This is a good place when you really have no idea what you are hungry for. Tonight was a salad from their salad bar, with deviled eggs and cottage cheese. Then moved on over to some pot roast, meatloaf, some potatoes and carrots. Throw on some green beans and I'd satisfied my indecisions lol. Can't for get their large desert bar. Me just some good ol soft swirled ice cream to fill in all the vacant spots in the ol tummy. Staff are always keeping your drink full and asking if you are good lol. Sat by the fireplace so it was relaxing even though it was busy. read more

$18 for dinner for a senior citizen is too much. Besides being salty the food had very little flavor. The waitress only picked up a dirty plate. That was all she did. So I tipped one dollar. I doubt if I will ever go there again. read more

My Aunt and I went for breakfast on Sunday morning around 10:45, I love the breakfast however was very disappointed that they were pulling the breakfast items. They also were out of the scrambled eggs so I had to have the guy at the omelette station make me 2 eggs over easy. I do like their Mexican food area, but again disappointed they did not have Menudo. My Aunt was disappointed also that they were out of eggs-had I known she wanted some I would have had the guy who made mine make her some. I wish the Breakfast hours were longer-for people coming out of Church at 11 or people who enjoy brunch. I think they start pulling breakfast at 10:45 and start putting out lunch. We did enjoy the steak and fried chicken but we really wanted breakfast. read more

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The food was labeled as homemade stuffing. It was clearly a mix with only added water and butter. Falsely advertised.

I have always loved this place when I was little whent back there agin and there food was nasty and had flies in the food bar and lettuce tased super bitter and every to steps you take you see kids and Evan adults touching the food with there bare hands especially when you go to the desert I saw a kid just touch the entire sprinkles bin and don't Evan use them and finally whent home woke up a 3 am and was violently throwing up 1 star don't recommend read more

Golden Corral used to be a place I looked forward to going to but the one in Wichita has gotten so bad I won't go in there. Thought I would try the Topeka one since I was in town for work. I'd say it's a step up from Wichita but still not great. It's mostly a cleanliness issue for me. I found food that was fine and didn't leave hungry but not sure that I'll go again. Might have to give up on Golden Corral in general. read more

Two SR dinners with water and tax $29.61. Pricy. Food selection was good, most items at temp a few not. Onion Rings and hush puppies poor. Snrimp hot and very good. Limited salid options. Good service with good social distance. read more

Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - Buffets Near Me - Topeka, Kansas

Do not recommend this location. Ghetto and dirty. Server Megan or whatever her name is is rude and Goggles Kevin, the kid in front acted like he didnt remember us paying. We were accused of not paying just because Megan couldn't sign a receipt. Ridiculous and straight up stupid of everyone involved. The guy cooking steaks was also rude when I asked a question. Food was trash and I won't be returning. read more

We stopped in here last night on a road trip from California to Missouri because we had a gift card to use. We came at about 8:15pm, knowing they close at 9 so I didn't have expectations of everything being full. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that everything was still fully stocked and clean. The restaurant itself was clean, and the employee who helped us at the cash register was really friendly and kind. When we sat down we were greeted by a really kind server, who's name I believe she said was Tascha. Her kindness and friendliness made our 4 star experience 5 stars. The food was all fresh, typical buffet food. There was a good variety of choices, so everyone in our party was able to find something. The area was clean and the employees were all very friendly and nice. I'd definitely come back if I was in the area again. read more

Food is always good and fresh. I especially love their fish, meatloaf, roast beef and shrimp. Their steamed cabbage is good as well.

It's a Golden Corral, which means along with the variety and endless food supply you gotta accept dirty carpets, food tray mess, noise and crowds. This location was typical in all regards. read more

Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - Buffets Near Me - Topeka, Kansas

The Golden Corral just came under new management and is re-opened, here in Topeka. We ate there yesterday evening and the quality of the food is no better. We sample portioned several items, steak, prime rib, chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, shrimp, hush puppies, onion, rings, french fries and even their famous rolls were cold and hard like they were overcooked all of the items were lacking the flavor that we were looking for. For the two of us adults with soft drinks was $42 and some change the meal was definitely not worth it. We could've gone to several other places to eat, and possibly spent less and enjoy the meal more, but we thought what the heck it's under new management it might be better. I did give this a one star on account of the waiting staff and the cleanliness of the facility is a lot better than what it used to be. Overall, I would have to give this a thumbs down for restaurants here in Topeka. We are not planning to visit this establishment anymore. read more

weekend breakfast buffet hours are 8-11am. Far from great, but has it's positives such as feeding a large group for a decent price.

Food was EXCELLENT! buffet was full and everything looked and tasted fresh and well taken care of. The dining staff was very friendly and drinks were always full. We go it and seated quickly even though they were busy. Will be back absolutely!! read more

Just let me have at least an 8 oz steak every time instead of a 4 oz, and then it cut even smaller the next time you go up!

We stopped here on our journey across America the other night, went to Texas Roadhouse and the waiting line was out the door, it was late so we left, and tried Golden Coral. There was an attendant cooking steaks and you needed to ask. I asked for rare Ribeye, it was honestly so grislily I could not even chew to swallow, I had to try something else. The salad bar looked like a tornado went thru about 15 minutes ago and most of the salad fixings were empty so I got a piece of chicken and snacked on it, but it was dry. We left went up the street to McDonalds and got a hamburger to take back to the room. This had to be my worse experience in a buffet type restaurant, even the broccoli was so salty we could not stomach eating it. read more

It smells horrible in here like old musty dog in a wet rug,they really need to do a better job at cleaning and deodorizing the establishment. PpppppUuuuuuuuu read more

Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - Buffets Near Me - Topeka, Kansas

The price is ridiculous. The food was like warm at best. The servers were hit and miss. And as far as ambiance that's always lacking. They think the music helps but the fact that people are packed like sardines diminishes the experience greatly. read more

Had a great experience here at the GC in Topeka Food fresh Hot Tasty Staff was friendly and fast We fed 4 kids and two adults for a great price and no one left hungry Only negative was cleanliness of bathrooms....but overall great GC experience read more

Best damn GC I've ever been to. Everything, I mean EVERYTHING I had was awesome!!! Service was great... but damn, the quality of food was outstanding!!! read more

The food on all buffets clearly had been sitting there for some hours! The lettuce was turning brown, onions were slimy and yellowing, pot roast was chunks of fat with little meat. The salad bar and desert bar were a hot mess and not cleaned up. Consider McDonalds before going here. read more

I am NOT a fan of golden corals but we were in town and it is an easy place to go when there are many people in the group. It was clean, staff was helpful and friendly. The bacon tasted weird and some of the food was cold. The bathrooms were clean. read more

food was really bad only saw our server once and i had to call him over just overall really bad my haked potato was hard

After reviews of hidden food in garbage areas for inspections & personally finding ants all on the walls....we r Permanently done! I will not allow my family to eat here ever again! This one or any! Plus a person reusing a plate takes the spoon, taps the new food on their slobber plate & then put it back! It's like an accident! It's may not be your fault but can u trust the other driver! Just gross! & for the price! I can go to longhorns or another steak house for the same! So no thanks! read more

Not the best, not the worst. To me, for $10+ I can get much higher quality of food around here, but probably not as much. However, if you're with a large-ish group of people who all have different wants, this place should be able to satisfy everyone. That being said, their veggie selection is pretty decent as well as the dessert selection - with one caveat: that chocolate fountain has got to go. It's a gimmick filled with a messy, greasy product attracting hundreds of dirty little hands lining up to stick things in it and making a huge mess. Really NOT a good idea for a place like this. Overall, this last visit was ok. It was a Friday night and an absolute madhouse, (screaming, pushy kids and hordes of hungry people making messes faster than the staff can clean them) but the service was still pleasant and the food was good enough. Not spectacular, but got the job done. It'll still probably be a long time before I go again, but I didn't hate it. read more

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If I were the manager, I would be ashamed of the salad bar. Browning lettuce, having white onion rather than red onions, without also having shredded red cabbage. The tomatoes on the salad bar tasted bad, and some of the salad dressings tasted thinned out. I could easily make their salad bar a hit. read more

