Wikiup Buffet

If I'm not careful here, I'll bust into story mode.  We're here to speak only of food.  It is a buffet.  Apache Gold food service has found what works for the locale.  The locals love Taco Tuesday - all tacos, all Tuesday, all the time.  Saturdays and Sundays it's prime rib, five 'til nine.  Weekdays a decent lunch is served, with the standard items you expect from a buffet.  Entrees of chicken, turkey, chinese, etc.  Salad greens and canned fruits, drinks and dessert.  Friday is fish day, mostly seafood buffet.  All you can eat shrimp, cod, shrimp, fish sticks, crab, shrimp.  People talk lots about the shrimp.  

I got through this one without a story.  My mom would be proud.    Somewhere is a blog I've never written where the stories are told.  The cooks of San Carlos are in that blog.

After fasting from buffet for two days, it was time to get to someplace new that would probably be pretty good & wolf down, so I got together with Mike C & we whipped over to this place to check it out.

A couple of "sub-utopian" things turned up here, so let's get them out of the way first:

*  We arrived before they open at 11, but the two soups, Chicken Noodle & Tomato Bacon, were both very late coming out... closer to 12.  Didn't they know they were going to open at 11?

*  The chili could have been pretty good, but it was only lukewarm, & the same was true of the roast turkey.

Ah, but there were things to love, too:    :-))

This is a comfortable restaurant, & the table service was good.  The salad bar was nice, with a variety of goodies that included different kinds of cheese, plus cottage cheese & Ranch Dressing that were both really creamy & good.  There were sliced almonds too, to sprinkle on your salad.  I thought that was a nice touch.

For hot food, there was very good spaghetti & meat sauce, better than you usually find at a buffet.  The Rigatoni with a tomato sauce & cheese was tasty too, as were the fried chicken & the mashed potatoes.  There were also flame broiled chicken breasts that were straight-up terrific!  Hamburgers, hot dogs, & a number of other hot foods were available, & of course, desserts.  I thought it was quite good overall.

Lunch Buffet, held Monday and Wednesday through Friday, is $7.95, $6.76 Sr.