NYC restaurants are cashing in on wallet-weary diners hunting unlimited cheap eats
With grocery and restaurant prices climbing, Americans have a hearty appetite for all-you-can-eat and buffet-style dining. Yelp searches for all-you-can-eat buffets jumped 252% from 2025, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. While major chains like Golden Corral often dominate the buffet landscape, the outlet highlighted five other spots offering everything from Southern comfort food and Uzbek specialties to Korean barbecue and Brazilian steakhouse fare. Here they are below: 1. Good Time Country Buffet Since opening in September, Good Time has brought Southern-style comfort food to Manhattan, with dishes such as Salisbury steak, collard greens, dinner rolls and peach cobbler. Do spicy noodles make people dance? Buldak thinks so Unlimited servings cost $26.99, according to the Journal. Co-founder David Yun said the goal was to offer “something affordable” and evoke “the humble buffet that really brings you back to that memory.” Plates of Southern fare, including fried chicken, collard greens, mashed potatoes, baked beans, and noodles, served at Good Time Country Buffet. Scott Semler 2. Tashkent Supermarket Tashkent’s Uzbek hot bar, also in New York City, features dozens of prepared dishes, including plov, stuffed cabbage, manti dumplings and pastries. Yelp searches for all-you-can-eat buffets surged 252% since 2025 as grocery and
