I frequent this place once a week. I can't help it. Their Bimimbop is super fresh! The gochujang (sweet and spicy red paste) is superb too. Additionally their customer service is friendly and quick. Check out their buffet, it is extensive, fresh and tasty (a little pricey). Make a trip if you work in the area!
Review Source:Major props to Andrew L.'s review for bringing to my attention that this place has bibimbap made to order!! Â What a find! Â
I've eaten the buffet before and it was nothing special (but love that they have seaweed salad and pickled radish etc) but this time I had their bibimbap, and it was delicious. Â I ordered to dine in and they gave me the version in the stone bowl that gets super hot and makes the rice all crispy -- not sure what will happen if I order to go, but I will probably find out next time. Â One thing I didn't realize was that they give you an empty soup bowl when you order; you can go fill it up at the buffet line (obvious yeah... but I sat down and thought the guy forgot to fill up my soup!).
The price is alright, a little pricey but you get a decent amount of food, and it's pretty much on par with everything else in the Illinois Center. Â Looking forward to giving the buffet another shot~
So I found a hair in my string beans. But really, it's just a hair. Who cares?
This place has a pretty impressive buffet selection. Lots of deep-fried, sweet-sauced asian stuff, but also plenty of roast turkey, steamed veggies and corn. My lunch is usually around 1lb, and costs $7-something.
I prefer to go for an early lunch around 11.30am so I can beat the rush and get first dibs on food which hasn't been sitting around for ages.
So this place is in my building, and I've passed by there a hundred times before finally going in early this year. Â Man, I was missing out. Â It's basically a "by the pound" buffet type place where you load up your plate with anything from fresh salads, fruits, regular buffet or asian foods, and then it gets weighed and you pay by the pound. Â The selection is pretty good, as the salad/ fruit bar is huge, and they have a large variety of asian selections like mongolian beef, korean bulgogi, california rolls, etc... Pretty much everything you could think of (fast-asian-food-wise) they have here, and it all tastes pretty good...
It took me a few times to notice that they have a full "non-buffet" area also, where they make things to order.  I think they make regular sandwiches and breakfast sandwiches.  But what really caught my eye is that they make various korean dishes like bibimbap and dolsot  bibimbap and kimchi baekban.  The bibimbap is basically rice covered with vegetables mixed in a hot red chilli paste sauce.  You can order it with beef (bulgogi) or without, or on a hot pot (dolsot).  This also comes with a soup, all for about $7.50.  What a great deal for Bibimbap in the middle of my office building.  Who woulda known?  I usually eat here about once a week.  And now I actually consider this place more of a korean restaurant than a "pay by the pound" buffet... lol...
I see some reviews talking about mean management, but in the year I've been coming here, I haven't seen anything that would suggest that. Â Everyone seems pretty friendly.
If you work in this area, and are in need of a korean food fix, definitely check it out!
For a loop lunch buffet, hard to find much fault with this place -- great variety, the prices aren't crazy. Â Forgive the TMI but I have a pretty sensitive stomach (check out my other reviews) and this place has never made me sick, which is a concern with a buffet. Â Haven't seen the mean manager others mention -- the cashiers are very polite.
Review Source:Good buffet. Decent breakfast. Really nasty management.
There are over 80 items in the lunch buffet where you pay by the pound. A good variety of fruit and vegetables, comfort foods and salads. Nothing great. Nothing bad.
The manager is very mean to his employees and very demanding which makes me wonder what goes on in the kitchen behind closed doors. For that reason I have shied away from going there. A little creeped out by the manager. Too bad, it's a nice concept.
Delmonico is in the basement of my building, and while it's super convenient, it is kind of a lousy cafeteria style restaurant. Â The place is dimly lit, the music is slow, and depressing, and the food is MOSTLY lousy. Â I say MOSTLY because they do have a couple of things they do really well. Â Their egg-rolls are great, and most of the tempura stuff is great (with the calamari being an exception). Â The bulgogi is also decent. Â Everything else is pretty poor.
That said, they have a big seating area, and if I'm short on cash (which I usually am) and its too cold to eat outside, I'll go there.
This place used to be decent. Â However, I've noticed the little Asian lady (owner/manager?) who stands over the grill chef just annoys people to no end. Â She glances at him fervently and intermittently runs out towards the entry to try and entice customers inside. Â Doesn't work lady. Â Give it up. Â And, let the grill master do his thang...he's good & you make him nervous and I don't think that you're helping him one bit by writing the order on those horrid styrofoam boxes. Â Can you please find an alternate to go package besides styrofoam ? Â Â Plus, it's now $7.49 for a veggie boygurl & fries, WAY up from it's former $5.39 in December '08. Â How'd that happen ? Â I hope I'm not funding your Dale Carnegie training courses or worse yet, your shipping fees on those mayo packets. Â
Definite room for improvement & probably tons more business.
