This WAS one of my favorite places. I haven't been in a while. Today I went for lunch. 30 dollars for just me,and the food was absolute garbage!!!!!. Rating should be negative 10 !!!!!!!!!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
TheLat inFemboy
Great atmosphere. Great food. Feels like you're in Asia. Waiters and service were very kind even with a bit of a language barrier.Vegetarian options: Dishes are clearly labeled vegetarian and there are no animal harm themes within the atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Mongolian Beef, Sushi, Clams in Butter
J
I've been to every Asian (not including Indian) buffet within 30 minutes of Utica. They're all disgusting and this one is no exception. The food is old and off across the board. If you think the food you're eating at any of these buffets is fresh to the extent that it was made not even within a few hours, but within the same day, or week in some cases, you're wrong. The second I walked up to the buffet, the smell hit me. The sushi was chewie. I've never had chewie sushi anywhere else. The spare ribs smelled vile. They were hard and dry. The rice and lo mein were tasteless. So much so that my first thought was "did they put brown food coloring in the "fried rice""? The lo mein was chewie. If I made lo mein and let it sit for a week, it wouldn't have the same chewie consistency as what was served here. All the variants of chicken they serve taste the same and nothing like what they're advertised as. E.g., the general tsao and teriyaki chicken tasted nothing like those dishes at any other Chinese place. There was nothing served here to write home about. The best items were okay at best. They were the: white rice, pudding and dumplings. Everything else was excessively bad. The raw chicken at the hibachi station is sitting in a literal bucket of slime. The brownie was literally the worst brownie I've had in my life. How do you mess up a brownie? It's actually clear if you think about it, it's probably because it sits out for a week like most of the food here. It was behind dry. Dusty would be a more fitting description. I didn't use the bathroom, but my girlfriend did and she said it was filthy. I couldn't stomach her mac and cheese on appearance alone, but she said it was liquidly and tasteless. This is a great place to come to once every few years when you want to scratch some weird itch. Just make sure you go into it having come to terms with the fact that you might get food poisoning.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Russell Lovrin
The food was ok, had better in other areas. What really concerned me was that new food was brought out and placed over the old on the buffet and that there was seafood immediately next to “normal” food which could increase the chance for cross contamination. Which can be very worrisome if you have seafood allergies.They should really organize there buffet better to keep like food types together
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Lisa Kowaleski
Was there after 4:15 pm food was not hot, only warm and a few colder. Service was good. Wonton noodle tasted like it was old and sitting in broth too long . When we were almost done is when fresher food was brought out, probably around almost 5:30. If the quality of the food, and temperature gets better I will give it another try and definitely we will go more closer to 5:30pm.
The food at Borunda is good, mostly very good, although there were some things I didn't care for. They seemed to have some original items like stuffed clam shells that weren't to my liking. Their egg foo yung was very tasty. On the whole, I enjoyed my meal immensely.
Always extremely nice staff. But it's kinda pricey for the limited selection they carry .
Brett McCauley
Some of the food was lukewarm but other then that is was a great place to go and eat at. Service was very good and everything i had i liked including the sushi and same for my girlfriend. The price wasn’t bad. Me and my girlfriend enjoyed are time and 100% will be going back.
