot more variety in what they had available. A majority of the food was very similar to each other. Just to name a few:
Chicken Afritada, Chicken Menudo.
Adobong Manok (chicken adobo), Adobong Pusit (squid adobo).
Pork BBQ, Chicken BBQ.
The list of similar dishes could go on… I guess whoever planned what was going out on the buffet line wasn’t being very creative.
Here’s what caught my eye:
Kare-​Kare (oxtail stew): Tons of tripe, moderate on beef, barely any greens. It would’ve been nice to see more green beans & bok choy (Chinese cabbage) because that would’ve cut down on the richness of the dish. It did have the traditional peanut flavor, and the meat was very tender.
Chicken Adobo: Too much chicken neck & bone fragments swimming in excess oil. Not enough pieces of chicken that had meat to it. At least this had a great balance of vinegar & soy sauce. They missed the mark on this common traditional dish.
Chicken Afritada: Tender chicken simmered in tomato sauce. I liked how they made it here — the chicken wasn’t dry, had a lot of veggies (especially carrots and bell peppers), and the sauce was delicious.
Feeling a little hungry, I went ahead and grabbed myself a second plate. Halfway through eating it, I found a hair. Total appetite killer.
For a buffet that you pay less than $ 10 for, you don’t get much variety. At least what they serve is pretty much as close to traditional as you can get. With the abundance of Filipino establishments to get food from in Vegas, I think I’m going to pass on this place.

I would actually give this 5 stars for food but customer service is not that great. The cashier was unfriendly and mean. Food deserves 5 stars. Lotsa choices and everything was good. Like going to a Filipino party. $ 8.99 for buffet? Can’t go wrong. Non local people (loves Filipino food) don’t leave Vegas without trying out this place. I promise, it will be worth it. Just ignore that mean guy at the counter.

I love coming here when I miss food from home. It’s super inexpensive and everyone that works there is friendly and I love supporting small businesses. Always leave here satisfied and full! You won’t regret trying this place (:

Just give 3 star because it did not meet my expectation, but i guess what can you get for under $ 10 bucks. I think they need to hire a new cook to make the food more appealing and also add new food from other cultures

I’ve never been to an all you can eat filipino restaurant but omg. I have to loosen my belt buckle. It was like we were eating at a family party with endless trays of amazing food. Sinigang was on point and the ginataan is so good. Bring your appetite and stretchy pants when you come here!

I have no complain about this place very affordable Filipino food Buffett in Las Vegas $ 8.99 with drinks can’t beat it anywhere. The only thing I can suggest, add Filipino dessert and take all paninda on restaurant area and put it on the right place where it belongs. Other than that 5 stars

$ 8.99 for a filipino buffet? Yes, please. The quality and menu is an excellent deal. Fried chicken skin — check
Chicharon bulaklak — check
Plus a plethora of the classic filipino dishes.
PS
Skip the coffee, unless you like the nescafe instant coffee.

Seriously, $ 9 for buffet? Really can’t complain about that. I’m not a big filipino food eater but I still enjoyed the selection that was given. It was a good spread but some a little too oily for a taste. It definitely will give you a food coma with all that msg that’s probably in there. This is one of the few buffets you actually eat first then pay. Service was friendly but still felt like we had to hunt them down to get their attention. Great place to get your filipino cravings fix for a low budget buffet.

My wife is Filipina and said it was good and authentic. I found things to eat although I wish they had lumpia or chicken bbq sticks.
The place looked clean and the layout wasn’t cramped. Definitely liked it more than other local Filipino buffets.

Came here because we were tired of the Vegas strip food. It was such a great deal. The food was delicious. The staff were friendly and treated us like family.

Good food wide space and friendly staff, Very convenient buffet island. Lots of assorted items, love all of their meat and vegetable entrees.

