From Anna Matsunaga, Team Momentum, Keller Williams Realty Tacoma

253 353 2662- www.teammomentumrealestate.com

If you are living in or near Lakewood WA or considering living there, one of the restaurants you will want to visit is the Old Country Buffet ( or Old country Bee as they call themselves)  You need to visit, not for the fine dining, it's not fine dining, but for a nice clean all you can eat restaurant with lots of variety.  You will find it located right in Lakewood Town Center.

What I like about it most is that no matter who you are there will be things you can eat there.  They have a huge salad bar, a taco bar, a dessert bar, and several areas with all different sides and main meat dishes.  I like to go there with the kids since other than the line at the register, which moves quickly, there is no waiting for food.  There is also no complaining because they "don't like this kind of food"  which happens often when I make one family member happy @ other restaurants, here they can pick out the kind of food they want.

We went there last Friday after a very full week where I had had little time to pay attention to them, let alone make decent meals.  We had a very fun time.  Sam got among other things pepperoni pizza, corn, salad, jojo potatoes and mac and cheese.  Chlo'e got steak, chicken and mac and cheese and a taco.  Joeleah ate corn, chicken, pizza, and breaded shrimp.  I had a large salad and breaded okra and breaded shrimp.  The kids had fun making sodas with every flavor in them.  They also had chocolate milk. Those of you who know me know why the pop is such a treat to them)

Then of course there is dessert, which of course I tell them all before we go in, they must have dinner before dessert. 

 Then as we come in we are greeted by a sign....

They point it out and ask if that means they have to follow my rules about dessert.  I say yes.  My rules trump a sign at a restaurant.  They do eat dinner first and I am proud to say don't over eat dessert. 

Sam has a small dish of chocolate and vanilla swirl ice cream and Joeleah has chocolate icecream her brother gets for her.

 Chlo'e gets a little icecream and a little cake.  I opt for a small cheese cake and a little apple cobbler with vanilla icecream.

All in all it's a great night at dinner.  With a buffet there is the added benefit that it is socially acceptable for you to get up several times during a meal, this is a plus when dining with a 3 year old who seems unable to sit still through any meal even at home ( at least she stays dressed when we eat out!)  This is also a plus when eating out with a 9 week old who has his fussy time right at dinner time, we can get up and walk around to calm him with out anyone looking at us funny.

This is really a family friendly restaurant.  We feed me and Sam ( he's 12) and Chlo'e and Joeleah ( Peter's meals are of course one of the few things not offered on the buffet)  for about $35.  We can hardly have fast food for that little and this definatly trumps that.

We have also come here before on the weekends for breakfast, they have a great omlet station set up then and lots of great breakfast items, this too is well priced, about $6 for an adult.

Going to the Old Country Buffet reminds me of being a child.  My family often ate at a similar restaurant when I was growing up. ( I am the oldest of 5 kids,)  I am pretty sure my parents liked "their" buffet restaurant for many of the same reasons I like Old Country Buffet....of course "mine" is nicer than the buffet I visited as a child. 

Old Country Buffet is one of the benefits of living in Lakewood and shopping the lakewood town center.   A fun weekend day could be breakfast @ OCB and then shopping @ the town center.  We had almost as much fun eating dinner at OCB and then shopping for an hour @ the towncenter, specifically Micheals and Ross dress for less. 

--Anna Matsunaga, Team Momentum, Keller Williams Realty Tacoma.--253 353 2662

www.teammomentumrealestate.com

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