I was shocked at arrival, seeing only one other person seated at a table around 5pm on a Thursday.. I should have walked out then….Waitress was very nice, was seated fast due to waitresses and waitress walking around looking lost and not doing anything. One actually had his feet propped up on the counter using his phone.After being seated we had walked over to get our plates. It was very uncomfortable having some lady follow you around the buffet to see what you were getting and/or just say “hi” every time you look at her .. but besides that fact we noticed everything was luke warm.The fries tasted like day old McDonald’s fries, my daughter had tried the Lo main before getting back to the table and she said it was so hard she hurt her tooth!!!! She’s 5!!! When I got back to the table I noticed the cups were soo filthy that it looked like grease just smothered all over them I was honestly scared to even touch them.. after noticing that I then started looking around , I counted 5 bugs on the ceiling that looked just like roaches, crawling , not dead and huge.Out of panic I ran out of there and never will be back again!! Nobody should ever eat here!!!!!! I ate one fri and i STILLL feel gross from being in there for that 10 minutes and it was days ago!! This place needs to be shut down. And they should pay to have my car detailed since I went in there . Nasty ash.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Barbara Burkett
Our first time there. It was very good. We had an awesome experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
황선미
This is so disgusting. Does this sushi chef have a skin disease? Why is he always scratching his body. I will never eat sushi from this restaurant again.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Hope Robertson
The sushi in this restaurant is terrible, the sushi chef seems to have changed, and when I went to get the sushi, the look was horrible. I won't come back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Ryan McVay
Went with a group of four, the server was great and seated us then took our drink orders basically immediately as we walked in the door. We all went to the buffet, got our plates, came back and started eating. And then the fire nation atta- well no. It was just sweet. Everything was like that, ridiculously overly sweet and off tasting. We all noted it to each other pretty much immediately. My buffalo wing (thankfully I only grabbed one) tasted legitimately like slightly spicy maple syrup as a good example for how weirdly sweet/off things were. It was like that for everything we had aside from the fries that were just cold but otherwise average, the ribs that were pretty good tasting, but notably stale/hard(Everything was kind of stale and old like that, maybe just bad luck on the time we went.) and the things that were supposed to be sweet. They just weren't. They tasted burnt and were the only things actually lacking sweetness.The worst thing, which is shocking to say after already mentioning a maple syrup flavored buffalo wing. But trust me this was so much worse. The cheesy potato. Do not ever, not even once try this. Everyone at our table almost threw up from it. Bile is almost more palatable.As already stated, the server was mostly amazing, but did kind of rush us out. The bill was brought up after our first plates. At the same time, I can't blame them for that part. We were using pretty average speaking voices and blatantly discussing how bad the food was.Don't be misled by the two stars, that's only for the server. I'd otherwise give it a 'not even in an apocalypse'/5Parking: I'm not holding this against them, the parking lot was fine. The entrance just looked like a place I might go if I was looking to lose a kidney.
They never disappoint!
This WAS one of my favorite places. I haven't been in a while. Today I went for lunch. 30 dollars for just me,and the food was absolute garbage!!!!!. Rating should be negative 10 !!!!!!!!!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 4
Great atmosphere. Great food. Feels like you're in Asia. Waiters and service were very kind even with a bit of a language barrier.Vegetarian options: Dishes are clearly labeled vegetarian and there are no animal harm themes within the atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Mongolian Beef, Sushi, Clams in Butter
I've been to every Asian (not including Indian) buffet within 30 minutes of Utica. They're all disgusting and this one is no exception. The food is old and off across the board. If you think the food you're eating at any of these buffets is fresh to the extent that it was made not even within a few hours, but within the same day, or week in some cases, you're wrong. The second I walked up to the buffet, the smell hit me. The sushi was chewie. I've never had chewie sushi anywhere else. The spare ribs smelled vile. They were hard and dry. The rice and lo mein were tasteless. So much so that my first thought was "did they put brown food coloring in the "fried rice""? The lo mein was chewie. If I made lo mein and let it sit for a week, it wouldn't have the same chewie consistency as what was served here. All the variants of chicken they serve taste the same and nothing like what they're advertised as. E.g., the general tsao and teriyaki chicken tasted nothing like those dishes at any other Chinese place. There was nothing served here to write home about. The best items were okay at best. They were the: white rice, pudding and dumplings. Everything else was excessively bad. The raw chicken at the hibachi station is sitting in a literal bucket of slime. The brownie was literally the worst brownie I've had in my life. How do you mess up a brownie? It's actually clear if you think about it, it's probably because it sits out for a week like most of the food here. It was behind dry. Dusty would be a more fitting description. I didn't use the bathroom, but my girlfriend did and she said it was filthy. I couldn't stomach her mac and cheese on appearance alone, but she said it was liquidly and tasteless. This is a great place to come to once every few years when you want to scratch some weird itch. Just make sure you go into it having come to terms with the fact that you might get food poisoning.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
The food was ok, had better in other areas. What really concerned me was that new food was brought out and placed over the old on the buffet and that there was seafood immediately next to “normal” food which could increase the chance for cross contamination. Which can be very worrisome if you have seafood allergies.They should really organize there buffet better to keep like food types together
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Was there after 4:15 pm food was not hot, only warm and a few colder. Service was good. Wonton noodle tasted like it was old and sitting in broth too long . When we were almost done is when fresher food was brought out, probably around almost 5:30. If the quality of the food, and temperature gets better I will give it another try and definitely we will go more closer to 5:30pm.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Macaroni Cheese, Peanut Butter Chicken
The food at Borunda is good, mostly very good, although there were some things I didn't care for. They seemed to have some original items like stuffed clam shells that weren't to my liking. Their egg foo yung was very tasty. On the whole, I enjoyed my meal immensely.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Orange Chicken, Sesame Chicken
Good food great workers especially the lady named
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Peanut Butter Chicken, Hibachi Beef Lo Mein, Boneless Spare Ribs
Always extremely nice staff. But it's kinda pricey for the limited selection they carry .
