Okay - I know it has been a while since I have written any reviews of places where we have had an opportunity to eat. However, I am going to try to catch up, so visit often as I will be writing about a few different places shortly.
Today however, I want to say that we recently had an opportunity to try a new place in the Bessemer, Alabama area called Carnation Buffet. We had never been there and had not spoken with anyone else who had eaten there. We simply decided to take a chance.
What a good choice! Carnation Buffet is just that - an all you can eat buffet. They have both some traditional "American" items, as well as the typical Chinese buffet items. The buffet offers many, many choices and everything that I tried was excellent. Everything was well labeled, had an excellent taste and seemed very fresh. They also have sushi and, in the back, a grill for freshly grilled items such as steak. They have a salad bar with many choices for a salad as well as a desert bar, which includes ice cream. This is not the typical "soft ice cream" machine - this is a dip your ice cream out of a bucket ice cream and they had multiple flavors to choose from. There were many seafood items available as well, such as oysters on the half shell and steamed shrimp. They also offered frog legs - not often found on a buffet bar.
The service was great and the price for the buffet was very reasonable - $11.99 per person. We will certainly be visiting this place again!
