Lunch at the Banana Leaf Chinese Buffet Restaurant

Posted by Fidel Gastro on March 03, 2011 in Reviews tagged with Dining

It’s nice to mix up your Sunday lunch with a variety of flavours so the this week we decide to visit the Banana Leaf Chinese Buffet Restaurant who according to their website position themselves as the biggest and best Chinese Buffet Restaurant in Middlesbrough. The Banana Leaf offers a buffet selection of over 60 dishes and with as much as you can eat you, I would presume you it needs more than one visit to try everything.

The Banana Leaf Chinese Buffet Restaurant Middlesbrough

The Banana Leaf Chinese Buffet Restaurant is located just a few hundreds yards of the the Cleveland Centre so parking in the town at night may be limited and during the week busy so if you live local then it’s probably best to travel by taxi.

The Banana Leaf is clean, has a waiting area, fully licensed with a lot of seating, mainly tables of 4 but a group could easily sit together and not feel apart. Visiting the restaurant on Sunday we where quickly seated, but we do like to eat early on a Sunday, so probably wasn’t going to be difficult. When you visit a Chinese buffet I would recommend you think about how you want to eat. Take a good look at all the dishes, don’t be forced to queue and fill your plate as you go, this will lead to a full plate to quickly. Try instead of filling your plate once try lots of little portions, they have a notice on the wall that if your take a load of food a waste you may be liable for additional charges.

There was an excellent choice and would you require a few visits to make your way around all the dishes. You pick up a clean plate every time you visit the buffet and the plates on your table are taken away quickly. The desert section of battered pineapple, pear and banana covered in syrup are extremely filling leaving me really full, a good feeling though. There is a selection of fruit and ice cream but I don’t never liked the idea of re-using the dispenser after being dipped in water to be cleaned and reused.

The service was good and you don’t feel hassled so you can easily enjoy your meal.

I would be happy to recommend the Banana Leaf Chinese Buffet Restaurant for Sunday lunch and at £5.99 for a Super Lunch is worth every penny especially when it’s as much as you can eat. You can contact the Banana Leaf Chinese Buffet Restaurant 01642 247100 or email enquiry@bananaleafbuffet.com

Banana Leaf Buffet
124 – 130 Linthorpe Road
Middlesbrough
TS1 2JR

Tel: 01642 247100