Some of the food was lukewarm but other then that is was a great place to go and eat at. Service was very good and everything i had i liked including the sushi and same for my girlfriend. The price wasn’t bad. Me and my girlfriend enjoyed are time and 100% will be going back.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Seafood Combination, Sushi, Clams in Butter, Shrimp Egg Rolls
Restaurantji Recommends
I was shocked at arrival, seeing only one other person seated at a table around 5pm on a Thursday.. I should have walked out then….Waitress was very nice, was seated fast due to waitresses and waitress walking around looking lost and not doing anything. One actually had his feet propped up on the counter using his phone.After being seated we had walked over to get our plates. It was very uncomfortable having some lady follow you around the buffet to see what you were getting and/or just say “hi” every time you look at her .. but besides that fact we noticed everything was luke warm.The fries tasted like day old McDonald’s fries, my daughter had tried the Lo main before getting back to the table and she said it was so hard she hurt her tooth!!!! She’s 5!!! When I got back to the table I noticed the cups were soo filthy that it looked like grease just smothered all over them I was honestly scared to even touch them.. after noticing that I then started looking around , I counted 5 bugs on the ceiling that looked just like roaches, crawling , not dead and huge.Out of panic I ran out of there and never will be back again!! Nobody should ever eat here!!!!!! I ate one fri and i STILLL feel gross from being in there for that 10 minutes and it was days ago!! This place needs to be shut down. And they should pay to have my car detailed since I went in there . Nasty ash.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 1
Our first time there. It was very good. We had an awesome experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This is so disgusting. Does this sushi chef have a skin disease? Why is he always scratching his body. I will never eat sushi from this restaurant again.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
The sushi in this restaurant is terrible, the sushi chef seems to have changed, and when I went to get the sushi, the look was horrible. I won't come back.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Went with a group of four, the server was great and seated us then took our drink orders basically immediately as we walked in the door. We all went to the buffet, got our plates, came back and started eating. And then the fire nation atta- well no. It was just sweet. Everything was like that, ridiculously overly sweet and off tasting. We all noted it to each other pretty much immediately. My buffalo wing (thankfully I only grabbed one) tasted legitimately like slightly spicy maple syrup as a good example for how weirdly sweet/off things were. It was like that for everything we had aside from the fries that were just cold but otherwise average, the ribs that were pretty good tasting, but notably stale/hard(Everything was kind of stale and old like that, maybe just bad luck on the time we went.) and the things that were supposed to be sweet. They just weren't. They tasted burnt and were the only things actually lacking sweetness.The worst thing, which is shocking to say after already mentioning a maple syrup flavored buffalo wing. But trust me this was so much worse. The cheesy potato. Do not ever, not even once try this. Everyone at our table almost threw up from it. Bile is almost more palatable.As already stated, the server was mostly amazing, but did kind of rush us out. The bill was brought up after our first plates. At the same time, I can't blame them for that part. We were using pretty average speaking voices and blatantly discussing how bad the food was.Don't be misled by the two stars, that's only for the server. I'd otherwise give it a 'not even in an apocalypse'/5Parking: I'm not holding this against them, the parking lot was fine. The entrance just looked like a place I might go if I was looking to lose a kidney.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4