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The restaurant is conveniently located next to the Belmont CTA stop. The interior design of the place is fun, colorful and definitely Mexican. It is spacious. At 6pm on a Friday night, there weren’t many people. However, as the night progressed on, more people started to trickle in. The one thing I love about the place is the speed of their cooking. Eventhough, it took us forever to order our dishes (too many selections), the food came before I have time to complain how hungry I am. The price is reasonable and the portion size is huge. Even though, it wasn’t the greatest chimichanga that I ever had, I did enjoy my dish. Would come again if I am craving for Mexican food.

Upon entering the restaurant, you will first meet the salad buffet counter. After getting all the possible salad selections they have to offer then you will pay your entrance fee at the end of the counter, which costed 7.99 without tax for lunch. Inside the restaurant, they offers a few warm dishes including some pastas, soups and bread/muffins. Since this month is the “the pleasures of pineapple”, they have dishes like carrot pineapple muffin w/ oats bran and curry pineapple pasta some other pineapple specials. They were all pretty tasty. Personally, I like the curry pineapple pasta, strawberry buttermilk cornbread (fat-free) and big chunk chicken noodle soups the most….since I am not a big salad person. However, they do have a decent salad bar with many options to pick from. Also, you can always end the meal with some ice creams (they are low fat of course) and there are many toppings including from strawberrys, chocolate chips, caramel…..ect.

At the end, I walked away with a happy, not too oily and full tummy.

We came during Friday lunch hours for the casion’s All-you-can- eat buffet and it only cost $9.99 for each person. Althought the lunch buffet doesn’t have the crab legs as would be provided during dinner hours, it did have a wide variety of food. We definately ate till our hearts content.

The buffet had a good salad bar, pasta and pizza sections. They also have a few Chinese and Mexican dishes. Even though I don’t eat steak, my friend had praised the deliciousness of the steak the whole time we were there. The buffet offered the steaks as either medium rare and well done. They also had ham on the side if the steaks don’t interest you. In general the foods are all pretty fresh and flavorful. Althought they didn’t have much choices for the ice cream flavors, they did have a wide selection for the toppings. The caramel, rainbow sprinkles and chocolate chips were all very yummy. =) They also have a decent dessert section, but I only had stomache for a chocolate cake, which was a nice sweet finale to my over indulged lunch.

I am not an expert on casino buffets, but I would say come if you ever are free on a week day lunch hours. Besides, you can always go spent some money in the casino (which is in a boat), if the buffet wasn’t entertaining enough.

The service of the restaurant is like a fast food place. The difference is that they will bring the food to your table. The atmosphere felt very open and clean cut. I came during lunch hours and the food came fast. Their menus selections weren’t especially huge but it included from Japanese to Mediterranean to American. We all liked our dishes. I wouldn’t say my Japanese noodles tasted like genuine Japanese food, but its modified version is pretty good. However, the only complaint I have is that the portion size is much smaller than the plate.

Also if you don’t know how to use chopsticks, they have “chopsticks helper” in little plastic wraps so you can eat noodles in true Asian style.

This is my second time coming to Ba-Ba-Reeba for dinner. The first time I came w/ a group of 10 and this time w/ group of 5. It was definitely much better and more fun with large group because you get to try a much wider selections. You get a tiny bite of everything and each dish gets so much more delicious. Agree with the previous review that the dish is on the pricier side for dinner. One thing I didn’t like as much is that the dishes don’t come out at the same time so usually we have to eat one small tapa dish at a time and we wil be waiting for the next one. Overall, the tapas are pretty good. Generally I perferred the hot tapas over the cold ones. Most of the desserts are pretty delicious and the passion fruit sangria is something good to start out the dinner with. The ambience is definitely lively and loud. The stream of people just kept flowing in on a saturday night. I would recommend making reservation ahead of times.

The restaurant is pretty standard, just like any other TGIF out there. We went on a weekday night so we didn’t have to wait to be seated. The service was quick and friendly. They have a few new menu items and a new promotion whick you can order a smaller portion for a cheaper price. We all had a regular size meal. However, the portions seem much smaller than what the pics have shown.
We end up going for some Krispy Kreme donuts afterwards for our unsatiated appetites.

Agree w/ previous reviews and good recommendations. Besides providing the tasty dishes so far Joy Yee has the best tapioca drinks in Chicago. It has plenty of drink selections to choose from. yum yum…. I love boba drinks. =)

My friends and I went to the restaurant for dinner. It looks like that they provide lunch buffet, but I can’t be 100% sure. The place is well located in the midst of “Indian town” with many small Indian grocery/clothing shops around. The decor of the restaurant is nice w/ its cyrstal lights above and dim lighting. Although my friends and I haven’t tried many Indian restaurants before, we did enjoy our meal. The service was good and the dishes were colorful and tasty. They weren’t too exotic/spicy overall. We have only finish ~50% of our meal (we did have appetizer however). The entrees (w meats) range btw $12-18.

Although you can order individual sushi or other dishes seperately, I have only tried the buffet style here. The sushi buffet is priced reasonably at $12.95 and it comes with (one time only)miso soup & veggie tempera at the beginning.
The sushi rolls are well made and the contents are packed as promised from the menu. I especially like the Sunshine Maki and any other maki w/ eel inside. Each time, I left the restaurant with a happy and overstretched stomache.
The restaurant itself is pretty small and has an elongated shape. The walls are packed w/ pics of the customers. However, we were never asked to have our pics taken. I have only been here on the weekend so if you don’t want to wait in line, I would recommend coming here at 4pm on Sunday (right when it opens). Sat., the restaurnat opens longer so the wait wasn’t as bad. Anyway, just make sure you come with an empty stomache.

I went to the restaurant w/ some friends, and it is definitely a good place to hang out and grab a bite of some spicy curry or if you perfer, some sweet peanut sauced plates. The atmosphere is pretty relaxed yet elegant and open spaced. It is not over crowded like some popular Italian restaurant. I would say it is a Thai restaurant that worth trying. I personally liked the dish-Tempura, the appetizer, the most because it is freshly made and is extra cryspy. yum.
However, it is not an obvious to find restaurant.