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The price varies on the day and time of day. I recommend Friday's for the seafood buffet! Check here for updated prices: https://www.tachipalace.com/dining/
Anthony N.5 years agoQ:
Can I bring a teenager to eat in the buffet?
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Yes, kids just aren't allowed to linger in the casino area.
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- Irma J.Pittston, United States5599May 14, 2023
They have buffett posted but they no longer have one. He said yelp has not been advised.
Helpful 0Thanks 0Love this 0Oh no 0 - Sep 25, 2019
We stopped for gas and a leg stretch and decided we were hungry. Firstly this is in a casino and the air quality left something to be desired as they do allow smoking we couldn't help sneezing upon entering.
Note: I travel with a service dog and this place gets Baileys 4paw approval. No access issues at all.
There was a long line, and it did move at an ok pace. When we got to the front, they gave us 20% off the tab because of the wait. They are still under construction and basically have 1/2 a dining room.
Our waitress was awesome. Regina was affable and exhibited a great sense of humor. There must be some issue with the drink station because it was very slow to get our first drinks. After that, it was all right.
The food was pretty good for being a buffet. They had a decent selection of types from asian to fried chicken. The mr said that fried chicken was a little dry, and the tri tip had a lot of fat. But trim the fat off and it was good. I had some enchilada, beef chow mein egg rolls and found it all to be serviceable. They donserve coke products and they are included.
The desserts were sadly the ugly step children of the buffet. I got a few different ones to sample and share with the mr. The blonde brownie was repugnant in its gooey depression. My mouth wanted to reject it forefully, but I forced it out subtly into a napkin. The sorrow only continued when I tried the black and white? It had red in it.. cherry I think. This one surpassed the last in its desire to cause an auto rejection from my mouth. I tamped down the desire and swallowed. Days later amd I can still recall the feeling of that slide down my throat. Not even the oyster I tried that one time compares. I took a corner nibble off of the regular brownie (I was learning.. 1/2 of the 1in square was dangerous) this was pretty good. Thick and dense but the best thing on the plate.
All told it was a good experience, the staff were friendly and helpful, the food edible (even if the dessert was just sad) would we come back for it? I dont think it will be a go to/must stop kinda place.. but we would come back again.Helpful 1Thanks 0Love this 1Oh no 0 - Susan Quaas G.Taft, United States9151Dec 30, 2021
No more buffet, but other restaurants have really good food to try. Coyete grill has delicious breakfasts, lunch and dinners . They also have other fast foods to try and a starbucks that has delicious sandwiches and pastries, plus great coffee and lattes.
Helpful 1Thanks 0Love this 0Oh no 0 - Dennis A.Central California, United States983191308Feb 13, 2019
Lemoore, California may be known for the location of Kelly Slater's Surf Ranch, the naval air base and a place where Journey vocalist Steve Perry lived at one time but it's also the home of the Tachi Palace & Casino.
While I don't gamble, I wanted to do something different for my mother for her birthday, so I treated her, my father and other family members for dinner and for her to partake in the slot machines.
And I've heard that the area has a buffet with a huge variety of food and since I had my nephews with us, I needed to make sure that there was food that they would enjoy as well.
So, we went to the restaurant "Pork Chop Hill Buffet".
According to the website:
Pork Chop Hill Buffet is located on the 3rd floor of the Casino of the moon. Our buffet offers over 60 delicious items to choose from daily, including: Salad/Soup/Shrimp bar, Asian Cuisine, Authentic Mexican Specialties, Local/Seasonal Favorites, Italian/Gourmet Pizza and Pastas, Omelets and Desserts. Pork Chop Hill features a minimum of 6 live cooking stations such as: live action Wok featuring our Chefs creating Asian Delights, made to order Sauteed Pastas and Entrees Gourmet and Specialty Pizza, Two Carving Stations and a Dessert Bar.
