Problem: the heating lights were NOT HOT! This left all the food suseptible to becoming highly contaminated!!! The food in the buffet bins was less than plentiful, and many bins only had a spoonful or two left in them. The «buffet» was only 5 feet long, a thin glass panel sneeze-guard and silly bright lights above the metal food bins. As if the atmosphere alone didn’t turn us off to this place, we ventured to the small counter next to the register that was the buffet. But, I thought it was completely inappropriate to leave your 3 little girls (all under 10 years old) to play in the dining room of your restaurant!!! No supervision whatsoever! Their mother was busy running the kitchen, leaving another woman to handle the front counter service. Now, I understand that finding good daycare may be hard for some people. Puzzles, dolls, books, building blocks - all strewn around their tables. Perhaps what disturbed us the most was 3 tables were taken over by the owner’s young children! These adorable little Asian girls would sometimes yell to each other as they played with their TOYS sprawled across their tables. There were maybe 20 tables and only 5 were taken. She told us to grab a plate next to the register, and we could sit anywhere. We had not even looked at the hard to read menu on the back way. We were greeted by a nice older woman and immediately asked if we were here for the buffet. The tables & chairs are clunky, heavy wood - like I’d expect to see in a Fisherman’s Wharf restaurant. Upon entering this decidedly older building, the menu and counter area was dark paneled, the living room-sized dining area walls were painted mint green, with cheap plastic Asian plants, flowers and wall hangings dotting the corners, tables and walls.
JUMBO 2 NORTH OLMSTED FULL
Also, from the parking lot, in full view, there was an industrial bucket, rags and cleaning supplies left out by the side of the building… Hmmm… Not a good sign of what was on the inside. Outside there were various, cheap Asian statues. When I finally got a chance to visit it recently, the building is now drab white. Then, it was a bright salmony-pink building. I saw it months ago from Lorain (while stopped at a light) and wondered what that was. ATMOSPHERE: Not very open to the busy Lorain Road, this little building is set back behind Malley’s and across from Guitar Center. 75, you get a beverage and the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. Unfortunately, the only thing that met my standards was the price! For only $ 5. Well… I was really hoping this local Chinese lunch buffet met my tastebud standards. But over time the service has just declined. It’s sad giving a review like this to a place I ate at for almost 2 years. My food came, and while some of sauce and vegetables were quite good, some of the vegetables literally were not cooked and were actually cold. Our appetizers came out and the server told us they were not hot… and asked if we wanted them heated up… taste test confirmed this… cups were warmed up perhaps a few degrees… soup still nasty.
Ate dinner with a friend, his dinner came out 10 minutes before mine and he was almost done eating when mine came. Waited almost 5 minutes for a server to come by, while I was only customer in the place, all while another employee was eating just a few tables away. Asked for water, got room temperature soap-tasting water. Tables are very poorly set (only one has soy sauce, two had hot mustard, sporadic sugars, etc). A month or two later, buffet table is broken… - And was told it will not be fixed because they are stopping their buffet Jan 1. I’ll just list many of the things that are now keeping me away… things that were once not the case but which seem to now be the norm: - Arbitrarily closed Monday lunch buffet. Sadly one of my favorite places that has now turned into a place I won’t visit anymore. Maybe I’ll try again when the next Asian restaurant comes to the location.Īfter several visits over the last few months, I have to change this. All told, lunch for 4 people was $ 17, so I guess I can’t complain that much… but I don’t think I’ll be back… at least while JUMBO II is on the sign. The other people I was with seemed to enjoy their meals. I admittedly ordered something from the «diet» menu so I’m not going to critique the food today. There were kids hanging out in the dining room, I’m assuming the cook/owner’s kids? They were very cute, but it was kind of strange. I asked for a new one and got a teacup saucer. They brought out appetizer plates to the table for our spring rolls. The soy sauce container had dried soy sauce crusted all over it. Set with some packets of sweet and sour and mustard. We stopped in today for lunch (Saturday) since we were in the area. So, there have been so many Asian restaurants in this location over there years, some good, some bad.
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