Especially if I plan my visit around my birthday, where the meal is free as long as I am with a companion paying full price. In retrospect, though, I find myself asking what is wrong with all this? Do I not pride myself in trying to beat the house at Vegas buffets by eating more than the cost of the food? Shady Maple tops out at a little over $20 for dinner (some days are less) so this shouldn’t be hard. (Wait times stretch to 45 minutes at busy hours.) We snickered and high-tailed it out of there. Then we turned a corner and spied a line snaking across the lobby: patrons waiting for their turn to enter the room.
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Before long we could look through big windows and observe the diners at long tables as far as the eye could see. They’re expansive and opulent without being particularly distinctive-ornamental carpets, large overstuffed chairs used as accent pieces, and generic artwork of Amish country scenes (some in 3-D). The interior public spaces continued this feeling of déjà vu. We parked and entered under a wide portico that reminded me of nothing so much as a Las Vegas casino. This includes an immense supermarket, a gargantuan furniture store, an colossal gift shop, and the Shady Maple Smorgasbord-the mother lode of Amish buffets.
However, before dining there we did a little detour to the Shady Maple complex a couple of miles away. Stuffed Pig Stomach with sides at Town Hall That same Chowhounder recommended Town Hall in Blue Ball-“where buffet employees go when they themselves want to eat out”-and Fisher’s Amish Restaurant near Intercourse. But I scrapped this plan in favor of buffet alternatives, regular restaurants that specialize in Pennsylvania Dutch cooking. I had a tentative plan to eat at Good and Plenty, an Amish buffet that Yelpers gripe about because they are forced to share the table with strangers. Until my recent visit to Amish country I was of a similar mindset. Nothing is more frightening to me than to see obese people with walkers and oxygen bottles getting up for one more plate of fried chicken.” “It’s just that the food around them has. “The buffets haven’t changed in decades,” he complained. Diners waiting to be admitted to Shady Maple SmorgasbordĪre Pennsylvania Amish buffets-where diners pay a hefty sum for all-you-can-eat carbohydrate payloads-hypocritical, grotesque, or even evil? You’d think so if you pay attention to critics like the Chowhounder who recently moved back to Lancaster and wants to promote the area’s fine dining.
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