The Best All-You-Can-Eat Deal In Every State

There's something about an all-you-can-eat deal or buffet that makes us feel like royalty. With grumbling bellies, we plan our strategy, survey our domain and commence the feast. You're guaranteed to leave full, satisfied and maybe a little ashamed of your stomach capacity. But some all-you-can eat deals are better than others, and these are the very best.

At the popular down-home Southern-style Barnyard Buffet in Saraland, Alabama, you'll find more than 40 offerings from two hot bars, with something new every day of the week. There's always fried chicken and fish, hush puppies, pot roast, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes and candied yams along with a wide variety of meats, soups, fried treats and vegetables. There are also plenty of weekend specials (including a Sunday spread that looks like a great Southern Thanksgiving table) and the weekend breakfast buffet is also popular. The price tops out at just over $13.

Located in the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona, Wandering Horse Buffet offers a huge variety of Italian, Asian, Mexican, Mediterranean and American cuisines. There's a carving station, brick oven pizza, a dessert spread, a Champagne Sunday brunch, a prime rib feast on Wednesdays and unlimited king crab legs on Friday and Saturday nights. The resort is also home to Orange Sky, one of America's best special occasion restaurants.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better all-you-can-eat deal in California than what's offered at Hae Jang Chon, located in Los Angeles' Koreatown. At this Korean barbecue spot, you can choose from an assortment of 30 menu options including brisket, short rib, bulgogi and pork belly as well as seafood, vegetables and even beef tripe, which you can cook yourself on tabletop Korean stone grills. Soup, salad, kimchi fried rice and kimchi pancakes are offered on the side. The feast costs $27.99 for lunch and $29.99 for dinner.

Evergreens in Simsbury, Connecticut, is located inside a spectacular hotel called Simsbury Inn, and its Sunday brunch buffet is remarkable. Crêpes suzette, made-to-order Belgian waffles and omelets, carved sirloin and turkey, lobster mac and cheese, sesame-crusted salmon, veal scallopini, poached eggs with grilled steak, and a massive variety of desserts among plenty of other rotating specialties are yours for the taking.

Breakers Palm Beach has been one of the country's premier high-end destinations since it was built in Palm Beach, Florida, back in 1926. There's no shortage of spectacular dining options at this hotel that's absolutely worth the splurge, but be sure to hit up the Sunday brunch in The Circle's splendid and opulent dining room, which is complete with ocean views, 30-foot frescoed ceilings and oval murals depicting Renaissance-era landscapes. Crab, sushi, caviar, fresh fish, lamb chops, carved beef tenderloin, omelets, cheeses, pâté and more than 30 desserts are all for the taking, with a harpist strolling from table to table to boot. Come hungry and it'll be well worth the (significant) expense of $125 per person.

100 Sails is Honolulu's best buffet restaurant, offering five different buffets in total: breakfast, lunch, dinner, Saturday Hawaiian lunch and Sunday brunch, ranging in price from $35 to $62. Drop in for lunch on Saturday and you'll encounter a Hawaiian feast including kalua pig, pork lau lau, chicken long rice and haupia. On the dinner menu, look out for lomi-lomi salmon, poke, macadamia-crusted chicken, peel-and-eat shrimp and red wine braised beef.

More than 60 homemade items are on the menu at Warsaw Inn in Lynwood, Illinois, which, as the name might imply, veers heavily Polish. Fresh Polish sausage, sauerkraut, stuffed cabbage, potato pancakes (one of the best ways to cook potatoes), cheese and apple blintzes and a variety of pierogi are joined by nightly specials including roast duck, breaded pork chops and roast pork loin.

Americana draws crowds in Des Moines, Iowa, during the week for its stellar steaks, shared plates and signature bacon-wrapped meatloaf, but it really shines on the weekends, when it unveils its Bombshell Brunch Buffet. More than 40 items are available, including all the iconic breakfast dishes, a grilled cheese station, a mashed potato bar, a build-your-own breakfast taco station, a ton of desserts and bottomless bloody marys and mimosas. Plenty of gluten-free items are available as well.

Louisville's elegant Brown Hotel is famous due to its timeless luxury and the fact that it was the birthplace of the Kentucky Hot Brown, one of America's best sandwiches. The hotel's warm and inviting J. Graham's Café is the best place in town to try that famous open-faced sandwich, and its $32 Sunday brunch buffet is also worthy of a visit in its own right. The buffet includes a carving station, an omelet station, cheese and charcuterie, biscuits and gravy, breakfast meats, fresh pastries and rotating specials.

Harraseeket Inn is a Freeport, Maine, institution, and it's home to two restaurants, the Broad Arrow Tavern and the Maine Harvest Dining Room, both of which offer spectacular buffets. Every day but Sunday, the tavern serves a $24.95 lunchtime spread of house-made soups, salads, porcini-rubbed hanger steak and crab cakes as well as a variety of other dishes. On Sundays, the dining room hosts its $49.95 Sunday brunch, which includes dishes like local organic prime rib with demi-glace, pork osso bucco with polenta and steamed and chilled half Maine lobsters, one of the absolute best things to eat in America.

Boston's laid-back Darryl's Corner Bar & Kitchen serves some of the best soul food in America. It's best known for its all-you-can-eat jazz brunch, served Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for $24.95 for adults and $16.95 for kids 6-12. Diners can feast on fried chicken, barbecue ribs, rice and beans, collard greens, mac and cheese, scrambled eggs, waffles, ham and a variety of other weekly rotating dishes.