Ended 2015 with a Filipino BANG of a review, let’s start of 2016 with another Filipino review! Although, hate to say this one is a bit more of a whimper.
Oi, Kusina Ni Lorraine I really wanted to like you. I mean, it was packed on a weekend, my peeps everywhere. We even had to wait 20 minutes for seating. That’s how busy you were! But the most important stuff *the food* was kinda lacking. Looking at many other reviews I see Kusina Ni Lorraine is coming out average at best.
I mean the place has a lot going for it. Large interior, nice long buffet line, even a Filipino market connected to it right next door. Some downers — kinda in a questionable part of town (yes, I lived near Maryland Pkwy. for over 6 years while I was attending UNLV), very little parking (unless you like that squeezed in upper floor parking), and some marks on cleanliness.
I can get over the downers. But man, the food itself? It’s gotta be good or I’m gonna take ya’ down a notch. Sorry Lorraine, but I’ve had some better Filipino food at other eateries across Las Vegas. For your all-​you-​can-​eat buffet at $ 8.99 a person, it was really just OK. It might have been just me, but a lot of the items were similar in tones of BEIGE. I like me some color in my food! Even though admittedly I don’t often eat the more ‘exotic’ stuff when it comes to my culture’s choice of vittles. Fried head of tilapia? Eh, leave it for my tatay. Bulaklak (crispy fried pork intestines aka chitlins)? Unless it’s hot out of the fryer I’ll save my Lipitor for another meal. Dinuguan (pork simmered in pork blood)? Sometimes, but I really gotta be in the mood, and it’s gotta be with a lot of rice.
The food at Kusina Ni Lorraine just didn’t whet my appetite that day I guess. I had some rice (duh). I had some pancit too, which was on the bland side (where were the flavorful tiny dried shrimp?). A lot of the other main dishes just weren’t appealing to me that day. Maybe it was a burn out from having too much rich food over the holidays. Maybe it was because I was reminded of my own Grandma’s Filipino dishes (no one made it better than her). Maybe I just wasn’t hungry? Nah, I was hungry.
Maybe it was the fact a lot of the food that day way pork-​based? Well, really can’t complain too much there. We love our pork. I think there was just an overall blandness to everything I tried. The bistek (beef cooked with onions) was not bad, but really not as good as my father-in-law’s. It lacked some flavor, missing something. The adobo wasn’t on point that day, but how do we as Filipinos mess up adobo? I mean, come on! It’s like our national dish! But really, it was low on vinegar so it didn’t have that acidic kick. The vegetables were, well, just vegetables. For me, even the sinigang was lacking in taste. How can that be from a soup made with bones? Ugh, I was let down.
Surprising? Their ‘dessert’ bar (which is all cheap fruit) had some wicked decent pineapple! Yes! It was actually sweet and a treat to eat! But wow, so weird on my part.
It was a quandary to me, so much so I even forgot to take pics of all my food. Me, the foodie! I really must have been tired after that drive back to Las Vegas from San Diego after the Christmas holiday. Kusina Ni Lorraine just didn’t impress!
I’ll have to be back again to give Kusina Ni Lorraine another try sooner than later. I just hope it was me and not the food! But for $ 8.99 AYCE it definitely is a decent value.
HOI HOI! PSSSTTTT!

FOR a LOW budget buffet its good. Not for a restaurant. People giving this place a bad review need to distinguish between the two. It was my first time at this place and had no clue what the hell to do. I thought I was going to be sat down, but we waited for the next couple to walk in and pretended to be looking at the items so we wouldn’t look stupid. They went straight to the buffet and as we were going ran into the cashier who said that we eat first then pay. I have ate some Filipino food before so I had an idea how things were. The food was okay, for me because I’m not Filipino, I’m Mexican so some of the dishes were similar. I like to eat with chilly, which there weren’t.
The food itself was cooked good. The fish was amazing! But everything else needed more flavor. The rice was not so good.
I just wish the food had descriptions on top, and more dessert items. The fruits fine because I imagine people get super full. As far as the vibe in the place it was crowded and it made it feel like a community type buffet. We were the only non Filipinos. Felt weird lol.

I love this spot. $ 8.95 for all you can eat (sodas are extra) so you can’t really beat it. The food does usually taste like it was cooked really quick, instead of for hours like you would to get super tender meat. I grabbed a piece of tocino on my second visit there and it was too chewy, I didn’t eat it. BUT service is great, it’s a total family operation and all the people there are nice. So it’s not 100% A grade filipino food, but if you’re looking for a quick and cheap spot to satisfy a craving, this place is the one. They also have a store connected to the restaurant with decent prices on things such as corned beef, that are usually pretty pricey everywhere else. We will be back again and again. Salamat!

