York Buffet

A friend and I recently had lunch at the buffet and while some things seemed okay initially — the pork dumplings weren’t the worst and the chicken with broccoli was serviceable. The general tso’s chicken tasted old and like it had been sitting out for ages. And there’s a bunch of Americana fried crap. But that was not the biggest problem we faced.
My friend got the coconut chicken. She ate one piece and didn’t like it. When she more closely examined what she was eating, we were repelled to find that there were several little black hairs in the chicken.
We notified management, obviously, and the young man who came over said «that not hair» immediately without even looking. And then when he looked closer, he walked away. So a decent place would comp your meal and profusely apologize right? Wrong. He came back, threw a Pennysaver magazine on our table, and said «here you take coupon for your lunch»
We were disgusted. We did separate checks and my friend gave me one coupon for my lunch, which was also the worst. Our old friend rushed back and yells that it’s one coupon per table. Nowhere on the coupon does it say one coupon per table. This is a repellant act and this place should be shut down. Who behaves that way after knowingly serving their customers pube chicken? We paid our bill, even though I was this close to just walking out, and left this awful place a distant memory. Do yourself a favor and stay the hell out of here.

Terrible food and the employees were rude. The restaurant itself is filthy. I do not recommend

Needs a better sushi selection. Still not bad for the price. There are many other things to choose.

The good: It’s clean and new looking. The service is good (it’s a buffet).
The bad: The food.
I have never been to a Chinese buffet where every item I tried tasted bland and horrible. Well, that’s what you will find here at York. I must have tried 15 different items. Oysters to salads to soups to crab legs. You name it, I tried it in search of trying to find something, anything, that tasted good. How do you mess up snow crab legs!!! I suppose by sitting in the hot water the whole time, rather than being warmed by steam. I never met a crab leg I didn’t like, until this place. Absolutely zero taste. Like eating mushy tofu. Hot & Sour soup… no flavor. Oysters… fishy with no flavor. Fresh fruit… dried out and flavorless. Chicken teriyaki… you guessed it, tasted like eating paper.
I wish that I had listened to the earlier reviews. However I felt that it’s a Chinese buffet, surly I could find something edible. I went in with low expectations and still left hungry and disappointed.
This place really stinks.

i love this place everything fresh service good nice place i will return i love fish and broccoli with chicken it is my favorite one

I’ve eaten at a lot of these types of Chinese buffets over the years. Usually they’re very mediocre because it’s really built upon a specific financial model of quantity, not exquisite quality. It’s not one of those super large Japanese buffets that cost in the mid to upper $ 20s, so you have to have a different expectation. Here are some elements that separate it from some of the buffet factories. First, the décor is a lot more modern, hip, and spacious than most. Second, there were some premium meats, like an actual leg of lamb and prime rib. There were some very nice parts that were tender, and some that were dried out. The sushi was basic, without a lot of exceptional fish. Nice large Shu Mai (pork dumplings dim sum). Potstickers were OK too. Enjoyed typical deserts of fruits, puddings, small cakes and ice creams. Basically geared toward Western tastes, but those with more specific Asian tastes can find a few good things like sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf. So not amazing, but surprisingly better than most such Chinese large buffets.
It appears to be in a mall area that may have seen better days. I hope it can pick up to help this restaurant a bit more.

HORRIBLE! Food is plain, hard and utter shit. The food doesn’t even look decent. I felt sick to my stomach and got food poisoning. Workers don’t pay attention to the guests. This place doesn’t deserve a single star, but I can’t post this without at least one star. If you want to eat at a buffet, go to any other buffet besides this hellhole. ANYWHERE ELSE IS BETTER!

I love a good Chinese buffet.
York Buffet just doesn’t happen to be good.
The food was cold and chewy, sad and bland. The only redeeming thing in the whole spread was the Banana Cookie dessert. It’s kinda hard to screw that up.
I was super excited to go here, but as soon as we walked in, it was like one bad thing after another. The table was broken and wobbled everywhere. The chairs torn and stained, looked like they were pulled from the dumpster earlier that day. The waitress quickly brought water, but it tasted gross. When I went to get my plate, I had to move three of them to get to a clean plate. Not a good sign. Tried all of the staples, rice, hot and sour soup, honey chicken, and they were all cold and overcooked.
Guess I’ll just deal with the mall and hit up one of the places in the food court next time.
Happy Eating!

