Restaurant Review: BD's Mongolian Grill

Restaurant: BD's Mongolian Grill
Address: 8655 Mason-Montgomery Road, Mason OH 45040
Telephone: 513-770-4330
Hours: 11:00 am - 10:00 pm Sunday-Thursday, 11:00 am - 11:00 pm Friday-Saturday

At BD's Mongolian Grill, patrons consume one type of main dish - stir fry. But each diner combines a wide variety of ingredients to create a unique plate that matches their tastes. You pick up your bowl at the first bar and proceed through it and two other bars. The first bar contains several choices of pasta, meat, poultry, and seafood. Each bin holds only one type of meat, each bin labeled appropriately. BD's Mongolian Grill offers chicken, lamb, New York strip steak, tilapia, calamari, and shrimp, as well as several other choices.

At the second bar, you pick from an assortment of fresh vegetables, including miniature corn cobs, snow peas, carrots, lima beans, broccoli, potatoes, tomatoes, and more. Each vegetable looks firm and full-colored. This bar also contained whole eggs. If you select an egg, the cook cracks it on the grill and chops it into the rest of your food.

The third bar contains only sauces and spices. Big crocks in the middle hold sauces such as teriyaki, soy, mushroom, sweet and sour, and many others. The end of the bar offers access to ground seasonings - dill, red pepper flakes, Cajun seasoning, sesame, and so on. You dip these sauces and spices into separate cups. For those timid about mixing their own recipes, BD's Mongolian Grill offers a variety of recipe cards which prescribe the necessary ingredients and seasonings for popular dishes.

After choosing your ingredients, you walk to a counter surrounding a round grill. Behind the counter, cooks take your bowl and dump the ingredients on the grill. Near the end of the cooking process, they pour the sauce and seasoning you selected onto the stir fry. They scrape the cooked food onto a new plate, which they hand back to you over the counter.

The price of the meal includes unlimited brown rice, white rice, and flour tortillas. It also includes a soup and salad bar, which offers two types of soup and a small assortment of vegetables and dressings for a garden salad. On weekends, the buffet costs $13.99, but during the week, they run a buffet special for $9.99.

The main area contains the grill, the food bars, and several tables and booths. A bar area sits in another room situated off the side of the main area. BD's Mongolian grill also offers desserts and alcoholic beverages.

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