Cornerstone Buffet & Restaurant is a homey restaurant serving classic American fare in a comfortable and family-oriented dining room, and every day of the week it offers a different themed buffet. Monday is chicken, Tuesday is comfort food (including that beloved regional specialty, Tater Tot hotdish), Wednesday is wings and Italian food, Thursday is a traditional German buffet, Friday is surf and turf, Saturday is barbecue and Sunday is build-your-own tacos and fajitas. There's also a Saturday breakfast and Sunday brunch buffet with all the classic homestyle brunch favorites.

You'll find a bounty of classic soul food at PeachTree in Kansas City, Missouri. The individual offerings change slightly based on the day of the week, but expect meatloaf, smothered pork chops, baked and fried chicken, neckbones, macaroni and cheese, fried fish and barbecue ribs. Don't miss the peach cobbler for dessert.

Valentino's, which has locations throughout Nebraska, offers a whopping 75 individual dishes, served from eight separate stations, all with an Italian-American slant. Italian classics like baked lasagna and meatball parmesan, fresh baked garlic bread twists and six different pastas are always available along with a huge selection of desserts. And because why not, there's also fried chicken with all the fixin's.

The farm-to-table Foundry in Manchester, New Hampshire, offers an absolutely spectacular and upscale Sunday brunch. The selection itself changes weekly, but expect offerings including made-to-order omelets, perfectly scrambled eggs, breakfast meats, homemade pastries, doughnuts, French toast, waffles, local oysters, smoked salmon, seasonal soups and a carving station. It costs $29 per adult.

A local Albuquerque, New Mexico, favorite since 1993, Tomato Café offers a wide-ranging spread of traditional Italian-American classics. A fresh salad bar, several types of soups, pizzas, pasta or polenta with your choice of six sauces, meatballs, ravioli and classic side dishes are all available for just $9.99 for lunch and $11.99 for dinner.

Casey's Buffet is a beloved Wilmington, North Carolina, no-frills buffet filled to the brim with soul food classics. You will find spot-on barbecue pork, fried and baked chicken, catfish, whiting, chitlins, mac and cheese, pigs' feet and a slew of sides and desserts. This place is a true Southern icon, serving loads of Southern dishes that the rest of the world needs to try.

Mrs. Yoder's Kitchen is located in Mount Hope, smack dab in the heart of Ohio's Amish country. Here you can enjoy traditional Amish home cooking like fried chicken, fried lake perch, pot roast, chopped sirloin and traditional Amish "wedding steak," a patty of seasoned ground beef. There are also plenty of sides, soups, salads and desserts to go around, including nine different pies.

Indian buffets are always a great way to sample the country's cuisine, but most offer only a handful of items. That is not the case at Abhiruchi in Beaverton, Oregon. A full 25 items are on offered for lunch Tuesdays through Sundays. The exact items on offer rotate daily, but be sure to try the house specialty, vegetable saag paneer.

Lobster is one of those foods you absolutely have to eat in the Northeast, and The Nordic in Charlestown, Rhode Island, keeps the steamed lobsters coming, and they're joined on the buffet by Alaskan crab, bacon-wrapped scallops, steamed crabs, shrimp scampi, fresh local oysters, New England clam chowder, lobster bisque, lobster mac and cheese, filet mignon, prime rib and plenty more. The price may be steep at $106 per person, but with a little bit of planning, you can easily get more than your money's worth.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is the last place you'd expect to find one of America's best vegan-friendly restaurants, but Sanaa's Gourmet is one of them. The best deal here is a buffet for Friday night dinner and Saturday lunch. Offerings vary, but expect dishes including ratatouille, potato and mushroom casserole and bulgur and tomato pilaf. Omnivores will enjoy items like chicken shish tawook and beef kufta.

The humble, unassuming Allen's Family Style Meals in small-town Sweetwater, Texas, has been in business since the 1950s and hasn't changed much since then. Pay when you arrive, take a seat at a communal table and you'll be treated to a family-style feast with some of the best fried chicken in America, meatloaf and a variety of sides including potato salad, okra and sweet potatoes, with peach cobbler for dessert.

Located inside the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Montpelier, Vermont, J. Morgan's Steakhouse is a top-notch steakhouse that offers an epic Sunday brunch. Waffles and omelets are made to order and other offerings include fresh pastries, corned beef hash, maple bourbon ham and Vermont maple sausage. A mimosa or orange juice is included in the price, and it costs just $18 for adults.

Located right on the water in Seattle, Salty's on Alki Beach serves a stunning buffet loaded to the brim with fresh local seafood and brunchtime classics. Washington state Dungeness crab legs, peel-and-eat prawns, seafood chowder, steamers, steelhead lox and oysters on the half shell are all must-have seafood fare. They are complemented by classic brunch dishes as well as chocolate and caramel fountains with plenty of dippers for dessert and a bloody mary bar. Adults pay $59.99 on Saturdays and $64.99 on Sundays.

The humble and down-home Quinet's in downtown New Martinsville, West Virginia, has been feeding the locals high-quality American fare since the 1920s. Along with a full menu of classic dishes, the restaurant also offers a daily buffet featuring scratch-made comfort foods like meatloaf, lasagna, kielbasa, fried fish, chili dogs, pork ribs, fried chicken, mac and cheese and a wide selection of pies for dessert.

Located at the Bar J Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Bar J Chuckwagon's dinner begins at 7 p.m. on the dot when the dinner bell rings, of course. Guests can treat themselves to an all-you-can-eat meal of a choice of barbecue beef, boneless chicken breast, a beef and chicken combo, barbecue pork ribs or a grilled 12-ounce rib-eye along with endless baked potatoes, biscuits, beans, applesauce, spice cake, coffee and lemonade while being entertained by the Bar J Wranglers. The price ranges from $26 to $39, but a visit to Bar J isn't just a meal, it's an experience, and it's a tourist trap that even the locals love.

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