Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

umbligado t1_j745tp8 wrote

$18 does not seem expensive for an all you can eat buffet. For comparison, Fogo de Chão lunch basic buffet is $15, but goes to $23 if you want chicken, and $27 for lamb. I think the weekend brunch at Ambassador Dining Room is around $22 now. A Denny’s Grand Slam (mostly just flour-based pancakes and garbage breakfast meats) is around $11-12 these days, and they have the advantage of scale and buying in bulk.

Can’t comment on the quality aspect.

Lumbini is not currently doing a buffet, neither are Akbar nor Kumari nor Indigma.

I think in general, it’s kind of hard for places to run buffet right now, in part because there’s generally less volume coming through for lunch.

For reference prices, all serve Chicken Tikka Masala as a dinner item, with prices ranging from $17 (Kumari, Akbar), $18 (Himalaya House, Indigma), $19 (Lumbini). Perhaps a decent proxy indicator of hypothetical buffet prices, although this of course makes some assumptions about quantity and quality of each of these Chicken Tikka offerings.

Sakoon is a bit farther away, and it’s kind of “fusion”, but at least from recent reviews they appear to have a buffet, and it may be around $14? I’ve been meaning to go there for a while but haven’t made it yet.

Incidentally, their Chicken Tikka Masala is $18..🤔

15