I came here with my family last night. It was their first time there and they enjoyed their meals. The food here is better quality. My favorite dish was the bacon wrapped shrimp. I was disappointed that there was no cheesy spinach though.

one word. UGGGG! Food was barely warm at best, and taste was mediocre to bad. $ 25 voucher for $ 15 is only good for dinner only, although web does not say anything about that.

This is by far the worst dining experience I’ve ever had. With so much to choose from… you’d think they’d get something right… but you’d be wrong. Cheap fake fish in the sushi, waterlogged fried dumplings, super-​greasy wonton soup, the brownies tasted of mint, and who puts cream cheese in a California roll? We will NOT be returning.

The place is way too expensive for the selection. They don’t have buttered potatoes nor fried fish. The salad bar is pretty minimal as is the hibachi bar. The fried sushi was cold. Just not that good of a Chinese buffet.

Good Food but Rude Employees! The three star I gave is for the food since it looked fresh and there were plenty of varieties all the way from general tso to sticky rice to fresh sushi rolls.
We (group of 15+) went here on a weekday for Lunch around 11AM. We already made a reservation — so we could all be seated together. We were seated in a semi enclosed room divided by a wall that was somewhat used for group dinner. Few tables were joined together in groups of 2 to accommodate our group. The tables were very wobbly so we asked one of the server if we could get another table but she simply said «the food won’t fall» so needless to stay we took our time to get another table (which was wobbly too) and ended up fixing ourselves. When filling our water — one of us asked for a chopstick and all she said was «it’s out there»
Would love to give another shot at this place just because of the variety they offer.

The most unfriendly service I’ve experienced. I tried it here twice and both times experienced the same cold & disdainful attitude from both the hostess and servers.
Sorry but this one is a thumbs down.

Completely mediocre. Went there for dinner on a Saturday night, so you’d think they’d be stocked to the max. Sushi options were very few and most were not very exciting. (I saw nothing with tempura, one of my favorites.) They seemed to have a lot of buffet options, but nothing was amazing. Pizza and mozzarella sticks seemed out of place, but I guess they’re aiming to have something for everyone. The price is nearly $ 10 cheaper than some other buffets I’ve been to, but I still won’t go back. Oh, and the kicker was receiving a wrapper full of air as one of our fortune cookies.

We stopped here for some dinner and we were quite pleased with the selection of food that was available. We paid $ 14.99/adults for all you can eat New York steak, steamed snow crab legs, baked seafood, prime rib (more like roast beef) BBQ ribs, fried chicken, potatoes, salad bar, dessert bar (which included scoop ice cream and toppings).
The food was good. Unfortunately the sweet sour chicken was spoiled! The carpet in the room to the far left looked filthy and full of stains. The service was slow and the waitress was a little unfriendly.
I gave this place 2 stars for the selection of food they have and for the price we paid.

Not really feeling this place much. It looks amazing but the food doesn’t compare to the scenery. They have beautiful decorations and the salad bar is served on what appears to be a sushi boat. The carpentry and high ceilings is amazing and the patterns give it an authentic Asian feel.
Once we were seated it’s buffet style of course so the waitress only brought us our waters. After that I didn’t see her until I had to flag her down. The food was just sub par to me. The only items I actually enjoyed was the sushi and salad bar because of the ginger dressing. I tried food from every station and was not impressed.
The sushi was good but did not taste as fresh as some i’ve had at other buffets. The crab legs were completely bland, didn’t even taste like crab. I love raw seafood but the oysters and mussels didn’t even taste fishy but like metallic water. They had a bar with all fried foods and they all tasted like they were cooked in the same oil to the point of saturation. The chinese bar had good noodles but mostly everything else lacked good flavor.
What made this place worse is that they had two waitresses working our table. The one who brought our drinks and then one who took our plates away. When our bill came it was $ 3 after we used our groupon. I gave the waitress a $ 10 bill which i expected to receive $ 7 back. The waitress returned but kept the money and said thank you. I was like hold on where is our change? She simply expected to keep the money and when I questioned her she said in broken english that because the tip was for her and the other waitress that she assumed it was theirs to keep.
i think it’s very rude to keep the change and not even ask the customer if they want change. Not only that their cleanup service wasn’t worth the $ 7 tip that she basically stole. I won’t be returning to this place after the poor service and even poorer food!
Save your self the $ 18 they charge and got to Hookaida by the waterfront!

