Captain King's Seafood Buffet & Grill - West Valley City, Utah

2819 S 5600 W, West Valley City
(801) 890-3838

Recent Reviews

Mya Glez

Super recommended.... Very good food, good service. For all there is to eat, the price seems fair. The seafood bowl that you can choose yourself and they steam it for you, was what we liked the most. The only minus point we found was that there was no ice cream machine... haha, but not everywhere is the same. Excellent.

Covenant T.

Long story short - it's what you would expect from a typical Chinese buffet. Good variety, nothing spectacular.

Leo P.

This place SUCKS. Seriously, I don't think I've ever ate at a place where not even 10 minutes in my stomach hurt so bad that I had to use the restroom. Only to find out that some poor fella before me has already blown it up. It wasn't clean nor sanitary. Believe all of negative reviews you see on here from people. Save your money and drive away as fast as you can from here.

Amor Gomez

Customer service is great but the food is bland. Wasn’t really hot . Room temp. Crabs ? aren’t good at all n they provide nothing to crack it open an no butter to dip it in. Also no cream cheese wontons . King buffet is a much better choice

Tyson R.

Literal worst food I've ever had in my life. I always eat 3-4 plates at buffets & I could not stomach one plate from this place. Food tastes like it was from the dollar store & I basically like all food so this is saying a lot.

Bryson V.

This place is over rated. Went about a month ago and honestly wasted our money. Their adds on social media show pictures of impressive food and quality but it literally looked like a lunch area at a local hospital. The food was bland and the best part was the dessert bar. I only gave them 2 stars because of their dessert(which wasn't awesome but ok) and they have a seafood section that was ok but way too salty.

Christopher S.

Food was bland. Most of it was cold. I recommend not to come here. Over it is boring and sad

jesus salinas

Great buffet so many great options for the little ones! Salad bar for the healthier side and an amazing all you can eat seafood boil! Variety of warm delicious soups as well! Very great seating area not too crowded. Very nicely decorated seating areas. Great service, supper clean and delicious place highly recommend!

Joey C.

Went after seeing an ad on Facebook. Should rename themselves catfish buffet because their pictures online are completely different than what you get when you arrive. Salad "bar" looked un-fresh, buffet had a bunch of frozen food like hot pockets and mozzarella sticks, desserts had no good options, all the food was average to below average. Would not recommend unless you like going to a restaurant that posts extravagant pictures to get you into the door, but switches it up on you once you've paid.

Kevin F.

Food was cold and sad, the environment was depressing. I felt like I was in a prison eating overpriced food, with what little was actually available. Made me and my party sick and the worst part is they managed to f*** up mash potatoes and Mac-n-cheese. Their desert bar had a picture of Ice cream but no ice cream. They also managed to ruin apple pie for me. Their American food was all frozen food that I'm sure anyone could cook at their own home for better quality and cheaper prices. Would not return ever again.

Brian Baity

Whenever I go places I always start them at five stars and then let them determine how things go from there. I tried really hard to keep this place at five stars but the service was less than standard even. Most of the meat was dry. The price was more than fair for the quantity since it's all you can eat. The restaurant itself was clean I didn't go anywhere else to see what was going on maybe they'll get better I know covid has done terrible things to the whole restaurant industry

Honest Reviews

Huge improvement over the old buffet! We visited Chow Time a couple times in the year it opened and it was pretty mediocre. After it's reopening we decided to give it another shot. The service was excellent, the server was very friendly and everyone was always running around cleaning things and taking dirty plates. The food is good, much better than before. What really wowed me was the seafood station. It was really fun ordering different plates, and the food tasted really good. Will definitely be going back!My only recommendation is it would be great if they had a mongolian grill station, that would earn 5 starts for sure.

Shane Minor

I do not get the couple poor reviews on this unless they mistakenly reviewed the wrong restaurant. This place was clean, well spaced out, the decor was great, the seating was new and firm, you didn’t sink out of sight on the booth benches. The food awesome! I was so pleasantly surprised! Kudos to the owners for taking a risk. This is a massive space, might be hard to heat and cool. I hope others will come here and bring their business so this place will stay open. It’s a nice addition to this area and again, I thought the food was great. I like the Island Buffet with the Samoan Coconut Milk and Taro. You can’t find that just anywhere.

Vie M.

Overall, I'd rate this place 3 stars. It's just another town's buffet, nothing impressive... but I most likely won't be coming back here since there are other places I can spend that money on and feel satisfied. Unfortunately, I am gonna have to give this place 2 stars. Cleanliness is important when it comes to running a restaurant. I was in the bathroom, the first stall was taken, and the soap dispenser wasn't working properly, but the lid was open so people could just dip their hands in the dispenser. After realizing that the soap dispenser wasn't functioning, I started drying my hands. A lady came out of the first stall, took a quick glance at me, then left the bathroom. Now this lady was an employee of this restaurant and LEFT WITHOUT WASHING THEIR HANDS AFTER USING THE RESTROOM??!!! Especially during a time like this (covid)? I was really looking forward to this place! I was hoping it'd be my new go-to. It's about $16/person for all you can eat. There's a lot of choices but at the same time, there isn't a whole lot. They had the basic frozen foods (like taquitos, pizza rolls, mozzarella sticks, etc.) available for you to choose. I'm assuming that's for the children. They have a few chinese foods. I tried most of them, but none of them really tasted busting. The best food that I tasted was their Honey Chicken. The rest were mild and plain. They had 4 soups to choose from: menudo, seafood soup, egg flower soup, and I believe the last one was sweet and spicy soup. I only tried the egg flower since that soup is one of my favorites but when I tasted it, it was bland. It really was just an egg and flour type beat. It could me more flavored in my opinion. They had a few salad options. I didn't really try it since it didn't look appetizing. Next to the salads were the desserts. I also didn't have any of these, besides a small thing of jello and rice pudding, since they also didn't look appetizing. They had a seafood section where you can order on the computers (comes with all you can eat, you dont need to pay extra!) It's almost like a seafood boil. I decided to try this out because I am a FAN of seafood, but I had a doubt since there aren't a lot of good seafood places in UT. On the computer, I ordered 2oz of crab and 1oz of headless shrimp with rice noodles as well as garlic butter sauce for the whole thing. Once I ordered, it printed a receipt saying my order will be ready in the station in 5 mins. To eat the food was a mess (I was using my fingers to get in between and pick out the meat). They mixed the crabs and the shrimp with the rice noodle all with the garlic butter. I can taste the sauce on the noodles, but I could BARELY taste it when it came to the shrimp and crab. It tasted like watery seafood -- like shrimp and crab had been sitting in their own water like they had been thawed for a fat minute. This place is good if you have a softer and milder taste in foods, and you are looking to fill yourself up.

Reina Navarro

limpieza y distanciamiento..buena comida y atencion amable

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Captain King's Seafood Buffet & Grill - West Valley City, Utah

2819 S 5600 W, West Valley City, UT 84120
(801) 890-3838