38TH BUFFET

4720 38th St, Indianapolis
(317) 918-0602

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Duncan Platz

Good food. They have Mexican food on weekends, I highly recommend

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Mark Scholl

Alot of choices, very good food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sarah Skibiski

You must pay when you walk in and they hand you plastic gloves and tell you to wear them when at the buffet, but maybe 30% actually do. Everything is self serve, even soda which I really liked. Food ranged from OK to not so good. My big issue is that everything on the hot side is either room temperature or has gotten straight up cold. Everything is sitting in the food danger zone temperature wise so I'm not sure how they have gotten past health inspections. Nothing is warm.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 3

Canielle Brown

Wonderful service and so much selection for food. More than your average buffet...offers a fresh Sushi bar. Also includes disposable gloves for a hygiene friendly environment. Great choice for lunch or dinner.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Lawlar Lawlar

The food was great, delicious and the environment was nice.
Very neat.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Steven Lopez

Very good food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Moises Dejesus

Great food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Sherita Sanders

Food was nasty and everything was to hard to eat

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 4

SwimJim01

First buffet I went to and left hungry.
I usually see at similar buffets a 80\20 split of chinese to american foods (fries, pizza, something for the kids to pick at). This place had a 50/50 split.
Chinese food itself was overcooked (soggy/mushy lo mein, chicken was dry even when dunked in sauce, no flavor on shrimp) or just unappealing, if fine and edible (egg roll/anything dunked in the fryer was fine).
Im sure some people will find it fine. It’ll definitely feed a family with kids looking to pick at fries or cheese on pizza dough. But definitely not appealing to me or my wife in comparison to any other chinese takout or buffet place.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 3

Phyllis

I should have had a clue when the sign on the window said “Don’t put your hands in the food.”, and that gloves were required at the buffet.
I was there on a Tuesday for lunch. Most of the food on the steam tables was lukewarm on the outside and cold inside. Food tasted old and dried out with some of it excessively salty and I just couldn’t eat it.
However, the soups were hot and very good. I gave this restaurant two stars because the employees were nice, it was clean and the soups were good.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 5

Renee Charia

Patrons going in to eat, but 1 needed the restroom to urinate asap, yet only 2 stalls available, for this BIG CAPACITY ALL YOU CAN EAT ESTABLISHMENT, so she had to piss her nice clothing while EMPLOYEES UTILIZED THE RESTROOM, and came out afterwards, and the employee, DID NOT WASH HER HANDS.
8/8/2025 20:15-20:25 military real time Indianapolis, Indiana 38th and Lafayette Rd 46254

Danielle

I feel sad for the people in this area who think this is any kind of Chinese buffet. I wasn't expecting perfection but this is a low for American Chinese food.

Honestly, they should rename this a world cuisine buffet to manage expectations. there's more Italian and Mexican food than Chinese the what Chinese food is available is possibly the worst I've ever had. I almost spit out the sweet and sour sauce and I'm pretty sure that can be bought in a bottle.

service is only 2 stars cause I tried going to another buffet before this on in Brownsburg and greeter/table cleaner walked away from me when I went in 🙄 At least the person at the front said hello to me here.

And at $17 dollars? Save your money and go to Panda Express instead

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 2

Linda Kuhnhoff

Just gross children running amuck picking up food with their hands licking the food or taking bites out of it and putting it back in the food. ...just a mess and dirty

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Jorge C.

VERY DISHONEST BUSINESS! Tips you leave in the credit cards are not shared with waitresses. I asked cashier and she was a little reluctant to offer an answer, but said it was distributed amongst all. So I left a tip. Because of that reluctance, I decided to ask the waitress...and she said, no. They don't get any of it. I was very angry and went to gas station to get cash, came back a left the tip to my waitress.
I WILL NEVER COME BACK to do business with people who ripp off their own employees and customers!!!
I was a fairly regular guy, now I will tell all about this place and their dishonest policies. It is disgusting to ripp off people in need and customers.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 4

Duck H.

Terrible >:<. Force to eat plain ah food.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 1

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