Went to the all new remodeled GC 11/3/22 in Topeka Ks. for dinner paid 40.00 for two meals and a drinks. #1-sat down to food covered silverware. #2-the temperature of the building felt like a walk-in food locker. #3-food tasted like it might've been good but it was so cold from the steam tables. Spinach was still frozen, desserts were still frozen. New look same uncaring Managment. Customer side of food bars were covered with food that no one was bothering to stop and clean. I went through 5 plates before finding a clean one. They might need a new dishwasher. we will give it 1 more try in a few weeks to see if anything has changed if not good bye GC TOPEKA KS read more

WORST experience ever!!!! My son found HAIR in his food! The server went to get the manager! I explained to him the issue. Without apologizing, empathizing, he says "give me a minute, I'll see what I can do". He comes back with a card, offering a free meal and drink. In my eyes TOTALLY unacceptable. First of all I don't live in Topeka or any of its surrounding areas!! Secondly, why would I want to come back here? So, I declined the "free meal" offer. He then states he needs to go get approval, to refund me. Well I thought I was speaking with the manager...approval from who??? Anyway! He comes back and states he can only get approval to refund my son's meal. Mind you it's a party of four!! So, apparently they expected that we'd want to continue eating at the establishment. I expressed my concern even further! If there is hair in ones food at our table, what makes you think the remaining parties would want to continue with their meals?? The manager refused to refund me for my party of four! Although we had just got there, and that was the FIRST PLATE! I could possibly, maybe attempt to understand, had we sat and have SEVERAL plates. However that was not the case!!! This was very poor customer service! A Very poor response to the issue! This place makes thousands of dollars everyday! It would have not hurt anything or anyone, to refund my family and we could go patronize elsewhere! Very very poor business decision. I will NEVER go back when visiting Topeka. I also encouraged my family and friends in the area not to go back. How this "manager" handled this situation is very disturbing to say the least. read more

One person in the salad bar is very rude to me every time I go up there to get something I don't see she rolls her eyes at me i think that's rude read more

All you can eat buffet. Under new management. They got new staff, plates, silverware, and higher priced. For the same thing they been serving for years read more

I give this a who star because Golden Corral has decent food, but in the past months I noticed this buffet has been going downhill and I mean fast. My mom and I used to come here all the time when there was better quality food, but it has not been tasting as good lately. Last time my mom and I went we got our table then got our food, no waiter/waitress came and greeted us for 10 minutes or so. My mom and I won't becoming back in a while, I know that for sure. Thank you for reading my review, I hope it helps you out. read more

The restaurant that we order from in Topeka Kansas, is very hit and miss. With the pandemic, ordering food to be delivered was and still is our primary choice, and with delivery, you can almost be assured that there will occasionally be items that are wrong or missing with your order, but that is likely the fault of the delivery service not getting everything ordered from the restaurant when they contact the business. With Golden Corral, that's not the case. You order directly from the GC website and they coordinate with DoorDash to make their deliveries. The past two times that I have placed an online order from GC, I have been shorted numerous items from my order. First time, I ordered 3 individual dinners and received 1. This most recent order, I requested that my delivery be made at 7:00 pm. The order was placed at 5:00 pm. We received a call from GC at 7:15 pm letting us know they were running late. The order finally showed up at 8:00 pm and all of the items were cold. It was evident that the order had been sitting on a counter for the hour that they were waiting for the driver to show up. All of the items were poultry (turkey and fried chicken). We received no gravy for the turkey, no more than a table spoon of cornbread dressing for each turkey dinner, out of 2 requested sides of dressing for each dinner. No cranberry sauce, and one of the dinners had little scraps of reddish brown meat that had evidently been pulled from the carcass, while the other had two small pieces of white meat. The side of buttered corn was missing from the fried chicken dinner. Upon speaking with the manager at GC, he declared that the entire order was fulfilled and everything was fine. I realize that using a delivery service can complicate things a bit, but it was very evident that the missing items were never put into the dinner containers. In this case, the restaurant is entirely to blame. Due to all of the dinner entrees being poultry related, and having set out on a counter for at least an hour before we received them, I took photos of what was received and then pitched the entire order. I have had food poisoning before and do not want it again. I have contacted GC main office and hopefully I will receive a response. I apologize for the lengthy review, but want for others to be aware of what they might expect when ordering from this particular GC establishment. read more