First, one could park in the free parking spaces at the Palace and you can bring children, as long as you don't go out to the gambling areas, you can walk directly to the path leading to the restaurants and take the elevator up to the third floor.
The restaurant is actually large, clean and spacious, while we went on the afternoon during a weekday, it was a bit busy but there is more than enough room to serve several hundred people at the restaurant.
But of course, what caught my attention was the variety of food featured. It reminded me the buffet selections in major hotel in Las Vegas, catering to those who want to eat vegetables, poultry, meat, seafood, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, sweets, desserts, etc.
ut there is quite a variety and as mentioned, it's similar to Las Vegas buffet prices or less. Depending on where you go.
But it's still under $20 and there are discounts for seniors and children as well.
While I'm not a buffet person, I figured this was the best way to feed people who can select the kind of food that they want as opposed for me trying to have them try something different and new and find out one half likes it and the other half doesn't. Especially for children who are so fixated on eating pizza and chicken nuggets or fried rice.
But overall, if you are in the Central Valley and looking for a place where your parents and other family members can eat and fill their belly's, but also where the adults can also take part in a little gambling or cheap slot machines. And as mentioned, it's like having a Las Vegas-style buffet but in the small agricultural city of Lemoore.
As for "Pork Chop Hill Buffet", for buffet selections, customer service and convenience, if $18 is not too pricey for you for a buffet meal, then it's a restaurant worth considering!Helpful 1Thanks 0Love this 0Oh no 0 - May 3, 2016
Decent place for an after church chow down. For the most part their dishes were well cooked, fresh and full of flavor. The Mongolian beef was a little grisly, but the other items were yummy. Also the breakfast and Mexican selections were delicious, and well made. The deserts were delicious as well.
Overall the price seemed a little steep, but they do offer a military discount and have coupons if you belong to the players card. If you don't mind walking past all the smoking gamblers, this place is nice buffet in an area void of buffets.Helpful 3Thanks 0Love this 2Oh no 0 - Feb 29, 2020
Pretty standard buffet. There's a panini station, salad bar, dessert, mexican including pozole and a taco station, fried chicken, a few Chinese dishes, pizza, and handful of other dishes like street corn and and a meat carving station. Food is decent, staff is friendly. Not bad but pretty average for a casino buffet.
Helpful 2Thanks 0Love this 0Oh no 0 - Jan 14, 2019
Friendly staff, smaller buffet, great made-to-order pasta! If you've been to any Las Vegas buffets, you may not be impressed with this place. I tried a few things before finding the pasta guy. He was very nice and was eager to please. He offered a few suggestions and made some pasta dishes while we waited. We could not tip him. It wasn't allowed. The pasta was hot and filling. I sampled the desserts afterward but was still not impressed with the food they had out ready to eat. Overall, the service is good, but I wouldn't pay to return since I don't eat that much.
Helpful 2Thanks 0Love this 1Oh no 0 - Joe D.Los Angeles, United States1556Jan 19, 2019Updated review
I was pleased to find the crab all you can eat is back online.
I'm even more pleased to know PAULA is still there, the world's greatest waitress. I've seen her in the past working so hard she was practically just about carrying this place on her back while at the same time being about the friendliest person somebody could possibly know.
Pork Chop Hill, this is someone you really need to appreciate. She's one on a million!Helpful 1Thanks 0Love this 0Oh no 0Jul 21, 2016Previous reviewOH NO! DISASTER!!!
PCHB still gets my five stars because it has the absolute, hands down greatest waitress in the world. Paula.
BUT...
I go in there and now they ask me if I would like to get one pound of crab legs for an additional $7. Uh, no. I would like to eat as many crab legs as I want for the regular price, like it's always been on seafood days since the Palace Quail Plume buffet day one. But I guess it's a new policy (new policy...isn't "change" just so wonderful?) where they charge you an additional $7 for a pound (and it's snow crab, so a lot of that pound is probably shell). As if the price raise they did rather recently wasn't enough.
