Old Country Buffet

FUJI will be filling in the food gap left by the Old Country Buffet in Union Gap.

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The Old Country Buffet at 2513 Main Street in Union Gap across South First Street from Skateleand has shuttered for good and is auctioning off much of their kitchen equipment, furniture and the like

After being broke for a week, hungry, sometimes it's nice to treat yourself to a buffet. I love buffets because I love the variety. Here are some great buffets in Yakima.

Baby Joel's been talking about his favorite buffet in his old town and asking what we have along those lines here. Unfortunately, Yakima isn't really known for it's variety of buffet restaurants. There's a few Chinese buffet places, there's Legends Casino and we do have Old Country Buffet at Valley Mall in Union Gap. Sure, why not? Let's check out Old Country Buffet.

The beautiful thing about Old Country Buffet is that it's all-you-can-eat. Although they have the largest variety in a buffet in the Yakima Valley, I thought it'd be fun to combine some food items to create my own menu. Here's a few I did...

UNION GAP -- Most people go to Old Country Buffet for the food. Rachel Deloza goes there for the people. She's a volunteer ambassador for the restaurant, helping with hospitality and community outreach through a number of local programs. She and her husband, Manuel -- who owns Delotec Auto Body Repair and Painting in Yakima -- spend their off hours working with area schools, churches and gyms, as

The other day we were invited to one of my favorite places in town, Old Country Buffet. I like it because it has a little of everything. I love the fried chicken and homestyle cooking. My kids love the unlimited slushies. We all love the unlimited desserts. There are so many things there that I had to wonder if I could take a bite of one of everything they had. Let's see how it goes.

I decided to take my two girls out to eat. Outside of all the cereal we consume, we really do eat pretty healthy at our place. We rarely have snacks and my wife already at by the time I got home so it was off to a restaurant that she normally wouldn't choose. It was at that time I realized that my kids have never experienced an all-you-can-eat buffet. Now was the time.