We found ourselves in the area on Father’s Day and hadn’t intended to anywhere for dinner. It’s usually cheaper, but they jacked the prices to $ 17.99 for their special of «buttered lobster»… mostly shell and overcooked meat, that’s what it was. Lol ripoff.
This is probably the worst Asian buffet in Pittsburgh, though they don’t really explicitly advertise as an Asian buffet, I suppose. There is indeed ¹⁄₃ American stuff, lots of fried stuff, pizza, wings, chicken skewers, chicken nuggets, etc. And sushi, a hibachi grill, and the rest are Asian buffet stuff.
The overall selection is pretty limited, even for dinner. And it’s not exactly quality over quantity vs the other buffets, either.
I was able to try a bite of pretty much everything, and 90% was off in some way. Most of the dishes were very bland. If not, then weird texture. The fried stuff tastes kind of frozen.
And how do you screw up kimchi? It looked over-​fermented, which I usually love, yet has zero flavor. And the soapy-​tasting beets — that’s how you tell a salad bar is mediocre. The sushi is pretty awful, too — stringy fish with awful texture. The sashimi doesn’t seem to be freshly sliced — and why are they those tiny thin pieces instead of the big square chunks? Meh. The rolls were okay, but completely unmemorable.
The upside is that the restaurant is clean and brightly lit, and while nothing tasted GOOD, it was pretty fresh. Lunch seems really cheap — it’s probably worth a cheap lunch, but not a $ 20+ dinner.

There is ‘different’ and there is ‘the same’. Some buffets do some things differently, but the bulk of them are pretty much ‘the same’. There are cheap ones and pricier ones within both categories. But the bottom line is that they’re either different, or ‘the same’. And I have to say that York Buffet is pretty much ‘the same’ as any other Asian buffet.
The only real difference is atmosphere and location.
The atmosphere is kind of sterile.
I was the first to arrive at 11 am on a Saturday, and it wasn’t until I walked in the door that the guy walked over and started flipping light switches. There was no music, and aside from very minimal chatter amongst the staff, there was no sound at all. Then people started coming in, and they came in twos or fours, were seated, and more or less remained silent. Eventually, the music did come on, but it was so incredibly low, it could have been the sound coming from an Ipod earplug at the next table.
The décor is a kind of corporate-​chain-​Asian-​pagoda-​leaning-​toward-​trendy-​but not-​quite-​achieving.
It’s a buffet. The food is decent, nothing outstanding, but nothing bad. It’s kind of a Hokkaido or Misaki ‘Lite’. They have the same sushi samplings, the same coconut shrimp, the same raw bar, the same salads, the same desserts that are still sweating from being unfrozen, the same eight ice cream flavors, the same noodles, soups, stir fries, hibachi choices, crab rangoon, french fries, and pizza… as any other ‘the same’ Asian buffet.
For lunch, the price was $ 8.99 (even though their business card I’d brought home says $ 7.99) or something near that, so it wasn’t pricey. The dinner seemed to be priced a bit higher, nearer to $ 20 on their signage, but the card reads $ 14.99 Monday through Thursday (with the ‘4’ hand written in) and $ 15.99 Friday and Saturday after 3:30 pm, and Sunday all day (again, with the ‘5’ written in by hand).
The staff was attentive and pleasant, but not overly friendly.
The saving grace was that they do serve Coke products, so I got my Diet Coke.
All in all, there was absolutely nothing special about this trip. It was ‘fine’. It was edible, reasonable, and sterile, in a mini-​strip mall in strip mall hell. Much like the general atmosphere of the entire Robinson Mall area anyway. So hey… if you’re going to spend $ 8.99 for a buffet, and within a block your two choices are Golden Corral or York… well…flip a coin.

After reading these Unilocal’s reviews, I was a little hesitant in coming here. But after my friend’s positive comments, I decided to try it out. I was happily surprised!
FOOD: For a $ 15.99(wknd price) all you can eat buffet, it was actually good! Their nigiri sushi wasn’t tasty but their rolls were delicious! Their cold foods — small salad bar, seafood salad, shrimp cocktail, etc. were good except a few of their seafood was a bit rubbery. The soups — wonton, egg drop, hot & sour are just like Chinese restaurants. The dim sums and wontons are tasty too. The hot foods — chicken & broccoli, chicken & mushroom, crab bake in half shells, lo mein, pizza, french fries, and much more. Talk about variety for everyone!
This place used to be a lighting store, so the lights are very decorative. Clean space and good food for a decent price, can’t go wrong there!