Ichiban Buffet

For $18.99 a person, Ichiban Buffet is a steal! Everything was fresh and decent, very fair deal for $18.99 AYCE! There’s also a lot of options, including sushi and hibachi. No complaints at all. Only feedback is that the bathrooms could use some air refreshers and be wiped down better, considering how we came in shortly after the opening time.

Food are pretty good in this place. It has better taste than most Chinese buffet I've been to. A good place to get lunch. Their sushi option is pretty good but for nigiri, the rice is bigger than the fish sometimes. Overall, Chinese food taste great. Japanese food is average in term of taste.

The seafood I tried was horrible. The crawl fish was cooked and laying in a soggy sauce, which made it slimy and messy to eat and I had problems opening it & it tasted plain. The short beef ribs were too chewy & covered in bbq sauce. The salmon was baked and tasted spoiled, I didn’t eat it. The ham was too salty, I didn’t eat it. I haven’t been here in years and I now know why. I won’t be going back. Eat at your own RISK. It was a waist of $22 for me. This restaurant is NOT DAME VERIFIED‼️🤦🏽‍♂️

Affordable price with all kinds of choices for foods, clean space and welcoming service, nothing to complain about 🤞🏻

Not a bad restaurant with a buffet to go there for dinner or lunch. I went there for dinner. I liked everything, but it was too hot inside because the air conditioning didn’t work well. The food is delicious, the selection is mainly seafood. But there are other delicious foods. The staff is normal and works very quickly. You need to pay immediately upon entering or when you sit at the table. for dinner for one person I paid $22.66

This was totally an experience for lunch. It’s all you can eat seafood 🦞. My tastebuds are still dancing from this amazing and satisfying experience. The service was phenomenal, my waitress was on point my coffee cup and my table was almost never waiting anything. From my arrival until my departure I was fully waited on. Thanks so much for the kindness and generosity. The ambiance and decor was superb in every way. Thanks for this beautiful space in the center of Cottman Avenue. My friend and I had such an incredible time together.

The price was higher than normal for Father’s Day but it was worth every penny since they had snow crab legs as a special! It was a wide variety of selections, especially seafood. The best part is you didn't have to wait for the crab legs like other buffets. There was a lot for everyone. The food was fresh and delicious. The staff are friendly and provided great service.

Especially when I couldn't cook much due to injury, I would sometimes stop by for lunch. I mean it's affordable, you get to eat as much as you want, and it's usually not too busy during lunch hours... Cons: No rotating menu. The lunch and dinner menus are exactly the same. The only different is the price. Alsooo, don't expect much in terms of food service. One time, they served a frozen cheesecake. It was not sliced at all. A total separate customer and I wanted to have a small slice, but neither of us could cut it with the cake spatula (it was too hard/frozen). I informed the worker who was putting the prawns back into the serving tray. She looked at me confused, almost with disgust. She cut the slice and that into two, and she just left the rest of the frozen cheesecake there... MY BAD, next time I'll just take the whole cheesecake into my plate, because otherwise how is anyone going to eat it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This was a really good spot to go to for seafood, which we regularly had our family gatherings for the past 2-3 years. We are normally showing up with 10+ people each time at least twice a month.... It has been a few months since the holidays was just over, and to our surprise, it's under a new ownership. The difference (can't remember on the price) but no more crab legs except for holidays. The staff are the same and ambience hasn't changed. Food is still decent...however, this time around, I decide to pay for gratitude at the front desk instead of before leaving. To our surprise, the staff that always served us for all these visits decides to stop us from leaving because we didn't leave a tip on the table! I reiterated that we already gave the 18% at the front desk and they blocked us from leaving until we showed them our folded-up receipt (which we luckily didn't throw out) that we already paid. I am not sure what happened there, but given that it's the same staff that always served us that did this, we will be very reluctant to come back for sure. There are plenty of other buffets nearby that would appreciate our business and not treat us like criminals just because we didn't leave tip on the table. I hope the owner reads this because this is just unacceptable way to treat customers. I can understand people aren't making much these days and depend on gratitude for income, but while it's a great gesture, it is still at the discretion of the customer! The staff needs some cultural training for sure.

Their fish are good taste fresh .... The noodle and yellow rice are cold ... They barely have any sushi choice .. Service is alright . This restaurant is huge and definitely love the overall design of the place . Especially those plates on the walls .

Lunch 11am-330pm. $12/person Dinner afterwards. $18/person Sushi limited option. You can request specially made items at certain times depending on the chef. This time we went, the chef flat out lied and said they don't do custom orders when the last time we were here, that chef allowed it. Afterwards, I heard them making fun at us upon walking away for asking for a simple custom order of avocado roll. They must be extremely bored at work for them to find this entertainment and not go above and beyond if they have nothing to do... needless to say that we enjoyed our previous visit better. Also saw at one point, the sushi chef touched the trash can then continue to prepare food without washing his hands in between. He did this while prepping sushi lunch for his coworker so if he did this during then, he probably does it with customers' foods too. Other than that, the hibachi was good as we can customize our ingredients and the food comes out hot. We ask to skip the extremely sweet sauce as it'll most likely contain HFCS. We crave certain buffet junk foods at times like cheese wonton & chicken nuggets (our guilty pleasure). We liked that they didn't have single serve ice cream and had the huge tubs of ice creams this time. Fishes were all tasteless as they were most likely previously frozen, but that is what you pay for buffet quality.

This place is horrible! The other day when we arrived, there were only about 2 tables filled in the entire restaurant. Food was cold, I informed the waitress about this matter two times. She says it is because they didn't have any customers so they turn the heat low so the food won't get sticky together. Nothing was being done about it though. Everything was nasty, cold, and old! You can tell everything was sitting there for a whole day. But think about it, they don't even turn the heat on for the food. I don't think they could even pass health checks. I don't recommend going there, their food will make you sick!

This place is a hidden gem!!!!!! The buffet is reasonably priced and food tastes amazing!!!!!

Amazing,but they took the boil and snow crab legs away the legs are available at 9 pm

For a buffet it was good. The hibachi was the best part! As for "seafood" part not much appetizing seafood with the exception on shrimp. Seafood was hard shell whole small crab, crawfish shelled, and "fish" in that were fishy in different sauces. Sushi is California rolls only. The Chinese food was good. But probably the best china buffet I have had in while. No crab legs!