I think that all you can eat buffets are pretty awesome. You can choose from a large variety of foods and in all honesty my favourite part is probably trying to eat more food than my parents can. Gotta love a challenge hahaha! In my first time actually heading to Kogarah, we were here for The Grange Buffet at St George Leagues Club. My sister had originally purchased a number of vouchers from Scoopon for the $17 all you can eat buffet and we spent the next few days feeling really nervous about it because many of the reviews we found for the place had called it something along the lines of "the worst buffet in Sydney".

Thinking back to many of the places we have bought vouchers for, reviews have also been along those same lines yet I haven't had a completely terrible experience with one yet. So fingers crossed we ventured upstairs into this buffet.


To our surprise, we're greeted with a beautiful reception area outside and even more beautiful dining area inside. The ceilings have drapes of red matched against the caged lanterns which makes for a bright yet almost intimate feel to the place. There are heaps of seats and tables available with the buffet area all being situated towards the front. I saw some reviews say the food isn't heated but that's not true, for all the applicable stations (i.e. not seafood, salad or dessert), the bain marie IS heated. No unpleasantly cold food!

The decorative baskets on the wall as well as the giant fish painting definitely added lots of feel to the place. And I noted that there was a good variety of food available. Although true to the reviews, it's very frustrating because the way the stations are set up only allows people to help themselves to the buffet from one side of the table. Which means there's actually quite some lining up with the occasional people pushing in.

We arrived here quite late which meant we had missed out on the popular seafood options we saw on people's plates on the way in such as crab and oysters, but the other options were continuously well stocked. I decided to take a little walk around with my camera to snap some pictures before I started my own eating. This is also the first time I've ever heard anyone be extremely rude to me about me taking photos. Some lady turned to her friend and loudly whispered "Ugh look at that Asian taking pictures of the food. What is with Asian people and taking photos of their food. Asian people are the worst". She said this as she helped herself to some Asian food at the bain marie. But seriously? There are still people like this? It was a really upsetting experience.

But anyway back to the food.

















I haven't mentioned what service was nice yet and although it's not like you interact with them often, they seemed very fast and efficient in their duties which is pretty much what you want when you're at a buffet waiting for the dishes you are eyeing to be restocked.

In the end, we all walked out of this place entirely satisfied! Either the dishes are hit or misses on certain days or the Grange has just really upped its game, we found the food to be of good quality and tastes. Definitely not comparable to the bad feedback its previously received on this day for us.

Let me know if you've been here too and how your experience was. I'd love to hear all about it!





TL;DR:
Price: Cheap on a voucher, normal prices are average buffet prices
Quality: Good
Service: Fast and efficient
Ambience: