All you can eat sushi, hibachi restaurant to open in Carriage Place Plaza
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A buffet featuring all-you-can-eat hibachi, sushi and seafood will soon open in the Carriage Place Plaza.
The Feast Buffet, located at 2620 Bethel Road in the Misty Meadows neighborhood, will begin welcoming customers on Saturday, according to its website. The restaurant is taking over the building that previously housed Petland.
The eatery's buffet will offer hibachi, seafood, sushi and other Asian dishes. The Feast Buffet is run by the same people who launched The City Buffet, a similar concept that opened in the Westland neighborhood in January.
Lunch buffets at the new restaurant will cost $16.99 and dinner buffets will be priced at $24.99 to $26.99, depending on the day. Kids with a height below 36 inches can eat for free, while meals for children at or below 55 inches will be half off, according to the restaurant's website.
The establishment will hold a lunch buffet Mondays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A dinner buffet will be available Mondays through Thursdays from 3:30 to 9:30 p.m., Fridays from 3:30 to 10 p.m., Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
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