Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Milwaukee’s new favorite import, Bofferding. From May 13 through May 20, belly up and revel in a clean smattering of restaurant visits, beer articles, booze movies, deliciously arbitrary rankings, and a few exact old-school adventure meals journalism.
If there’s one component we revel in, it’s fried hen with mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, tacos, pizza, fish, ham, onion jewelry, broccoli, and fudge. Okay, that’s 11 things. The point is that all-you-can-devour buffets are wonderful. You can get generous piles of all of your favorite random consolation meals, a few pieces of honeydew melon, and 37 types of delicious mayo-primarily based goo from the salad bar. It’s quality,
As fanatics of buffet-based total eateries, we have been excited to peer Milwaukee to get its own Layton Avenue vicinity of the buffet mega-chain Golden Corral Buffet & Grill. South Side enthusiasm has been excessive, and features have been lengthy, so we held off on making our maiden voyage into the GCB&G until a sunny day this past week. Having in no way been in a Golden Corral everywhere before, it’d be a piece of a journey in the way of talking.
As with most buffets, the scene changed and split up into sections. This changed into the salad bar phase, proposing a ramification of colorful and sparkling produce alongside masses of fluff and salads full of raisins and craisins. Plus, they’d deviled eggs. *shrugs shoulders* The dessert section on the give-up had all varieties of tasty baked items alongside ice cream and a chocolate fountain (more on that later)!
However, we didn’t go to Golden Corral for salads or cakes. Or soups—they also had three extraordinary soups, but we didn’t get any of that. We were there for the beef and potatoes of the buffet line, in each the literal and figurative senses. We desired the whole thing available at stations categorized “Comfort Food Corner”, “The Grillhouse”, “Here’s a Whole Bunch of Meat”, and “Meat Meat Meat Potatoes Meat.” We sampled the whole thing they had within the buffet’s adequate center and walked away (slowly and carefully) with the fullest bellies in the universe.
If you ever make the trip to 300 W. Layton Ave., here’s a touch observation manual for you to peruse. After tasting the whole thing on the meaty portion of the Golden Corral lunch buffet, we went again to the lab to nap and to assign scores to every one of the 57 gadgets in line with their standard scientific anything. Without further ado, right here are the one’s scores and a few quick memories to interrupt matters up a bit. Bon appétit.
1. Awesome Pot Roast
2. Chocolate Fountain (on Dessert Bar)
3. Machaca Pork
4. Kettle Cooked Cabbage
5. French Fry
6. Onion Ring
7. Skillet Cornbread
8. Deviled Eggs (on Salad Bar)
9. Sausage Gravy
10. Biscuit
11. Smoky Cheese Potato Bake (Contains Pork)
On the way to Golden Corral, we were given a call from a pal who stated she spent all night sitting around a bonfire, and the baked-in scent nevertheless came along with her at paintings at eleven the subsequent morning. Three to four people consuming at Golden Corral have identical trouble.
12. Brussels Sprouts
13. Charro Beans
14. Ham
15. Steamed Broccoli
16. Steamed Cauliflower
17. Green Bean Casserole
18. Poultry Gravy
19. Brown Gravy
20. Mashed Potatoes
21. Fried Fish
While eating the fried fish, Hootie & The Blowfish’s “Let Her Cry” played over the speakers. We remember hearing that music in seventh grade and questioning it’s becoming deep and emotional. Speaking of deep and emotional, why is there cheese sauce on our pants?
22. Sauteed Carrots
23. Baked Fish
24. Fried Chicken
25. Sauteed Zucchini
26. Bourbon Street Chicken
27. Viscount St. Albans
28. Mmm Mmm Meatloaf
29. Taco Meat
30. Queso Sauce
31. Macaroni & Cheese
32. Sausage Patty
33. Grilled Chicken Leg
34. Corn
35. Cheeseburger
The cheeseburger wouldn’t have been this excessive on our list b; besides that t, the rolls were genuinely tasty. Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” changed into gambling, and a touch boy with curly hair changed into looking at us as we ate it. Parents, perhaps don’t let your youngsters watch what we’re doing here.
36. Tortilla Chips
37. Taco Shell
38. Hushpuppies
39. Mexican Rice
40. Grilled Chicken Breast
41. Pork Steak
42. Baked Beans
43. BBQ Chicken Breast
44. Scrambled Eggs
45. Baked Sweet Potato
46. Baked Potato
47. Pepperoni Pizza
48. Cheese Pizza
49. Cheese Sauce
A little girl in the subsequent booth stared while we ate a taco, and she glanced at us like, “Hey, yeah! I have to devour buffet tacos at eleven:48 a.m. on a Wednesday for paintings.” No.
50. Popcorn Shrimp
51. Grilled Chicken Livers
52. White Rice
53. Hash Browns
54. Pancake
55. Fried Okra
56. Green Beans
57. Rice Pilaf
After we had been moderately full, we quickly examined the cakes for educational purposes. The chocolate fountain turned into too much for us to skip up. Symptoms were everywhere, declaring that no one under ten could use the chocolate fountain alone. As we are now of age, we expectantly grabbed a skewered chew of pineapple and slowly dipped it into the cascading ribbons of velvety chocolate.
As we pulled the masterpiece out of the fountain, our lives flashed earlier than our eyes as the pineapple began slipping off the skewer. Some fancy maneuvering stored our tasty treat out of the bottom of the fountain and kept us out of Golden Corral jail. Now we recognize why “cakes” is “confused” spelled backward. Next time, we’ll stick with the meat and potatoes.