Great food and service. Our server Jessica was the best. I was hesitant to go because of past experiences at other locations. This one didn't disappoint read more

Absolutely horrible. No flavor or taste. Bland bland and bland. We actually had food to go and when got back to our hotel we trashed half of it. read more

Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - This was a very old dry and hard dinner roll that might have sat in the case for the entire day - Buffets Near Me - Topeka, Kansas

OMG. Not worth the 15.69 all you can eat ribs last Saturday! The best part was the salad bar, seafood salad was good and we all know it was fake! I tried two kinds of ribs, the boneless were so dried and tough I had to pound my fork into them, the rib on were not cooked enough and fatty nasty of the few peices of burbon chicken only two were edible with flavor. The mexican/asian bar was also nasty, tamale was dog food, enchildadas unable to get out of pan, eeg rolls nasty mush. I don't go for fried chicken, maybe it was ok? hush puppies o.k. is saying a lot. I've never been to a Golden Corral and don't know if they have any in MN, if they do maybe I'll try again, my travel companion from Mo has ate at them for years and was shocked with the quality of this one. read more

I'd like to preface this review with one simple statement: I would never go here if it was up to me. Or any other buffet for that matter. In the land of Topeka, home of the strip mall and chain restaurant, you will be hard pressed to find a diamond in the rough. This weakness is not going to be made any easier when dining with the grandparents-in-law. Having now had the unenviable opportunity to embark on escapades of gluttony at Coyote Canyon, Mr. Stirfry's, and Golden Corral, I have the following to say: Golden Corral is the lesser of three evils. If you fancy cafeteria food, you'll at least find a better than average selection here, with a few tasty surprises (great cheese biscuits and hand-scooped ice cream). If you don't like your food made to order, and can overlook greasy utensils, this may be the place for you. If you're looking to cut the kids loose and stuff their face with cotton candy, without dropping the coins at Chuck-e-Cheese, this may be the place for you. If you prefer quantity over quality, this may be the place for you. If you prefer to have a nice hot meal with full service, hit the back button on your browser, deselect the "Buffet" filter, and find out what Topeka Yelpers have to say about the other places in town. read more

If you'd like to be surrounded by people in 80's style casual wear, engorging themselves on food that tastes as if it has been sitting out for several hours; if you'd like to walk on carpet that has remnants of past meals interwoven into it's very fiber; if you'd like to eat from a food trough where children with unwashed hands freely roam in such great numbers that you can't possibly keep your eyes on all of them. This is the restaurant for you. read more

I went to Golden Corral to break the monotony of eating Chinese and knew what to expect. I liked the left hand side of the buffet which was the salad section and the right hand side which was the desert section and could have easily avoided the middle section without missing much!!! The steak that I had was like one of the worst that i had ever had and on the other hand I found the fried chicken to be nicely seasoned, crispy and juicy so i basically just went with a lot of that. Overall a lot of average stuff to try out and not bad value for the amount you pay. read more

As far as this style of buffet is concerned, it wasn't bad. The guy at the grill however, flat out ignored us twice, the second time after I said, "Excuse me", he still ignored us. So then I said,"I guess we're not getting served" at which point he came over and served us. I then explained where he went wrong and he had no explanation and no apology. He then complained to another customer who went off on a 5 minute rant spewing venom about how I "treated him". Not only did he not handle the situation correcting his service, he created an even bigger scene with other customers. Really quite an experience. /sarc Should have been the lowest rating however the wait staff was excellent. Linda, our waitress was friendly and helpful. (she got a $10 tip) read more

Really, do you go to a Steak House to eat Pizza? Do you go out to get Home Cooked Food? OMG . . . These places are troughs. I hope you don't expect ambiance. Golden Corral's are typically clean and the food is well worth the money. If you can't find something you like, you can't be pleased. You need to go to Grandma's and ask her to lay out that variety for the same money. I will go out of my way to eat at a Golden Corral. Since their recent make over there is no one to compare to them for price, variety and quality. Golden Corral you rock. read more