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Restaurant Comings & Goings

Pabalos Island Pies, a Detroit style pizza place with Filipino influences, have opened at a shared space inside the Wallflower bar on Dundas west of Brock St.

 
SoSo Food Club on Dundas west of Ossington has closed. It'll be replaced by a wine bar called Juicebox Bar:


More on Hua Sang closing:

 
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Mandarin re-opening without the buffet.

"Each dish is served directly to your table and ranges in price from $1.99 to $4.99"

Good luck with that. People go to the Mandarin for all you can eat food. No way they are cooking all that fresh to order. At those prices you might else just order from your local Chinese take out. At least it will probably be fresher

 
Mandarin re-opening without the buffet.

"Each dish is served directly to your table and ranges in price from $1.99 to $4.99"

Good luck with that. People go to the Mandarin for all you can eat food. No way they are cooking all that fresh to order. At those prices you might else just order from your local Chinese take out. At least it will probably be fresher


They could do a variant like AYCE sushi - where you pay buffet prices but order through a menus instead. I am surprised they didn't go that route.

AoD
 
Mandarin re-opening without the buffet.

"Each dish is served directly to your table and ranges in price from $1.99 to $4.99"

Good luck with that. People go to the Mandarin for all you can eat food. No way they are cooking all that fresh to order. At those prices you might else just order from your local Chinese take out. At least it will probably be fresher


Why don't they just have their servers dish out the food at the buffet tables as you walk by? That way they could maintain the buffet system but avoid having hundreds of patrons touching the utensils.
 
Why don't they just have their servers dish out the food at the buffet tables as you walk by? That way they could maintain the buffet system but avoid having hundreds of patrons touching the utensils.

Buffets are banned. You cannot have a buffet even with servers dishing the food out. Some Vegas buffets tried doing the all you can eat Tapas format similar to Mandarin, but failed, some casinos have now shut down buffets indefinitely. That format won't work with consumers, people go to buffets because they save time and they like the pick the portions sizes, or pig out on the more expensive foods. Ever been to Mandarin during crabfest? People fill their plates up with boatloads of crab legs!

Out of all the chains, I think Mandarin will get hit the worst.
 
Speaking of buffets. Another buffet restaurant bites the dust.

I liked this place, It was unique. You pick the raw ingredients and a chef cooks them for you on a giant wheel shaped grill.


 

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