I used to go here a lot for lunch but its just gotten too expensive. Especially when I walk around and I want some of this, some of that and ooh some of that too! Before I know it i'm carrying a container to the register and it weighs 8lbs.
So now I just stick to their breakfast. I was on the South Beach Diet for awhile and they really saved me. I think their omelets are awesome. The lady behind the counter in the morning has always been really nice to me except she always trys to get me to order toast too. Heh. Out of all the breakfast food options in the Illinois Center I definitely consider Delmonico first.
I used to work in the Illinois Center in 2004 and Delmonico's was my favorite place to eat. I'm the type of person who wants a salad bar where I can get 3 pieces of something, a big-ass scoop of something else, a half smidge of yet another item. But I need those somethings to be more than just Mac Kelly-style fare. I like my veggies, but I also like other more unusual options too. I adore the Whole Foods salad bar and while this is no Whole Foods, it also doesn't dent the pocket in the same way. All told, this was perfect for me. Besides, I could fit a bunch of stuff in a tiny container and call it a day.
So, I am working back in the area again and boy was I excited to go back to good old Delmonicos. And boy was I excited to see the salad bar now includes SUSHI!!! I know, salad bar sushi, potential for a big bag of yuck, but their offerings are usually really interesting and damn tasty and about as fresh as they can be, considering. Today I had a few different pieces, one was a BLT something or other, pretty interesting. One was a spicy, crunchy tuna, which was really good. Another was some kind of beef/kimchee concoction, also pretty good. They seem to change the selection up and have both meat and veg. options. Plus, they have wasabi, sesame soy, and pickled ginger right next to it.
Further down on the salad bar are my 4 other favorite things. One is a bean sprout salad with slivers of crabmeat. The next is some kind of sauteed mustard greens, which seem to feature more sesame oil and damn, I could eat a big heavy bowl of that alone. Moving on down are a broccoli salad with chunks of parmesan, red onions and red peppers. And last, because I loves my broccoli, a grilled chicken and broccoli dish. All of the broccoli items are really fresh, not TOO cooked and squishy and the grilled chicken's tender with a nice, slightly seasoned and grilled taste.
I've never actually eaten there, because it is really quite dark and uninviting, but when I checkout toward the back, there is a HUGE array of magazines for the solitary diners to grab and take back to their table to read.
As for the customer service, maybe I've gotten lucky, but the few ladies I see on a frequent basis have been incredibly friendly and smiley from day 1.
I'm in a quandary: do I give this place 2 stars for the food and experience or 3 stars for just the food--the thought being the windowless, dark open ceiling atmosphere brings the food down a notch? Â I'm not sure, but I'll start with 3 stars and see if I feel differently by the end of typing the review.
First off, they've gone through a major change since the first reviewers wrote about sandwiches: Delmonico's no longer has a kitchen to make special orders. Â What's left is a pretty decent buffet of "Old County Buffet" meets "China Buffet Express." Â The place is run by an Asian family that has had a rough time understanding just what "customer service" means. Â Throwing a fork and ONE napkin into a bag with the food container does not good customer service make. Â A smile and a non-forced thank you goes a long way--this is the Midwest after all.
There's a big variety of offerings: healthy veggie and garden salad-ish trays, questionably-healthy entrees, and downright bizarre things (were those Thai string noodles next to the candied yams? Â yuck)
OK...they keep their music down so diners can converse in the restaurant's seating area and try to watch their expensive buffet (did I really pay $1.10 for a Dixie-cup size soda?), and maybe I'll come back and give them another star. Â Until then, 3 stars for the food only.
This is a pay by the pound food restaurant and it gets pretty pricey really quick. Â You can easily spend $10 on a lunch. Â They have anything from sushi to fruit to Chinese to salads on their lunch bar. Â They have lettuce and salad dressings but I've looked for toppings such as tomatoes, cheese, carrots, green peppers, etc but that is all missing on this "salad" bar. Â I've had a handmade sandwich once and it was okay, it was one of those things where it tasted better than it looked. Â I get the turkey burger there a lot and it's really good, definitely not healthy even though it's turkey. Â However, it takes a lllooooonnnnngggggg time for anything you have made.
Review Source:Pay-by-the-pound lunch! Â This place is huge inside, so seating is never a problem at lunchtime. Â It's a little pricey but always high quality food. Â Fresh cut mango, lots of Asian food... plus if you want a made-to-order sandwich they will make it too!
I only give three stars because the employees who ring you up can be pretty rude and also their soda fountain spits out some nasty bile, I suggest always buying a can of pop from the cooler instead!
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