No way!
I did see one thing that raised my hopes a little. That was that new signs they had advertising the seafood buffet had what looked like a really super terrific looking piece of prime rib on them. Really great prime rib could have made this situation salvageable. But, to their credit, they allowed me to to take a quick look at the buffet because I wanted to see what the prime rib looked like, to see if it was a substantial improvement from what they had been having, which hadn't previously been all that very good. Nope. Looked like the same old stuff. Oh man.
I may go in again just for old times sake. But only if Paula is there, that's about the only reason this long time Quail Plume/PCHB customer would go back after this, unless they could rethink this new "policy." Boy. Don't you just love "policies?"
To me, this was tradition and now it's ruined. Oh no, Palace, you've really let me down with this. It really hurts. Thank you very much! :(Feb 27, 2014Previous reviewThe Palace.
Thirty years ago it was either a field of dirt or alfalfa field or something, just another hot dusty place somewhere on the hot valley floor. Then something happened...
A little bingo hall sprung up, then it just started growing, growing, growing, until today, when I drive up to it it almost sorta kinda reminds me of Oz.
Inside is the gleaming Pork Chop Hill Buffet, with a lot of great food that I highly recommend. But it wasn't always that way. It used to be the downstairs Quail Plume which started off great but somehow over the years declined to, at the end of it's life, just not being very good at all. The move upstairs, as far as I'm concerned, breathed new life into it and now it's great, and I'd say very high quality for a buffet. I for sure recommend Thursday or Friday night. Lobster(1) and all you can eat Crab and Prime Rib (and shrimp, clams, salmon, ribs and a whole lot of other stuff) for $18.99. Oh yeah!
But what I really want to say here is, to see growth like The Palace has seen, it takes superlative, ultimate effort by people who work there. Maybe not by every single person (because I know that not every person there has always given this), but I do think that the people who do put forward that kind effort are a major reason why the Palace has gone so far. And I'd like to recognize one who I know who has done that, Paula, a waitress in Pork Chop Hill. I've always enjoyed her from the great times at Quail Plume down through the not so good, and on up to the terrific place the buffet is today. Her smiling face never fails to put a smile on mine, although sometimes I wonder how she ever really has time to smile because I think she's the hardest working person in the casino. If you ask me, I think the employee's training program at the Palace should consist of seven words: "Do it the way Paula does it!"
I can see where working in the buffet can be an awfully tough job at times, and when times were tough at the old buffet I can imagine it being really hard to stay with it. But I'll tell you this, Paula was a big reason why I "kept the faith" and remained being a customer through the years. In my mind, she practically carried the place on her shoulders, especially in the bad times, and what they have now is, in my opinion, a result of such loyal and Herculean effort.
Thanks Palace, for having such a great buffet and employing such a great person. Paula, you are, hands down, the best. Anywhere that I know of. A 100-star waitress in a world of 3 1/2 star waitresses! I always feel like I'm getting treated like a king whenever you're around! If you read this, just know that there is someone out there who really appreciates what you do. Thanks much!
And no, I honestly am not related to Paula in any way nor do I know her from anywhere else but as a customer.
Only negative comment about PCHB- whatever you do, don't tell them it's your birthday. If you do you will get the whole crew to do some awful, embarrassing birthday thing for you...I Caroomba! The poor people who get it done to them and the poor people who have to do it. ~~!cringe!~~ :( - Rich G.San Francisco, United States05Jun 6, 2019
Awesome Buffet for the money
Also outstanding service and support!
For prices
Senior discount tooHelpful 0Thanks 0Love this 0Oh no 0 - Richard L.Stratford, United States704Jun 18, 2019
We have been going to this buffet every since it was on the lower level (Only a few will remember) but now it's ok the upper level.
They have so many options! The service and food has always been delicious.Helpful 0Thanks 0Love this 0Oh no 0
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