Absolute gem to get the Pinoy food fix while in Vegas.
Food selection is aplenty and definitely has something to everyone .
Service is friendly and may not be as fast but hey you are after all savoring what may be the next best thing of the items since you been to the motherland.
The best part:
Small bowls to hold all those good food, akin to yet another winning Vegas buffet, Wicked Spoon of the Cosmopolitan!
Genius!

I’ve been here several times & my experience every time is pretty much the same.
Pros:
* A lot of selection & variety
* Inexpensive buffet
* Spacious dining area
* Similar to my Mommy’s cooking
Cons:
* Some items are a little too oily for me
* Location & area is a little scary
Overall, I’m pretty satisfied (and usually overstuffed) every time I eat here.
Although I eat Filipino food everyday at home, this would be the next option. It’s good, cheap, and a quick & easy place to get a good home cooked Filipino meal when you’re craving it.

Want the most bang for your buck when it comes to Filipino buffets. You’ve come to the right place. For 9.99 this place has the most selection. You’ll find all your favorites and on a good day they’ll have lumpia. I say on a good day because lumpia is my favorite but they rarely have it. They have everything else I love though including tinola, pork BBQ, pancit, beefsteak and lots of others. We’ve been coming here for years and the food is always fresh and the establishment always clean. Just don’t mind the neighborhood or pan handlers and you’ll be just fine.

My family, hubby and I did a weekend trip to Vegas in celebration for my brother’s birthday. To be honest, whenever I go to Vegas, I generally stay on the strip and never really make it to the outskirts. This time, things were different since my mom was determined to have some Filipino food for Sunday brunch before our long drive home.
She had heard from one of her friends that this place was great. and of course like any other parent-​pleasing child (more like trying-​to-​avoid-​confrontation child), we ended up here.
At 10am, I was shocked to see that this place was up and running. There was a long buffet of at least 15 different dishes ready to be eaten and for a price of $ 8.99, that was pretty unbeatable.
The staff was very attentive, very sweet and while I loved all the options, I felt like the food was a bit on the saltier/​heavier side. Then again, that is what Filipino food is all about. To put it into perspective, none of us were close to being hungry even after a 5 hour drive!
The ambiance on the inside did give that authentic Filipino vibe and was very roomy! Unfortunately, the outside was littered with homeless people asking for change. so it did feel a bit sketchy.
All in all, it was a good experience!

I found this place on Unilocal when I was searching for places to eat while in Vegas. We almost didn’t get to try this place but decided to eat here on our last day in Vegas as it was close to seafood city and we had to be at the airport soon.
I’m so glad we decided to eat here because all the food was delicious! I’ve been to Filipino buffets and turo-​turo places where so many of the items are so oily or not that much meat. The quality and the flavors of the food here are really good. They had adobo, kare-​kare, tocino, tuyo, dinuguan, afritada, sinigang, bopis, chicharon bulaklak, fried galungong, pancit and many other popular Filipino dishes. They were all delish! To top it off, the cost of the buffet was only $ 8.99! We had 2 kids with us and they were also charged $ 8.99 but we didnt mind since the food was great and the cost of our meal was way less than the restaurant we were originally going to go to before deciding to eat here. This place will definitely on our list of places to go eat when we come back to Vegas.

This is a good buffet for a good price. $ 8.99, you can fill your plate and bowls with a large variety of dishes. I cannot begin to name them, but I found most of them very tasty and satisfying.
My husband is a big fan and has been after me to try it, since even he cannot name every ingrediate, I hesitate to try something that neither of us recognize.
Overall, it was tasty, if I tried something, it was usually good, however, I did separate out a few things I could not bring myself to eat (meat with a large blood vessel running through it and large chunks of fat turn me off) if you like most Asian food, you’ll probably enjoy this.
Service is excellent, the ladies are very attentive, there is limited and small parking area, good price, general store for most staples also connected so you can pick up a few Filipino delicacies.