Affordable Buffet Restaurants in Orlando, Florida

The All you can eat restaurant always has its' allure, especially if you are going on vacation. It is generally easy for everyone in your party to find something they want to eat with minimal fuss and once you are seated there is practically no wait to get your food. In an effort to promote healthy lifestyles, many of these restaurants became an "all you CARE to eat" restaurant about the same time that Cookie Monster started calling cookies a "sometimes food", but the principle remains the same and good food selections can be found at a number of Orlando restaurants.

A first cheap buffet choice is Sweet Tomatoes which s part of the Souplantation restaurant chain, and there are two Sweet Tomatoes in Orlando. Sweet Tomatoes is a buffet with very fresh ingredients and made from scratch preparation go into all of their buffet menu choices. They have an extensive salad bar with fresh and prepared salads, a pasta bar with fresh prepared pastas, a bread bar with specialty breads and made-from-scratch baked goods like muffins, a fruit bar and dessert bars, all you can eat for $9. It is a healthy buffet option if you are hungry but do not feel like fried or heavy foods. According to their website, The Sunday morning buffet adds in scrambled eggs, waffles, biscuits, cinnamon chip biscuits, make your own breakfast burritos in addition to the regular full buffet. Each day's menu and the various soup and pasta entrees are listed on their website.

A second choice is the All you can Eat Buffet in Orlando is the Crazy Buffet, which is an upscale Asian fusion buffet, it is $15 for lunch and $20 for dinner. They have several stations called bars with freshly made to order menu items. Bars include a sushi bar, a hibachi grill with all MSG free foods, a "Crazy Wok" station that customers make their own selections of ingredients and the chef cook it for them on the spot. There is also a Peking duck carving station and the traditional seafood selection with mounds of fresh crab legs and similar seafood choices, this is often the section that the diehard buffet professionals head straight for, skipping cheaper filler sections and carbs and go straight to the legs and fill up their plates. But they also have some very good soups and salads and prepared entrees, including steak. Desserts include various pastries and authentic oriental ice cream which is quite tasty. A full menu can be seen on their website. They are located in Orlando, Tampa and West Palm Beach. The Crazy Buffet website also has a 10% off coupon for lunch, click here. There is also a free meal on your birthday when dining with a friend and you bring the proper ID.

Sizzler has four all you can eat locations in Orlando, and offers a 10% off coupon or a kids eat free coupon here. It is a good value and the extensive menu choices and kids menu make it easy to please a larger party. There is also a breakfast buffet. The Endless Salad Buffet can become the Beefed Up Endless Salad Bar for $4 more. Get details of directions to each of the four locations at their website.

There are five Golden Corral-restaurants in Orlando. A full menu can be found online here for each of the five main stations of the buffet: the hot items which are the entrees (which include steak, meatloaf, and prepared chicken), seafood entrees, and hot vegetable dishes, the cold buffet (fruit items, salads), the soup and potato bar, and the bakery with hot breads and desserts (including sugar free desserts) and the breakfast menu which includes an omelet station, waffles, French toast, bacon, quiche, and juices. Find direction to each of the five locations on the Golden Corral website.

Bill Wong's Famous Super Buffet cost $16, so it is not the cheapest on the list, but there are TONS of food here and good selections of traditional Chinese food choices. The vegetable dishes and soups are particularly fresh. It is a very clean buffet and the foods are fresh. It is near Universal Studios if you are looking for a change of pace while visiting Disney. Bill Wong's is located on International Drive in Orlando.

A very helpful list I found to locate all you can eat buffets nationwide can be found here, an online list of popular all you can eat buffets by state and city with some of the menu items and pricing.